Parthas Memes ([personal profile] fxckingaroundandhavingfun) wrote2023-01-26 07:33 pm

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TDM #1


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TEST DRIVE MEME
This Mess We're In The city sun sets over me...
You awaken slightly disoriented on a beautiful, smooth stone floor. A look around will tell you that this place is a hilltop temple with a good view of the beautiful city below. On opposite sides of the temple are genderless depictions of deities. One is clearly powerful, made of onyx, held up in an imposing stance with one hand holding a gilded flogger and the other outstretched with an open palm as if to enforce a command. The other, made of polished white marble, has taken a knee to the dominant statue across from them. One of their hands is a vase for fresh flowers and you can see that new ones have been placed there today.

The music of an unseen harp begins to play and a golden light permeates the temple. Suddenly, you know what is happening here. The duality that is worshipped here, the figures in the temple, they have a name. The onyx one is Ceannasach and the marble one is Cuiristeach and together with their combined power they are the ones who have brought you to Parthas.

What is Parthas? Parthas is paradise! You have either been brought here because Ceannasach believes you contribute to your world in some glorious way and deserve to be honored and served or because Cuiristeach believes that you would be excellent in a service role, perhaps they even feel sorry for the state of your life back home and want to show you something better.

The deities here also brought you because they need lik which is the energy that allows them to exist. Lik is created in small amounts when you interact with other people, in greater amounts when you grow fond of certain people, and in greater still amounts when you begin to use physical affection. However, when you orgasm, that creates the purest form of lik there is.

Ceannasach and Cuiristeach reward you in a special way. When you have sex with your soulmate or your hjarta, your vördr, or spirit, leaves your body in a time-frozen moment to commune with the deities and ask for something big or small that you might like. Sex carries on as usual and only you will know that you asked for something. If you ask to be sent home, the deities will send you into a hyperaroused state when you least expect it. Hey, you offended them.

The deities also believe you should know of something they have placed in Parthas for your benefit. There is a river in a valley in the middle of housing that will give and take anything you like from your body if you should so wish. This can mean a illness, sadness, a memory or anything else, but be careful because this river runs on fickle magic.

As the harp music continues, you become aware of a new power of yours. You can hear any thought that any other person sends your way, even the ones sent accidentally, and you can see images and moving pictures, as well. Don’t limit yourself to one person! Send that thought to everyone!

The harp music comes to an eventual end and you are left with the knowledge the deities gave you. Your intuition leads you down a southbound path towards a city where a celebration seems to be taking place, if the colorful banners are any indicator. Welcome to Parthas!


Dancing Barefoot She, intoxicated by Thee; She has the slow sensation that He is levitating with She
There is indeed a celebration going on in South City as this is the month of Feabhra. Where it was daylight when you left the Main Temple, now that you have reached the city the only lights are colorful paper lanterns strung up across smooth stone roads. The warmth of the daytime has cooled, so it might be smart to snuggle up with someone in one of the city’s various gazebos – each of them has a swing made for two (or three if you snuggle close enough.)

Harps, flutes, guitars and drums play lively music for everyone to dance to in the city square where garlands of brightly colored and white flowers hang for people to do with as they will. A stately woman dressed in black and wearing a brooch with the face of Ceannasach stands off to the side, her dark hair pulled back in a chignon. Whispers circulate, getting to you and informing you that this woman is E’ara Fraoch, owner of the most successful brothel in South City, and she is paying 50 gold pieces to the best dancers and 100 more if they will come work for her at Where The Wild Roses Grow, her establishment.


I Feel You I feel you, your precious soul, and I am whole
Food and drink is plentiful at this celebration and some of it is even free! The vendors believe that this is a good promotion for their stores during the rest of the year. They wheel their carts about, humming jaunty tunes and offering delicious things to you, the new arrivals, and everyone else in the city.
There is a man named Sam wheeling his cart of beverages and chocolate dipped waffles through town. If you catch him, he’ll probably suggest you order the alcoholic drink The Spirit of Feabhra. This drink does not come without side effects. It tastes like a fancy gin cocktail, sparkling and sweet with the flavor of berries and mint hitting your tongue, but the moment you get close to someone you actually have feelings for, you start to feel it… Them. Their thoughts, their emotions, their dreams… It’s as if they have melted into you.


Is This Desire? Is this desire; Enough, enough; To lift us higher; To lift above?
You have been told repeatedly throughout the night by smiling (creepy) faces not to wander out of the city limits into the wilderness, but now that you are here you just don’t get it. Lichens and fungi light up the night with a soft glow from the tree trunks, seemingly drawing you in.

