Curious Local Customs - Page 12

David Johnston2 · 09-21-2019, 10:44 AM

Identical twins are considered to be two halves of the same person so both persons are punished and honored for the deeds of either and if they marry, both must marry the same person.

Varyon · 09-21-2019, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Anders

Catulomancy. Divination by watching kittens playing and sleeping.

I... could actually see that. Would be an interesting take on cat worship.

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Identical twins are considered to be two halves of the same person so both persons are punished and honored for the deeds of either and if they marry, both must marry the same person.

What is the charge for killing just one of them? Attempted murder? What if one kills the other - attempted suicide?

Anders · 09-21-2019, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Varyon

I... could actually see that. Would be an interesting take on cat worship.

RELEASE THE SACRED KITTENS!!!

RyanW · 09-21-2019, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Varyon

What is the charge for killing just one of them? Attempted murder? What if one kills the other - attempted suicide?

I could see killing one twin as anything from assault and battery to double homicide. Fratricide could be completely without consequence, or require the surviving twin be euthanized to prevent its continued suffering.

David Johnston2 · 09-21-2019, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Varyon

I... could actually see that. Would be an interesting take on cat worship.

What is the charge for killing just one of them? Attempted murder? What if one kills the other - attempted suicide?

Aggravated assault, the same as if you were criminally amputate someone's limb. If one kills the other the killer is treated as dangerously insane.

jason taylor · 09-24-2019, 10:46 AM

A device used for torture or execution cannot be used for other purpose lest the "stink" of it's office carry. Likewise tools of torture and execution have to be ritually defiled before being allowed to do their duty. For instance a rope used for scourging or hanging cannot be mistaken for one used for an honorable purpose like climbing, or sailing a yacht, or as a weapon (like a sling, garote, or flail). Various methods exist of doing this. One is to plow a field around the prison and so it with radioactive material. This incidently helps guard the prison though the guards are provided with Hazmat suits. Another way of defiling an item is to wash it with the blood or other components of a particularly evil victim. All this by the way has social connotations that can be used for shamming ("The court sentences you to hang with the same rope that Bill Bloody-Hand was hung with").

As a footnote to this, nicknames can be given to such devices, usually one fraught with dark humor. Legends spring up of evil ghosts haunting them naturally.

ericthered · 09-24-2019, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by RyanW

I could see killing one twin as anything from assault and battery to double homicide. Fratricide could be completely without consequence, or require the surviving twin be euthanized to prevent its continued suffering.

Fraud. You are pretending to have a soul when you really only have half a soul.

malloyd · 09-25-2019, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Anders

RELEASE THE SACRED KITTENS!!!

See how they died? The gods accept our sacrifice!

Kittens don't seem any weirder than geese or sheep or anything else. Good priests can presumably interpret anything at all as an omen meaning whatever they want anyway.

ericthered · 09-25-2019, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Anders

RELEASE THE SACRED KITTENS!!!

So is catnip considered sacrilegious tampering, or is it a vital tool for awaking the divine?

Anders · 09-25-2019, 12:52 PM

Could go both ways. Possibly there is a deep religious schism on this question.

09-21-2019, 10:44 AM	#111
David Johnston2 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: Curious Local Customs Identical twins are considered to be two halves of the same person so both persons are punished and honored for the deeds of either and if they marry, both must marry the same person.

09-24-2019, 10:46 AM	#116
jason taylor Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Portland, Oregon	Re: Curious Local Customs A device used for torture or execution cannot be used for other purpose lest the "stink" of it's office carry. Likewise tools of torture and execution have to be ritually defiled before being allowed to do their duty. For instance a rope used for scourging or hanging cannot be mistaken for one used for an honorable purpose like climbing, or sailing a yacht, or as a weapon (like a sling, garote, or flail). Various methods exist of doing this. One is to plow a field around the prison and so it with radioactive material. This incidently helps guard the prison though the guards are provided with Hazmat suits. Another way of defiling an item is to wash it with the blood or other components of a particularly evil victim. All this by the way has social connotations that can be used for shamming ("The court sentences you to hang with the same rope that Bill Bloody-Hand was hung with"). As a footnote to this, nicknames can be given to such devices, usually one fraught with dark humor. Legends spring up of evil ghosts haunting them naturally. __________________ "The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison Last edited by jason taylor; 09-25-2019 at 07:15 PM.

09-25-2019, 12:52 PM	#120
Anders Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden	Re: Curious Local Customs Could go both ways. Possibly there is a deep religious schism on this question. __________________ “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” Marcus Aurelius