Traveling through casual space past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns

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Who: Brendig, priest of the Twelve Point Divinity, and YOU.

What: Just an afternoon at the Mog Hill Divinity Temple

Where: Twelve Point Divinity Temple, near Votarysgate.

When: Newdi Monday. If anyone wants to come along later, just put the date in the comment subject.

Notes: There's an OOC post for all your discussion needs.

From the outside, the Mog Hill Temple is a unprepossessing building with a plain wood door and walls clean of graffiti or signs. Upon entering the building, there is a wide, airy hallway with a lone, elderly man sitting in front of a shoerack and a collection of pillows. A sign reminds visitors to ensure their shoes are clean or to leave them behind and that cushions can be borrowed so worshippers can sit in comfort in front of their alcove of choice.

The centre of the building itself is a rectangular room made of unpainted sandstone ringed by twelve, equal sized recesses in the walls, each one containing a symbol of a different god: a collection of parrot feathers in a handthrown clay vase, a mirror, a black stone bowl with a collection of badger's teeth, a decorated katara resting on a patch of lion's skin, a golden ram's horn wrapped in pale blue silk, an almost organic looking metalwork tree, an empty alcove, a dish of candy, an unusually large dragonfly wing suspended in midair, a blue glass bottle filled with some sort of liquid, a banana leaf bowl of rice, and an obsidian knife. On the floor in front of each recess, there is a collection of offerings: incense, votives, and various other items as preferred by that specific deity.

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[51stcentury]

Jack hung back from the rest of the crowd, covertly shooting messages out back to Sebastian whilst keeping an eye on Ianto as well. He wasn't quite going to look around as much as the rest of them, and certainly wasn't interested in the deities themselves. But Ianto had asked him along, and he was getting to see a little more of the city that he might not otherwise have seen, so. He supposed that there was something to be accomplished in this trip. Somehow.

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As the new arrivals look about and peer into the alcoves, an older man in plain but serviceable clothes and without shoes or socks enters the temple proper, pauses for a moment in silence, and then turns to address the visitors.

"Good afternoon, is there anything I can do for you?" If he'd heard the early disparaging remarks, he's polite enough not to comment on it. (Yet.)

[coffeeking]

Ianto straightened, recognizing the authority of the man who'd just entered. He smiled politely.

"Good afternoon. Could you possibly tell us the symbolism of the altars? We're new here, and unfamiliar with these gods."

[cassie_of_troy]

Cassandra bowed her head. It wasn't out of respect. She had problems with priests of the gods. And she knew she had to curtail her behavior. No good would come out of lashing out. Especially not to a total stranger. And she supposed that the gods of this land had done nothing against her. Yet, anyway. She just had a natural instinct to hiss and spit like a rabid cat, any time a man of the cloth showed up.

"Yes," she murmured, fighting to keep her voice level. "We would like to learn more."

[truthsandlyres]

Apollo politely inclined his head.

He would stay quiet, because truthfully, he was skeptical of all this business and he didn't want to lie about that. But, in all fairness, it was another world now. And he wanted to learn about it.

Wanted to learn who was more powerful than him in this world.

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"There's an alcove for each of the twelve gods," he says with the tone of someone who is genuinely interested in helping, but also quite familiar with the routine of explaining.

"Carme, Ceith, Eliandre, Gediron, Haneul, Kavan, Maryis, Ruun, Shada, Rundas, Toivo, and Vell," he continues, gesturing to each object in turn. "The items in their alcove are not idols, but representations of their providence and interests."