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Let The Rain Fall.

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A STORM BREWS IN EMPORIUM COURT...

ATOP A HIGH TOWER, STATIC ELECTRICITY STARCHES ACROSS THE TIGHT ORANGE AIR AS IF THREATENING TO CAUTERIZE THE ROOF ITSELF.

IN IT ALL, A FEKA HOLDS THE RODS HIGH, HER BONES SHOWCASED THROUGH HER SKIN, ELECTRIFYING.

POWER.

WHETHER IT IS A STANCE OF REBELLION, OR A WARNING FOR AN ONCOMING ATTACK, SHE CONVEYS SCIENCE WITH MAGICK IN HER OWN-AND IN THE NIGHT SHE CONTINUES TO BREW HER CONCOCTION OF MADNESS UNTIL IT IS PERFECTED IN HER OWN BLOOD.

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Brothers and Sisters of Hekism, to you this is addressed! And to any who cry in the dead of night, I hear you! I hear your prayers, I hear of your arrival and your distaste.

The writing is sloppy, cropped out and yet waves of cursive malform–as if the writer's hands were once beautiful and capable of crafting statements fit for a King, taken too soon from her and replaced with worn, feeble tips that only widowers beheld.

I am Capri Van de Ezel. I'on make myself out to be a prophet.

I am a doctor.
I am a scholar.
I am someone who pursues what she can to survive.

You may call this foolishness to erupt my presence in the view of the Ire.

To which I respond that it is! These fallacies they label it as are of my own, I am human!

Is it not within ourselves to make the effort to try–and try again?!
I make mistakes. It is beautiful.

Someone days ago cherished the word faith and hope in a conglomerative stew for me–inspiring what it means to be what we are. I will publicize that for them when they fight in the streets below, I make myself out to be their first barrier so that they may continue those enchanting speeches even when I am down to my last fucking breath!

To the Bralona who police these damn boards–fuck you. You will never, I have repeated this once before–never will know what it means to be us.

I hold it close and dear to my heart that I was told that I am flawed–I am what perfection sees as its worst nightmare! I grieve, I rage, I am happy with being imperfect. Is it not within our divine right that we see ourselves as afraid? These words are not suddenly my own, they are borrowed and temporary–utilized to make a cry out to those who are still too scared to recognize they are right.

The emotion of mortality is something they will never be able to hold–it is our treasure, not theirs.

Thank you, Erwin. For teaching me how good it fucking feels to get angry again.

Weaponize your fear. I have been beaten, bruised, tormented, and utilized by the Occupiers, if you need to hear my tale then so be it and find me in the streets.

I will not allow the Ire to criticize and abscond my trauma no longer. Come and hear the words of what they call science straight from the heart of one of the firsthands.

I plead of you to consider what it means to be human. In those awe'ing words of the other, it is what separates us from them. The capacity for us to feel fear is what arms us that true independence.

Embrace!


Allow yourself to feel: to feel the wrath, to take it into your veins like the iron that boils and brutalizes your inner skin, that melts from the streets and capitalizes the air with its scent.

This is no cry to pick up the mighty,
This is a cry for recognition!

It is a cry to validate, to invigorate the primality within ourselves. Put aside to rest the masculinities and femininities that hold yourselves back, and bind yourself towards what makes you be you, to release that unfitted anger into its true control!

Show the fuckers that we care about what they do to this world! Our world!

That we know they've not only done it once, twice, but before again and again!

Their stupidity knows no bounds–their ferality for 'research' crushes their perfect results, ruins their experimentation, and furthermore sours their image. They will never achieve their perfect lab, and will never be smarter than us because of the one thing they don't fucking have.

They may not care for that, and to that I say that we are more than just cattle driven into their pens. If it gives you a reason, insult their posterity!

They are not more than just sadistic bastards who lack a heart.

Purely, fuck them.

To Erwin–who stands still preaching despite the crisping flames of his once holiest site, this is for you. I have held every piece of word in my mind, and I have utilized it to unleash my chains.

You and many others have given me the strength again to fight past fear. Today, I had the moment to grab my gun, and be capable despite the pain to say I wanted to continue. That I wanted to continue to fight.

I will find what I have lost. Nothing is going to stop me from that.

I would never have been able to if I was still.

A personal address to those that have touched me. I am not bending from the opportunity to hunt you down. Again, and again.

It only takes me one sentence to let every man, beast, and creature know where you are.

You will never be able to fortify yourselves against me.

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A LOUD BANG SHRIEKS FROM EMPORIUM COURT IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.

THE SOUNDS OF THUNDEROUS, HEAVY BOOTS STORM THE COBBLESTONE IN THESE DISTRICTS:

FLORAL COURT.

