{"id":118,"date":"2011-08-25T20:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-08-25T20:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:11:50","slug":"part-1-a-snippet-of-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Part 1, a snippet of something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The return of the vanquished is but round the corner.\u00a0 Millions of the fallen all ready to rise forth and purvey their almighty vengeance upon the non believers.\u00a0 How will this come about?\u00a0 In what form?\u00a0 They must wait, the time is nearly here.<\/p>\n<p>The signs were appearing, the prophecies foretold in Elmarin&#8217;s works 350 years ago being checked off like a cosmic, fatalistic shopping list.\u00a0 The timescales, however, didn&#8217;t seem to tie in.\u00a0 &#8220;<em>The Return Of The Punished, A Divination<\/em>&#8221; predicted 14 seperate events that took place in a set sequence over the period of 1,200 years the first of which was the two suns turning blue.\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Both the sun that sits in the sky the longest and the sun that sets the first shall appear an azure blue for 14 and 6 cycles each<\/em> <em>in turn<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 The two stars in this binary system were circled by 16 seperate planets and planetoids one of which, the homeworld, was called by it&#8217;s residents &#8220;Fumera&#8221;.\u00a0 The celestial twins are themselves named as &#8220;The Short&#8221; and &#8220;The Long&#8221;, The Short being the closest star and The Long being the furthest away, as their names suggest.\u00a0 It so occured that from the 14th to the 28th of the 3rd month in the year 84,236 K the two celestial bodies persisted in the sky, in the normal cycle, an azure blue, an intense, serene and perfect blue.\u00a0 This is when it all seemed sinister, this is when it began.<\/p>\n<p>Not 3 years later, the 2nd event occured.\u00a0 The earth split in two &#8220;<em>&#8230;and then, in the time the seasons pass a further 404 cycles, the ground shall split apart, spewing forth the entrails of the planet in a manner not seen in man&#8217;s time of civilization.\u00a0 The indelible scar will not heal and remain a mark on the landscape until the god&#8217;s know when<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 This, the second event, occured as indicated in the book, word for word, but to the confusion of the soothsayers and believers proved inconsistent with the date mentioned in Elmarin&#8217;s tome.\u00a0 It occured 3 years after the first event, not 101 as prediced (4 seasons in a year, 404 cycles equals 101 years).\u00a0 Where scheduled panic and build up to the finale was in place, discord and bewilderment became rife.\u00a0 The coming of the second event 98 years early caused all hell to break loose.<\/p>\n<p>(to be continued&#8230;. when i can think of another 12 events&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return of the vanquished is but round the corner.\u00a0 Millions of the fallen all ready to rise forth and purvey their almighty vengeance upon the non believers.\u00a0 How will this come about?\u00a0 In what form?\u00a0 They must wait, the &hellip; 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