[HQ Ignorance] Scene 101: On the Blue Moon plateau - storytelling

[Nic Hughes]

The moon man muses out loud as he looks around for one of the rocks of 
the plateau

"When I freed Icthya from Lunar captivity a strange woman gave me a 
prophesy - that at the end I would be in battle with the devil himself. 
Afterwards I realised that she did not say which side I would be on, 
which is the sort of thing that gets a man thinking. I want to be a man 
who has the courage to stand up to the terror of oblivion and line up on 
the side of life and humanity against evil but I know that his army will 
not be made up of those who love him but of those whose courage has 
failed them. Will my courage fail me? I can hope not but until the time 
comes I cannot know it any more than any other man."

He picks up a rock and turns it over in his hand, waiting to see if it 
like all the others will change through the colours of the moons "As to 
which colour moon is mine, I am not sure which colour the moon should be 
any more. I spoke with Jar-Eel herself and afterwards my doubts were 
even stronger, did the rich and powerful of the empire bleed the people 
dry to keep the moon red against its nature? I think at that moment my 
sympathy for the white moon, my feeling that the moon is a thing of 
change not of any one colour forever, nearly got me killed. It is not 
for me to tell the moon which colour it should be yet when I look at the 
rocks of this place they speak to me of what has been and what will be."

"And then there is the other question. I was taught the philosophies of 
Nysalor, I have walked the paths of Arkat. Sooner or later there will be 
a confrontation and only one will be left standing, as it was in the 
first age I hope the one remaining is not Gbaji. I have had my fill of 
prophesies, they give me some hope that the holders of the weapons can 
help defeat Gbaji but no certainty."

"As for the sword? I do not want the sword. Its reputation is enough to 
fill me with dread. I came to speak with its keeper and to try to win 
his aid."

Nic


Lev Lafayette wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 22:43 +0000, Nic Hughes wrote:
>   
>> The big man sat himself down amongst the darkmen, against his host he 
>> seemed to loom very large but against others in the crowd he seemed 
>> almost as slight as his elven companion. He took a long drink of water 
>> to help soothe his cough before starting, his voice dropping into the 
>> telltale cadences of the storytellers of his youth.
>>
>> "I will tell you the tale of the fellowship of Talor. The fellowship has 
>> touched the lives of thousands of men, trolls and others but this is not 
>> their story, it is mine.
>>
>>     
>
> The trollkin listen attentively to Aalmon's words, as they are served by
> silent trolls all about them. They seem completely absorbed by the
> words, but Aalmon notices that when he pauses the expression upon many
> do not change. At first he does not know what to make of this; but then
> he has vague recollection [Assess Social Standing 17] of the attentive
> looks of shopkeepers on a passing noble procession. To be sure, some of
> the trollkin are paying attention to the story, The Fourth, in
> particular. But most are simply paying attention to him.
>
> At last when he finishes, there is a an uncomfortable pause. Finally,
> The Fourth cocks his head to one side. "Hmmm.. Man of moon good story
> tell. But what this say of his soul?"
>
> "What will Aalmon do when he has Sword?"
>
> "Will he become like Nysalor or Gbaji or Arkat?"
>
> "Will he fight the Kingdom of War or join it? Will he join it by
> fighting it?"
>
> "What colour is your Moon? What will the wolf howl to?"
>
>
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