QADIR DISTRICT.

GODS COURT.

EMPORIUM COURT.

OLD CROOKBACK.

NEW CROOKBACK.

NEW ARENA COURT.

OLD ARENA COURT.

A THUNDERLANCE BOOMS AS THE POST IS STAPLED TO THE BOARD JUST OUTSIDE OF GREYGATE.

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In wrought-up writing, the good doctor's vigor increases like the storm above. Minutes before she had publicized this letter herself, running in the heavy rain to and from the next board, she sits below candlelight with a battle-fury face shown.

AND TO THE HOLY, TO THE DEVOUT, TO THE ONE WHO SPENDS EVERY ACHING MOMENT PRECEEDING THEIR RITUALS

KEEP YOUR FIGHT. KEEP YOUR SPIRITUALITY.

TO THOSE OF WHOM I ADDRESSED, LET RAIN YOUR FURY.

SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN ARMS, I INVITE YOU TO DAMNATE AND CURSE THE UN-FIT, THE UN-DEVOUT, THE UNHOLY.

FOR HOWEVER LONG THEY CONTINUE TO ATTACK, LET IT SINK IN THAT WE CONTINUE TO PRAY.

WE WILL BIND THEIR FEET TO THIS GROUND.

WE WILL BLIND THEM PAST WHAT POINT THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE TO THEMSELVES.

WE WILL CHOKE THEIR HAUTERING LAUGHTER–IT IS NOT THEIR RIGHT TO HAVE.

IF THERE IS ANY BETTER TIME TO ALLOW KARMA'S KISS, IT IS NOW.

THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO MAIM THEIR SPIRIT WITH A HUNGRY PASSION FOR THEIR REJECTION FROM OUR MOST HOLIEST PLACES.

THEY WILL NEVER FINISH THEIR RESEARCH.

LET IT BE KNOWN THEY WILL NEVER REACH OUR AFTERLIFES.

FOR WHEN WE ARE GONE, THEY WILL BE STUCK ON THE PLANE AND DECAY.

UNFIT TO LIVE AGAIN IN A NEW WAY.

UNFIT TO SEE WHAT RESULTS IT BEHOLDENS.

EVERYTHING DECAYS. EVERYTHING WILL.

THEY WILL NOT CLAIM US, THEY WILL NOT DISCOVER OUR SECRETS IN WHAT IS BEYOND THE GRAVE.

THAT IS THEIR CURSE.​

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... oocly .. | emporium court's gotten awfully noisy in the towers that face god's court. the location is publicly known: capri's residence is emporiumcourt15, the source of it all. if you'd like to set up conflict rp, etc. please dm me on discord! want to rob it? just lmk!
@BeetrootSalad | thank you for the sermon to boost capri's anger!!
 
The Evintarian Knight's brows rose as he scanned the wrathful words upon the parchment, holding aloft a lantern to study the words amidst the raging storm. He brought a hand up to brush his hair out of his face, a solemn nod following every vengeful line etched with violent strokes; ink splatter noted, and not missed. Their voice raised then, turning to the passerby as the Villiers-Eclaire threw aside their cloak, letting their religious colors and symbols shine in the lanternlight, gleaming as rivulets of water turned etched metal into glimmering silver. Preaching to all who passed, they shouted, beckoning to the very paper that stirred their tirade.

"The Everwatcher commands we embrace Wroth, as the ancient manuscripts demand we defend the faith, every one of us; with arms and vigor to shed blood for our beliefs! Ambition! Pride! Vengeance! We must stand, and fight for the Emperor! Devote ourselves to the Great Way! Allow the power of the Divine to flow through us, so that we may be tools of the almighty, so that we may enact the will of our Emperor; so that we may expand the Divine Creation that is our Empire!"

Raising their lantern high amidst the storm, the Knight continued to yell to all who passed, fearless, shameless, as they added their own tirade to the raging booms of the Thunderlance, strands of golden hair plastered to their cheeks; though attention was naught paid to the discomfort of the weather.

"We the Faithful, We the Strong, We the Resilient, We who Will. Not. Bow. Who will not concede that these interlopers, who take your homes, burn your faith, and claim that your livelihoods are little but an insignificant struggle deserve anything more than the damning truth that they are the worthless. That they are the ones who have no joy in life, who don't understand the miracles of life. Take arms, all of you who are sick of this and fight! Do not let them tread on you as an entryway carpet! The generators fall, and as everything that dares to oppose the might of The Everwatcher, soon they will too! Regalia is not yet lost! No, she has yet to show her teeth! I urge you all, heed the papers, heed the prayers, heed the demands of the Divine, and STAND!"

