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WORLD ONE: AIMINTAS

You blink and that's all it takes. At first the picture doesn't come in clear, like you're waiting for a screen to fully load -- more aptly, it's like you're waiting for a camera to focus so you can find image clarity. Before you happened to rapidly close your eyes and open them, your life was normal...well, normal for you, anyway. Fighting an alien, making a quesadilla, dying. And then that blurry picture suddenly takes over... Some of you might open your eyes to find yourself wandering around a sandy area, outside of a large stone house. There's a large glimmering caravan floating around outside, which might intrigue you. There's also a lot of supplies, food, clothing...all just laying around outside. It's worth investigating, right?
- A1: Once your character touches the caravan, they can't remove their appendage from it. Kick it? Their foot is stuck. Touch it? Their hand is stuck. Lick it? Their tongue is stuck. They'll remain like this for 15 minutes without magical intervention. - A2: Your character's hand doesn't stay for long, but the caravan holds onto that hand for five seconds while giving your character a pretty excruciating burn. Medic! B ▢ Maybe they're smart and they don't touch the caravan. Let's go through all of this cool stuff on the ground! It might be sort of obvious that it belongs to someone -- a lot of someone's -- but your character is thirsty, confused...maybe there's some water or answers in this pile. And maybe there's also someone who catches your character going through their shit. |

Other new potential coven members will find themselves in a completely different part of town. These lucky individuals will have suddenly appeared in the marketplace area of Aimintas, surrounded by walking lizard beings that suddenly turn and take an immediate interest in this stranger.
On the other hand, you might learn something interesting talking to them. A friend might join in either way! D ▢ Once you break free of the Palai, you'll find that this marketplace is pretty interesting. It's a mixture of primitive and semi-modern technology...or is it totally unfamiliar to you? Never seen a cellphone before? Unfamiliar with the concept of women wearing pants? There's certainly something to see that'll interest your character here. E ▢ Finally, you might be hungry and thirsty after suddenly appearing. The Palai are masters of making food, including a new concoction of theirs that they're trying out in honor of all the new people. It's a sort of bottled fruit juice that has been energized by the Eltos. It's essentially the first Aimintas Red Bull, except on acid. The drink immediately makes anyone who drinks it extremely giddy, hyper and they may potentially hallucinate. It doesn't seem to bother the Palai's biology, but everyone else...oops! |

The setting found in Aimintas is pretty expansive, so you have a lot of room to wander around. Here are a few things that might catch your eye if you're really committed to wandering around.
G ▢ The Palai have constructed a large library in the middle of town. If you wander in here, you'll find a myriad of books in a strange language. The Palai are a rather visual people, though, so many include pictures and illustrations. They also have a collection of computers here that connect to the Aimintas internet, as well as visual media stations that can play videos -- though they're really just powered tablets that play video files. Time to get a little taste of the Palai culture. H ▢ Wildcard prompt. Go nuts and utilize your own creativity within the setting. This can mean striking out on your own or utilizing a certain location in a different way. The world is your oyster! |
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This one!
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The Jewish people, living in the city of Prague, were often set upon by terrible attacks for merely being what they were. At last, such attacks escalated, such that the Emperor decreed that the people would be expelled from the city on penalty of death. Such it was that a leader from their community, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, set to work to defend them, and so he took clay from the banks of the Vltava river, and brought them back with him. There, he laboured hard, and studied divine arts, to bring into being a man made of clay: the Golem. He called the Golem Josef, and also Yossele, and his wondrous creation could make himself invisible and summon spirits from the dead. It fought against those who would hurt the people, and defended them from their persecutors.
By the rules of its creation, it cold not be active on Saturday, the day of the Sabbath. A shem allowed it to activate, so Rabbi Lowew removed it each Friday evening. Yet one Friday, Rabbi Lowe forgot to erase the shem, and so on the Sabbath, the Golem became dangerous, acting out violently against those it was meant to protect. In front of the synagogue, the Rabbi grappled with his creation, struggling violently to reach the shem on its forehead. After a long and valiant battle, the rabbi was at last able to erase it, and thus immobilize its creation.
It is said that the Golem's body was stored in the attic genizah of the Old New Synagogue, where it would be restored to life again when the people most needed its aid.
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Umm, why did the emperor not like them? Why didn't the golem like baths? I'm glad Rabbi-san managed to help everybody, though.
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Thank you for the story! It was very exciting.
[a pause.]
Maybe the golem will be less angry when it wakes up again someday.
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We may hope that will be so.