tealruby Wrote:Formerly known as the Multi-Community Ladies’ Night Out. New name ™ and © by HJ Granger. All rights reserved.

Time for a big night out to celebrate Ginny’s dual Big Announcements! Yes, the ladies of Survivor House (plus one) are hitting the town, and the pubs, tonight. Magical, ex-magical, never-magical, it doesn’t matter. ”Ginevra Molly Weasley, get down from that table right now!”

tealruby Wrote:A Friendly Neighbourhood check-in, with a guest-star boyfriend handling the reply.

House Fairhair And The Grand Thing, Oslo, Norway, 1667, Wrote:Religious tolerance in the North Sea Empire has always been a contentious, even fraught topic, especially as many conflicts were expressly religious in nature, even though they were political or imperialist in motivation. Due to explicit legal guarantees for freedom of religious practice, such issues quickly became the domain of legal suits and countersuits.

The general legal framework that was imposed in the early decades of the Empire to determine religious coercion was the “Godafoss test”, named for the waterfall in Iceland where Norse idols were thrown in when the island formally converted to Christianity in AD 1000. The reason the island converted was that the Christian lords threatened a ruinous civil war that would likely destroy much of civilization on the island if their fellow pagan Icelanders did not convert. The Godafoss test, then, is a legal test intended to evaluate if a given religious conversion incentive is unlawful, based on threat of force, use of force, or other threat to a person’s health. In general, the test allowed for positive incentives to attempt to persuade others to convert, but not negative incentives. For instance, a missionary could not distribute food on the condition that those receiving the food must listen to them proselytize, but could freely distribute food and speak of their god to those who wish to learn about their religious practice.

Mr_Crocodile Wrote:Underneath a coffin of man's steel, even a god's bones can be encased.

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Notes:
Hello! Hope you all enjoy this second chapter of this four part fic, I loved filling it with daunting implications :3.

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Spoiler

With this chapter we "end" the first half of the story focuing on all the actualy in-story set up for how Mechagodzilla came to be, introducing all the players involved.
The second half will focus on the actual events which will cascade from such an engine of the gods being give life, hope you will stick around to watch the cool explosions!

Yrsillar Wrote:"Getting back to the matter of these ith though, the reports we have received do have discrepancies with your information, emissary. These creatures do not behave or live like men. Even the degenerate barbarians of the sea floor or the jungle fused with beasts have more claim to that designation."

Dzintara shrugged. "We were asked for our information. That portion is legend, but who is to say how far humans can change themselves?" She gestured vaguely, encompassing both General Xia and the Voice of the Weeping Sentinel behind her, as well as the valley outside where the cleanup was still occurring.

Ling Qi privately thought Jia Shu had a point. What she understood of how the ith reproduced made them seem more an odd sort of spirit, but now wasn't the time for the debate.