Winter in Hieron 20: Pulling You Further Down

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🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Prelate Springe,

Thank you for the hospitality on my visit. Thus far, it has been the only trustworthy thing in this gnarled subterrane.

This place confounds me, brother. On my trip to our Lord, I saw things I know have never been true: A vision of the Fallow Traitor's cold city spread far and wide thru the continent whole, except it bore a symbol akin to our Warm Sun's. In another, the sky had been covered, or… no, it was if it had fallen in, as if pieces of the heavens had collapsed and crowded the world. I saw the ruined college, rebuilt, or, no, it wasn't destroyed in the first place.

But then I saw Him there, at the bottom, and I felt His heat and I knew my path again. As expected, the ring carries heretical light. He told me it was from "the third stratum," which I suspect you understand better than I do.

I fear that He could see my bewilderment as He said it, yet I didn't mind that He saw me like this. We are His in ignorance and power, both. He blessed me for my faith: "Even in ignorance," he said, "You walk with the Confidence of the First Prince."

Perhaps this is how you stand this place, Springe. The surface is so far from His fire; it is barren His glow. Even with these twisted environs of impossible pasts, I envy you this closeness. Perhaps I will stay longer.

Yours in Faith,

Ex. Braeven

This week on Friends at the Table: Pulling You Further Down

Good Exarch,

I've sent three of my Devout—Rinse, Bringlight, and Lockgood—to retrieve the ring. They know His way and have spilled the blood to prove it.

I am honored that you would share His words with me, and would be grateful to have you remain present at the Cathedral. Our parishioners would be lucky to rest in your reflection of His strength.

But if you stay, you must learn quickly: There are no false pasts here. Only mistakes. Mistakes our Lord rights by fire, faith, and forceful whim.

Pr. Springe

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0:00.0	Last time on Friends at the Table.
0:03.0	And you see a two story, maybe one story, like a tall one story, structure.
0:09.0	There on the top above two wooden doors.
0:14.7	There is a symbol that has been marked in the stone
0:20.8	there's been carved in, there's an engraved stone basically.
0:24.0	A humanoid figure that has a very like tree-like limbs
0:32.0	in that the limbs are knotted and twisted a little bit.
0:37.0	Like their knees look like tree knots.
0:40.0	And then at their fingers and at their toes their appendages like turn into blooming flowers.
0:50.0	And at the head, the head turns into a tree, like the branches of a tree where its hair would be.
0:55.2	You're at this thing that's like a single floor high and I think you were expecting a tower?
1:02.4	The symbols you write are wrong. The thing that you write down, like you
1:07.8	write a floor big and it's the doors on the eastern side and it's made of stone and wood and then like you like you
1:16.9	finish writing it and look over what you wrote and it's like you've written the number
1:21.0	that means like infinity basically right you've written like oh it's
1:24.7	the tallest thing that's ever been you know you write the number that basically means like
1:29.1	oh at this point it doesn't matter how tall it is that's how big it is. And then you write that the door is on the bottom and that the
1:36.3	that it's constructed out of and then the word you write is Hyron or the symbol that you make is like the world symbol.
1:44.0	Hmm.
1:45.0	You've gone down a flight of stairs, and now when you look around, you see what the other party saw when they went below, which was like a version of the surrounding area cast in gray scale and also seeing it from high above. It's like you're
2:07.3	looking down at the forest you were just walking in. It's below you now and it's dark here but the light that you
2:16.2	brought is providing enough to walk on and you're on a long bridge heading
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