The Knight continued their preaching into the night, and only when the streets dared dwindle, did they retire, yet not a speck of exhaustion was shown upon the wrathful man's features. Instead, only a hopeful smile flickered in the dwindling light of the flames.

Let the rain fall, for eventually, the clouds must give way, to the unyielding, unforgiving light.

Holy shit, thanks for the fucking inspiration to spit out my own wall of text. Fucking props to @eiiiiiko, the absolute champion.

Well done.

@BeetrootSalad that sermon was fire.
 
"Jeez, I think we broken this woman my dear creations…All this madness…I would call it emotion but it seems more broken, maddened. Dear liberated souls, what on Aloria did one of our number do to this woman?"

they muse shifting genders in a almost noncommital manner in this moment, "It's amusing though…they still think we don't feel? If she'd seen me throw myself into that melee for Meep's sake. She would not be so blind."

"Private Vella, the Commanders they are not the only ones who experiment. Mine are bloodless, beautiful things…she didn't get to see that Dynomo. My first use of magic…"

The bralla smiles, for a moment letting themself form tear ducts for once to shed proper tears of joy, "The power, the energy, the fruition of nights of planning…I missed this. I hate war, I want my inventions to be my only focus again but it is all for the treaty…all for the end to the war."

"Let her speak, let her duel me with firearm again, but I will not back down. Not while peace is contingent on victory. Peace through the High Command."

But before the bralla sets it down they see the end again, "Afterlife…ha one should not need a reward. They should not need something like that when this world is amazing, expansive what use if a realm when one is dead and gone? Death shall never touch me, and even if it did I would fade into oblivion with a smile. For sleep is beautiful and afterlife is just living under a divine landlord."
 
(For context, this is the sermon being discussed. Everything is public. I figured I might as well post it for those who missed the IC event.)

TRANSCRIPT - WEDNESDAY (7/27/310):
Below reads the script of the sermon given on the 27th.
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Well, firstly, thank you all for coming. There is little danger here. Should the Bralona come, Sangria will withstand them. I loathe to speak of it, but there are emergency routes out through the sides and back of the noble seating.
That is if they come.

In any case, I see new faces. This, thusly, will be a homily for those new faces. Part of my heart is warmed by that, and part of it runs cold.

It is human nature to turn to higher forces during times of strife and contention, but we must remember not to forget the faith we've cultivated. When one makes an error, they learn from their mistake and they do not repeat it. If faith may be a solution, then do not forget it once it fulfills its task. The Gods are merciful, but it is not a transactional relationship, as much as the Bralona would like to pretend it is.

In essence; do not worship the Everwatcher so that His mercy may fix what ails you. Worship the Everwatcher to worship the Everwatcher.

However, I get ahead of myself. This sermon is one dedicated to hope. If you did not know, the Burning Eye Sanctuary was set alight two days ago. Still, I stand here preaching. There are more Villiers-Eclaires Knights in the city than ever before, and contrary to their attempts at quelling the faith, more new faces have flocked to it than in the past years.

In essence; they have failed. Miserably.

Perhaps not in military, perhaps not in conquest, but in the matters of faith, we remain victorious still. Sangria sits with me, and even as the Temples of the city lay in ruins, another is being built as we speak.

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I will speak honestly. I see that all of you hold fear in your hearts; I do as well. It is not a bad thing. There are times to be brave and there are times to flee. The Great Way requires living souls, capable of repeating and serving the faith, and to be a living soul requires fear. It is human. It separates us from our occupiers and us.

You may fear them because they know so very much, or they claim such advanced technological breakthroughs. Maybe it is because their perversions of science are sadistic. But do not listen when they call us savages or primitive.

I am not here to deny science or knowledge. I am here to affirm that we know more than our occupiers; through faith, culture, music and art. We have the emotion of mortality they will never experience, and we hold knowledge from losses they will never understand. They are not smarter than us. They are not more wise than us

Emperor Henri III Ivrae de-Sange was once named All-Knower, for his pious journey to enlightenment. He was a scholar. He was a scientist. He experimented, and he studied and researched with a fervor one might find familiar.

It was his only fervor in life; he abandoned vanity, he abandoned the great feasts of his caste and he abandoned his worldly desires to understand more. Did he torture? Did he steal organs, maim, and kill, for his experiments?

Did he conquer a city for the curiosity of it? No.

Is he any less of a scholar.

No.

Never, did he submit himself to sadistic whims or pointless research. Never did he act as our occupiers do today--

[An explosion rocks the stage]

... Calm yourselves.

I invite you all to light candles. It may feel like a peaceful, useless gesture, but in doing so, you invite knowledge into your hearts far more purely and far more ethically than our occupiers.

We must remember why it is we stand against them. Fear is only conquered then.

[The sermon ends.]