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Post by El Borak on Feb 27, 2022 16:56:29 GMT -5
Sardinia: A Matter ov SardinesIt was a dark && stormie night, on the coast of Sardinia. I had ran out of vinho, even worse, I had ran out ov sardines. Let me introduce myself. My name is Zork. I am a human illusionist/assassin.
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Post by El Borak on Feb 27, 2022 16:58:39 GMT -5
Dawn rises on isle ov Sardinia. The realm is in a state of anarchie, the smoke of the fires of the last night's riots, rising, above the cityscape. I should get myself a good ship out of this messed up place, but, the money is too good. 1000 pieces of gold for assassinating a noblewoman, for killing her? That's a good job. She died happy. I live happy.
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Post by El Borak on Feb 27, 2022 16:59:28 GMT -5
Anyway, here, I write from Cagliari, to you. The dawn rises, and, it past my bedtime. Let me describe the realm of Sardinia, in the year 1017. Sardinia has fallen into anarchie. Rioting, burning, looting, this is the norm. The capital, Arborea, has become a fortified city-state, prehaps like the rumors of distant Paris, to the north. The common man survives on survival, common barbarism. I am not a common man. I profit from political murder. Really, I don't give a freak. Another dead politician, another dead nob: 'tis more gold to line my pocket. Anyway, back to Cagliari.. it is beautiful, in it's dying glory. Sardinia was once one of the highest points of culture/civilisation/art/technology, on Aerth. It is beautiful to see it fall into chaos.
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Post by El Borak on Feb 27, 2022 16:59:56 GMT -5
People have told me that I am mentally unstable: it's the truth. That said, before I became an illusionist/assassin: I was a hunter. The thrill of the kill: this was everything to me. To plunge the knife into the throat of the arrow-wounded deer: this was revelation, to me. To eat the heart. To hunt, to kill again. Then, my family emigrated to Sardinia: there were no deer, here. So, eventually, I learned that I liked to prey on humans.
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Post by El Borak on Feb 27, 2022 17:01:07 GMT -5
Anyway, I am a student at the Universitie ov Cagliari, where I study Political Science, Philosophy, and Metaphysics. At Sunset, I study the Grey School ov Magick, under my teacher, Mayasita. She's 101 years old. She is missing most of teeth, but her mouth is warm. That said, she has more energy and wisdom that most people that I've ever met. Class begins at Sunset. Here I begin, at dawn, and, I don't know what to do with myself. Everything is closed. Life is destroyed by the boring light of the sun, the only solace being the smoke of anarchie, brought to me on the zephyrs of the Rising Sun. I will do some Helvetian, and, try to sleep in the city park, my cloak as my pillow... my dagger in my hand... to those that do not know me, I am just another common lower class drunk, sleeping on the city streets. Society is an illusion. Life is an illusion. I am illusion: I doubt my very existence, in the sense of rational thought. Do I exist?
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Post by El Borak on Feb 27, 2022 17:01:42 GMT -5
I can't sleep. I am in the city park of Cagliari, on the isle of Sardinia. I seek shelter from the dawn, under a tree. One skill I have is endurance: I have stayed awake for 2 days. I have stayed conscious for 2 seconds. Am I losing my mind? There are lost souls, and, then, there are lost minds. Sleep is an illusion. I embrace it.
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