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Post by wolsey on Mar 13, 2018 14:42:37 GMT -8
Luke smiles warmly and finishes his glass of wine, "Thank you on both accounts. Send Te'tet over and I'll put her to good work, and let me know if you hear back on the temple of Gusi information."
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jon
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Post by jon on Mar 15, 2018 16:19:15 GMT -8
Narration: For Jeyya, a devotional trip to Sekmet’s temple isn’t a just a quick stop for a candle. It’s a whole THING.
It begins as the sun sets. Sekmet has a Solar disc, but She also knows the shadows. She sees the unseen. From departure from her room, Jeyya takes care to be hidden all along her path. Her devotion is to Sekhmet, and only Sekhmet need see her. Leaving for a Devotional (as she terms these trips in her Diary) is one of the few times that Jeyya comes and goes from the Red Veil undisguised. She still goes to great lengths to leave unobserved.
Although Hooty is an owl and not a cat, she still bares kinship to felines as a nocturnal predator; a silent watcher. Jeyya works with Hooty to cross alleys and even thorough-fares without being noticed. Sometimes a subtly cast Minor Illusion is all the distraction that Jeyya needs to pass across open ground, otherwise in eyesight of a careless watcher. Jeyya’s used similar ruses to pass coin on to beggars without their knowing, as befits a benefactor imitating Sekhmet.
Still, from the Red Veil in Shark Square there is the river and a choice of bridges to cross. Jeyya chooses her bridge of the evening carefully, with Hooty’s searching eyes and silent wings to assist her. A time without traffic, sometimes even a Darkness spell to cover the tip-toed dash over the waterway between friendly pools of shadow. It’s out of her way, but sometimes Sunrise Street is an easier path for achieving this feat.
Arriving in the Temple District, Jeyya still sticks to the shadows, keeping to alleys or sometimes even yards or skirting the grounds of other temples to move unseen.
Crossing the Street of a Million Gods and climbing the steps of the Umilta Temple are more open and difficult to cross unseen then the river. Jeyya takes longer and uses more caution on this last portion of her trek than on any other, and truth to tell she’s not always successful. Still, not many gods have evening worship, at least not ones that have open temples. Jeyya usually tries to conserve her sorcery through the rest of the trip to be able to use some here. Darkness and distraction are her preferred aids to her stealth, but one occasion she’s been forced to use a Twinned Phantasm to disrupt a moon-lit but oddly popular philosophical debate that was blocking her path. Jeyya even prefers to visit when the lone temple when the lone acolyte has left their post for a moment.
Unknown to all but Sekhmet then, Jeyya enters the temple to properly give thanks, worship, make donations in gratitude, and occasionally beg for a boon or two.
This was her one sided conversation with Sekhmet on her first Devotion after the trip to the Temple of Gusi:
“Dearest Sekhmet, I thank you for keeping me safe; for hiding me from those who would do harm; for quieting my steps when enemies may hear; for giving me shadows to walk within. I especially thank you for guiding my hands when I was picking that lock. By your aid, our actions may have saved the lives of some of those prisoners before the Ogre was going to eat them. For these and so much else, I thank you Sekhmet.
Thank you for a warm and dry bed in the Red Veil. It’s very cozy, especially with Hooty to cuddle and give chin scratches to. She thanks you for clouds over the Moon, I don’t want to forget that she thanks you, too.
Tonight, and in nights to come, I thank you for shadows to walk within. I thank you for muffles over the ears of those who would do me harm. I thank you for blinders over the eyes of my enemies. I thank you for the quickness of my feet, the silence of my steps, and the subtlety of my magic.
Lastly, oh mighty Sekhmet, please dim the brightness and quiet the clamor of Glorion. When one is proud, one does not know if one does things for the goodness of doing them or if one does them for the reward. Such is doing good deeds with Glorion. Also, it’s simply hard to hide from one’s enemies when someone is shouting and casting Light in tiny tunnels. UGH!”
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