We're definitely headin' toward a third of these damn things... Dammit, why's this gotta happen to me? I got no damned legends about defeating ghost cats...
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＠Altria
This is our second day of travel after passing by Oxford, and the local animals are definitely more violent here.
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＠Altria
I wonder if it's because we're near the pit.
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？1：You mean that giant hole over there?
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＠Altria
That's right. The pit is a giant hole in the very center of Britain.
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＠Altria
And all those walls you see on the north side of the pit? That's Camelot...
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＠Altria
The sinful city Queen Morgan rules.
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＠Da Vinci
So that's the pit... Mike told me about it. He said it's where “sinister things” are thrown away.
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＠Da Vinci
He said if a faerie loses their name, they quietly disappear from their city and wind up in the western woods...
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＠Da Vinci
But the truly unwanted things, or things that can't be destroyed, or won't go away, or are just plain in the way...
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＠Da Vinci
What we would basically call “nonburnable trash”...[sr]He said they're all tossed into this pit.
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＠Da Vinci
It sure looks pretty deep. I wonder how far down it goes. Do you have any idea, Muramasa?
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＠Senji Muramasa
Eh? That hole? I'd say about ten kilometers or so.
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＠Senji Muramasa
Good thing I didn't fall all the way to the bottom when Lancelot knocked me in there.
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＠Senji Muramasa
I was lucky enough to catch myself on the wall before I got too deep.
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？1：Ten kilometers!?
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？2：Yikes! That's almost the same as the Mariana Trench!
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＠Da Vinci
Huh, I'm surprised you know offhand how deep the Mariana Trench is, [%1].
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＠Da Vinci
Have you been there or something?
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＠Redra Bit
Please stop talking about the pit, everyone. It's bad luck for all of us, even me just for listening to you.
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＠Redra Bit
Everyone in Britain knows about the pit, and not to talk about it. It's just a bad idea.
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＠Redra Bit
Remember those faeries we met who were headed there to throw away some trash?
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＠Redra Bit
They were landfill pilgrims, criminals who have been sentenced to pit duty as part of their punishment.
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＠Redra Bit
Most faeries don't even want to talk about the pit, let alone look at it. Please keep that in mind from now on.
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＠Da Vinci
So, they're criminals AND pilgrims? Isn't that[line 2]
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＠Gareth
I know.[sr]I thought there was something strange about it, too.
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＠Gareth
Why do they call it a pilgrimage? I mean, that word was made for the Child of Prophecy, right?
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＠Gareth
What I heard is, there are six relics that the first six faeries left behind when they died...
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＠Gareth
The bell towers in each city were made to enshrine these relics and let each clan honor their roots...
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＠Gareth
And Ainsel called the journey the Child of Prophecy would have to undertake to visit all those bell towers and rule over the clans a “pilgrimage.”
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＠Da Vinci
Huh, you don't say. I could see that. I mean, there's no other reason I can think of for the concept of a pilgrimage to exist here.
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＠Da Vinci
So the word was coined just for the Child of Prophecy, huh. That makes a lot of sense.
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＠Altria
Huh? You mean, the word “pilgrimage” is completely ordinary in your world, [%1]?
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＠Da Vinci
Yep. Hm... You don't really have anything like religion here, do you?
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＠Da Vinci
Okay, say there's a group of people who believe really strongly in a certain teaching, and formed a community centered on that belief where they all help one another.
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＠Da Vinci
For people like that, the place where the teaching they believe in originated is considered a holy land...
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＠Da Vinci
The trip people sometimes take to that holy land to pray is called a pilgrimage.
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＠Da Vinci
It's one of the simplest and most important rituals around, and it's something anyone in our world can do.
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＠Altria
Really!? So you don't have to be chosen by a prophecy to go on a pilgrimage in your world!?
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＠Oberon
Nope. That's one of the better things about Proper Human History. Everybody's equal, and no one is special.
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＠Oberon
You can still make amends even if you do something bad, and even if you do good deeds, you can still be punished if you commit a crime.
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＠Oberon
At its heart, that world settles disputes through dialogue. Not to say every dispute is resolved that way.
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＠Oberon
Still, today's matters can carry over to tomorrow, and tomorrow's matters are carried over to the day after.
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＠Oberon
Since no one there is eternal or volatile the way faeries here are, in the outside world, things are pretty much always changing.
