[ Apparently there was an invasion of frogs in the healing center. Maybe it is the same item, whatever it is. ]
No, but Marina said I should give prayer a shot. [ It's the only way to get a risk-free save point in the game. The God affinity points are bonus. ] There isn't really any controlling how the gods will react, though there are schools for learning that occult stuff in a more real setting.
The God of Fear and Hunger seems to deal with "vermin" type critters a lot.
[ Which Marcoh can mostly get down with but really it was me deciding to be funny, he can't just normally summon rats and talk to frogs. ]
[ I wish Datz summoned emotional support lizards, but the apples were very good. ]
It's a little more involved than that. You draw their sigil on a ritual circle.
[ ... ]
That probably sounds weird.
[ As insane as his world kind of is compared to some of you he can at least admit that this part is probably a bit strange, since this IS definitely proper occultism territory rather than broad religion. ]
The church I usually go to is Alll-mer's. But they are both Ascended gods, based on the book I read, so it is a little similar.
...They usually do. [ To be entirely fair. ] Gods are not known to give direct answers, ever, and even if they did, it is not guaranteed to be what you were hoping. Much is to their own whims.
[ He'd never learned about ritual circles and actually drawing them until he got lent Marina's Skin Bible though so all that was really novel. Damn, occultism is a whole different tier. ]
...If you pray to the God here, they did answer me.
Yeah, I'm not countin' this one when you can just send it a direct text message. Different sort of situation.
[ also he just hates them, even if they did give eupha a snake. ]
Anyway, maybe that's true of yours, but I've never seen the one in my world respond to the people who need help the most with anything but a resounding "sod off".
'Cause they're bein' lied to, mostly. The church tells them their problems will be solved if they just follow their teachings and pray to God while ignoring all the real injustice in the world and that they'll be screwed if they don't.
All a calculated way of keeping them complacent and making them believe that if bad things happen to people it's because they weren't pious enough and not because the system wants to keep them down. If their prayers aren't being answered, that's their own fault.
[ Just because Marcoh's religious doesn't mean he's like, all-tolerant. He knows some people aren't really into it for one reason or another, but Fidelio's case sounds more than perfectly justified. ]
And that is why you are trying to appoint a new person in charge, so no more kids will be treated the way you have been.
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No, but Marina said I should give prayer a shot. [ It's the only way to get a risk-free save point in the game. The God affinity points are bonus. ] There isn't really any controlling how the gods will react, though there are schools for learning that occult stuff in a more real setting.
The God of Fear and Hunger seems to deal with "vermin" type critters a lot.
[ Which Marcoh can mostly get down with but really it was me deciding to be funny, he can't just normally summon rats and talk to frogs. ]
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So you just said the typical prayers for health and safety and whatnot and they decided to give you rat summoning?
[ that seems like such a choice ]
...Is this that same god you were talkin' about before or somethin' else?
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It's a little more involved than that. You draw their sigil on a ritual circle.
[ ... ]
That probably sounds weird.
[ As insane as his world kind of is compared to some of you he can at least admit that this part is probably a bit strange, since this IS definitely proper occultism territory rather than broad religion. ]
The church I usually go to is Alll-mer's. But they are both Ascended gods, based on the book I read, so it is a little similar.
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Honestly, the weirdest part to me is that your prayers actually got you something instead of just falling on deaf ears.
[ though the rat part is also very weird. ]
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[ He'd never learned about ritual circles and actually drawing them until he got lent Marina's Skin Bible though so all that was really novel. Damn, occultism is a whole different tier. ]
...If you pray to the God here, they did answer me.
[ Incidentally. ]
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[ also he just hates them, even if they did give eupha a snake. ]
Anyway, maybe that's true of yours, but I've never seen the one in my world respond to the people who need help the most with anything but a resounding "sod off".
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[ Which is fair enough. ]
Why do people worship them then?
[ What's your god like... ]
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All a calculated way of keeping them complacent and making them believe that if bad things happen to people it's because they weren't pious enough and not because the system wants to keep them down. If their prayers aren't being answered, that's their own fault.
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[ Just because Marcoh's religious doesn't mean he's like, all-tolerant. He knows some people aren't really into it for one reason or another, but Fidelio's case sounds more than perfectly justified. ]
And that is why you are trying to appoint a new person in charge, so no more kids will be treated the way you have been.