You feel a strange compulsion coming over you. It is uncontrollable and uncomfortable: not painful, but the loss of control is frightening and humiliating.
Walk out into some public space where a bunch of people are, and begin to recite the following, at full volume. No, you have no idea what it means, but the process is exhausting, especially as you occasionally fight (unsuccessfully) to stop talking:
Sunset on empire, power lost to the night, Kin of the moon have left fore’er People grin to see their teeth no more, But chaos follows in the wake of loss.The process of speaking these words has exhausted you: sink to your knees, and lose one Point from the effort it has cost. When you finish reading this page, fold it up. You cannot simply read this – you can only recite the poem or a portion thereof. When you do so, roll 1 die: if you roll a 1 or 2, it will cost your another Point. So if someone wants to know more, they’d damned well be prepared to pay for it. (Damn your family. They did this to you – “children of flesh”, hell. And now you want to know what it means…)Wielder of the lightning sword, who creates his own foes for pleasure Driven mad by the spark of love run to ground Steps outside the roots of his tree and cuts it to the quick They will bury the great one and the seed.
The house of Victory, sheltered in the air-enclosure Hidden by the silver of servitude and the angels that dance Bind their fates as one, in distant Albion An empire that sees no setting sun
Last of the hero line,, shielded by the scarab Her ragged banner calls all into her sway Her fists tightening as the sand falls through Last of the sky-kings long since dead.
In the time of great conflict, the made-men strike Taking up arms against those who mocked The great estates shall once more be farmland Though the Hunters do not join them.
Children of flesh and mind, these fates are yours to choose. Hands on glass, speak the name worthy’s name The power theirs, the fates to influence. Forgive a father’s clumsy love.
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