Entry 435; Day 648

[misterblackbird]

I've been watching that storm for more than a little while today. I don't like the look of it. Rosella, the storm of October may very well be literal this year. But, as we said, we've weathered things before. Though I wonder if we can weather this.

When they asked if we knew the story, I didn't think exactly think of this one at the time. However:

'And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.'

I remember that much--and what follows after:

'And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.'

Between a storm and a rather strong recommendation to start building, indeed up to and including what I have heard are tools and wood enough for an ark on the beach, it might be a sensible thing to prepare. Far be it from me to equate these 'deities' with anything better than the lowest human, but they do sometimes seem to know what's coming.

And, if you'll remember this spring, we were subjected to the Plagues of Egypt. Granted, the Angel of Death wasn't quite as expected, but I wouldn't put it past them--because I do put the blame for all this on the 'deities'--to try something like that again. Perhaps we'll build an ark and have scarcely ten drops of rain. Or perhaps there really will be a flood. After all, when we marked our doors with the blood of the lambs we sacrificed, we suffered the consequences of that act much later--with mad sheep and a mad shepherdess.

Do we dare risk it?

If one knows the story, one knows that Noah was doubted, and the ones who doubted him perished in the flood. We could believe the 'deities'--they've warned us about these things before. Or we could refuse and call it another trick--they've played enough on us before.

I suppose it's up to us to determine whether we believe or don't. Or perhaps how much we believe.

For myself, I shall see to the stores in the opera house, and to the construction of the ship. I'm no good with building things, but I can lend a hand. I don't like the look of the weather.

I suppose the part that's left is to gather two of every animal--and everyone in the City.

Ladies and gentlemen, dare I say it, but there seems to be a storm on the way.

~C.

[ooc: I could paint a picture with a pen, but a song will only scratch the skin. And there are still places I haven't been because I know what's in there is already in the air. Oh yeah, there's a storm on the way... Cain knows his Old Testament ;; And what he doesn't know, he remembers and he looks it up. And he is cursed, yes, so he'll be, idk, carrying nails and axes (put that down, Cain) around for people building the ark and making plans about how to get his household on it. No drowning here, plzkthxbai.]

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[thisismyjob.livejournal.com]

None of you know the story as it was.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Is that so?

[thisismyjob.livejournal.com]

It is. The lies tire me.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Then set matters straight, if we're all wrong.

[thisismyjob.livejournal.com]

The first Flood was a kindness--a gift.

It's a gift that your false gods cannot give the City.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

In other words, you'd rather humanity be destroyed.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Neil said he thought it might be a flood, too.

Goodness, I don't know if the Warehouse will be able to keep something like that out. I've tried to seal things up as best I can, just in case, but I've been packing and baking and securing things all day. I really do think the boat--ark, rather--might be our best bet.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

That's how the story follows, of course. All the signs are there, if that's what the 'deities' want us to think of.

So are you going to try and weather things on the roof of the Warehouse or are you planning on the ark?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

And this story has something to do with the one we saw before, with the plagues and the angel? They come from the same place? I wonder...

I'm certainly not about to take my chances on the roof, with the way that storm is looking. I think I'll be going on the ark, myself. It just seems...safest, somehow, as odd as it is to say.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Yes, very much so, though this story comes before that one.

If it is to flood, and we make it, at least we'll know it'll float if it has to. Although, no, I'm not looking forward to being crowded onto a boat with the whole of the City.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

And now it's coming after the other, here. Well, that's just the sort of backwards thing the City would do, I suppose.

I've been trying to think of what to do with--well, everything, really. I did manage to catch Snowdrop, so I can bring her with me, but Prince...well, if the Warehouse floods, it won't make any difference to Prince, and I imagine he'd be happier waiting things out here than trying to travel with us onto the boat. And I suppose it won't be much different than when we all crowded into Xanadu to wait out the angel of death, really. Unless people begin to get seasick from it, which would be a mess.

voice;

[tharheblows.livejournal.com]

Blah blah blah blah blah.

You gonna help build or not? We're almost finished you know but the sooner the better.

voice; ilu T-Pain

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Who are you?

voice; autotune luvs u

[tharheblows.livejournal.com]

The Captain of this ship. What're you expecting?

voice;

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I have no idea.

And there is going to be a flood, then?

voice;

[tharheblows.livejournal.com]

That's what they're sayin' isn't it?

[no-defender.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard that story. It does cast things in a more ominous light.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Had you not? I suppose that's the good and the bad of all of us being from different worlds.

It's less ominous and more sacrilegious, I say.

[no-defender.livejournal.com]

Ominous in the sense that we can apparently expect something less a long the lines of rainier than usual and more along the lines of flood of epic proportions. But being sacrilegious seems the sort of thing the deities would enjoy.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I suppose that makes sense.

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

Considering we are now stuck in the Old Testament, it seems, I wonder when you'll get marked and be sent to wander the Earth in misery.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Then perhaps you'll be thrown from a wall, trampled by horses, and eaten by dogs.

At least I'll survive.

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

But get to spend eternity shunned and miserable.

And since we're going by namesake, we can move on to the New Testament where your sister Mary will either end up pregnant out of wedlock, or be a prostitute.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Better than being eaten by dogs, I say.

That, though, sounds more than a little blasphemous, but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised with you.

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

As if I really care if blasphemy's added to my list of sins. Not that this is all that blasphemous, since it's true.