Prayers unto Apollyon 1

Lodi lifts up his age wrinkled face, casually knocks a stray lock of
white hair away from his cobalt blue eyes and smiles broadly at all
gathered.

Lodi says warmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Greetings and salutations
unto one and all!"

The radiant sun shines all about you.

Lodi laughingly says in a dry, age creaked voice, "I pray this day sees
you all strong and resolute in the face of life's innumerable
adversities!"

Lodi says reverently in a dry, age creaked voice, "We have gathered this
day to offer humble prayer unto Lord Apollyon."

Lodi smiles and say in a dry, age creaked voice, "The correct response
at the end of each prayer is 'Amen.'."

Lodi says humbly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Please kneel."
Kaevan drops to one knee.

Sherazad drops to one knee.

Lodi closes his eyes momentarily, preparing himself for the

Ilys drops to one knee.

Milenka drops to one knee.

Lianca drops to one knee.

Lodi whispers a few unheard prayers of his own and makes the Sign of
Seven across his chest.

Kupo drops to one knee, demonstrating his humility and respect.

Lodi says reverently in a dry, age creaked voice, "Let us pray..."

Lodi opens his eyes and takes a single, grounding breath.

Lodi says solemnly in a dry, age creaked voice, "He whom was birthed."

Lodi says sternly in a dry, age creaked voice, "When the Star Silence
was consumed."

Lodi says firmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "By the Void's Primordial
Sound!"

Lodi says softly in a dry, age creaked voice, "He whom once danced."

Lodi say dreamily in a dry, age creaked voice, "As Two made One Through
Divine Transfiguration."

Lodi says sternly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Who was wounded and
liberated."

Lodi says resolutely in a dry, age creaked voice, "With and For Evil's
Suffering Truth!"

Lodi says energetically in a dry, age creaked voice, "He who art the
Lord of Pain."

Lodi says enigmatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "Unto whom I am
bound."

Lodi says loudly in a dry, age creaked voice, "From now."

Lodi says boomingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Until Judgment Day."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "We Praise Thee!"

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "We Praise Thee!"

Lodi says ecstatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "We Praise Thee
eternally!"

Lodi says quietly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Amen."

Kupo says in a sibilant voice, "Amen."

Kaevan chants in Mhaldorian in a rumbling, bass voice, "Amen."

Sherazad says in a husky, monotone voice, "Amen."

Cleric Milenka says, "Amen."

Ilys Korwens says, "Amen."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Become the outer and the
inner."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Transcend the microcosm
and the macrocosm."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Allow the Suffering Lord
to guide thee."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Below and above the
Abyss."

Lodi says knowingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For Evil's Great Work
is to Advance."

Lodi says sternly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Through Discipline AND
Pain."

Lodi says eagerly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Through the Seen AND the
Unseen."

Lodi says authoritively in a dry, age creaked voice, "Through Matter AND
Spirit."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "And, ultimately."

Lodi says zealously in a dry, age creaked voice, "Through the
transcendence of dualism into singular reality!"

Lodi says quietly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Oh Lord of the Wound."

Lodi says sternly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Hear our prayers!"

Lodi says loudly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Hear our prayers!"

Lodi says boomingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Hear our prayers and
drive us unto enlightenment."

Lodi says ecstatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "For evermore and
ever more!"

Lodi says quietly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Amen."

Kupo says in Mhaldorian in a sibilant voice, "Amen."

Sherazad says in a husky, monotone voice, "Amen."

Cleric Milenka says, "Amen."

Kaevan chants in Mhaldorian in a rumbling, bass voice, "Amen."

Ilys Korwens says, "Amen."

Lodi says humbly in a dry, age creaked voice, "You art Master of the
depthless abyss."

Lodi says reverently in a dry, age creaked voice, "Lord over the
apexless heavens."

Lodi says energetically in a dry, age creaked voice, "You destroy so
that You may create."

Lodi says enigmatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "Create so that You
may destroy!"

