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genessia2018-03-13 10:06 pm
stillsmiling) wrote in genessia2018-03-13 10:06 pm
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Good afternoon, everyone. It's me, um... Shi. I hope I'm not interrupting anyone..?
I've been working at the Genessia shrine lately, and it's had me wondering... What kinds of things do you expect from shrines in your worlds? I realize I've been doing my best to maintain the shrine like I would back home, but that's kind of ignorant... The shrine is empty and sad a lot, so I want to bring more people here. The poor spirits will get lonely...
What kinds of spirits does everyone have back home, too? Is there anything I should do for them here? I want to do the best job I can, so...
[action: Genessia Shrine]
[During the day, Shi is cleaning up the shrine. It's cold work in the winter, but he doesn't want the shrine to get wet and soggy when the snow melts. Anyone who visits will find this chipper teen spinning around to face them, work paused so he can smile in greeting.]
Welcome to the shrine! Can I help you?
Good afternoon, everyone. It's me, um... Shi. I hope I'm not interrupting anyone..?
I've been working at the Genessia shrine lately, and it's had me wondering... What kinds of things do you expect from shrines in your worlds? I realize I've been doing my best to maintain the shrine like I would back home, but that's kind of ignorant... The shrine is empty and sad a lot, so I want to bring more people here. The poor spirits will get lonely...
What kinds of spirits does everyone have back home, too? Is there anything I should do for them here? I want to do the best job I can, so...
[action: Genessia Shrine]
[During the day, Shi is cleaning up the shrine. It's cold work in the winter, but he doesn't want the shrine to get wet and soggy when the snow melts. Anyone who visits will find this chipper teen spinning around to face them, work paused so he can smile in greeting.]
Welcome to the shrine! Can I help you?
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[Or maybe he's crazy. All the other happy smiley people sure seem to have been dropped on their heads as children, anyway.]
You ever actually see a spirit? Why would they want to hang out with living people instead of other dead people like themselves?
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[Shi fidgets nervously.] And um... Yes? I can talk to them and see them. I'm a type of spirit myself, so...
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[Because she's seen mostly column A, and they're annoying, but the ones from column B are the ones she'd rather avoid altogether.]
[Shortly after he says he can talk to and see spirits, she opens her mouth to ask him questions.]
[But then he says he's a spirit.]
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[And she hangs up immediately. RUDE.]
[Bad enough she had to deal with them popping up in front of her face back home, now they're haunting the radio too. How invasive can these suckers get?]
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[And then there goes the feed.
Shi stares at the blank screen, confused.]
... I broke it? [WELP. He'd be sorry if he knew what happened.]
Video;
On my world, there are minor shrines dedicated to our Goddesses, but there are one of a kind specific locations around the world that is said to be a doorway into the world where the Goddesses hold dominion.
I'm not entirely certain what can be done here to honor them. Most worship is through action rather than through idols.
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Action, huh..? Maybe I need to start more action for the spirits here. I don't want them to feel forgotten.
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Maybe I should ask the spirits here what they would appreciate the most... Or we could do something to show we're grateful.
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We never did much for them, assuming we believed in them at all. The dead rarely make good company for the living.
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Back home, spirits are just souls that didn't get a body. Not many people can see them or hear them... It gets lonely.
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[He kinda does too, though not in that mode. More for just being a weirdo.]
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But for the spirits, it must be really lonely. No one even tries to reach out to them, but they're here at the shrine waiting...
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Huh. Are the spirits not company enough for each other? Having lived so long I'd expect they'd find one another far more interesting. What do flesh and blood--aside from bodies-- have that they prize so much?
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It gets lonely. They just watch people with bodies and are ignored... A lot of spirits can't even see or hear each other. It's really sad.
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[But no let's not talk about the void spirits.]
And they're no good to each other either, it'd seem. Have you, er, actually encountered any? At the shrine, that is? Or is it more a going assumption?
[Cause that'd disturb him quiiiite a bit to know that they live in a world of both empty bodies and disembodied spirits.]
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[Did someone say void spirits?]Hm... Not really at the shrine. None like my world's, anyway. There are some little ones, but I don't think they're the ones people told me about...
Spirits are maintaining that barrier, I'm told. The one around the cuty. But I haven't met those ones yet.
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Sure didn't!]Truly? I, heh, didn't know they were accorded size.
[That the world has anything really numinous in it, particularly with all the empty sprites, comes as a shock.]
I, ah, met them once. It was...interesting, I suppose, but they didn't have much to say. They rarely come out unless it's on the fringes of some catastrophe, we've found. Goodness knows what monumental labor so occupies them.
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Not that it matters. I still want to be good to the shrine. But sometimes I wonder..?
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Heh, go on, finish the thought. Wonder what?
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Just that, uh! It's awful of me to say, but if I'm taking care of the spirits and they're trapping us here... Am I doing a bad thing?
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[He sounds more cheerily exclamatory than nervous about their questionable existence.]
So we don't quite know what they've done or why.
[Well Ted kinda knows but it's not the most actionable knowledge.]
But even if kidnapping is a perfect description, well, it's hasty to assume that treating one's kidnapper well is necessarily an immoral act. I doubt abusing them would be any better.
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What about having a festival day and let everyone in Genessia bring charms and share wishes. I remember that being a custom.
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It was based on the stars... Maybe I should ask an astrologist about it.
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I'll even help, if you want.
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Really? Do you think that could work? I wonder if the spirits would even come out to play if we held a festival for them.
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video.
[She's never met one, back home.]
Um, festivals, I believe. What are spirits like?
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Well, I haven't met many in Genessia... but back home, spirits are like normal humans. They just weren't born with a body.
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