In the forest, the music fades and the chittering of small animals creates a different tune. You don’t seem to be in danger. You might come across the healthiest, most beautiful apple tree you’ve ever seen. It is completely free of pests and only the dew clings to the apples’ shiny surface.

Should you pick one for yourself, you will feel a strange compulsion to bite it. Go on. Do it. If and when you have, you will find yourself incredibly aroused, but you won’t be able to bring yourself to orgasm – another must do it. If you didn’t bite the apple, maybe you gave it to someone else. In that case they will be unstoppably attracted to you with arousal to match. If you chose to plant it near your home, a tree like the one it came from will grow there and you will ICly receive a special reward.


Dead of Night When delirious fun; Has seriously begun; You'll be down on your knees; You'll be begging us please
Now you’ve done it. You’ve wandered into the woods without a spiritual guide from the temple. Now the vættir have been awoken and they are ready to fuck shit up… Sort of. Right now, these spirits kind of only want to ruin this party, but who knows what they’ll do later?

A low-lying cloud of black smoke crawls down the hills from the forest to the city until it covers the smooth stone roads and reaches up into everyone who is either of weak constitution or just simply tired and possesses them. It doesn’t take total control, but rather influences them, and causes them to destroy decorations, vendor carts, and do wild things they wouldn’t ordinarily do. Basically, these spirits want to cut through the façade and see you party like a rock star.

The only way to exorcise one of the vættir from a friend or loved one is to call on the deity of light – Cuiristeach. They accept demonstrations of service as the highest form of prayer, so get on your knees for your friend and get this done!

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[personal profile] tooktheblack 2023-02-18 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It is possible. You can find love more than once in your life. I managed to do it and consider myself lucky for it. You said that you were married - was it a love match?

( He doesn't wish the sadness of separation on her but knowing love is something everyone deserves. )
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[personal profile] thefirstempress 2023-02-18 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a fair question in light of the conversation. She envies the freedom he grants himself, never having the strength to break out of her own imposed system. Love twice, it is remarkable.

He is remarkable.]


No. It was arranged by a matchmaker. I consider myself lucky that he's my friend and ally. It's enough, I think.

I wasn't raised for love.
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[personal profile] tooktheblack 2023-02-19 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Many people aren't in my home either. Sometimes you can find it in a friend and ally and sometimes you can't. You're lucky, though, to have that.

( Jon is still sad for her but not the way he's sad for Sansa, who has never known love in a marriage and only pain in one. )

This place seems to encourage one sort of love.
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[personal profile] thefirstempress 2023-02-19 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
We have a mutual understanding of our limitations and we both protect the other from...trouble regarding it.

[That protection was invaluable to them both. For now, it was enough.]

How do you...are you brave enough to try that love?
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[personal profile] tooktheblack 2023-02-19 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
I've been with women before. It's something both people should enjoy, if you're doing it the right way. I guess it's easier for me because I don't have to worry about a child.

( Jon falls quiet for a moment. He normally would never talk about these things with a lady and he guesses it's the strangeness of the drink and this place that makes it easier for him to do it. )

You don't have to be in love for it but it's better if you are.
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[personal profile] thefirstempress 2023-02-23 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
You fear having a child? [It's an interesting confession. To be honest, she has her own fears regarding that, but hadn't thought to be concerned here. Children were never mentioned by their hosts. One would assume that they are safe. Regardless, she will take precautions.]

Caring, I hope will be enough. I wish I could make this easier for you.

[For all of them.]
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[personal profile] tooktheblack 2023-02-23 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
My mother died in childbirth, my lady. I wouldn't want that for anyone I cared enough about to be with so aye, I am afraid of having a child. I think it's a wonderful thing to have one but then every action you take after it means you have to be more cautious because you have someone else to think about.

( Jon knows this makes him soft, to care so much about the duty of women, but he does and he'll accept being soft. )

I'm glad I have no one to worry about having left behind.
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[personal profile] thefirstempress 2023-02-23 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry. It's a dark path to carry a child, one full of illness and death. My mother had several children in rapid succession. I was fortunate she lived, but I hardly saw her. Her pregnancy left her preoccupied.

[She doesn't think less of him, but admire his tenderness towards a woman he might wed one day.]

No one? No one at all?
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[personal profile] tooktheblack 2023-02-24 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
No, not anymore. My cousins, aye, but they're safer with me far away than with me close. I would only bring them trouble and they have countries to rule. I miss them but I would just make their lives more complicated.

( Exile is his fate, though he hadn't imagined this place to be his exile. It's so much different than the North. )