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Characters: Judas and open
Setting: room 1-10, cafeteria, cathedral, floor 63, floor 12
Format: Starting action but I can match
Summary: Usual newbie stuff

Room 1-10

[After reading the letters set by his bed in confusion, Judas sits up to look around the room. It looks like the other beds are occupied, and the trunk at the foot of his bed is clearly meant for him. He opens it, rifling through to find wine, bread and a familiar suit and set of robes. Definitely a good idea to change. It's hot, his robes would be lighter, although they might be a bit conspicuous in public, and he doesn't want to draw attention. In the end the heat wins out and he changes quickly to leave the room. But first, he has to check if he knows these other people, if anyone from his world was saved. Of course, that means standing over the other beds to scrutinise those sleeping in them.]

Cafeteria

[He knows he should eat the oatmeal, before he forgets, but he really doesn't feel like it. So with a book from the library in front of him, he pokes at the mess in the bowl. Wasting it would be wrong, but if he's not hungry, forcing himself to eat it is also a waste. Maybe he should just give it to someone else?]

Cathedral

[After hearing the faint mumbling of some sort of mass while passing by earlier, Judas returns to the cathedral floor, this time with wine and bread. He saw no one and nothing there, so at the least he could go to listen, and hold his own private communion. He kneels at the altar and bows his head in prayer. For the safety of the world he's left.]

Floor Sixty-Three

[Fishing is a thing Judas likes and would be glad to do. Suddenly falling into a vast expanse of water with fish he doesn't even recognise and is very worried may eat him is not. He struggles against the tide, but his waterlogged robes pull him down, and all he can do is call for help, though he's not so sure anyone will hear him, or care.]

Floor Twelve

[Judas stops dead when he reaches this floor. He wants to believe what seems to be happening all around him is a camera trick, or an animation, maybe something from a movie. But as he watches, it keeps happening, with clearly different worlds each time. If it's a trick, it's terribly elaborate, and as the truth begins to dawn on him, all he can do is weep. Not only the demise of his own world, but so many more. All those people, all their efforts, destroyed in an instant, is too much for him to bear. Especially in knowing somehow he was saved.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Heavenly beings can go down to Earth?

[He scratches his head. What sort of world did this guy come from?]

Yes, so can demons. They all go from time to time for a change of pace.

That's...uh...kinda nice.

What keeps them from making trouble?

The Holy beings wouldn't cause any trouble, it's directly against their nature. And the demons...any I've met are fairly harmless around Earth, they have Hell for that.

Oh.

I'm guessing you're a hero of some kind? If you know both Saints and Devils so closely.

...N-no...just the opposite...

A...monster then?

[Funny, doesn't look very monstrous.]

What, no! Or, well, maybe figuratively speaking... If you don't know much about Christianity it might not mean anything to you...

So...not a hero, not a monster. You're saying you're just a normal guy?

[Almost like something Diarmuid would say.]

Yes, mostly. I was a follower of Christ when he was alive.

[He nods.]

So...what was he like, really? From what I've heard from Christians, he's a little stuffy, isn't he?

[Jesus...stuffy...if only he were.]

He's about the furthest from it you could imagine. He's a good person, but he never thinks things through! I managed our finances, and I would always find he had spent too much on something frivolous...!

...Then how the hell did Christianity turn into such a stuffy religion?

Sounds like I could come to like this Jesus guy, though.

[Now's he's thinking about them being in the same Grail War.]

...Is it really? Everyone I know are...idiots.

Yeah, the women won't even let you hit on them at liberty. And then there's the stuff about being solemn in Church and burning witches...

...

Of course you should be solemn in church, it's the same at temple, and, well, anywhere! We definitely had nothing to do with adding...burning witches. That's entirely against Jesus' teachings - and not accepting your advances is the right of any woman!

Just because it's a temple doesn't mean it has to be solemn. You can throw a feast inside a temple.

That's a different sort of temple. I mean the Jewish version of church, a pagan temple is very different.

Actually, I think that's one of only two times I've seen Jesus angry. We found a temple had been taken over by...traders of various sorts, and he shouted that it was a place of prayer being disrespected.

What about sacrifices? Didn't you have to buy those?

S-sacrifices? You can buy small tokens for prayer, but that money goes to the temple - or church. It's charity!

Well, that part seems obvious.

[Technically ancient Ireland has a sort of religious charity too. It mostly consisted of not denying druids and bards whatever they asked for.]

But don't your priests ever make sacrifices or predict the future?

N...o...do yours...? I guess I can't speak for Christian priests, but I wouldn't think Jesus would allow something like that...

Actually, we had druids where I come from. And yeah, they did all of that. They also taught stuff about literature and magic.

Jewish priests generally appointed punishments as sacrifice for sins, and definitely had no hand in magic.

Really? Then who was responsible for passing down the magic and sacraments and stuff?

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