I'm Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today!

[mightymorbid]

Who: Mozenrath, Requested NPCs
What: Visiting a temple consecrated to Shada, in the hopes of retrieving some answers and inquiring after possible work.
Where: Brock Marsh
When: Sukkardi, around dusk -- since Shada's time is night time.
Notes: This is a repost from the LJ comm -- tags shall be reposted and resumed!

Mozenrath hadn't even the slightest reason to believe this was going to work, but he'd resolved to do it ever since his arrival. It took time to finally come here, yes. However, he was also not about to approach the temple of a god, ask an audience, and do all of this unprepared. This required careful research, rehearsal of what he intended to say, possible counter-arguments if he saw resistence.

He approached the temple of Shada with purpose. Xerxes trailed behind him dutifully, his long, serpentine body rippling in the air as though through currents of water.

The sorcerer hadn't bothered to tell Martha and Snape that he planned to formally request that he be returned to the Barge. Firstly, he didn't want to be contradicted and told it would be impossible. Second (as silly and sentimental as it sounded), if it worked then that would be another goodbye in the span of weeks for him. Not enough time. None at all. If it didn't work, then when he returned to Sobek Croix at least they would have no cause to think he'd returned there a failure.

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[baedalites]

Shada's temples are fairly free-spirited places, but one woman knows all the comings and goings of this one. She's dressed fairly simply, in a dark blouse and slacks, watching a procession of young acolytes (both men and women) carrying bags of...something into the temple through a side door. Underneath both sleeves of her blouse, she appears to have some pretty heavy tattoos, primarily depicting snakes and the ocean's waves. When she spots Mozenrath, she turns one assessing eye to him. There is a perceptible pause before Morgan decides to smile, and to speak.

"Welcome to our Brock Marsh chapter."

[mightymorbid]

"Thank you." He nods in greeting, his stance formal, his tone very business-like. He feels he might as well speak to these people as though he were already in audience with a deity -- no one knows when they are being watched, after all. "I'm a new arrival, but I understand that to commune with the gods in this city one should consult with the local temples." Some mild hesitation. "...And I'm at something of a loss. I've never done it this way before, and I'm not normally in the way of approaching new gods. As Shada looks on practitioners of magic, she seemed the most logical place to start."