Weekend Entertainment #1 - August Test Drive Meme

[havetubawilltravel]

Happy August! It's an app_this_plz weekend, and you know you've got characters you want to try out.


H O W T O P L A Y:

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[havetubawilltravel]

Pinkie's being a little loud today (yes, yes - when is THAT news?) That sound you hear is of a one-pony marching band, and she's headed in your direction.

What do you do?

[athelstanthescribe]

"Brother Osric is asking for you, Father Cuth-" The young monk stops mid-word as he missteps, staring around. "...Father Cuthbert?"

[equal_of_any_man]

Olivier is out in the brightly lit garden, enjoying the warm day. He looks up from his weeding with a smile. "God greet you, brother. Have you lost your way?"

[athelstanthescribe]

"I... I think I must have", he stammers. "But I've never seen any such place as this on the island..."

[equal_of_any_man]

"Then you are new here." Olivier brightens. "Welcome! You are in a place called Milliways. It is a crossroads between places and a haven. I am Olivier de Bretagne." He bows deeply.

[athelstanthescribe]

"Athelstan", he answers, distracted by everything around him. "How did I come here?"

[equal_of_any_man]

"I can't tell you, I fear. When first I came here, I believed I had come by the Angel Ways, the paths created by God for the angels to travel by. But since I have leaned that there is no true answer for how or why people come here. But for that, I am very grateful that I found my way here. It has been kind to me."

[athelstanthescribe]

"I think it must be a miracle", he says in wonderment. "Though why I should be chosen for such a thing..."

[equal_of_any_man]

"Perhaps." Olivier smiles. "I have wondered thus myself and found no answer but I strive to work hard and deserve the honour of being chosen to come here."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Then such I must do." He looks at Olivier's work. "You are a gardener?"

[equal_of_any_man]

"My mother was a herbalist. I tend a small garden here and keep a workshop in the bar where I make what medicines can. They are of little use here but in my own world, my lord and his retinue have much use of them."

[athelstanthescribe]

"I've never had a gift for that, such as some of my brothers have. My work has always been in the scriptorium."

[equal_of_any_man]

"A man of learning!" Olivier beams. "That is no small thing. The library here is without equal. I have oft found myself lost in it."

[athelstanthescribe]

"A library?" He brightens immediately, and considerably. "There's nothing like a good library."

[witchfinder_general]

"No, sorry," says the stern, middle-aged man in black sitting at a table with books and a steaming cup. "No Father Cuthbert here."

[athelstanthescribe]

"...but he must be." Automatically, he bows his head in deference to the older man. "I was going to his rooms."

[witchfinder_general]

"You ended up somewhere else entirely," the man says. "Where and when is the monastery that is home to you, Brother Osric, Father Cuthbert, and the room you were going to?"

[athelstanthescribe]

"Lindisfarne", he says quietly. "In the year of our Lord 793."

[witchfinder_general]

Oh, that Cuthbert!

"The Holy Island of St. Aidan," Father Harman nods. "I've visited."

Pause.

"But about 1200 years after your time."

[athelstanthescribe]

Athelstan brightens visibly at that. "The holy island survives? For 1200 years?"

[witchfinder_general]

"How would you sink an island?" Father Harman says. "It's not been a working monastery since the 16th century, but the priory and church are still standing."

[athelstanthescribe]

"God could do many things, but... if the buildings are no longer consecrated...?"

[witchfinder_general]

"It doesn't make them less special or significant, even though there are no longer monks there," Father Harman says. "And the old church from your time, replaced in later stages, is still the parish church for the island. Worship almost uninterrupted, from your time to mine."

[athelstanthescribe]

He considers that with wonder in his eyes.

"Thank you for telling me so, Father. But how can it be that we've ever met?"

[witchfinder_general]

Father Harman smiles, realising that despite the many centuries between them, the monk has recognised him as a priest. Some things may never change.

"Because of this place," he says. "People from many different times and places, even worlds, can come here, through the magic of that door."