interfaith dinner mingle!!

[stefanged]

Who: Interfaith Center regulars & the not-so-regulars (party crashers are welcome too!!)
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Interfaith Center on the Iskaulit
When: Forward-dated to November 4th

[The Interfaith Center sounds far more bustling and busy than usual - and anyone peering inside would quickly figure out that a communal dinner is underway! Take off your shoes and walk in: the lounge has extra tablecloths on the floor as well as buffet tables with non-alcoholic beverages and all sorts of food, including Jordanian cuisine (or the outer space equivalent of Jordanian food).

The board games are out of their hiding nooks; the furniture's arranged for the maximum seating possible; and even the teddy bears donated by Kitty & Winn are out for cuddling, should anyone want them.

The kitchen's bustling with helpers - Stefan's running around at vamp-speed to make sure everything's a) done on time and b) cooked to perfection - but he sure wouldn't mind an extra hand. And if you're still not up for some food? Well, the prayer rooms are open as usual. There's always a quiet moment to be found, even if the laughter's louder and the scent of freshly-baked mansaf's wafting through the long corridors.

Anyone and everyone who's ever been inside the Interfaith Center has been invited (via text message - and Stefan even used the fancy emoji). If you're not particularly faithful or devout? Well, drop by anyways. There's more than enough food to spare.]

Comments

[castrationfist]

Eh? No way. I wouldn't want that at all.

[super-bluntly]

[stefanged]

Really? [Now he's just confused.] You... don't want a future significant other to help you cook...?

[castrationfist]

Well... If they truly wanted to, of course I would be happy, but... No, I would rather do it myself. I am, after all, an incarnation of the desire to serve. I wish to serve someone, to give my all to make them happy.

[stefanged]

I see. If that's your true wish, then... I'm sorry. It seems like I've got a lot to learn.

[castrationfist]

It is my wish, and I accept your apology.

But you shouldn't worry about it too much. Even as my mortal identity, I'm nine hundred years old now. It only makes sense if my desires seem a bit outdated compared to you.

[stefanged]

It does. Honestly, I've met some pretty ancient vampires, and they've... adapted, for lack of a better word.

[read: they're antagonists in a YA supernatural romance, of course they'd come off more modern than usual.]

[castrationfist]

Well, they're vampires, so of course they would. I'm the incarnation of the desire to serve, you know? That concept given flesh, and all.

[stefanged]

Because you're a goddess, right? [Forgive him, he will be apologizing tenfold if it's impudent.] Or is that, uh, some other reason?

[castrationfist]

Hm...

[She sighs.]

Well, it's a long and complicated story. I'm only a fraction of a goddess.

[stefanged]

[Huh.]

Don't worry about it. If you need to tell it, then you will, and if not? [He shrugs.] We all have our secrets.

[castrationfist]

... I don't mind sharing. But you're a man of faith. You may not like what you hear if I tell you the truth.

[She sounds genuinely concerned for him.]

[stefanged]

[. . .]

Thank you, but uh, I've heard a lot of things I don't like, and your world may not be the same as mine. [At least, he sure hopes it isn't.] I'd like to think I could handle it.

[castrationfist]

[tfw you totally forgot where you were going with that earlier comment TIME TO BULLSHIT]

Well... Do you know what a god is, really?

[stefanged]

Of course. He's a deity, and in Abrahamic faiths, the one who created everything.

Faiths like yours, however, have multiple gods, who have their own domains and individual duties associated with those domains. [Headtilt.] Unless that's not how you define it?

[castrationfist]

... I see.

[She has a fond smile, which... should be worrying, honestly.]

The god Yahweh created the world in six days, and on the seventh, he rested. My father, Izanagi, descended from the heavens with my mother and stirred the formless oceans with a spear, giving rise to the land and my mother birthed the islands of Japan. The yawning nothingness Chaos produced Gaia, Erebus, Eros, and from there Uranus and the Titans. Where land and sea met, the foam made the mare Elocha, and Elocha gave birth to Cernunnos and all the gods, who created humans from their loneliness. Or, perhaps... Simply, through coincidence, some rock and dust from the dawn of time through fortune gathered together, and piled up and piled up, until it became a planet on its own, hurtling through space, bringing life about through unlikely coincidence and fortunate happenstance until a creature became wise enough to question its own existence.

Tell me, man of faith. What do you believe started everything?