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[the_cleric]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Jester
RECIPIENT: everyone with a crystal
WHAT: have you heard the good word?
WHEN: nowish
WHERE: the Gallows
NOTES: dick pics are always a possibility in this religion


Hello, crystal-people! My name is Jester and I am a tiefling and a cleric and a Rifter, so here I look like a qunari, which, if you don't know what a qunari is, I am really really tall and built like a brick shit house--

[Speaking to a crystal is weird. Jester is holding it up close to her mouth in case she is not easily heard through whatever crystals are made out of. Her voice (accented, something like Eastern European) comes through loud. All the more so because she is feeling a lot of emotion right now.]

And there are a lot of people talking about gods and religion and stuff, yeah--so I just wanted you all to know that if you do not have a god that talks to you, you can totally, totally worship the Traveler. Because he is a super-awesome god, and he will definitely answer you if you need him to answer you, like not always, sometimes he is probably busy or something, with god stuff, I guess, I don't know--but he will teach you cool tricks and tell you all kinds of new things! And he is very handsome, and he has a cool voice that you will get to hear too.

Because I just heard that people here do not have a god that talks to them and I think that is really sad, because the Traveler was really nice to me when I was lonely. And nobody should feel like they are really lonely, and if you do feel like that, and you don't want a new god, that's okay, but I will be your friend anyways.

And I have pamphlets that I can give you. About the Traveler. If you want to learn more, but you don't have to, okay?

Okay! And you can reply to this message. Okay, bye-eeee!

Comments

[gatheringstorm]

[Korrin chuckles, always amused by Jester's boisterousness.]

Damn right we're buff.

Sure, you can give me a pamphlet. I always like hearing about other worlds, gods included as long as they're not assholes. You can tell me whatever you like about him, okay?

[the_cleric]

Yaaaaaah.

[That's a cheer and a word of agreement, both at once. Damn right.]

Okay okay okay! Do you want to have dinner sometime, like you promised? I will give you a pamphlet then, and you can see all about the Traveler. But, basically, he is the coolest. Like I said. And not a lot of people know about him, so he is kind of exclusive, too!

[strangel]

Hello, Jester-tiefling. Are you priest of Traveler, if you are cleric?

[the_cleric]

Hello, Helena! How are you?

And no-o, I'm a cleric! Not a priest. I don't think the Traveler has any priests. And if he does, he doesn't talk about them ever. And also, I think it is probably pretty boring to be a priest. Like, they stay inside most of the time, I think.

[gatheringstorm]

Absolutely. I said there was a place that made awesome fish and chips, didn't I? We can go there and fill up. He sounds like the kind of god that would approve of having a good time, eh?

[strangel]

I am good. I found oranges.

( "Found" could mean many things. )

I grew up in convent and was thinking all religions must be having priests and nuns. Churches needing clerics, yes?

[sorcerised]

You're a tiefling! [ He knows what that is!! It's always something of a relief to hear familiar names; the Traveller counts, too, even if Aro counts no god as his own. ]

From Toril? I'm sorry your shape was changed in coming here. You're not the first I've heard of who had that happen. Are you still able to talk to the Traveller while you're here? Only, I thought that was impossible.

[the_cleric]

Yeaaaaah!

[That's something worth cheering about, so Jester does.]

Fish and chips! I bet the Traveler would like those, too. Well, actually, I don't know what kind of food he would want. He probably only has to eat if he wants to. But then, I bet he would want to eat fish and chips.

[the_cleric]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure, some of them. But the Traveler doesn't have a temple, probably. Like, that's what makes him a traveler, you know? He travels. So where would the priests and the nuns live?

I would not want to live in a stinky old temple, man.

[the_cleric]

I'm a tiefling!

[--Jester agrees, cheerfully.]

From Nicodranas. I don't know where Toril is. Is that like, on the weird side of Tal'Dorei. Are there really other tieflings here that you know about that I don't? That would be awesome.

And yeah, man! I can talk to the Traveler. Why would I not be able to talk to the Traveler?

[sorcerised]

Oh.

[ Well, he can feel his heart sinking. ]

Oh, no. I've not heard of Tal'Dorei, I'm sorry. I suppose Toril isn't the only world with tieflings, then. You're the first I've met from anywhere else.