Lodi says authoritively in a dry, age creaked voice, "Your Suffering is
Change's Instigator and Propagator."

Lodi says happily in a dry, age creaked voice, "You art Terrible yet
Beautiful."

Lodi says joyously in a dry, age creaked voice, "Cruel yet Subtle."

Lodi says seriously in a dry, age creaked voice, "You art Creation's
Judge."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "And Creation's Thief
in the same breath."

Lodi says gratefully in a dry, age creaked voice, "You are my Lord and
God."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Slay me, slay me,
slay me Lord!"

Lodi says slowly in a dry, age creaked voice, "So that I may daily be
reborn in Your image..."

Lodi says quietly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Amen."

Kupo says in Mhaldorian in a sibilant voice, "Amen."

Cleric Milenka says, "Amen."

Ilys Korwens says, "Amen."

Sherazad says in Mhaldorian in a husky, monotone voice, "Amen."

Lodi says solemnly in a dry, age creaked voice, "My Ego is my Enemy."

Lodi says solemnly in a dry, age creaked voice, "An illusion to which I
cling to childishly."

Lodi says beseechingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "My Lord, My Lord!"

Lodi says desperately in a dry, age creaked voice, "Tare its vile taint
far, far away from me!"

Lodi says angrily in a dry, age creaked voice, "Purify me with Your
Hardships!"

Lodi says passionately in a dry, age creaked voice, "Burn me in Your
Flames!"

Lodi says sternly in a dry, age creaked voice, "So that Strength's New
Growth."

Lodi says zealously in a dry, age creaked voice, "Can flourish in the
Ashes of my Old, Dead Self!"

Lodi says quietly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Amen."

Kaevan chants in Mhaldorian in a rumbling, bass voice, "Amen."

Cleric Milenka says, "Amen."

Ilys Korwens says, "Amen."

Sherazad says in Mhaldorian in a husky, monotone voice, "Amen."

Lodi says reverently in a dry, age creaked voice, "When I gaze upon
Creation."

Lodi says slowly in a dry, age creaked voice, "I see its Beauty."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Because I turn not
from its Horror!"

Lodi says reverently in a dry, age creaked voice, "When I gaze upon
Creation."

Lodi says slowly in a dry, age creaked voice, "I see its Horror."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Because I turn not
from its Beauty!"

Lodi says passionately in a dry, age creaked voice, "Truth is Truth is
TRUTH!"

Lodi says faithfully in a dry, age creaked voice, "And Truth's Name is a
Seven Fold Way."

Lodi says reverently in a dry, age creaked voice, "Lord Suffering, You
art Pure Beauty."

Lodi says loudly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For you art Pure Horror!"

Lodi says reverently in a dry, age creaked voice, "Lord Suffering, You
art Pure Horror."

Lodi says loudly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For You art Pure Beauty!"

Lodi says hastily in a dry, age creaked voice, "Your Suffering Law
teaches me that."

Lodi says authoritively in a dry, age creaked voice, "What my senses see
and experience."

Lodi says slowly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Are but an illusion from
which Your Way can set me free..."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Pain is a constant."

Lodi says quietly in a dry, age creaked voice, "I shall not avoid it."

Lodi says loudly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Its perceived negativity
is a product."

Lodi says loudly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Of the illusionary nature
of sensory perception!"

Lodi says mystically in a dry, age creaked voice, "My path transcends
the bounds of mortal flesh."

Lodi says gnosticly in a dry, age creaked voice, "And gains the
ascetic's enlightenment."

Lodi says ecstatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "Through walking the
deepest halls of the hells."

Lodi says deeply in a dry, age creaked voice, "And treading the highest
clouds of the heavens."

Lodi says graciously in a dry, age creaked voice, "And You, Lord, walk
with me eternally."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Praise be to your
Name!"

Lodi says slowly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Immortal."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "And indivisible."

Lodi says quietly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Amen."

Kupo says in Mhaldorian in a sibilant voice, "Amen."

