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I don't know if this has been asked yet, but is this story in the same "universe" as the last one? I believe it was mentioned that Team Flea wasn't finished yet.
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:22 |
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You... Live in the village of Athar. You are a few months old and the son of Shushem, the village priest of Asherah, the Great Fish, creator of the world, bringer of tides, storms and father of the other gods. You also live with your mother, Nami and Jalitha whose exact social status is unclear to your infant mind, though she usually nurses you and is not as old as Mama, she is much lighter skinned than Mama and your father. You all live together in a hut built of stone, mud and wood and thatched on the top with dried palm leaves. Your hut is with lots of others a few hundred feet away from the beach and surrounded by a forest of palm trees, though there are a few other sorts of trees in the forest, the palms predominate. You are too young to know how to count, but a hundred and forty people live in Athar. You are also too young to appreciate much of the wider world and your people are scarcely aware of this fact either, but in either event, your village is far further to the south than any other nearby peoples. The extent of your peoples contact with the wider world is occasional exchanges of brides between even smaller fishing villages further south than you and virtually no contact occurs with those further north and east. Being an infant, your memories of your earliest years are nothing more than a few misremembered flashes of images, smells and sounds. Time passes. Your baby teeth come in. YOUCH! This is painful for you and even more painful for Jalitha. You learn to crawl. That a boy! Your mother and Jalitha are happy and enthusiastic. Your father is cold, distant and uncaring. You learn to walk and to talk. Way to go! Your mother and Jalitha are wildly enthused about this fact. Your father does not appear to notice or to care. You learn to control your bowels and bladder. You the man! On a roll here! Your mother is very happy. Jalitha is thrilled about this fact. Even your father, for once, seems slightly happy, if only because he will no longer smell your accidents, but he otherwise ignores you, as he always does. More time passes. Your parents are away and Jalitha is cooking over a fire pit in a corner of the hut. For some reason she does all of the cooking and most of the cleaning, not your mother. She smiles to you and smooths down your hair with one hand. She takes a stone knife in one hand and your hand in the other and walks you outside. She sits you on a rock outside of your home and tells you that she has a special treat for you. "Your hair is getting too long Sweetling and you can hardly see." Which is true, your hair is getting rather long, never having had a haircut and it is now often getting in your eyes. You are too young to understand that your people braid their hair, never cutting it their entire lives. Does Jalitha understand this? You are now old enough to understand that Jalitha is a bit taller than other women in your village and that she is somewhat lighter skinned as well. Her eyes are blue and everyone else you know has brown eyes. She also speaks differently than other people and is much younger than mama. You do not look like her, you look like everyone else. She may be different but she lives with you and mama and your father and in your young mind has a place somewhere between big sister, beloved aunt or maybe even second mother. She always has time for you, even when mama does not and your father, who never does. "You are a BIG boy now, aren't you?" she says as you sit on the rock outside your home. You nod enthusiastically. You ARE a big boy! "Are you ready for a special surprise?" You nod again, eager for your surprise. "We are going to make your hair nice and neat and then we'll make you some seaweed cakes, won't that be nice?" Seaweed cakes! Your favorite! Those take lots of time to make and you don't get them often! You nod again, this time much more enthusiastically. Seaweed cakes, oh boy! She takes the stone knife and begins to cut your hair. You are not afraid. You know she would NEVER hurt you and oh boy, seaweed cakes! She starts to sing strange words as she cuts your hair, they don't sound like words anyone speaks but her song is very pretty. Suddenly someone pulls her back, the knife slices the top of your scalp as she is yanked, giving you a small cut and one which won't cause any permanent harm, but, to a four year old, it may as well be losing a limb. OUCH! Blood trickles slowly down to your face as you watch your father beat Jalitha, roaring with anger at her. "SEA WITCH!" Wam. "You defiled my son!" Wam. "Have you lost your senses!?!" Wam. "Master!" Jalitha cries out "I am sorry!" Wam. Sob. Shriek. Whail. "Forgive me Master!" Wam. "EL!" Jalitha screams and then other words you do not understand. She is bleeding far worse than you. Wam."Your demons will not save you WITCH! If you ever touch my son's hair again I shall finish what Asherah began and feed you to him upon the moon!" Blood is trickling down your face and Jalitha is hurt badly as your father beats her. Other people are looking out from their homes now, fear in their eyes, but they do nothing. Jalitha told you that you are a big boy now, so you... OPTION A. Fall over on your side and scream hysterically because you are in pain! OPTION B. Fall over on your side and scream hysterically because Jalitha is in pain! OPTION C Try to pull your father off her! OPTION D Scream at your father to stop! OPTION E Try to pull Jalitha away! OPTION F Yell loudly that YOU are sorry for whatever YOU did! OPTION G Run and get mama! She should be in your cousins home, making beads. OPTION H Run and get Uncle Jorah! He is is your youngest uncle but he is big and the strongest man in the village! Sometimes he argues with your father! Uncle Jorah can stop him! OPTION I Scream that Jalitha is a witch because you are afraid you are in trouble! If you want to, feel free to join us on irc #madgod on synirc.net. The channel tends to always have some people in it and is especially active when updates go up. If you do not know what IRC is, here is a web based chat version which will not require you to register or download anything: http://chat.mibbit.com/ Diogines fucked around with this message at 23:42 on May 21, 2013 |
