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My alternates tend to take over the world. Advice available. Rates negotiable.
Shell Bell puts up her sign and nibbles her most recent charity meal. Not potatoes! It is not potatoes. Or fish or clams. It is rice and curry and a fruity yogurt drink. That nice person told Bar she could use his tab for four meals, and this is meal number two.
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she_sells_seashells
she_sells_seashells
"What are the minimum requirements of a temporary distribution-of-stuff center, and also, are there like - really, really introductory books about who the heck you are and how gods work, like for kids, I want to give my mom one, she teaches school sometimes."
seewhathappens
"A temple. It needs to be a building large enough to store supplies in, with people to distribute the supplies. Permanent temples are decorated with statues of me to identify them unambiguously, but there are signs that can be put up for temporary versions. And there are books like that, but none of them are in a language you speak."
she_sells_seashells
"Kids' books are short and you do translation - if you just, read through the best example of one aloud to Ranae would that not work? She could write down the translation and paste it over the words. It'd be easier than writing something from scratch, at this point. I think I'll commandeer the tesserae building for a temple, I doubt anywhere else meets the criteria even if the associations aren't great."
she_sells_seashells
"Okay. Will it take a while to pick a book, how many are there to choose from, I can go to her after I set up the tesserae building?"
seewhathappens
"I'll tell some of my priests at home to choose one or a few that they think are best suited."
she_sells_seashells
"Okay."
Shell Bell gets ahold of a large wooden board, brings it to the tesserae building, makes sure that there is not currently anyone trying to hold the place as a Peacekeeper stronghold or anything, deputizes the fellow who usually gives out the grain and oil to continue doing that but with less discrimination and soon-to-be more food variety, and then with her fire wand neatly singes into her board:
Temporary Temple of Kirovalin, Information and Resource Distribution Center.
She gives the distributor guy one of the disks to put in his pocket.
And then she goes to find her mother.
Shell Bell gets ahold of a large wooden board, brings it to the tesserae building, makes sure that there is not currently anyone trying to hold the place as a Peacekeeper stronghold or anything, deputizes the fellow who usually gives out the grain and oil to continue doing that but with less discrimination and soon-to-be more food variety, and then with her fire wand neatly singes into her board:
Temporary Temple of Kirovalin, Information and Resource Distribution Center.
She gives the distributor guy one of the disks to put in his pocket.
And then she goes to find her mother.
seewhathappens
Kirovalin adds to the new temple's supplies.
On Shell Bell's way to find her mother, he gives her a short book printed in large type in an unfamiliar alphabet.
On Shell Bell's way to find her mother, he gives her a short book printed in large type in an unfamiliar alphabet.
she_sells_seashells
Shell Bell flips through it to have a look at the illustrations.
She eventually finds her mother in the schoolhouse with some confused kids. Ranae receives the book, an explanation, and a disc, and gets out what she will need to paste English over the other language, and hugs her daughter and is confused by the fact that her daughter has a pendant.
When Ranae seems set up to take her transcription, Shell Bell goes back to the temporary temple to help the distributor guy and explain things to further bewildered citizens.
She eventually finds her mother in the schoolhouse with some confused kids. Ranae receives the book, an explanation, and a disc, and gets out what she will need to paste English over the other language, and hugs her daughter and is confused by the fact that her daughter has a pendant.
When Ranae seems set up to take her transcription, Shell Bell goes back to the temporary temple to help the distributor guy and explain things to further bewildered citizens.
seewhathappens
The book explains in simple child-friendly terms that Kirovalin is the Emperor, that he is a god, that a god's power comes from people thinking about him, and that Kirovalin uses his power to help them: by distributing blessings (all six are described), by sending his acolytes and manifestations to protect people from disease (there is an illustration of a child petting a large bird, and a different child holding the hand of a figure wearing an acolyte pendant), and by changing the land around them and growing plants to provide for their needs (illustrations of rivers and berry bushes and maple trees).
It also explains that a priest's job is to help people, and that if you ever have a problem and you aren't sure who to ask for help, you can talk to a priest. There is an illustration of a priest wearing their pendant - round like an acolyte's, but smaller and carved in a different design.
It also explains that a priest's job is to help people, and that if you ever have a problem and you aren't sure who to ask for help, you can talk to a priest. There is an illustration of a priest wearing their pendant - round like an acolyte's, but smaller and carved in a different design.
she_sells_seashells
Ranae, having translated this book, finds that the children who were holed up in the schoolhouse with her have already listened to Kiro reading it aloud, so she goes and rounds up some different kids instead to explain to them what's going on.
Shell Bell, meanwhile, is reassuring bewildered citizens, and the supply of grain in the tesserae building is shrinking.
