In Oblivion, the quest Next of Kin has you kill of all the members of the Draconis family: an aged mother and four adult children. You don't get an answer who asked for the hit in the first place. Sensible answers discussed in the past include a relative who is eliminating other heirs, or someone with a hatred for the entire family.
But let me share my crazy theory of how Perennia Draconis, loving matriarch of her family, arranged for her own death and her childrens' at the hands of the Dark Brotherhood. It got less crazy the more I looked at it, and I'm now it's my personal Truth of the matter.
A lot of people remember Perennia as a nice old lady who wanted to send her children gifts, and unfortunately mistook the Dark Brotherhood assassin as the gift-buying and courier service. But if you pay attention to what she's saying, she isn't nice. At all. She's a nasty old piece of work whose children have gone low or non-contact with her. She has outright awful things to say about three of her four children, and her compliments of the fourth may also be passive-agressive condemnation.
She gives the player a list of where to look for each kid, butchering their characters in the process.
> Matthias -- Imperial City - Talos Plaza District, Imperial City (he has a home there): Matthias always was a rough and tumble lad. The last I'd heard, he'd fallen in with some pretty tough characters there in the Imperial City. I'd feel so much better if I knew he was well protected, so I'd like for you to find him a nice cuirass. Nothing too light -- iron or steel should be fine. And, if possible, I'd like it engraved with "To my Dear Matty, I'll always be here to protect you, love Mum."
First kid, gone no contact with her: "the last I'd heard". After he dies, his tombstone, btw, says
>Here lies Matthias Draconis. His mother always told him he'd end up dead if he didn't clean up his life..."
Next:
>Sibylla -- Muck Valley Cavern. Yes, my daughter lives in a cave, and no, I'm not very happy about it. Sibby has always loved animals (almost as much as Andy loves beer) and a couple of years ago she apparently thought it a good idea to abandon the Empire and live as a savage with the rest of the animals. In that time, I'm afraid Sibby has kind of... cracked. She's basically as wild as the beasts she lives with. What can I do? I'm Sibby's mother and I'll always love her. She obviously doesn't want or need anything
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Both Ms. Fromage and Qigobg90 posted recently that they really did study. Qigong shared pictures of the TOC of the Writings Of Nichiren Daishonin, with all of them checked off – indicating, one assumes, that they were read.
Ms. Fromage boaststhat she has “a vast knowledge of the Gosho.”
(In comments, Andinio and I are named as the accusers. And here I go again!)
In the Gosho Banishment to Sado, and in many other writings, \Nichiren speaks of “reding the sutra with one’s life”.
They are, evidently, unfamiliar with the meaning of that passage. One of many concepts they misunderstand of choose to pretend to misunderstand:
- In King Rinda, we read “The neighing of the white horses is the sound of our voices chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.”Ms. Fromage wrote a long, long explanation of why Mr. Toda riding a white horse must mean he was an aspiring fascist dictator, with no oher possible significance whatsoever.
- The Heritage if the Ultimate Law of Life uses “castle” as a metaphor of the strength of one’s life condition and a group determination (those who lack unity “destroy their own castle from within”). But Ms. Fromage once wrote that Mr. Ikeda’s use of the word “castle” indicates that the SGI is only about acquiring property.
- Many Gosho discuss the very profound concepts of “three thousand worlds (life states) in a single moment”, “changing poison into medicine”. “the 9 Consciousness” – all of which are at work in an SGI member’s statement that COVID would produce both survivors, and those who turned it into progress and triumph. But SGIWhistleblowers, displaying not even a superficial grasp of any of these concepts, concluded it meant that the SGI viewed the pandemic as a “competition”, that the SGI thinks people can choose how they encounter COVID. (In fact, a very great many people have survived physically but suffered emotional and/or financially and other setbacks; while others used the lockdowns to better themselves – getting closer to family, for instance, or learning a new craft). If the SGI regarded it all coldly a mere “competition”, it would not be so extraordinarily careful in returning to in-person activities out of concern for each and every member.
- In Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment, Nichiren quotes sutras and commentaries to show that reality and wisdom are “two but not two’, and concludes: “These are teachi
I've been watching a French show with French subtitles, and when a dog on the show whined or barked, the subtitles would be [j'accuse couine], or otherwise use j'accuse. What does it mean?
The drought that damaged the horror film market in 1937 only got worse in 1938, leading to one of the weakest years for the genre ever. Horror output was severely limited but over in France, director Abel Gance’s attention was turned to the recurring threat of real-life horror at the borders of his country. Swiftly he created J’accuse, a partial remake of his own 1919 antiwar film, to help combat against the mobilisations towards another imminent conflict. The last twenty minutes of the film, which features a mass rising of the dead, led to the film being classified as a horror picture.
The very opening of the film lets you know they’re not fucking about. A close up of a white dove, a symbol of peace, bleeds out and sinks into the polluted waters of a fountain. The nearby statue of Jesus is toppled, before artillery obliterates his fucking head. Hardcore. It’s a powerful set-up for the next forty-five minutes which are spent on the front-lines on the final days of World War One.
A constant sense of hopeless dread contaminates these scenes, as the cynical, worn out soldiers suffer continuous bombardment from their enemies. Platoons of 12 men are regularly sent out, but never return. When the characters we are introduced to are inevitably selected as the next platoon, the levels of tragedy, empathy and anxiety could give any of its contemporary horror movies a run for their money.
They are sent out to pointlessly die. soon after the trumpets call out, and armistice is announced. But it’s too late. Dying in the mud, the trumpets give the young soldier one last smile, before he succumbs to his wounds. The doomed platoon’s sole survivor, Jean, vows to his fallen comrades, somehow, that this would be the final war.
Jean clings to his promises and haunted memories while the rest of the world moves on and forgets. As the late 30s arrive and the 2nd world war becomes an inevitability, he grows madder and madder. Like the mad scientist trope of the 30s decade, he hides away and works on inventions. The difference here is that Jean is trying to establish permanent world peace, as opposed to world domination, or playing God.
He creates an invention of peace, some form of bullet proof steel glass, but it is stolen by an old rival and typically utilised as a weapon of war instead. Insane and desperate, he runs to the graves of dead soldiers, lets them know their deaths were in vain, and calls them to rise up.
There is a real intensity to these final scenes.
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