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:38 |
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H Jorah Help!
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:42 |
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I want to meet new people, H for Jorah to help
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:43 |
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H. Anyone who doesn't like the cold and uncaring father is ok in my book.
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:47 |
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:49 |
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H
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:49 |
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D I don't know whats going on but daddy shouldn't be raising his hands at anybody! It is super scary!!
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:50 |
Diogines posted:I'd like to thank ADarkerPorpoise for buying this banner ad, I just did too. And I'd like to thank Cantordust, our Marxist friend, upholding Soviet values even after the apocalypse! Who also just went in for a month long, 4x ad!
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:51 |
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H! Go get uncle.
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:52 |
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A mixture of C and D perhaps. But mostly D.
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:53 |
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H
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:54 |
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Voting for option H
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# ? May 21, 2013 23:57 |
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How far away IS our uncle's hut? If it's close enough that we can reasonably get there and back before dad is done beating the poo poo out of Jalitha, then I vote H Otherwise, I vote C
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:12 |
the_steve posted:How far away IS our uncle's hut? It is a short run. It is tough to tell, as a four year old, if he intends to beat her to death or not.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:14 |
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We can't just expect other people to fix things for us if we're destined for any kind of greatness! D
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:14 |
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F There is no time. Diffuse the situation now by stepping up to Shushem. Blameless as we think we are right now, humility will melt our father's heart.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:15 |
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Phearson posted:We can't just expect other people to fix things for us if we're destined for any kind of greatness! D No way man you gotta know when to delegate. We have limitations because we are small and weak.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:16 |
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:No way man you gotta know when to delegate. We have limitations because we are small and weak.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:19 |
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H Uncle!!!!
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:19 |
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:No way man you gotta know when to delegate. We have limitations because we are small and weak. Based on the example set by our father, the village leader, what's to say our uncle won't just start beating us for being a sympathizer! Just because he argues with dear old dad from time to time doesn't mean he's wholly opposed to the village's way of handling conflict. Maybe he got big and strong by beating more women and children than anyone else in the village!
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:23 |
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option C She didn't do anything wrong!
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:24 |
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H. The only way to stop violence is more violence.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:25 |
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OPTION H Crying won't help anyone, our father ignores us on a good day, we aren't large enough to physically stop the fight, and our mother probably won't stop it. That leaves our hope on Jorah.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:29 |
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We're too small to take this one on by ourselves...let's let Uncle step in! EDIT: Actually, I take it back. H will probably just inflame Dad more and keep him from backing down as a matter of machismo principal. C may not be effective, but he may respect us more for it at least and pause. C, and if that looks like it won't win, then D. FoxTerrier fucked around with this message at 02:36 on May 22, 2013 |
# ? May 22, 2013 00:31 |
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A - young child hysterics!
