Video; Where's The Laughter in Slaughter?

[ragnarsson]

[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.]

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TAKE A VOTE [video]

[imahealerbut]

So Mr. Bloodface [she doesn't know Ivar's name, sorry] has made his case, but he's not special. Many people don't agree with him. So let's have a vote.

Those who want the sacrifices to continue, whether in a more organised manner or not, say "yes".

Those who want the sacrifices to stop, say "no". Then you talk to the gods about another form of worship, I know several that don't involve all this mess.

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[hantale]

A general "No" from me.

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[tealeafs]

I'd say no.. I'm sure the gods would be fine with some other form.

[ Or at the very least Honir, considering she spoke to him and he seemed so nice? Not the blood ritual type at all. ]

[imahealerbut]

[She's not really sure Honir should be their yardstick for "the average god"? But total agreement on his character, he seems like a wuss.]

You're in good company. Honestly, I'd suspect those against the sacrifices are in the majority, but everyone was just crying politely about it.

[tealeafs]

I guess these kinds of things happen since we're all from different worlds.. There might be some worlds out there where it's normal, and for others it's unthinkable.

[ Case in point: the person who spoke up about this to begin with. Apparently it sure is a lot more normal for him, judging by how he speaks of it, whereas Chizuru still isn't fully recovered from the sight of it all. ]

But it feels like just giving them some other offering should be a good compromise between those who do and don't want this.

[imahealerbut]

We'll see if that happens.

[She frowns.]

But someday we will run into someone who doesn’t want to compromise- I just hope this idiot isn’t it.

[tealeafs]

[ Chizuru looks like she's hesitating for a moment before she speaks up. ]

.. Are you sure you should say that? [ As in "say that in public", more like. ] He seems..

[ How to put this diplomatically. ]

Kind of dangerous..? [ See, that's putting it very mildly.

And Chizuru thinks Wen Qing is a good person! So no bad things should happen to her. Like.. you know. Murder. ]

[imahealerbut]

Safer as that would be, we’d be called cowards if that was found out.

[It’s a fair point, and she responds to it seriously. What she did was not straightforwardly wise. Nevertheless, Wen Qing believes in her reasoning- for now. ]

Besides, he and his kind ought to know that not all Wanderers are pushovers.

[Chizuru is welcome to argue, though.]

[tealeafs]

[ Oh, she's definitely not going to argue with that. Chizuru knows how to pick her fights - she usually doesn't go for it unless she's really passionate about something. And rather than passion, that remark was more just fueled by concern for the other.

But as long as Wen Qing seems confident in it.. well, she seems smart enough to be able to have calculated the potential risk, so Chizuru just slightly nods. ]

That is important. [ Even if it's dangerous. But that means.. ] .. you're really brave.

[imahealerbut]

Brave? Huh, that's a weird way to describe it.

[She’s been called stubborn, audacious, arrogant. It genuinely seems to amuse her, being called “brave” - but then again, there’s little place for that kind of rhetoric in the courts of a tyrant.]

[tealeafs]

You think so? You really do seem brave to me though.

[ Granted, she tends to view people in the most positive light, so maybe it doesn't mean as much coming from Chizuru.. But she does mean it with all her heart regardless.

In fact, it's the first thing that makes her look a little less fussy after this whole mess. ]

Not everyone would dare to just say that so easily.

[ragnarsson]

You already know my answer, I'm sure. Though I will admit some organization wouldn't be a bad thing.

[imahealerbut]

Looks like no one agrees with you on the sacrifices.

[ragnarsson]

Please. If majority ruled all of the time, there'd be no such things as kings.

[imahealerbut]

You're not king here, so you'd best shut up either way.

[ragnarsson]

Who's going to make me? You?

[He says with a sneer both cocky and childish.]

[imahealerbut]

[Wen Qing merely deadpans back. No judgement, just making a statement of observation:]

I've seen children less childish than you.

[ragnarsson]

[And to think this teen actually ruled as a king for quite some length of time back in his own world...]

Is that supposed to be an insult? You'll have to do better then that, but I fear with such a closed minded attitude, you won't be able to.

sorry for antagonism LMFAO

[imahealerbut]

[Wen Qing just deadpans.]

I wasn’t quite committed to offending you. I’m not sure if you’re worth the effort at the moment.

I'm loving it!

[ragnarsson]

Ouch. You wound me, truly.

[He sounds just as deadpan.]

[mindseer]

[She almost, almost did this in text just to annoy her, but this was important enough. Nah.]

I don't care about the sacrifices themselves. But there's gotta be some order to this, cause if they're going to do it they're just willy nilly slaughtering things in the streets and that's going to start getting messy.

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[amongfriends]

No.

[enflame]

No.

Do the Gods need to be worshipped any other way ? Isn't that part of the point of us being here to begin with? Some sort of worshipping ??? (Not that I'm involved with that nonsense)

They don't need a ton of meat to go along with it.

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[winscenario]

No.

[ Screw the Prime Directive, not even going to be polite or politically correct about that. ]

[machinamentum]

Yes. It's just some blood.