after the Waking World log

[claudiometer]

Hoo boy. I realise this phrasing may be treading on thin ice right now, but strange things are afoot at the Aratta Skyhook.

First things first. Leah took the news that she was chosen to be the first Conductor deliberately... about as well as we figured she would. She has a theory as to why and asked me to run it by you guys. [And so she does, letting the memory play out from the linked point until Leah says she'd like to talk to the Oracle who uncovered this.]

So yeah, Thace, if she hasn't found you already, find her.

Second. I made sure to get a planetside view while I was out and about. Alexandra had never bothered before, and apparently wouldn't have understood what she was looking at anyway, and for an uninhabitable planet there's a shitton happening on the surface. And, uh, I found the source of the mysterious ticking noise, probably.

They're building a computer chip the size of fucking WYOMING.

Comments

[youandyoualone]

'Tis true that religion can work to combat black moods and their presence. I have oft attempted to find surcease in my earthly devotions to Namaah and have even once or twice, when my guilt felt unbearable, gone to the temple of Kushiel to be scourged.

Too, if one visits Gentian House and goes to sleep beside one of their adepts, one shall dream in symbols one what one is troubled by and the adept who shared that dream shall puzzle out what one must do. [He's often wished to have a Gentian adept in liminal space whenever he's hit by one of these awful nightmares.]

[eldritchwheelies]

Show me an impractical faith and I'll show you one that didn't survive. Ask me to tell you why pork was originally forbidden to the Jews.

[No comment on getting whipped by Kushiel's boys.]

I mean, I'm mostly vaguely the Japanese bouillabaisse of Buddhism and Shinto, but comparative religion and the difference between religions and (notionally toxic) cults is something you get drilled into your head at a school for fighting things like Nyarlathotep. Confession does salve the soul. Mitzvot do give you good habits. Meditation is good mental hygene. These aren't arbitrary rules; they're different ways to be happy.

[youandyoualone]

I am familiar a bit with confession. Thorne has described to me the Catholic rites of her childhood and too have many of my infiltrations been brought up so--at least when they have originated in France. In fact, on the walkabout to the world of Pogemon, my childhood friend David, who in my own world became a Cassiline Brother much like Joscelin, was himself a Jesuit priest.

[eldritchwheelies]

Jesuits are real "glorify God by understanding His creation" types. Does that track with the Cassilines?

[youandyoualone]

Hm. Not specifically the Cassilines per se, but 'tis usually just old Siovale families who still practice the old tradition of sending second sons to the order and that is very much in line with traditional Siovalese thought and Shemhazhai's priesthood... so I can see that, yes.