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| Action Id: 2796 | Crisis: | Participants: Jyri(RIP) and Volcica | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: Sept. 29, 2018, 5:38 a.m. | Public: True | GM: Puffin |
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Silver: 5000 Action Points: 50 |
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Action by Jyri(RIP)
Together with Volcica, Jyri will make an offering to the Gray Forest spirit (and all spirits of the forest) ahead of the Lodge of Petrichor fights, in the hopes they will aid and protect the fighters against the Horned God and his forces. Coming from the Gray Forest himself, he's done this in the past before big fights, where the tribe Shaman performed a ritual and everyone offered something.
Offers: A small statuette of a Red Wolf - symbolising himself and his dedication to the spirits. He will promise to work to remove the taint of the dark forces after the fight and restoring any damage to the forest. (This is an actual item in my possession - Jyri ordered it awhile back not knowing why - but now he knows what it was for!)
A bottle of good booze and some good pipe tobacco
Mementos/small personal items from Iron Guards so the spirits know to protect his new 'tribe' - the Iron Guards. (Sparte gave a painting called a A Hound's Tale that will be offered plus a pair of old socks!). It'll be things like an old spoon, a hair band, a leather string - these are not so much offerings as a way for the Spirits to recognize who the new tribe is.
Jyri and Volcica will walk far into the forest but not too far from the Lodge itself and perform this ritual. The items will be placed slightly raised from the ground on a boulder or in a tree.
Action by Volcica
A month ago, Jyri brought up the idea for a ritual in the Grey Forest. Clearly, Volcica was interested. The idea is to try to sway the forest and its spirits into aiding the defense of the lodge and the forest itself, against the Horned God and his minions. Her offerings are simple. A piece of antler, carved with intricate sigils and a promise to cleanse the forest of any taint or lingering corruption left by the followers of the Horned God.
Result
Jyri makes an offering to the spirits, with Volcica by his side. They settle into the grove and all around them, preparations are being made for the defense of the grove itself. And yet in this moment the world fades away and they are focused on the spirits.
Sometimes the spirits show up for these rites. Sometimes they don't. But today they show up, one by one whispering around the trees and speaking - not to Jyri, but the trees themselves.
"Sanctuary," says one.
"Healing," says another.
"Home," says a third.
Jyri and Volcica perform the rite, offer the statuette with the Red Wolf, and that's when the spirits give them the only answer it seems they will. "A wolf to hunt, the prey no longer wounded, a choice to be made. The precipice, a becoming or an ending."
And then the spirits are silent once more.