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 Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:03 pm
Sage frowned slightly. " I think we should wake the others up just in case. Maybe let Arwa sleep for now but at least wake Delilah, and Markus up."
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:47 pm
The last to wake, Delilah could faintly smell smoke. Feeling around for the door, but cautious to not wake Arwa, she walked outside.
"Who let Flicker near the campfire?" she mumbled half-drowsily, rubbing at her eyes with a claw like hand. One of the cows had suddenly died, apparently of asphyxiation, and Delilah barely registered the newly dead cow. "Was that cow like that when we turned in?" she said, pointing at the dead body- oddly no flies were buzzing around it, so it was quite fresh.
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:48 pm
Sage glanced over to where Delilah pointed and frowned even more. " No it wasn't like that when we turned in. That's odd. I don't like what's going on."
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:20 pm
"What's the worst that could have happened, Sage?" Delilah said as she made herself fully awake. Looking toward the horizon, Delilah said,
"That's odd... my eyesight went to how it normally is."
Delilah looked at her hands, which were regaining their human shape. "Pan was supposed to stop me from changing my form- why is this happen.. oh." she muttered to herself.
Delilah's top half was definately human- her tattoo was beginning to show through her skin. However, just at the waist, Delilah was definately dragon.
There was a loud booming laugh that suddenly echoed around the camp. "Don't be tardy with my sacrifice!" it called out, before disappearing.
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:04 pm
Sage looked at her friend and raised an eyebrow. " Does that answer your question?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:47 pm
Delilah shrugged, "I guess I had it coming since I opened my mouth." She carefully walked over to the fireplace, sat down and looked at her footprints. They were like the footprints of a duck. At least these were easily erased from the dirt- easily distorted.
"Has anyone got any suggestions for the next course of action?" she asked.
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:02 pm
((Markus was already awake...))
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:39 pm
Sage shook her head with amusement. " Yes that's why we never say any of those sayings. With the way our luck runs everything will go wrong and that's the last thing we need."
( Yes but the characters outside the tent don't know that.)
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:50 pm
"Now that we've got these cattle, how are we going to placate Pan? It's not as if there's a friendly priest about here or even someone who knows what to do during a sacrifice..." Delilah asked, beckoning Markus into the groups vision with a hand gesture.
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:51 pm
Sage shrugged her shoulders. " Any ideas Flicker maybe something you've read on the subject?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:35 am
((Oooh... they are outside the tent... Err... Sindavra, I just got up and I'm kind of confused.... Delilah made Markus appear in an illusion outside...? Is that what she did?))
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:13 pm
joshleal ((Oooh... they are outside the tent... Err... Sindavra, I just got up and I'm kind of confused.... Delilah made Markus appear in an illusion outside...? Is that what she did?)) ( No Delilah can't make illusions that's Sage. Most likely she meant Delilah stuck her head into the tent and motioned for Markus to join them outside without waking Arwa.)
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:29 pm
Flicker pulled out a big book on mythology. "Lemme see what it has here...would the myth on how Promotheus helped the humans with the sacrificial share help?" She flipped in her book untill she got to the myth. "Let's see here...okay. It says here, 'When the men of old with great ceremony used to carry on the sacrificial rites of the immortal gods, they would burn the victims entire in the flame of the sacrifice. And so, when the poor were prevented from making sacrifices on account of the great expense, Prometheus, who with his wonderful wisdom is thought to have made men, by his pleading is said to have obtained permission from Zeus for them to cast only a part of the victim into the fire, and to use the rest for their own food...Since he had obtained this permission, not as from a covetous man, but easily, as from a god, Prometheus himself sacrifices two bulls. When he had first placed their entrails on the altar, he put the remaining flesh of the two bulls in one heap, covering it with an oxhide. Whatever bones there were he covered with the other skin and put it down between them, offering Zeus the choice of either part for himself. Zeus, although he didn’t act with divine forethought, nor as a god who ought to foresee everything, was deceived by Prometheus, and thinking each part was a bull, shoe the bones for his half. And so after this, in solemn rites and sacrifices, when the flesh of victims has been consumed, they burn with fire the remaining parts which are the gods.' Does this help any?"
((I quoted that from Theo.com, by the way. In case you were wondering.))
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:40 pm
(Yes, that's exactly what I meant! sweatdrop )
"Is there anything about the state of the sacrificial animal?" Delilah asked, "I seem to remember the Egyptians had that thing about that Apis Cow being specially marked."
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:49 pm
((Oh))
Markus came outside and listened.
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