[Video, then Action] Can I get an "amen"?

[youfool]

[OOC: This is the log for the Demon Days bounty. Ultimately he'll go with Marc Spector, but feel free to chat him up about one of his favorite subjects anyway.]

Say, who among you all has piety about you?

More to the point, would you be willing--in the manner befitting any worthy religion--to be savagely beaten for it?

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Re: private video;

[youfool]

Ideally, the Alpha and the Omega. The God of Truth and Love, the Almighty, the Omnipotence, the Mercy and...well, I could go on. The Uncaused Cause who made all life. I hope you and your world will come to know him.

[He just frowns at the rest. More mystical nonsense. It's all Greek to him. Even the phrase "divine magic" rings contradictory to his ears.] So...if it gets to be too much, you simply need something to...bear the burden?

private video;

[innocent_royal]

"Oh... You mean like the mythical God before all others? There are some evidence saying that the current Goddesses of my world are the great-great-great granddaughters of the Prime."

[Something to bear the burden?]

"Yes, I suppose so. But they would be temporary."

Re: private video;

[youfool]

"Yes, probably! If this Prime is everything I hope, he ought to do the trick." [For all the gloom-and-doom he's heard of her world, that seemed to perk him right up]

"Of course; just for a little while. My own creed is rather experienced in the practice, so if necessary, I ought to be of some use in an emergency."

private video;

[innocent_royal]

"There's no evidence he exists though. He's only said to be 'the unfathomably ancient true creator."

[She tilted her head to the side inquisitively at that response of his.]

"I do not understand what you're talking about. Be of use, how?"

Re: private video;

[youfool]

"His mention is evidence enough. I'm surprised your philosophers haven't filled him in more; my own could tell all sorts of things purely from reason and scripture.

It's a central part of the creed, sometimes referred to as the "Mystery of Substitution." Means standing in for someone else and carrying their burdens. So, should your own burden grow too great, I might be able to do some substitution of my own."

private video;

[innocent_royal]

"I still don't understand. How can you share in my burden?"

Re: private video;

[youfool]

"Haha, therein lies the mystery. How can one person take on something that, by all account, looks to belong to them and them alone? Well, trust that it's possible. There'd be no hope for any of us if it wasn't.

You're doing all right then? Star must be an...interesting roof to live under. Much better than a subarchway, I'm sure. Are you attending her academy?"