Story of Voodoo Cards [PART 1]
Published by Wazz
Avonmora, 11th of September, 2017
The Director of the 5th of November wrote:I've been writting for my own pleasure but above that, for your reading pleasure. I really enjoy receiving your comments, even if they are just to point out an error or two, doesn't matter. I've been doing this for 2 years now, had some publishing's slowdowns but never stopped. Will try to improve in everyway I can, so you can enjoy it even more.
I expect to bring a greater roleplay experience to everybody and let's just hope that'll be possible.
Keep it in peace!
Wazz
Nowadays everyone have easy access to those strange spell cards we call voodoo: you can buy it from the market, trade it with other pirates/merchants or even buy it at the black market, which is obviously a piracy act.
Mostly, you'll find a few voodoo users who are reasonable good at it, others that are bad and only a few are experts at it.. but only fewer are those who we call Witch Doctors.
Certainly you've heard about them, keep reading to find out more!
These Witch Doctors are basically so good at using voodoo that they need no ships nor men. They are mostly solitaire, living in a small house surrounded by a deep and dark forest with screams of the dead echoing. A male or a female, sometimes another thing completely different, had the same ritual to provide some services... they painted their face white with some dark blood stripes on the cheeks. Pretty sinister but it didn't scare all of us....
"When did voodoo cards appear anyway?" you may ask... well... ages ago, in the beggining of this era, sailors often resorted to witches or sorcerers to help them out seeking glory and coin. The price? Their soul. The first time they recurred to voodoo they had to sign with their own blood... upon death, their body would go to Davy Jones' Locker but their soul would remain here and there, nowhere and everywhere... a torture like some may say. Firstly, every spell cast required a lot of the witch's strenght, they had to use every stamina and energy on their body just for a simple Spy Network or Flood... so, they tried to find a way around that exorbitant use of their strenght so they studied everything, every option and idea, being then the second stage on the search of Voodoo Cards being:
Stage 1 - Use of the witch's strenght to cast spells
Stage 2 - Communication with Death himself
Stage 3 - Voodoo Cards
Stage 2 basically brought opportunities for some spells to be created like Black Death, Flying Dutchman, Swarm of Worms and of course the famous Death Poker which was the only way Death would communicate directly with the sailor, either pirate or a nobleman, it made no difference if the price was paid, which was and always have been: their soul.
Witches and sorceres were pretty happy with this new solution but... Death wasn't. He needed to be everywhere, aid those with a soul so poor that he would starve so... Death proposed another idea where he wouldn't need to be present: create an infinity number of cards so the witches could sell to every man who went looking for a spell to be cast. It seemed like an awesome plan but little did they know that every man would be able to use a spell without the help of a witch very soon...
Let us know what you think!
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The 5th of November.
