Weekend Entertainment #1 - August Test Drive Meme

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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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Comments

[athelstanthescribe]

Athelstan gives him a dubious look. "But then, you said those who come here have stories."

[witchfinder_general]

"But there are far more stories in the world than people come here."

[athelstanthescribe]

"True", he agrees. "And apart from my visits to the courts of great men, I fear mine isn't as interesting as others."

[witchfinder_general]

"What courts have you visited?" Father Harman asks.

[athelstanthescribe]

"That of Charlemagne", he says, eyes shining. "He was a man of such learning... and I also spent a little time in the north."

[witchfinder_general]

"Oh yes, you come from something of an axis moment in history, and are part of some key elements," Father Harman says. "It is obvious why you're interesting to whatever it is that throws the dice to bring us all together here."

[athelstanthescribe]

"For whatever reason, then, it has chosen me and I must accept the honour."

[witchfinder_general]

"Make the best of it," the priest says. "Learn. Find help for what you are doing. Cheat history, if you can."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Cheat history?" he asks curiously. "Why would I want to do that?"

[witchfinder_general]

"To help people?" Father Harman says.

[athelstanthescribe]

"God's will cannot be cheated", he says seriously. "To help someone recover from illness is one thing, and if they recover, it wasn't their time to die. But to change what He has already willed to be..."

[witchfinder_general]

"If you could find something here to help them recover?" Father Harman says.

[athelstanthescribe]

"...then, perhaps, my very presence here is also by His will", he realizes.

[witchfinder_general]

"It might be true," Father Harman concedes.

[athelstanthescribe]

"And anything I am permitted to take home, would also be so."

[witchfinder_general]

"I am sure," Father Harman says. "I am using it the same way for my own work."

[athelstanthescribe]

"What is your own work?" he asks curiously.

[witchfinder_general]

"I hunt blood-drinking monsters," Father Harman says. "Corpses reanimated by evil forces, known as vampires."

[athelstanthescribe]

The young man crosses himself reflexively.

[witchfinder_general]

"Precisely," Father Harman says.

[athelstanthescribe]

It doesn't even occur to him to doubt that vampires exist. "How did you come into that line of work?"

[witchfinder_general]

"They're often repulsed by anything holy, being unholy monsters," Father Harman says. "So being a priest helps against them."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Of course", he says with a nod. "You must have given up a great deal for such a cause."

[witchfinder_general]

"I'm a priest," Father Harman says. "I go where I'm assigned. I happened on the vampires, and as I knew about them anyway, was assigned to fight them."

[athelstanthescribe]

"Assigned?" He looks up. "Many know that they exist, then?"