It's just, sacrifice is giving something up. If you're taking it unwillingly, that's an offering, if you've got that sort of god, but I wouldn't call it a sacrifice.
[He can't imagine it'll be useful arguing with her, since it doesn't sound like she's got firsthand knowledge, just a general idea, of the afterlife situation. Given some of his dearest people on the barge have been hellizens, he suspects he'd get defensive, and that's no good to anybody.]
How much pull does your hill have? Local god, major power?
Quite powerful but very localized. That has always been the exchange. We are mighty together in our House on the Hill, but we suffer greatly if we were to try to cross a river or, fuck forbid, the ocean.
I still feel it sometimes, even so far away. We were tossed into the river of death on port, and I...
[ She trails off. She had acted savagely. ]
But no, I can't tell you if it is a god or not. If it's confessed itself to one of us, I've never heard the answer.
Well, either would be a problem on its own, why not both. Oh, well. Weakness, is that dangerous or returning you to where you'd be without the bargain?
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Sure. An offering it is.
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So what's the consequence if you don't do that?
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And do or don't, black magic witches spend an eternity in Hell.
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Sorry, people here mean a lot of very different things when they say hell. That's bad?
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It's only we have... have had demons from hell onboard, and they don't seem to mind much, so I wasn't sure.
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[He can't imagine it'll be useful arguing with her, since it doesn't sound like she's got firsthand knowledge, just a general idea, of the afterlife situation. Given some of his dearest people on the barge have been hellizens, he suspects he'd get defensive, and that's no good to anybody.]
How much pull does your hill have? Local god, major power?
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I still feel it sometimes, even so far away. We were tossed into the river of death on port, and I...
[ She trails off. She had acted savagely. ]
But no, I can't tell you if it is a god or not. If it's confessed itself to one of us, I've never heard the answer.
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More important to know what it can do. Can it enforce its rules outside its area of influence?
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[ Dubious! ]
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Well, if it could reach you on a port, then it's definitely got reach, but that doesn't mean significant power. Not automatically.
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[ Months ago. She does put everything she has into ignoring it but... yanno... sometimes... ]
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Does that weaken it, or just weaken your connection to it?
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Is that it punishing you or a natural consequence?
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[ John Doe talked her out of her lifelong buy in. It took some crying. ]
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cw: infanticide
I may or may not have murdered his hideous half-dead infant and bride. Several of his brides.
And the Hill is on his side.
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Wait, the source of your power is also feuding with you? And it hasn't cut you off?
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It has come to my attention that this isn't the kind of loyalty I'm really looking for in a pact for my soul.
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