[ But that's not saying much, really. ]

There's at least one other, but I don't know if you've met him. His name is Chance? And, well. I met a Paladin whose connection with her god was broken through being here, is the main reason why. I thought that would hold true for everyone. No?

[gatheringstorm]

[You're so adorable, Jester.]

Then I'm glad that he has such good taste. I figure anyone calling himself the Traveler would be open to trying new things, at the very least.

[strangel]

In caravans. On road.

( wow jester that's really obvious

her laugh, though, is conspiratorial )

Is it because you are already being so stinky?

[the_cleric]

Wow....

[Awestruck, Jester tries to consider other world tieflings. Then again, there's lots of planes: Elemental Planes, the Astral Plane, the Prime Materium Plane, Paralalalala Plane, or whatever... maybe Toril is on the Tiefling Plane. How cool would that be?!]

I don't know any Chances, but now I really really want to meet him so I can see if he looks like a qunari too, or if he got to keep his tail, or what! That sucks about the paladin. Who is her god? Maybe the Traveler can talk to him and ask him to come and talk to her.

[Except the Traveler probably won't do that. It isn't his style. But she can ask, right? Right!]

So what are you when you are at home, huh?

[swordproof]

You are a cleric? [ Interesting. ] I have not heard of the... Traveller. Have you heard of Sarenrae?

[sorcerised]

Er, well.

[ This is a very cheerful tiefling, he's discovering. It's hard not to find her charming. ]

I'm not sure. I'm sure she'd tell you herself, though. She's called Six.

[ The Paladin, that is, not her god. ]

And I'm a half-elf. I mean, I'm still a half-elf. I didn't get changed, so far as I can tell. Maybe because there are other half-elves here already, although they don't look exactly like me. I can't really explain it. I'm a sorcerer, too, if that matters. That seems the same here, too.

[the_cleric]

Yeah, because he travels. I think probably that's why he followed me here, too, you know? Because he is known for traveling. He is basically the greatest.

[the_cleric]

Mmm....

[Mmmmmaybe, is what that could have become, but instead Jester leaves it there, because--]

Oh, man. If you think I am stinky? You do not know what stinky is. There are stinky people out there. I love baths. I got to go on this trip, with the Inquisition, and first, they let us all take these great baths. It was the best.

Hey, is there a bathhouse in Kirkwall, do you think?

[the_cleric]

Yeah I have heard of Sarenrae! Like, it is a name that I have heard. She is a goddess, right, healing, and light, and um... coupons...

[Tickets that are redeemed, is where she is going with that. Redemption. Whatever.]

And yeah, like basically no one knows about the Traveler. He is really, really exclusive right now, you know? That's what the pamphlets are for!

[the_cleric]

That is a weird name.

[For a god. Because she's pretty sure he's talking about the god.]

Man, you are so lucky that you got to stay a half-elf! Like, I don't mind looking like a qunari, you know, they are pretty cool, I guess, and I like how big and beefy I am now, and everyone is scared shitless of me which is pretty cool, sometimes, but like-- wahhhh. I miss being myself.

Did anything change about you?

[strangel]

No, not really. I have smelleded worst.

( And she is fine with living in filth herself if she must, so honestly she's not that bothered by it. In all the things she was taught growing up - mostly that God was vengeful, science was wrong, and murder was righteous - a value of tidyness is not high in her list. )

There are the baths in bottom of the mages and templar towers in Gallows. Maybe nicer ones in Kirkwall.

[swordproof]

Coupons? No. Temperance, patience and healing. I do not know where you got coupons from.

[ Six is a little bit baffled, but she's working on it. ]

I would like to read one, if I may. I am curious.

[gatheringstorm]

Traveling and shit-stirring are two of my favorite things, so I think we'd get along fine. What was that place called? Oh right, the Creaking Kraken. I think it's called that because of the sign, which is damn loud.

[rathercommon]

So...

[ She didn't ask this before. ]

Do you see him here?

[the_cleric]

Not yet.

But that happens, you know? I mean, he has stuff to do. God stuff. He is a god. And I am really, really patient. And not very needy. I'm like, [in a chill voice] whatever, maaaaan!