tombtaker: (3.)
🍀 lucien tavelle ([personal profile] tombtaker) wrote2024-03-31 06:02 pm

hewwo?

idk anymore
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[personal profile] naeddre 2024-04-05 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
... It doesn't seem to want us to leave. The ship. Maybe it thinks we are safer here.
inquired: (227)

[personal profile] inquired 2024-04-05 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
... hmm. Maybe. Perhaps that is why the ship itself locks down on Thursdays. If the disruption in emotion is irregular, the sudden lockdowns could be the ship 'protecting' us, so to speak. Especially considering this has happened before.
solesuccess: (I'm taking this route)

[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-05 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Could also explain the vines that forcibly brought everyone back last week, too.
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[personal profile] inquired 2024-04-05 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Gods, I hate plants.

[ ugh ]

But, your theory - the cult that we were harassed by on the Station last week that worshipped the cosmoelectromagnetic waves was all about 'unity'. That was their whole goal. Unity for all.
Edited 2024-04-05 01:18 (UTC)
solesuccess: (Cross it)

[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-05 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, cults are like that. [ dry. ] If it's not about unity, it's about enlightenment, and if it's not about that it's probably about eternity.

...so it would make sense if the primary focus was alignment.
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[personal profile] inquired 2024-04-05 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Or the end of the world.

[ equally dry.... ]

I'd say so, yes. The prayers of the cult have appeared on the HERMES network, as well. Perhaps the goal here is for us to assimilate. [ there is no war in ba sing se energy ] Thus the strange impacts on Fridays when we 'perform well'.
solesuccess: (Use it)

[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-05 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Which prayers? Might be worth looking out for others that might slip through.
inquired: (47)

[personal profile] inquired 2024-04-05 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Just a moment.

[ he flips a few pages in his notebook, and then reads off: ] "Blessed is the one who read aloud the words of this prayer, and blessed are those who hear and obey their calling. Our treasured time is nigh on the horizon of this blessed morning of our covenant! Give tithe today."

It all sounds the same no matter the denomination. [ smh ] The symbolism of the cult itself was a pink flower - quite similar to the pink haze that we keep hearing tell of.
solesuccess: (Click it)

[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-05 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's not a huge fan of that, but fair. ]

"Treasured time", huh. Tithe is like...offerings, right? Money or stuff. Or, in this case, giving up something important to obtain the "treasured time" of stability and happiness? Maybe that's a stretch, I dunno.
inquired: (99)

[personal profile] inquired 2024-04-05 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ listen neither is he "temenos is a priest in a church" yeah ]

That's correct. [ re: tithes. ] That's not a bad theory. I thought perhaps their treasured time would be a moment of unification, where all come together.

Tithes may just be that they want money. That's how that usually works. For charity, and all.
Edited 2024-04-05 13:55 (UTC)
solesuccess: (But I don't know)

[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-05 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess the most important thing to consider is how important is this cult in conjunction with everything we're finding out about this ship now. Or, I guess, maybe we should be wondering if any of the past crew also believed in its ideology.