~014 - [VIDEO] - Laura is possessed, what else is new?

[intofireforever]

[The video function turns on, and Laura can be seen to have painted some sort of yellow pigment, probably just paint of some kind, across her upper face and chest (which is bare, by the way, aside from a few beaded necklaces--it's a good thing she had her 18th birthday this summer, or this would have taken on a whole new level of creepy). A black pigment is smeared across the area of her nose and mouth, and she's wearing a pair of Laura's bigger, gaudier turquoise earrings (oh, the 80s, how we all love them). An orange scarf is bound around her hair, to keep it back, and she's wearing one of Laura's more provocative skirts (having slit it up both sides, for easier movement.]

This body is...strange. As though it has been sapped of the proper colors, and yet somehow...beautiful, in its own strange and ugly way. I could have fared far worse.

[Sorry, Goddess, but you're in the body of a rather pale blonde chick. Needless to say, this isn't Laura anymore. Say hello to Tlazolteotl (Sacred Filth Eater; also known as She Who Eats Filth/Sin, The Death Caused By Lust, and She of Two Faces), the goddess of a dual nature. She's not only the deity of vice, filth, sexual misdeeds, and sexually-transmitted diseases, but also purification, steam baths and midwives. She both inspires sexual misdeeds, and cleanses the souls of those who engage in them. Essentially, she's Laura, on supernatural steroids and to the power of 100.]

And it is not as strange as this thing I speak through. I do not understand the workings of it. [But she knows how to use it, now, by seeing her brethren do it. She spreads her arms in a sort of welcoming gesture.]

Hearken unto me, dwellers of this place, and seek the company of another. Revel in your lechery, now, and enjoy it without fear, for when you seek me, you shall be forgiven and purified.

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Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Paddy shakes his head a little too vehemently. He only had one idea of confession, anyway, and this wasn't it.]

No, no, I just... came to talk.

Or... ask you some favours or something.

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[intofireforever]

Enter, so that we may speak.

[She steps back to allow him by.]

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Paddy steps inside, swallowing nervously,]

Look... um, I know you're a goddess of... all sorts of things. But what is it, exactly, that you do?

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[intofireforever]

I am known to my worshipers as 'Sacred Filth Eater'. I incite people to engage in forbidden sexual deeds, vice, and sin, and I purify and forgive those who commit these sins once they confess. I cause diseases, especially those related to intercourse, which may be cured by a purifying steam bath. I bless midwives, and I am the patroness of adulterers.

[Tlazolteotl smiles at him.]

The nature of your "Laura" called out to me, and I was drawn to this body.

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Paddy listened, a little dismayed that everything he'd read was true, but still,]

Yeah, about that. You... don't engage in any of that kind of stuff yourself, do you? Just... get other folks to, right?

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

These vessels, in their hosting of us, are made sacred. She will be returned without defilement.

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[The relief is visible. It probably shouldn't be, but it is,]

Good. Good. Just wanted to check, because, y'know. Gotta be nice to the body you're in, right?

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

[This is a major a step up from BOB, even with the whole sacrifice thing.]

All of your people will be respected--although your ways are strange--so long as you are respectful towards us.

[Since human sacrifices are honored for their deaths, it counts as being respectful towards them...]

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Paddy can see that, and is... well, still really not okay about this, but relieved that's one less trauma to worry about.

Or that he doesn't have to follow a Goddess around to make sure she doesn't do something nasty to Laura's body.]

Then I think we're alright. I just... wanted to check these things.

[He takes respectful to mean, you know, not killing people.]

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

Your concern for your Laura is admirable. I hope that I have set your mind at ease.

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[He nodded,] Yeah, yeah. Just as long as you ain't lying, I'm good with that.

If there's owt you... want to know about this place, I guess I can help you out.

[He was still watching her, looking for glimpses of Laura under there or something.]

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

For your kindness, you have my blessings.

Perhaps I will accompany you. I wish to see more of this place.

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, okay. [He fiddled with the bandage wrapped around his hand,]

Maybe you can show me how not to fall down the fucking stairs, eh?

[It was almost a joke. Can you make a joke with a goddess? Maybe.]

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

[You can, but that doesn't always mean she'll get it. :c ]

You are troubled by stairs?

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

They're kinda awkward.

[He shrugged,] Big feet, I guess.

[He was starting to think they should build a slide. Maybe that'd be a bit too like a theme park.]

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

Oh. [She won't see anything wrong with the stairs when she uses them, they're totally normal to her.]

Shall we go? I imagine there is much to experience.

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Paddy nodded, and headed out into the corridor. Which was still weird to look at. A snake slithered along the wall nearby and he nearly jumped out of his skin,]

Yeah, d'you wanna go see the deck? It's pretty cool up there.

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

[She reaches out to gently touch the snake, oblivious to Paddy's fright.]

I would like that very much. You say it is cold there?

[Slang's not really a divine trend, sadly.]

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Oh, yeah. This is worse than talking to the Puritans.]

Nah, nah, I meant, it's nice up there.

[He reached the bottom of the stairs and glared at them. Let her go first. Maybe there's a technique.]

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

Then I look forward to it even more.

[Tlazolteotl mounts the stairs, rising on the balls of her feet as if she were wearing high heels, so that only the front of her feet touch the stairs. Hopefully this will teach Paddy how to climb them, and that good will outweigh the bad of Paddy climbing up after her when Aztec women don't know what the fuck panties are.]

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Paddy... did not anticipate that eyeful. In fact, he tried her method, and it sort of worked, but he felt like he was falling over too much, so he half made it to the other side of the stairs, and did his best to walk up them without looking... well. Cough. Distracting conversation.]

Say, I don't suppose you know why you're here, do you?

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

[Nothing he hasn't seen before, since they slept together that time, but holy shit will Laura be embarrassed about it when she's back to herself.]

I was called here. By whom, and for what reason, I do not know.

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

[Having seen it or not, flashing him like that is just not on, Goddess...]

I see. Anyone else you've met that you know, or not?

[He's still fumbling up the stairs. Damn, his hand hurts.]

Re: spamtime.

[intofireforever]

This is the first that I have wandered this place, but I have spoken to Xochiquetzal...and seen many more, through the black rectangle.

[Fucking communicators, how do they work?]

Re: spamtime.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Oh, that? We.. call that a communicator. We can talk to anyone on board using 'em. Kinda clever, really.

[Well, unless you were from 2010 like Paddy, and very technology literate. Then they were just kinda standard.]