Shell Bell, meanwhile, is reassuring bewildered citizens, and the supply of grain in the tesserae building is shrinking.
seewhathappens
As the supply of grain shrinks, other things replace it: different grains, dried fruits and fruit slices, beans, flour, blocks of maple sugar, nuts, potatoes, smoked meat...
she_sells_seashells
All of this is very exciting to everyone. Some of the foods are completely new to the District dwellers.
"We might need basic recipes for some of this stuff," Shell Bell says. "I've eaten potatoes but I don't know how to cook them, and I've only eaten them in Milliways."
"We might need basic recipes for some of this stuff," Shell Bell says. "I've eaten potatoes but I don't know how to cook them, and I've only eaten them in Milliways."
seewhathappens
"Yes. Some of the new priests in the other Districts are working on cataloguing the inventory and finding simple recipes; there might be recipe books ready for wide distribution as early as tomorrow."
she_sells_seashells
"But for today what should I tell people to do with the potatoes? ...Chop them up and boil them until they squish?"
she_sells_seashells
"Okay."
Shell Bell tells people confused about potatoes that they may be chopped up and boiled until they squish, yes a seawater boil should be fine, they'd be good with this nice soft cheese why don't you try it. (She tells people really confused about the potatoes that they can have flour and hams and whatnot.)
Shell Bell tells people confused about potatoes that they may be chopped up and boiled until they squish, yes a seawater boil should be fine, they'd be good with this nice soft cheese why don't you try it. (She tells people really confused about the potatoes that they can have flour and hams and whatnot.)
seewhathappens
Time passes.
The Capitol is definitely the most disarrayed part of Panem, but they're beginning to calm down. A hearteningly large number of reasonable people have emerged and earned priesthood appointments calming their fellow citizens. Some of them are engaged in setting up the distribution of stockpiled food from the Capitol back out to the Districts - Kirovalin's supplies are not yet running short, but he approves of this effort on principle, so he is only too happy to transport donated goods. All of his new temples continue to be well supplied and reasonably orderly.
The train to District Twelve arrives at the district's Reaping venue. It is greeted by confused and uncertain Peacekeepers who surrender in short order once Sherlock smiles at them. The holy objects scattered in the train's wake allow Kirovalin to capture the land much faster; he expects to have most of its populated areas within a few hours, and the entire district within a few days. There are probably at least a few people living in the wilderness beyond, but they'll just have to wait until he can get there the slow way; he doesn't have anywhere near the level of structure and cooperation that would be necessary to organize a holy object airdrop.
He reports this success to Shell Bell, since she is interested in his progress.
The Capitol is definitely the most disarrayed part of Panem, but they're beginning to calm down. A hearteningly large number of reasonable people have emerged and earned priesthood appointments calming their fellow citizens. Some of them are engaged in setting up the distribution of stockpiled food from the Capitol back out to the Districts - Kirovalin's supplies are not yet running short, but he approves of this effort on principle, so he is only too happy to transport donated goods. All of his new temples continue to be well supplied and reasonably orderly.
The train to District Twelve arrives at the district's Reaping venue. It is greeted by confused and uncertain Peacekeepers who surrender in short order once Sherlock smiles at them. The holy objects scattered in the train's wake allow Kirovalin to capture the land much faster; he expects to have most of its populated areas within a few hours, and the entire district within a few days. There are probably at least a few people living in the wilderness beyond, but they'll just have to wait until he can get there the slow way; he doesn't have anywhere near the level of structure and cooperation that would be necessary to organize a holy object airdrop.
He reports this success to Shell Bell, since she is interested in his progress.
she_sells_seashells
"Maybe you can't get a plane in the air, but what about those little drones that delivered gifts to tributes? Those could drop holy objects places - I'm not sure if they have great range, but even if those exact drones can't be repurposed the general class of 'drones' is probably something Bar could sell you a few of if you want to throw money at the problem."
seewhathappens
"I'll keep that idea in mind, but I'd rather focus on the people inside my domain whose existence I'm already certain of. If I have things settled here faster than I'm expecting, I will turn some of my attention to overtaking the wilderness as quickly as possible."
she_sells_seashells
"Yeah. I don't think there's anyone overseas - not only do we never hear from them, Bar never found me publications from other continents - so that's definitely not urgent, although it might be nice to spread out once we have enough infrastructure here."
seewhathappens
"That's also something I'm considering. With luck, we'll be able to consult Capitol records on that subject soon."
she_sells_seashells
"Would I be more useful there than here?" she wonders. "Or somewhere else? Or are you pretty well set for personnel most everywhere?"
seewhathappens
"The personnel situation is... developing. I think your best advantage right now is still in helping and explaining here in the District you are most familiar with. I don't want to start moving people around while new priests are still regularly volunteering in most places."