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:36 |
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H! Dad is a jerk
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:39 |
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I just hope there won't be a plot twist where we find out Jalitha really is some kind sea witch who want's to eat us. ConfusedPig fucked around with this message at 01:10 on May 22, 2013 |
# ? May 22, 2013 00:41 |
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What is our uncle going to do, really? Stop his brother, the high priest? We live in an isolated village and right now all your uncle will know is that a foreigner (who worships a foreign god) was holding a knife to his nephew's head and that his brother stopped her before anything bad happened. He is probably more likely to join in than stop whatever is happening. Also, Jalitha is likely a slave - which is why she was doing the cooking while mom was free to do... whatever it is that mom does. I'd imagine that dad would have free reign to beat a slave, which our uncle probably would know too. Hot Dog Day #82 fucked around with this message at 01:16 on May 22, 2013 |
# ? May 22, 2013 00:42 |
GoneWithTheTornado posted:H Daddy probably does not give a gently caress what we say, so let's find a big person to deal with him. She was obviously trying to sacrifice our hair to her demon god
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:44 |
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C, but let's go for an attack on the family jewels instead of just pulling him off. That way he knows who's boss, and we spare ourselves the complication of siblings who will lust for our power when we become king of the world. Also, actions as a youth will no doubt help dictate who we are as we grow up. Let's not turn into the sissy who runs for teacher at the first sign of trouble. I ride bikes all day fucked around with this message at 00:48 on May 22, 2013 |
# ? May 22, 2013 00:46 |
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H Gotta go get uncle 'cause we're scared, and frankly, it's just hair. Can't wait until dad has to deal with a real problem.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:51 |
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Changing my vote to F
Hobolicious fucked around with this message at 16:31 on May 22, 2013 |
# ? May 22, 2013 00:52 |
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D; personal opinion is that we cannot stop this, and drastic actions should be avoided.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:52 |
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Option H Let's be honest, we're a stupid mortal child and we need an adult who is hopefully not an rear end in a top hat. If our uncle also decides to be an rear end in a top hat then welp. Even if she's in the wrong, at least we can ensure the decision taken is more rational than our single-minded father's mind in a state of anger would take.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:53 |
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Maybe we should get on ours Dad's good side? I !
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:55 |
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If there's anything that will divert his attention right now, D is our best bet. And also D for Denziroh.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:55 |
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Diogines posted:It is a short run. It is tough to tell, as a four year old, if he intends to beat her to death or not.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:57 |
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I We need to make Daddy love us, Also highly doubt that our language fluent slave girl hasn't noticed that everyone in the village has massively long braids and is getting up to heathen shenanigans. For all we know she's spiritually scarred us for life, pops has already stated we're defiled.
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# ? May 22, 2013 00:57 |
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A Darker Porpoise posted:I We need to make Daddy love us, Also highly doubt that our language fluent slave girl hasn't noticed that everyone in the village has massively long braids and is getting up to heathen shenanigans. For all we know she's spiritually scarred us for life, pops has already stated we're defiled. I'd actually suggest that people seriously consider this as an actual possibility. We don't know poo poo about this world really, and I highly doubt our caretaker hasn't noticed the hair thing when we did at four years old. Or that she didn't receive some instruction in this. Obviously beating her isn't a proper response, but it is entirely possible she had ulterior motives when it came to cutting our hair. Our uncle is capable of restraining our father to get proper answers regarding the hair-cut, whereas no one else suggested can do so if necessary. Our mother might be able to restrain him too, but uncle is the strongest man in the village. We are four years old and cannot hope to physically restrain an adult man. If we manage it, it will purely be because El or the god our people worship empowered us to do so. SerSpook fucked around with this message at 01:05 on May 22, 2013 |
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