094. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

Let's get Biblical. Blood like substance coming from open air water sources? Check. Frogs? Ask Dr. Chase. Lice/gnats and flies blah blah blah. Disease? If that last one is particularly relevant to you, you'll have to make your cries for help more distinct. Smoke inhalation can't be good for that either. As entertaining as the fast-forward version of this story is, the vitals are missing. It's like a vegetable.

To bring you up to speed without the Billy Graham commentary, this is like a story of an angry, jealous god retaliating on a mortal king so that the people who worshiped him could be set free. I don't worship anybody who hasn't had a centerfold and a bikini photo-shoot worth reprinting. The only imprisoned people in this joint are you and me. There's no one of us that has the capacity to have any source of power to reckon with the deities if we are going to carry the theme correctly. Once again, we're riding out this go-kart derby with no real answers to valid questions.

Why is this all so organized when curses are usually at random and without a linear progression except when it is from bad to worse? Are our deities Judeo-Christian critics? Does Jesus count here even when a handful know him let alone believe in him? Is there a way to ward of PETA after you slaughter the lambs? Does this all mean anything?

Comments

[sword-boy.livejournal.com]

...I think the Deities are taking inspiration for the classics. It's perfect for freaking out those who are more religiously minded.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

And it isn't even Sunday.

[sword-boy.livejournal.com]

It isn't even Saturday for the Jews... or Friday for the Muslims either.

Plus these are the Deities, when have they ever cared about that?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

They have an awareness of most holidays without keeping them holy.

[sword-boy.livejournal.com]

Holiness would suggest that they're holy to begin with... which I don't think the Deities would consider them as so.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Hole-y maybe.

you're making me want to crack a xenosaga joke now...

[sword-boy.livejournal.com]

To each their own. I'm actually surprised we don't have some Church of the Deities here in the City.

uh oh

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? There are port-a-potties.

[sword-boy.livejournal.com]

No, no... I meant actual places of worship... not there~!

Voice;

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[Hi House. Chase's office window is being battered by locusts. How are you.]

Which direction is this if not from bad to worse?

Voice;

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

The curse, if we can call it that, is progressing by the plot of the story.

Voice;

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[You're just jealous he's popular.]

Three times as fast. And as you noted, there are a few key story elements missing.

Voice;

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

While making it meaningless, it could mean something anyway.

Voice;

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Right, those would be the two options.

[as_damaged]

They've borrowed liberally from other cultures before; I don't see any reason to presume they're more critical of the Judeo-Christian tradition than any other.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

But the disasters?

[as_damaged]

By and large the comprehensible curses haven't been so destructive, but there have been destructive curses. Why would the combination be significant?

someone has to do the dirty job

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

I'm considering slaying one of those lambs for the sake of the Hospital.

<3

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Would you prefer Miss Jesus or Dr. Jesus while you're taking one for the team?

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to "Saint" after all these years.

[dr_conscience]

I don't think the deities' criticisms are anything so specific.