maskormenace | third level; video

[ The video begins in selfie mode outside a grand stone and brick cathedral, which some might recognize as Maurtia Fall's local Catholic Church, St. Drausnius (named after the patron saint of invincible people). One might not immediately notice that the camera is in selfie mode, as only the top of Merle's head is visible, a mess of bright white hair at the bottom of the frame. Crowds of families in their Sunday finery are headed into the church, which has a brightly colored banner across the front welcoming parishioners to their Easter Sunday celebration. ]

I've heard a lot about this "Easter" holiday... [ Merle starts, finally pulling the camera down to show his full face in frame. ] Seems like people can't quite make up their mind as to whether the celebration's about new baby farm animals, or the death and revivification of some ancient demigod. I figured, why not check it out for myself to find out?

So... Any one wanna come with me, and see whether the promise of a petting zoo at the end is just an April Fool's prank?

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Thanks, bud! [ SLUUUUURP! ] I think they started already but c'mon, we can grab a seat in the back and then be the first ones to the petting zoo when it's over.

S'long as they don't try and convert me. I ain't about that.

[he takes a long sip of his own, then gestures for merle to lead the way.]

Eh, don't worry about that. Let me handle the evangelists.

[ Merle leads the way up into the church, where they grab a pew at the back. And then there's a long, boring Easter mass with a lot of standing up and sitting down and kneeling and standing back up again, and some call and response that neither Merle nor Archie know the responses to. Can you tell Chris doesn't particularly feel like writing out a church scene?

ANYWAY, eventually the mass ends and the crowd begins to file out the back of the church. Merle shoves his way through the crowd, bellowing over his shoulder to Archie, ] Here comes the good part!

[he follows merle, finishing his smoothie and tossing it into a bin at the entrance... archie had considered taking it in but that statue of a bearded man looks awful angry. maybe he's the anti-littering mascot. he finds a seat next to merle inside the actual hall, nearly always missing the getting up and kneeling by a couple seconds, gets a few angry glares for using his comm, falls asleep on merle's shoulder for a couple minutes at one point. mercifully - perhaps by divine intervention - he does not snore.

by the time they're ready to go outside, he's practically vibrating out his skin. likely with excitement, but also because he dumped so much sugar into his smoothie.

at this point, archie is just ignoring the glares he's getting. he's usually more respectful of people's believes, but he's suffering some lamb based tunnel vision right now.] Hell yeah! [someone tuts.] H...heck yeah!

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