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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 16 (1-20)
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 Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:09 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Well wasn't that just great? He had managed to write, but it was impossible to tell what he actually wrote. Embarrassing didn't even cover it, since he normally didn't think his handwriting was all that bad. But the more he had to focus on his handwriting, the less he was able to focus on learning the meaning of the scripture itself. As such, the whole point of the exercise was in jeopardy. Surely it would be easier the longer he did it though, since practice made perfect. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 0/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
19
Total: 19 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:19 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Finally after all of his previous failures, he had managed to begin working on the scripture. He had decided to start in the very beginning, since he had plenty of work to do. According to the scripture, in the very beginning there was only fire and ice, corresponding to two different worlds. There was Muspelheim, the land of fire, and Niflheim, the land of ice. When the warm air hit the cold ice, the jotunn Ymir and the icy cow Audhumla were created. So in the beginning, that was all there was. Suddenly, he found himself without any ink, so he dipped his pen again and prepared to continue writing... Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 1/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
11
Total: 11 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:25 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Luckily for him, he managed to continue writing without any issues, which made it possible for him to analyze what he had written. From Ymir's foot a man was created, and from his armpits a man and a woman emerged. As such, Ymir was the progenitor of the Jotnar. While he slept, the intense heat from Muspelheim caused him to sweat, and from his sweat emerged Surtur, the jotunn of fire. So in the beginning, his patron god of fire was created out of the sweat of a greater being. Perhaps this would seem rather foolish for some, but in the mind of Kiyoshi it made perfect sense. After all, where else would he have come from? And since it was created from heat, it made sense that he would be representative of fire. But alas, he lacked ink now, so it was time to move on from this point entirely. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 2/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:35 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Kiyoshi turned over the page, moving to the next piece of parchment. Already he felt more relaxed, and wondered if it would have been better if he had been a scribe instead of a warrior. But that would never do, because he was destined to be a warrior. Surtur was a god of battle, not a god of scribes. Still, the story continued. After the creation of Surtur, Ymir woke and drank the milk of Audhumla. While he drank, the cow licked a salt stone. After the first day, a man's hair appeared on the stone, on the second day a head, and on the third day an entire man emerged from the stone. This was a part of the story that Kiyoshi hadn't really spent time trying to understand. Somehow a man had been formed from a salt stone, but it was best to chalk that up to "gods being gods" and move on. A mortal wasn't expected to understand how it worked, only believe that it did. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 3/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:43 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 For some reason, the idea of a man being formed from a salt stone that was licked by a cow for three days puzzled him. He began writing down various ideas that would somehow explain how this was possible, but no matter how he tried it still made no sense. How did flesh and bone come into being from salt? Perhaps some form of chakra was involved? It wouldn't be too far a stretch for these beings to be the first ones to master chakra. After all, ninjas could do quite amazing things with their powers. But for now, he would have to assume that it was chakra, unless something later in the scripture explained it better. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 3/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 11 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:47 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Of course, the next part confused him even more than the idea of a cow creating a man from salt. That man's name was Buri, and with an unnamed female Jotunn he fathered Borr. Borr was the father of the three gods Odin, Vili, and Ve. This of course, made Kiyoshi's head spin. An unnamed giant? Surely it was named somewhere! Such a linage required that the matriarch be named. After all, the mother of many of the gods, only two steps away from the creator himself had to have a name! He searched high and low in the document, looking for anything that dropped a name, but found nothing. In the end, he was only able to conclude that in order to find a name, he would have to find a much older document than what he was working with. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 3/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:05 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 With that minor setback out of the way, he moved on to copying the next part of the story. This was where the first murder in all of history occurred. The gods, once they felt strong enough, killed Ymir. His blood flooded the world, drowning all of the Jotunn except for two. But the Jotnar grew in strength afterwords, so before long their population was back to what it had been before the flood. The gods then took the flesh of Ymir to be used as dirt, and created seven more worlds. From his blood all of the oceans, lakes, and rivers were created. From his bones all of the stones were created, from his brains the clouds. Lastly, they used his skull to create the heavens. The sparks from Muspelheim became stars. In Kiyoshi's mind, this explained the various villages, for each of them represented one of these represented a village. Was there not a village for each part of his body? Regardless, there was more to talk about, for all of these worlds had not been explained yet. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 4/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
15
