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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:13 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:27 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:42 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:58 am
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Re: Re: Re: cnfrnce
Basically, there's this thing called the document of the court or the charter or whatever. It lays out the rules about the wargs and the weres and the nobles and how all that works. We all thought it was just a piece of paper, but it turns out it's actually some kind of spell schema embedded in this girl Melany and enforced by the blood of like twenty something people.
Anyway, the part that's most concerning right now I think is that the things it lays out for nobles are ******** awful and terrifying. Not so much the part where we're tuned into the powers of the otherworld more, but the part where we can basically kidnap people and maybe get them killed and that we might actually have to in order to spread our ability to control the other creatures. Like, the document of the Court made it possible for the Spinel Lady (who is sort of Melany's alter ego) to kidnap me out of an airport bathroom and keep me in the otherworld for almost a decade, and no one even noticed I was gone on account of there being an evil body double version of me living in Moscow and studying for my PhD in folklore (???). So like, if you're tithed (kidnapped by a noble to become a noble or get dead) your patron (the noble kidnapping you) can beat you, ******** you, make you stand on your head for eight hours, whatever they want, and no one can stop them. You're basically property.
There's also rules about nobles not being able to intervene and stop the other nobles from doing bad s**t. In the original way everything was supposed to work, the wargs were supposed to find out bad s**t was happening, and then the moonwalkers were supposed to go in and make it stop. I guess something happened in the otherworld that made this not the case anymore. I don't know.
Anyway, so, in order to make all this bad stuff stop, a couple of the older nobles (nobles chronologically older than me and not Ezra/The burning man or the Spinel Lady, because technically I've been involved in all this way longer) decided to call a meeting, but not actually politely invite anyone and tell them the topic. Which was rude. They're rude. There was drama.
So, we concluded that we either had to REWRITE the charter (the viewpoint of the old nobles) or DESTROY the charter (my viewpoint). Then we decided to reconvene at a later time. While we were between convenings, some nobles went and got the original document of the court, and promptly realized rewriting it is basically impossible, I think, because it looks like a ******** spell schema to me, and those are ******** hard to rewrite or change without the input of the original creators, both of whom I think are dead or just not planning to help us out that much.
It turns out that moonwalkers (kinda werewolves but not) and wargs (can bond to animals and see through each other's eyes) used to be all one thing and were the impetus for the creation of the charter because people were abusing their powers and hurting people. This single-version of these guys was called "spirit bound" which is NOT like an "undeath bond" which is something my brother has. Everything comes from bonds. I guess? Anyway, they were hurting people, and someone said to someone else, hey let's make that ******** not happen, and they decided that they would do that, and I frankly don't know what happened here but somehow a teenage(?) girl got sacrificed to make this all stop and it made her crazy. (The Spinel Lady.)
It ALSO turns out that the deer triplets, who have been being spooky and pointless for like a century, have been negatively effected by the sigil re-creation in mid-December. One of them's dying, the other's out of control, and the other one's got no magic at all, but might be responsible for AT LEAST HALF OF THIS WHOLE MESS. Fixing the charter to which they are tied might fix them, or it might make things worse, because they might have an undeath bond to the dead principals, and their deaths might be inevitable anyway.
Anyway, so, we had a meeting, and the Spinel Lady turned up and stole Alexis's powers, and then passed out and turned into a normal girl again. But we all kind of agreed before then that we'd try to make things less abusive and terrible, although we still don't have a plan of attack, and the Spinel Lady promised she wouldn't intervene unless we tried to kill her, I think? I gotta admit I wasn't listening.
Now there's this conference to get all of us who will be directly affected by the document of the court changing to talk about it, and we need to decide what it is we want. This website I've been on lately has this thing called "spoons" where they SPOON-feed you guiding questions and I've had like a decade to think about all of this so here we go, spoons:
Do we want to combine wargs and moonwalkers into the same thing again? Do we want to NOT combine them? Do we still want them to exist at all?
Why can't we burn down the court and let everyone be undifferentiated, what is The Point?
Is it the Spinel Lady's fault she's crazy, and should we act to protect her in the interests of protecting the person she's basically being a parasite wasp in?
How much does Ezra suck, on a scale of one to ten? I'd say fifteen thousand.
Should Jeremiah not be a cagey old fogey and tell us all what he wants out of the charter?
What is our moral responsibility to the deer triplets, who all contributed to this mess, and one of whom is actually dying?
Why won't Eve pass me the syrup? I've asked like four times. She's reading that book again. Why does she need Renard's inspirational-quotes calendar? I couldn't tell you.
Anyway, I hope that was helpful. I'm going to go get the syrup myself and eat my french toast and not think about any of this because I have contributed ENOUGH and also I am seventeen and that makes me younger than all of you, I think, so there.
-lady, the actual best
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:30 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:15 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:44 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:22 pm
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Re: Re: Re: Re: cnfrnce
I could stop being a cagey old fogey but that would deprive you of writing a perfectly clear and informative break down. Thank you, Lady.
Part of the point of the Court, as I look at it, is that you have a group that is outside of the cycle of rebirth. Nobility is meant to be a group that mentor and guide those who are still within the cycle, hopefully helping move towards a point where this will all end. I can't say that purpose still stands as it feels like it has been warped and corrupted over the countless centuries since it's creation. It is, however, what I would like it see returned to.
Likewise, I want to see an end to the abuse at the hands of those who are Patrons. The path to becoming a Noble needs to not be something that results in breaking down and torturing of the person who wants to attempt the Trials of Nobility. An agreement, a contract of sorts, between the Patron and Tithe would be best. Something that states length of time, what is expected to happen, and lays it out clearly. No mystery to be had: you know what you are getting into. No more kidnapping, no more unwillingness. So much magic hinges on consent and willingness, why does this not?
Keep in mind that becoming a Noble is a slow death. The magic will that Nobles are more closely attuned to will eat at you, watching those you love and care for live out lives not knowing you will hurt you, and ultimately it may just lead to a slow descent into madness. This is partly why there are not many Nobles at all. They simply do not last. This is partly why I believe the wargs and the moonwalkers were meant to play a heavy part in the Court. That they keep an eye on the Nobles who are more attuned/entrenched in the magic to make sure they are not slipping, that what has happened within the Court does not happen. When you have a group who is looking at the bigger picture, you need people who look at the details to stop them and go: What, no. This is why you do not do this at all.
Moving on ...
I think that having the differentiation is a Good Thing. However, the manner of it's creation (the Charter) was atrocious and if we continue with it, then we have to move away from that. We would likely cause more harm than good for many of us were we to suddenly undo the Charter. Changes could be made but only with the consent of those involved and we could, if we had an appropriate filter, create another one but we would have to dissolve the first.
Which is another process in itself.
Moral responsibility aside, part of the reason to try and save the lives of the triplets is so that we are not falling into the same trappings of those that came before us. So much of this has been built upon one for many which, quite frankly, is unacceptable. It never works.
TL;DR: I want to see the Charter redone. I think differentiation is a good thing because it helps us in the long run should these cycles continue on past this one. The abuse. Has. To. Stop. On the other hand, there are the moments watching it all burn is tempting. I'll keep resisting for now because I still think there's hope for this.
Jeremiah Mercer
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