hypomeneo: (So fix your sad eye on someone worthier)
hypomeneo ([personal profile] hypomeneo) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore 2019-08-12 02:35 am (UTC)

[Waver smiles brightly at that for a moment, that wary expression fading away, before coming back full force as they step into the darkness.]

Indeed.

[It's a quiet descent and Waver studies the reliefs as they pass them with the same intensity as he studies the darkness. Looking for clues in both about motive and the situation they are steadily striding into. They're easily recognizable at first - birds, animals, fish - but as they go down, Waver has to rack his brain to place them. Are the motifs depicting a descent to the underworld? That would invoke Supay - the Incan pantheon's god of death, who did reside underground in the underworld called Ukhu Pacha, and also the leader of a race of demons.

Granted his knowledge of Meso-American religions and culture could use a brush up and Waver would prefer not to make any conclusions until he has further evidence of what's going on in the progression. That pantheon is large and there are plenty of deities that aren't depicted as human.

Waver's face scrunches up as they reach the fire. Hair. That explains the stench. But the modern furniture... This place... a meeting place or a safehouse? Waver runs his eyes over the surroundings as he walks around the fire to begin to investigate the surroundings.]


And nobody seemingly around to monitor the burn. [Key word: seemingly.] Makes me wonder now if they're trying to escape and set up again somewhere else, without leaving any traces for us to follow.

You think they were tipped off?

[Which would make sense with the cultists' cell structure to their organization.]

These all look like things that would be used in Inti's ceremonies, among other things. The feathered objects of clothing look like those that are worn by priests of the Incan religion. The knotted ropes... well... I've heard that the Incans used a sort of set up like this for record keeping and data management. Including that of ritual.

Quipu, I believe they're called.

The question is... what were they doing with these things before?

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