Total: 15 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:12 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Of course, there was something that nagged at him, that prevented him from going further. If there was a village built from each of the parts of Ymir, why did the villages not pay tribute to him? Why did they not refer to themselves as the various parts of him? Was the village hidden in stone not the village hidden in bone? Was the village hidden in the mist not the village hidden in blood? Was the village hidden in the clouds not the village hidden in brains? Well that last one just sounded silly, but at the same time, it would be correct wouldn't it? Still, the priests at the temple always said that the other villages were full of non-believers. Then again, his own village was full of those kinds of people as well. He was expected to enlighten them through force of being, not force of arms. Therefore, this point was pointless to dwell on. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 4/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:23 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 The next part of the scroll he was copying dealt with the creation of humans. Perhaps this would explain the villages? The scripture said that one day when the gods were walking, they found two tree trunks. On a whim they decided to transform the two trunks into humans. Odin gave them life, Vili gave them minds, and Ve gave them the ability to hear, see, and speak. The gods named them Askur and Embla, and built the kingdom of Midgard for them. To keep the jotunn out, they used the eyelashes of Ymir to make a fence around the kingdom. This made some sense, but then again, why create a world with one name while the humans named it something else? Surely calling it Midgard would have been a better idea than calling it earth? Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 5/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 5 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:38 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Again his mind went other places as his internalized what he had copied. Was it possible that all of the worlds problems stemmed from the fact that the humans had turned away from the gods? Had the fence been broken so that the jotunn could return? He had heard some of the priests speak of giant monsters being used by ninjas. Could it be that ninjas were able to use giants as weapons against one another? Does that mean that the gods could be used in battle by the truly pious? Perhaps one of the priests was able to summon Surtur himself into battle? It would be quite amazing to see if that was the case. Maybe, if he was strong enough... he could talk to Surtur himself! Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 5/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
12
Total: 12 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:49 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Well, his ability to focus seem gravely lessened by his daydreaming. He had managed to write more material, but it was all illegible. Instead, he decided to cross it out, rather than start again. He had come too far to scrap what he had already written, and time was of the essence. He had more than enough work to do after this in class, but class would involve others. No! Kiyoshi was here to calm his nerves and gain insight into his life. He had to continue copying the scrolls so that he wouldn't seem overly dull when he went into class that day. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 5/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 6 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:04 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 The scroll seemed to veer off the beaten path to discuss other topics entirely. Kiyoshi wasn't sure if this was intentional or not, but it didn't really matter. Perhaps this would grant him some insight the previous passages had not. The passage described Yggdrasill the world tree, and three norns who were named Wyrd, Veroandi, and Skuld. It didn't really give much information on it, instead listing passages in other scrolls that he should refer to. There were many passages like that, all of which referred to scrolls which Kiyoshi wasn't sure if he had access to. Some of them were pretty restricted... he would just have to press on and hope that he wasn't copying a table of contents from here on out. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 6/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:11 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Nope, he was wrong; apparently he had been copying a preface up till now and this was the table of contents. That didn't do him any good, since you couldn't gain wisdom from such a list of information. It was like copying a glossary. It was great if you were trying to gain knowledge, but not if you were trying to discern meaning from that information. It was odd indeed, but he knew that it couldn't last forever. On the plus side, he'd have his own personal guide to what scrolls contained what when he wanted to find something quickly. He wouldn't have to ask anyone else for help in discerning between scrolls, but it was time to move on hopefully. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 6/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 17 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:26 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Kiyoshi had to throw up his hands in anger. The remains of his scroll was nothing more than various errata, and that didn't help him at all. Rather than copy it, he decided to move onto a different scroll and copy that. His temple had a wealth of knowledge from all kinds of religious pantheons, most of which he hadn't looked through. He knew that he'd have to eventually, but for now he was just trying to gain insight on his own religious beliefs. First, it was best to copy some of the info on Surtur, so he pulled one of the many scrolls on him out and began to analyze its information... Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 6/10
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
16
Total: 16 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:45 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 The scroll regarding Surtur seemed mostly concerned with the end of the world, or Ragnarok. It was odd, considering that Kiyoshi hadn't heard many of the priests talk about this subject in the future-tense, but rather in the present-tense. From what he could tell, the first part of the scripture dealt with Surtur himself. He was positioned as a guard at the edge of his realm, wielding a flaming sword. It was also said that during the end of the world he would defeat all the gods, and burn the entire world with his fire. Such power was definitely worthy of being worshiped, especially in the land of fire. It was no wonder his ancestors had traveled here to set up shop! Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC 8 Success: 7/10
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