chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
@Boney, thanks for the tension this update will cause (no sarcasm). It's a good element, and it stacks neatly on top of our other clandestine issues in a way that will make the thread wiggly, I feel.
We've been through a lot without really getting an eyeful of evil or anything, and that feels like it's made people a bit unused to how the world of Warhammer is supposed to be. Just getting a Smug Bird Call is being treated by some as a massive and staggering failure and something we're going to have to scour our souls over...
But Smug Bird Calls are literally a Medium Magnitude Miscast option. The Big Smug Birds specifically are on the Major Miscast table, but something of this flavor of evil has been an option since we made Magister.
It's good that we're getting to engage with the meat of spirituality in the setting; even if they're sort of chumps, the bad guys are allowed to play too, and we're exactly in every demographic where they would want to bother trying.
It's easy to stay loyal when the bad guys aren't paying us. When we can drop the embezzlement because we don't need the cash, and ignore the conspiracy threatening to black ball us because we don't really feel like it and our boss counter-couped them anyway, and ignore black magic because it's weaker than the legit stuff, and ignore clandestine sin because we're always being watched, even in our own head.
It's easy to stay pious when the gods pay us to. (We're very, very spoiled, really). But real Piety, I think, if it's something to be impressed about, is when we're alone and it's cold and we stay in the dark because we're not willing to accept the slightest bit of hospitality if it comes from an impure source, even if it's real. (That's a big final block, of course; the impure choice being a lie. An excellent rhetorical tool.)
We can't really be pious until the sun goes down and our friends leave and we start to feel like we need a coat, and we're actually offered help, so I'm excited for winter, and for the party to end, and for night to fall, and to know deep down that we really could change it all if we just budged, so to speak. And I'm not sure if real Piety is something to be impressed about in Warhammer, except in that sort of admiration of cold purity that a Slayer strives for, but it's definitely better than the stuff that's only pure because it's never been tested.
We've been through a lot without really getting an eyeful of evil or anything, and that feels like it's made people a bit unused to how the world of Warhammer is supposed to be. Just getting a Smug Bird Call is being treated by some as a massive and staggering failure and something we're going to have to scour our souls over...
But Smug Bird Calls are literally a Medium Magnitude Miscast option. The Big Smug Birds specifically are on the Major Miscast table, but something of this flavor of evil has been an option since we made Magister.
It's good that we're getting to engage with the meat of spirituality in the setting; even if they're sort of chumps, the bad guys are allowed to play too, and we're exactly in every demographic where they would want to bother trying.
It's easy to stay loyal when the bad guys aren't paying us. When we can drop the embezzlement because we don't need the cash, and ignore the conspiracy threatening to black ball us because we don't really feel like it and our boss counter-couped them anyway, and ignore black magic because it's weaker than the legit stuff, and ignore clandestine sin because we're always being watched, even in our own head.
It's easy to stay pious when the gods pay us to. (We're very, very spoiled, really). But real Piety, I think, if it's something to be impressed about, is when we're alone and it's cold and we stay in the dark because we're not willing to accept the slightest bit of hospitality if it comes from an impure source, even if it's real. (That's a big final block, of course; the impure choice being a lie. An excellent rhetorical tool.)
We can't really be pious until the sun goes down and our friends leave and we start to feel like we need a coat, and we're actually offered help, so I'm excited for winter, and for the party to end, and for night to fall, and to know deep down that we really could change it all if we just budged, so to speak. And I'm not sure if real Piety is something to be impressed about in Warhammer, except in that sort of admiration of cold purity that a Slayer strives for, but it's definitely better than the stuff that's only pure because it's never been tested.
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