Kaevan chants in Mhaldorian in a rumbling, bass voice, "Amen."

Ilys Korwens says, "Amen."

Cleric Milenka says, "Amen."

Sherazad says in Mhaldorian in a husky, monotone voice, "Amen."

Overlord Malifuus says, "Amen."

Lodi says tremblingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Terrible, terrible,
terrible is Your Name!"

Lodi says whisperingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For at its mere
mention."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Cities succumb to
Your Wound!"

Lodi says tremblingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Terrible, terrible,
terrible is Your Wound!"

Lodi says whisperingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For at its mere
mention."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Nation's succumb to
Your Truth!"

Lodi says tremblingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Terrible, terrible,
terrible is Your Truth!"

Lodi says whisperingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For at its mere
mention."

Lodi says jubilantly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Continents succumb to
Your Will!"

Lodi says tremblingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Terrible, terrible,
terrible is Your Will!"

Lodi says zealously in a dry, age creaked voice, "For ALL creation
trembles under its RULE."

Lodi says angrily in a dry, age creaked voice, "You art The Lord of
Suffering."

Lodi says passionately in a dry, age creaked voice, "Eater of Worlds."

Lodi says boomingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Destroyer of Suns!"

Lodi says ecstatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "Hail unto Your
terrible, terrible, terrible Name!"

Lodi says manically in a dry, age creaked voice, "Hail! Hail! Hail!"

Lodi says passionately in a dry, age creaked voice, "Amen!"

Kupo says in Mhaldorian in a sibilant voice, "Amen."

Kaevan chants in Mhaldorian in a rumbling, bass voice, "Amen."

Ilys Korwens says, "Amen."

Sherazad says in Mhaldorian in a husky, monotone voice, "Amen!"

Cleric Milenka says, "Amen."

Lodi says calmly in a dry, age creaked voice, "I shall scream with
silence."

Lodi says dreamily in a dry, age creaked voice, "And become the Seven
Spiralled Circle."

Lodi says mystically in a dry, age creaked voice, "The Out and the In
made ONE."

Lodi says musically in a dry, age creaked voice, "I shall sing songs to
Sorrow."

Lodi says gratefully in a dry, age creaked voice, "For Sorrow's end
comes."

Lodi says knowingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "When one embraces it's
Seven Fold Truth."

Lodi says joyously in a dry, age creaked voice, "My Raptures destroy
Happiness and Sadness."

Lodi says certainly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For both art but
illusions of the Ego."

Lodi says bitterly in a dry, age creaked voice, "My Ego enslaves to 'me'
and 'mine'"

Lodi says tearfully in a dry, age creaked voice, "When there is but
'You' and 'Yours'!"

Lodi says passionately in a dry, age creaked voice, "Grind me beneath
Your Wheel, Lord."

Lodi says enigmatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "Turn It till my
bones art dust in the wind."

Lodi says beseechingly in a dry, age creaked voice, "Then sculpt me
again in Your image."

Lodi says piously in a dry, age creaked voice, "Resurrected and
born-again."

Lodi says breathlessly in a dry, age creaked voice, "The perfect vassal
to work your Will!"

Lodi says angrily in a dry, age creaked voice, "Seven times shall I say
Amen."

Lodi says loudly in a dry, age creaked voice, "For seven times infinity
shall Your Name."

Lodi says zealously in a dry, age creaked voice, "Be eternally praised
from my humble lips!"

Lodi says ecstatically in a dry, age creaked voice, "Amen! Amen! Amen!
Amen! Amen! Amen! AMEN!"

Kupo says in Mhaldorian in a sibilant voice, "Amen."

Cleric Milenka says, "Amen."

Overlord Malifuus says, "Amen."

Ilys Korwens says, "Amen."

Kaevan chants in Mhaldorian in a rumbling, bass voice, "Amen."

Sherazad says in Mhaldorian in a husky, monotone voice, "Amen."

Lodi bows low indicating the prayer session is at an end.