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RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-22-2014
"And there you go again. Must everything you say be laced with insults from the start? How do you expect us to hold a proper dialogue when you do your best to offend with every thought that escapes your mouth."
She could not help but to begin her pacing again. Placing one elbow in the opposing hand, her thumb also went to her mouth as she bit the tip of it.
"I do what I do because I must. I did not chose this path so much as it was thrust upon me, and when the Twelve give such a clear sign of their intentions only a fool would ignore it."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-23-2014
Evangeline grins, "Perhaps your path is not so clear... it seems the twelve are blocking your progress currently."
She stands, "Should we attempt to test their resolve?" Hopping into the air lightly, she lands with a slight thud, the elevator swaying. "Shall we see if they will continue to guide their champion?"
With a strange wild look on her face she hops again, "Since clearly they must watch of you. Not like the rest of us wretches, " she spits out.
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-23-2014
Coatleque gripped the side rails as her eyes widened. "What are you doing? Are you daft? You said yourself the lift could be unstable!" She stared at Evangeline with bated breath, gauging her next move.
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-25-2014
"And you said the twelve guided you." She jumps again, the lift shaking and swaying, "Let us see what is stronger. The twelve's guidance, or my spite of them."
"Did the twelve prevent the release of the primals?" *jump* "Did they ever stop the dravanian horde?" *jump* "Did they ever halt the garlean invasion?" *jump*
"WHAT DID THEY DO, LADY CROFTE?! BESIDES GIVE YOU A FUCKING SMUG SENSE OF SELF IMPORTANCE?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-25-2014
"STOP DOING THAT!" She screamed as she dashed across the small space to try and pin the woman to the opposite wall by her shoulders. If she insisted on jumping, then Coatleque would insist on holding her in place.
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-25-2014
Evangeline growls as she is rushed, and grabs the other woman in return, shaking her shoulders. 'WHAT IS IS CROFTE." She stares into her eyes, crazily, "WHY HAVE THE TWELVE GRACED YOU."
"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY WATCH OVER YOU MORE THAN OTHERS!"
"WHAT GIVE YOU THE ARROGANCE TO CLAIM SUCH."
She almost spits out the words, shaking in rage.
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-25-2014
"I NEVER MADE SUCH A CLAIM!" She spat back with equal rage, meeting the woman's crazed stare.
"STOP PUTTING WORDS INTO MY MOUTH!"
"STOP ... IT!"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-25-2014
"You said the twelve made their intentions clear to the MIGHTY LADY CROFTE."
"Pray, tell us how, as they shit on the rest of us, THEY SHOW YOU SUCH FAVOR."
Evangeline's face is red, and she shakes Crofte, "WHAT GIVES YOU SUCH CONFIDENCE."
Her voice cracks for a moment, "How are you so perfect... now even the twelve apparently pay witness."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-25-2014
Coatleque slowly released the woman and took a step back with a snort and a smirk. "My, my. I never expected such a high and noble woman of Ishgard to be so... poorly versed in things of a spiritual nature. Though with your tongue I should find it as no surprise really."
She merely shook her head at this. "It's called faith, Miss Primrose. I'd say you could do with some yourself."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-28-2014
Evangeline sighs and slides back down against the wall of elevator, "Faith or Foolishness, it doesn't matter."
"I am perfectly versed in spiritual manners, you wretch. I simply don't believe them. Else I would be living up among the clouds still, and now in this sandy shithole."
Sighing again, "What has ever happened, to give you such faith. Not everything you hear is true, especially if it comes from a preacher's mouth."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-29-2014
Coatleque scoffed once more at being called 'wretch' before backing off to the opposite corner. She also slid down against the wall to sit and draped one arm over a knee as she regarded the woman across from her.
"Perhaps not all that you hear is true. In the same way not all that you are told is false either. How much of your precious learning were you given by someone whom you were told to believe without question as if they were infallible in their own presumptions?
What has happened is that the Twelve gave me clarity of purpose when I had nothing else in this world. There was a time when I was no better off than those outside the walls. I had resigned myself to death yet it would not come. It was in those darker days that I discovered the true talents Rhalgr and Halone had blessed me with and devoted my life to the service of another.
I do not sneer at the less fortunate as you think I do. I sneer at you, and those like you. Those who think blind charity and well meaning words with enough false hope will truly change anything for them. I had none of those when I was in their position, yet I suffered through it just the same. And when Nymeia and Althyk conspired that it was enough, that is when my torment ended - not a moment sooner.
You would do well to learn such humility yourself, I think. Perhaps that is why they saw fit to cast you from your 'clouds' as it were to our little shite-hole, as you so called it."
With that she closed her eyes, resting her head back in the corner where the walls met and awaited the inevitable angry rebuttal.
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-29-2014
Evangeline listens quietly, then raises her head, "So then Ser Crofte."
"You think your experience holds true for all? That our suffering comes from the twelve and our salvation as well?"
"What do you suggest then, for those starving outside the walls? Merely that they pray, and hope the twelve take mercy upon them?"
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-29-2014
"What I suggest, Miss Primrose, is that your charity be made with the understanding that no amount of gil will solve all of their problems. Neither will thrusting the burden of leadership upon those whom are not destined for it make their situation any better.
Would that there was enough to go around for all, but in these situations my duty belongs to our own citizenry. It is their responsibility to share what excess they may have. And if they chose not to, who are we to demand what they do with their own things? Nald'Thal will see all accounts reconciled in the end.
For your own part, Oschon surely smiles upon your generosity as much as Thaliak would for your teaching. How effective they have made you is yet to be seen."
The dim light flickered just then and Coatleque raised one hand up to tightly grip the handrail above her head as a reflex.
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-30-2014
Evangeline shakes her head, "You are a fool Coatleque, and time will prove you wrong." She sighs, "You'd think a Highlander of all people would know."
"Ala Mhigo fell because it was divided, and the Garleans found easy influence among the poor and weak. You think me your enemy, Lady Crofte, but if you would only would clear your mind of its preconceptions, you'd realize we should be allies."
She waves a defeated hand, "But no, continue mocking me and my attempts for equality. Soon the Garleans will return, or worse. Ul'dah will only survive one of two ways. Either you bring the people up, or you grind them down so far they have no hope of rebelling." Evangeline gives a short ugly laugh, "You can guess which strategy Ishgard takes against the Dravanian threat. I hope you wish to see Garleans roaming the streets of Ul'dah, or the equivalent of Ishgard's Inquisitors."
"Bah..." she waves her hand, "Keep your mind filled with petty faiths. They did not help the birthplace of your people, and they will not find your new home either."
"Only mortals can do that."
RE: Coincidence and Happenstance (OOC Welcome) - Coatleque - 12-30-2014
Coatleque gave the woman's disbelief a mild shrug. "Mortals can ever only accomplish what the Twelve have allowed. I was not alive when Ala'Mhigo fell. Perhaps the city was brought into judgement for some great evil. If that is the case, then Ul'dah would surely meet the same fate regardless of your efforts.
The difference between us is that I know I could never stop it yet I serve regardless, where as you believe our fates can be avoided and chose to strive against providence."
She paused for a moment before swallowing hard.
"Perhaps we are both fools then."