Philosophy Backfire

[masked_god]

[Here is Karakael, sitting in a strange, darkly lit room with pulsing walls. He is surrounded by an animated group of people, all arguing and shouting, while he himself remains quietly listening.

If anything, he looks rather bored.]

Gentlemen, I am merely here to facilitate your people's return to the surface. I am not here to debate philosophy, and I am not qualified to touch on theology.

But you wear the sign of the Inquest! You know it must exist, how could you ask us to leave our sacred duty when one of them could return and free us from this penance?

[That gets a...look which luckily is only caught by the camera.]

Every hundred years your society has to rebuild itself from scratch. What ever task your mythical "Inquest" required of you can no longer be performed. Please. Let the sea-riders help -

But surely you do not put any stake into the parasite philosophy -
- or the Fallen Godhood theory -
- or the suggestion that we were placed here as punishment for -
- and it can't be denied that the surface dwellers are -
- we would lose our homes -
- our heritage lies within these walls -
- if the Masked Corruption or Broken Saint were here -

[The last comment makes him snap.]

I'm sure if Ton Karakael were here he would be saying the same things, but perhaps with more expletives. Your gods would act more sensible than you and that is impressive given the idiocy they were apparently prone to. Practicality is not a sin, gentlemen, nor is taking the opportunity to find a future for your civilization.

Your people will die, if not now, then in a hundred years when your dragon-home either dies or mates again. But you will not be given this opportunity again! I am giving you a choice gentlemen, and if you are too shackled by the imagined past to see the possibilities for your future, that is your own business. But please stop throwing around philosophy as excuses for your indecision!

[The camera cuts out, just as the first accusations of heresy are shouted by the gathering, even as others look shocked into agreement with the emissary.]

Comments

[masked_god]

The power that would take...but you might be able to do it. Still, it would rather change the nature of this world, would it not? Who would leave land for floating cities?

[sandinmyboots]

I'm not going to make stuff float; that takes too much power! I'll just take some available land and raise it a few feet to make a new archipelago. If you can set up stuff to get them fresh water and agriculture so they land on their feet, I think that'd work pretty well!

[masked_god]

"Few feet"? This whole world is covered in at least three hundred feet of water.

[sandinmyboots]

There's got to be some parts of land that are closer to the surface!

[masked_god]

One or two, perhaps. But these people have never lived on solid land and none of their crops are designed for it.

[sandinmyboots]

...how are they not dead yet? One good storm could screw up their houses!

[masked_god]

...remember that they spend most of their time 500 klomets beneath the sea.