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@rey.nolo, @loki.odinson
@loki.odinson
Well, well- Hello everyone. We'd like to consider this an open forum of information exchange of this world's divine culture. Hold on to your butts. [ he's gotta be a little annoying about this. ]
Since it’s been popping up here, there, and everywhere, I thought I'd use my Loki-like credentials to give a little lesson. For those newbies who need to be brought up to speed, there are shrines bearing vague likenesses of us Displaced popping up in all forms of street art for the last few months. They depict our greater moments in aiding this world: monster fighting, healing, saving people from "snow storms," along with......... Well! All the rest. If you take a little stroll around New Amsterdam's architecture, you're sure to find one.
One curious thing about these little shrines is the imagery that they contain. If you look closely, there's an array of shapes in intricate patterns. Those newly arrived will notice that they resemble those from some body ink displayed at the market- others may know them from the Insomniac's Ball- but they do have meaning: proof of divinity.
@rey.nolo
I spoke with some of the volunteers at the Harvest Festival, and they said the same thing. They were the ones who made the shrines. And what Loki said about divinity, that's the reason they put them on our shrines: they think we're the same. Proof of God in this world. Or gods, since their religion -- which is what those symbols represent to them -- worships seven.
@loki.odinson
Interlocking circles, usually in sevens, multiplying outward in an overlap. They define creation, entangled in such a way that would delight the mathematically inclined. Geometrically, there are angles hidden in all of them, ways that they can connect to create more layers, and more meaning, including intent and experience, movement and proportion, blah blah and blah. Most important of all they are symbols, and symbols have power.
[ Loki goes on, and no one can see him gesture, but he gestures. ]
@rey.nolo
The volunteers I spoke to said that these symbols, and others like them, had naturally occurred throughout history. They were the same types of symbols I saw in my dream--some of you had the same one, of a blue bridge? The triangles signify a 'linked consciousness,' either with one other, the world, or the gods themselves. The tree was also linked to positivity and unity and how everyone is connected. Just like we are, through the blue light.
Just like they believe we are, through nature. It's all there in their religion: a belief in their gods, and in nature and the natural order. You can see why they'd make themselves scarce in a place like this.
@loki.odinson
It seems that we've struck a chord with the concept. Curious, isn't it? The sites associated I found were a few hundred years old or some such, but they said that they were linked to modern holistic thinking, but you have it here first, it may mean something different.
Well, well- Hello everyone. We'd like to consider this an open forum of information exchange of this world's divine culture. Hold on to your butts. [ he's gotta be a little annoying about this. ]
Since it’s been popping up here, there, and everywhere, I thought I'd use my Loki-like credentials to give a little lesson. For those newbies who need to be brought up to speed, there are shrines bearing vague likenesses of us Displaced popping up in all forms of street art for the last few months. They depict our greater moments in aiding this world: monster fighting, healing, saving people from "snow storms," along with......... Well! All the rest. If you take a little stroll around New Amsterdam's architecture, you're sure to find one.
One curious thing about these little shrines is the imagery that they contain. If you look closely, there's an array of shapes in intricate patterns. Those newly arrived will notice that they resemble those from some body ink displayed at the market- others may know them from the Insomniac's Ball- but they do have meaning: proof of divinity.
@rey.nolo
I spoke with some of the volunteers at the Harvest Festival, and they said the same thing. They were the ones who made the shrines. And what Loki said about divinity, that's the reason they put them on our shrines: they think we're the same. Proof of God in this world. Or gods, since their religion -- which is what those symbols represent to them -- worships seven.
@loki.odinson
Interlocking circles, usually in sevens, multiplying outward in an overlap. They define creation, entangled in such a way that would delight the mathematically inclined. Geometrically, there are angles hidden in all of them, ways that they can connect to create more layers, and more meaning, including intent and experience, movement and proportion, blah blah and blah. Most important of all they are symbols, and symbols have power.
[ Loki goes on, and no one can see him gesture, but he gestures. ]
@rey.nolo
The volunteers I spoke to said that these symbols, and others like them, had naturally occurred throughout history. They were the same types of symbols I saw in my dream--some of you had the same one, of a blue bridge? The triangles signify a 'linked consciousness,' either with one other, the world, or the gods themselves. The tree was also linked to positivity and unity and how everyone is connected. Just like we are, through the blue light.
Just like they believe we are, through nature. It's all there in their religion: a belief in their gods, and in nature and the natural order. You can see why they'd make themselves scarce in a place like this.
@loki.odinson
It seems that we've struck a chord with the concept. Curious, isn't it? The sites associated I found were a few hundred years old or some such, but they said that they were linked to modern holistic thinking, but you have it here first, it may mean something different.
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Though now that you mention it, it does sort of feel like we're paying for something, doesn't it?
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I'm sure you'll bring something up that points to me, too, but I don't agree. I won't agree.
I was alone before I got here. My people were gone. The world around me was dead. Here, I can continue my medical training. I can learn. I even have someone here from my world, and I can know about parts of the future now. That some things work out.
Other people don't have that. But I'm not alone. If there's a price, we don't see it yet. We can't find a shared agreement among us.
Perhaps the price is being exacted elsewhere.
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Just because there are good things doesn't mean that you're not paying. Universal debt isn't one of those things that you see plainly, nor is the give and take so obvious that you can pinpoint the exchanges. It doesn't mean everything is one way or another.
Besides, you just learned about this, and now you're already talking like you're an authority.
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We're offering action where there would not have been action before. That's a debt. It may not be a sacrifice, but it's not as if magic can't make lives better.
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That cost might be why this world has had so much going on.
I think it might be dangerous to see ourselves that way, too.
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If it is us, or something working through us, well- I suppose that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
Do you think there were monster attacks before we arrived?
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I thought it was pretty clear that that was the first of its kind.
[Wait.]
You think that's a cost?
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You could just say that it fits the bill.
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Then all of this happened.
It's a curious coincidence of moving parts.
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I left a message there.
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