Pasquinade ([info]pats_quinade) wrote,
@ 2007-09-24 10:31:00
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Upon Religious Tolerance in Fantasy Worlds
On the game I play in on Saturday, the heroes were preparing to face a religious hearing to determine whether our actions had violated a treaty. We'd gotten some of the bad guy's foreign mercenaries to turn coat, and they were going to serve as our star witnesses.

Me: (As we head toward the hearing, quietly, to the foreign mercenary) Okay, so listen, when we get in there...

Foreign Mercenary: You wish us to stand quiet and look menacing?

Me: Uh, actually, we were kind of hoping you'd testify.

Foreign Mercenary: Oh.

Me: Look, this is a religious hearing, and a lot of these crazy church people are pretty intolerant. So please understand, this is just a prelude to us taking our revenge upon the evil bad guy, a charade we have to put up with. Even if the religious stuff is a lot of stupid nonsense, it's stupid nonsense that we must agree with in order to survive this hearing and get what we want. So please, just avoid mentioning your gods.

Foreign Mercenary: Uh, we worship Tyr, too, just like you guys.

Me: You do?

Foreign Mercenary: (Pulls out holy symbol of Tyr) We go to church every Tyrsday.

Me: Yeah, me too. Praise Tyr! Game on!




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[info]penguinlady
2007-09-24 05:04 pm UTC (link)
I really like the idea of racially profiling our ancestral home.

Holds up a round red fruit. "Know what this is?"

"Um... a pomegranate?"

"Off with his head!"

The slogan for the town should be, "Arksleigh: We love everyone except those filthy, filthy Talmused. Oh, and the Vertises. They can go to hell and die."

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[info]pats_quinade
2007-09-24 05:06 pm UTC (link)
And by "stupid superstitious bunch of religious garbage", I clearly meant "important spiritual ritual". (cough)

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[info]penguinlady
2007-09-24 05:07 pm UTC (link)
No one expects the Mansfield Inquisition!

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