ragnarsson: ([12.12] Sacrifice)
Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson ([personal profile] ragnarsson) wrote in [community profile] asgardgenesis2019-09-14 02:17 pm

Video; Where's The Laughter in Slaughter?

[When the camera gets turned on, the first thing to note is that Ivar's face is streaked in blood that has only just started to dry in places. Someone's been out worshiping with the natives in a fashion very familiar to a Viking. If y'all hadn't gotten the impression Ivar was a bloodthirsty barbarian from a bygone era, the imagery is definitely reinforced with the dripping red streaks on his face. Also is that some around his lips as well? Has he been drinking the stuff too? Honestly, though, he seems quite pleased by what's been going on even if everyone else might be disturbed by the casual slaughter of the cows. His tone starts off very serious, since worship is important where he's from.]

About time this place started getting some proper worship going. I know most of you all are from soft places-- [The scorn in his tone is obvious.] --but blood sacrifices are always the best when giving due diligence to these gods where I am from. Blood demands blood, especially if you want them to be on your side in battle, or to favor you at all. It's really not all that different then slaughtering animals for food, just with more rituals and rites to it.

[Then he switches back to his usual tone that ranges somewhere between insanity and half-truths end tends to indulge in.]

It's a good thing we finally got the right sort of animals around here. Otherwise, I might have had to resort to sacrificing one of you. [He muses for a moment before laughing.] I'm joking of course! [Beat.] Human sacrifices only work if they're willing participants.

[OOC: This post is for a general discussion, so feel free to have threads amongst all the characters and thread-jacking rather then just talking with Ivar. Do let me know if you do want a specific thread with him! He has rather...strong opinions about this.]
sassery: (gotta let it out- gotta let it out)

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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-14 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
bro
really
were gonna go this route
like idk most of the animals we still need
gotta raise them and do farm shit
and dunno about you but
i dont want to wake up to blood on my door or w/e
last i checked sacrifices were p bad
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-20 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
look sacrifice may be normal for you but
lets just say it was a Bad Time for me and leave it at that
if the gods want it then ig that works
but this just kinda started happening out of the blue
once the animals showed up right?

moderation and rules yeah
this shit is weird and not everyones gonna like it
sassery: (piercing through)

[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-23 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
you and i are gonna agree to disagree or w/e
i dont really think it speaks of anything good imo

hell no
definitely not
im not the kind of person for that anyway
someone else can do that job
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-28 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
look pal
much as you want people to not complain?
theyre gonna
its how things are
especially on tough subjects like this

you can give your input im sure they want it
but other people will too
so who knows at this point
Edited 2019-09-28 20:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-10-13 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
whoo boy
anyone ever tell you you take shit real far
im talking like extremes here
just bc someone doesnt have the same opinion doesnt mean they wrong
but idk i could be just talking out of my ass here

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[personal profile] mindseer 2019-09-15 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-20 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
yeah i mean thats what i hope?
i dont like this at all tbh
i mean i get their whole thing with wanting to do it
they want to keep the gifts and this is a way of doing it
but uh
definitely not my thing?
moderation is needed yeah
i doubt a bunch of people are happy with this
and if we keep getting MORE people in
they wont be happy about it either
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[personal profile] mindseer 2019-09-20 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-23 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
oh boy
are you saying we need common sense
bc if so
good luck
common sense seems about as rare as a flying pig tbh

yeah theres definitely gotta be something they have to follow
if that makes sense
i mean its been okay so far but who knows
even an isolated island has laws to keep people in line
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-29 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
theres a reason why i dont expect it much
people like doing stupid stuff
and when you tell them theyre gonna regret it
they dont listen

but what do i know
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-10-13 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
we probably should yeah
you and all your trollspeak
itd be pretty neat imo

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[personal profile] diamondhack 2019-09-21 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
there is no "we" business in this

just so we're very clear on this

implications of sacrifices aside i've little use for dead things and we're going to quickly run out of anything to survive upon at this rate
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-23 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
ia though tbh some people are gonna just
go by "we" in general bc they like this sort of thing?
its weird

yeah no shit
you cant just keep killing things in the hopes theyll show up
or it brings more
thats not how it works
thats not how ANY of this works
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[personal profile] diamondhack 2019-09-24 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
generally not, no.

i don't... deal with any livestock, really ever, but if the locals want to sacrifice, so be it. as long as there's enough to keep alive and continue whatever we need, then their little whims are temporarily satisfied.

there's only so much good in telling people to stop when it can be shown to them why the alternative to not killing a beast is better.
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-09-29 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
cant say im exactly familiar with it
home was more about the docks and everything rather than farms
but it was still there
idk im just too used to sacrifices being a bad thing ig?

the problem is sometimes people dont know how
i mean like you said
telling only does so much
so its more a wait and see kinda deal
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[personal profile] diamondhack 2019-10-05 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"too used to sacrifices being a bad thing"

love i hate to break it to you

but they are a bad thing when it comes to blood sacrifices

being used to something or not
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[personal profile] sassery 2019-10-13 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
hey you never know
some people think sacrificing is necessary or good
i know a few types who did
and according to some people here
it should be a thing so idk really
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[personal profile] diamondhack 2019-10-20 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
yes well fair point

seeing all of this

i suppose my lot had little concern for anything so philosophical as sacrifices, as it had no income or bribery involved. oh well.