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＠Altria
Wow... That sounds like such a human way to run a kingdom!
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＠Altria
I can't do much of anything on my own, so I love the idea of a world where people can just help each other.
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＠Altria
Then again, that's true for most people in the land of the fae, so I guess it's not really fair to compare them!
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？1：Good point.
？2：One thing's for sure: the Isle of Britain's a beautiful place.
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＠Altria
So what about you, [%1]?
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？1：Hm?
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＠Altria
O-oh, I'm sorry. I guess that was kind of a strange way to ask, huh?
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＠Altria
I was just trying to ask what you[sr]think of your own world...
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＠Altria
...and how you feel about what it is you're doing now...
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？1：Ohh, now I see.
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＠Altria
Oh good.
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？1：Well, it's hard to put into words, but...
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？1,5000：I think I like it as much as the next person.
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？2,6000：I guess I do have some concerns.
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＠Senji Muramasa
Well I'll be damned! I didn't think the land of the fae had bridges this gran[line 2]
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＠Senji Muramasa
...And I guess they still don't.
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＠Senji Muramasa
Damn, what happened here? The whole thing's collapsed from the pillars up. Did they screw up the construction or something?
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＠Oberon
Faerie Britain went through its rainy season not too long ago...
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＠Oberon
So I'd guess it was a combination of flooding and mors attacks that did this.
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＠Oberon
Now what do we do? Norwich is just a ways past that hill on the other side of the River of Tears here, but...
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？1：Is this river too deep to wade across?
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＠Oberon
Oh yes, it's much, much deeper than it looks. So deep it may as well be bottomless, depending on the person.
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？2：I don't suppose faerie horse-drawn carriages can fly, can they?
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＠Redra Bit
Of course not! Do you know why the ground exists in the first place!?
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＠Redra Bit
For the romance of it! Life's hardly worth living without romance! Even if I could fly, I'd still want to run along the ground! That's just the kind of horse I am!
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＠Oberon
Riiight... I, uh, really don't get it, but I guess I can tell you have strong feelings about it?
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＠Gareth
So I guess this is as far as the carriage goes, huh?[wt 1.2][charaFace I 1][sr]Thank you for your service, Redra!
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＠Redra Bit
Don't be ridiculous, dog ears! I've come too far as[sr][%1]'s loyal steed to turn back now.
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＠Redra Bit
I swore on the poem I've been writing along the way that I would stay by [&his:her] side to this journey's end.
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＠Redra Bit
I'd sooner defeat you all and go home alone than let you leave me behind here!
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＠Redra Bit
That is how committed I am to this cause, snort.
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＠Altria
The River of Tears...![sr]Then, this must be the Dracae River!
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＠Da Vinci
What's a Dracae? I think I remember some faerie by that name in Proper Human History too, but I can't place it.
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＠Oberon
The Dracae are Nightcalls. Oh, right. Nightcalls are great faeries once known as the Holy Grail of water.
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＠Oberon
Their most notable characteristic is their ability to summon the treasure you want more than anything.
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＠Oberon
How's that saying go again? A picture's worth a thousand words? Take a look over there and see for yourselves.
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＠Oberon
Remember those faeries we saw gathered over by the foot of the bridge? It looks like they're here for the Dracae.
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＠Earth Faerie
Huh? You won't be able to make it back if you go in the river? Only because you guys are weak!
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＠Earth Faerie
Move aside, cowards! I'm going first! Dracae! Dracae! Can you hear my inner voice!?
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＠Earth Faerie
I want a new silver axe to replace the one I lost!
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＠Earth Faerie
It'd be a huge help if you could get one for[line 2]All right, there it is! I'm coming for you, Axie!
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＠Fang Faerie
Th-there isn't much I want for myself...
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＠Fang Faerie
But Lord Woodwose did order me to find a barrette that would suit Lady Aurora, so...
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＠Fang Faerie
I-if you have a rainbow barrette that would look good on[line 2]Oh, crap, there's one floating this way now...
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＠Fang Faerie
I guess I should go get it... But, every faerie that went in the Dracae River ended up[line 2]
Oh crap, my hand just reached for it on its own...[wt 0.8][se bac245][charaShake G 0.05 2 2 0.3][sr]Aah! What just grabbed me!? On second thought, never mind!
