faithfulflame | Third Prayer: The Future is Written in Flames [Voice/Action] Forward Dated to June 13th

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Good afternoon everyone. For those of you who have not met me, my name is Rei Hino. I would like to extend my warmest greetings to all of the New Feathers. I'm sure that you will find something that you enjoy here, and that you will be able to make many friends. If you need any help, please feel free to contact me at any time.

On to other matters, though. Its taken me some time, but I have managed to prepare and purify a small area on the edge of the forest where I can perform flame readings and other types of fortune telling. I do not have much in the way of a shrine, merely a tent and a small consecrated area with which to work, so I hope that doesn't reflect poorly on the experience. In my world, I am a priestess, and I'm fortunate enough to have a gift when it comes to doing such things. If anyone is interested, I will happily use my blessings to offer a reading of your future. It would be my greatest honor to provide my services.

While I cannot guarantee perfect results thanks to our hosts weakening my powers, I feel that its not out of my reach to offer answers to simple questions that you may have about your near future. All that you need to provide is a question and a single hair for a flame reading, or just your question for other types of fortune telling. I have a set of tarot cards if anyone prefers that, but I'm more confident in my abilities at flame visions.

I hope that you find my fortune telling to be enjoyable!

[An elegantly drawn map pointing to an area on the edge of the forest is included with the broadcast pointing it out]

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[Rei can be found at the site depicted on the map for most of the day. Its simple enough, a tent that she and the other senshi had found in the item shop, erected as a sort of open air shrine with a carefully prepared brazier on the outside. Near the center is a small round table she'd hauled out of her house, and at the entrance is a bucket of purified water meant to cleanse oneself before a reading. A pair of crows, Phobos and Deimos, dart playfully around the area, hopefully adding to the impression of the site.

Rei greets anyone who comes by with a happy smile and a great deal of enjoyment. She loves using her gifts, and if it brings a measure of peace or enjoyment to someone she's more than glad]

(OOC: If you have Rei do a reading, I'll offer up a generic enough fortune, since they tend to be very vague most of the time. However, if you wish for something more specific or want to use the reading to set something up for future plans, foreshadowing, whatever, please speak with me and we can work out some details! Hit me up in a PM and we can work from there.)

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Yes, thats fine. Please, have a seat.

[Quietly she walks up and plucks out one of your hairs, Marco. Hope you don't mind, but she's wandering over to to the brazier already, her skirt rustling. Dropping the hair into the flames, Rei claps twice and bows, kneeling before the fire in meditation]

Yosh. [Grabs a seat and instantly blinks at that plucked hair. Oh well, at least it's not a feather. That'd be weird. And he'll just watch quietly for now since he doesn't want to distract her. He might be trying to get Phobos and Deimos' attention however.]

[Rei stares into the fire for a long, long moment, her eyes drinking in the vision granted to her by the flames. This one is different than most of the others from today, murkier but altogether less dark. When Marco gets the attention of the two crows, however, her concentration breaks as Phobos lets out a long, mournful scraw. She turns around and nods to Marco]

Its not the clearest vision I've gotten, but it seems you are in for some troubled times. I saw storms, dark storms tossing around a ship, and you were on the ship with some other men, like Ace-san. From what I saw, you were having a good time though, laughing and enjoying yourselves. It's a fairly neutral fortune, all things considered.

Edited 2012-06-20 19:12 (UTC)

[Wry grin.] We were laughing? [That in itself was reassuring. After his father's funeral, Marco's not even sure he can keep them all alive, so any amount of being able to share laughs with them again was welcome news.]

Thank you, eh. So is all this quite difficult? [Vague gesture to the setup.]

Yes, you were laughing. Why wouldn't you be? You had all your friends.

[Politely, Rei shakes her head at his question.]

Consecrating an area takes a good deal of time. I've been working for a long time, but really it wasn't too difficult.

Well, most of them, eh? [No Ace, for one.]

It does seem a bit involved. Did you do a lot of this back home too?

I do offer fortune telling at home, its most of what I do when I'm not in school.

As far as making shrines? No, thats not common. At all. There aren't many sacred places to build them left.

[She laughs lightly]

Hah. Experienced I see.

Your world is all explored then, I take it?

Yes, its been that way for some time now too. I gather yours is not?

Not really. One man managed to reach the end of the Grand Line and come back out alive, but he was the only one to ever do so.

It's no longer the Age of Exploration though, more like Whitebeard's Era. Or the Age of Pirates. Although both of those are pretty much finished up and changing into another era entirely.

[Rei remembers that Marco is a pirate, and that he's mentioned his adoptive father, Whitebeard before. But she wasn't ever really sure what that meant. Now may be the time to ask...

As she begins to form the question, Phobos wings into the tent and lands in front of her, a curious look on his face as he stares at Marco]

Mmm, yes. You've mentioned your father before, but...the Age of Pirates? Why does your world have such an age? Aren't pirates mostly just thieves and murderers? Back home thats what they were before they all went away.

[A wryly amused grin.]

Right, my father was the world's strongest. Just before he died, someone insisted that this era would go down in history as his.

As for pirates... Many are just that, murderers and thieves and nothing more, but not all of them are like that. After Gol D. Roger reached the end of the Grand Line, he inspired a new generation of pirates. He was called the Pirate King and at his execution someone asked where they could find his treasure so he told them to go looking for it; One Piece. The general assumption is that he left it at Raftel, at the end of the Grand Line since no one else has been there. Millions of pirates flood the Grand Line every year looking for his treasure, or just trying to get famous or do some damage along the way.

We've always had a lot of pirates in my world since it's nearly all ocean, but it got a lot more drastic after Roger.

Although most pirates are scum, not all of them are. Some are just dreamers who hate the idea of abiding by the world government's laws. Most of them are just looking for some way to get rich quickly however, so the slave trade became a huge problem again. My Pops wanted to put a stop to that so he took Fishman Island and several others under his protection. That way anyone who wanted to pick a fight had to go through him, through us, my family, to do it. That's why I always really loved and admired him, eh? He was the strongest man in the world, the only one to hold his own against Gol D. Roger, but all he ever wanted was a family and to protect people he loved. That's why I hope this Era does get named after him.

[Well, that and for Ace's sake.]

I...take it your father died, and by the sounds of it recently. I'm truly sorry for your loss. It must have been an epic battle, since I'm guessing he's not the type to go out without a fight.

Aye. It was quite the fight. Something to really go down in the history books which is why it seems likely the Era would be named after him.

Third Prayer: The Future is Written in Flames [Voice/Action] Forward Dated to June 13th

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