hadriel_logs | Event Log: Regret This

Who: Everyone!
What: The Regret This event
Where: Throughout the city
When: June 25th-July 3rd
Warnings: Sorrow is resurrected, and everyone is immediately full of regrets

Hope has finally managed another god resurrection, and the people have spoken! On June 25th, he musters his powers and brings Sorrow back to Hadriel. An orchard appears across the river, in the until now ruined part of the city, and Sorrow's temple is also restored. Hooray! One more god to make things a little more livable in this place.

Of course, it's not that easy. It never is. Along with Sorrow himself comes a wave of regret and guilt that blankets the city. All those affected will be inclined to not only be sad, but to linger over past regrets and things they feel guilty about. They can distract themselves with everyday tasks or whatever else they please, but they'll find that their thoughts drift back to these regrets regardless of what they do.

And of course, the best way to purge a guilty conscience is confession, right? On top of these persistent sad thoughts, people will feel the urge to tell others about them, to air their past mistakes or misdeeds and possibly receive some kind of forgiveness. So what if your neighbor doesn't care that you cheated on your final exams all through school? You have to tell someone, and they're right there. If it doesn't make you feel better, that probably means you haven't confessed to enough people yet, or maybe you just haven't found the right person. Better try again!

On July 3rd, Sorrow has settled in and this urge to confess your sins will die down, along with the constant regret. Let's hope you didn't confess anything too personal. Remember, you're gonna have to see some of these people every day.

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"Why would there be?"

It's not that he has never witnessed an uprising, but never by slaves, and the concept seems very silly to him. Sure, peasants have no chance to win, either, but at least forming a group is easy for them because they live clustered together and there are way more of them where they live than other people. Neither is true for slaves, by what he has observed. And anyway, it's not like they are that different from the farmers and other low hierarchy people around them in the first place. Some of them even seemed to do quite well, by what he observed when he was in one of the big cities downstream many years ago.

"People tend to value their freedom. They resent being put into a cage, even when it is for their own good. Here, I shall give you an example." Time for another story. He's just full of them. Twelve-hundred years has given him a lot of time to store up memories.

"I knew a vain sorceress who would bind those young and beautiful to her, keeping them close because it pleased her. Not all of them appreciated this. When war came to her doorstep, she could have freed them. She didn't, because of her vanity, and one of them resented being enslaved so much that he tried to kill her. This allowed her enemies to storm her fortress and she lost the war."

"Most slave owners aren't evil."

There are a lot of other reasons why this story confuses him a lot because it just doesn't match up with his experience of the thing at all. But that is the most obvious to point out.

"Do any people that you have lived with have slaves?"

"Aside from the sorceress, no. It is hard to enslave a group of people when the land is at war and each group is on a different side."

He has no doubt that those were the only reasons it hadn't occurred in Urulat. The Men seemed determined to stamp out each of the other races until there was nothing left but one race to rule the land.

He doesn't think that that would make it harder - after all that would just mean that you have a lot of prisoners that can be turned into slaves - but then he's used to a world where, even if some areas don't have outright slavery but something structured a bit differently and with a different name, it's always been a thing that existed somewhere.

"Do you feel better now?"

He doesn't know that Ushahin felt bad when he came up to him, but he has seen enough people around to know that almost everyone seems to feel quite crappy these days.

Ushahin pushes his fair hair back from his face and looks at Muscovy. He pauses for a moment before he answers. "You know, I think I do."

Just a little, anyway, but that was more than enough for Ushahin. It was better than having a dark cloud hanging over his head all the time. "Thank you, young one." Having a friend around is a good thing indeed.

Muscovy simply smiles in return. He's glad that Ushahin feels better, and also glad that they can be like friends around each other and that he could do something for Ushahin, because such things make people closer when they're not forced. And also, it was nice to listen to him. Both because he's a really good storyteller and because it is nice to learn more about people.

"If you want to, you can stay longer."

If Ushahin does so and falls quiet, he will simply pick up his singing again, his voice rested enough now to continue for a good while longer.

"I will."

Ushahin closes his eyes when Muscovy begins to sing again. It's peaceful, driving the other voices in his head back until all he can focus on is the one singing. It's not a perfect situation, for the guilt will return full force, but it helps just a little. That's all a poor mad half-man like Ushahin can ever ask for.

Event Log: Regret This

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