The Dark Temple June Sacrifice

The Dark Temple, Afternoon June 6th, the new moon

So brother Eric, I have been told that you have exchanged, this very day, your eldest daughter to the flesh market.

Yes my dread lord.  My eldest, Caitlin, is now at the flesh market that has supplies us with brides and harlots. I fear that Caitlin can not be used as a life bride of the Dark Lord, for I have seen with my own eyes the act of her being made unclean.  The man that was defiling her fled  from my house as he saw me at the door to Caitlin’s room.  I only wish I had a whip to chastise him with as he fled!  That is one of the many reasons she is available for being the death bride of the Dark Lord.  She was worth large amount.  Here is the wealth that I received as the payment on her.  I wish to turn it over the the Dark Lord’s earthly servants as a gift.  I fear that is in the cursed form, as they did not have gold nor silver to exchange for her.

I give thanks to you brother Eric in the name of the Dark Lord.

Deacon Johan! You shall go the flesh market and obtain the next death bride of the Dark Lord.

It shall be done

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Spellbook Slaves Afternoon June 6th

OK, we just got a appearance grade A teen slave, and it’s the new moon.  Conrad, put her in the holding cage in the lobby.  The Dark Temple should be by any time now to buy her.  Regular as clockwork, they buy a high appearance score newly enslaved teen.  If we don’t have a teen that meets what ever criteria that they use they will, unhappily and under some protest, buy the newest slave we have.  Should have seen the look on the deacon’s face when all we had was a 35 year old sow that was so fat she couldn’t even get a real meat score, much less an appearance score.  He was truly less than gruntled. They also buy, a couple of days before the new moon, a pair of class B slave, calling “the harlots of the Dark Lord”.  I don’t ask, but if you are alone on the new moon or close to it  and the dark temple deacon comes in to buy a slave, remember it’s bride or harlot, not slave and damn sure not lady, woman, or girl. They get quite upset at that.  The’re not the weirdest client we ever had but they are sure in the top five.  And yeah, the’re the reason I keep track of the stages of the moon.  Not some new age reason, but a purely commercial one.  And here he is, a little earlier than normal, but we’re ready for him anyway.

Deacon Johan! Good to see you again! We have a bride selected for you!  She was just made a ready to be a bride not more than three hours ago.  I hope she meets your needs.

She will do nicely.  

The bride comes to One thousand seven hundred fifty with taxes for the cursed, I fear that you can not use gold nor silver in this exchange. 

Can we put her on the temple account?

Of course you may. 

Caitlin is removed from the holding cage, collared and is taken away by Johan.

After Johan has left, Conrad turns to Mike and asks ” There is a lot to unpack here. First gold or silver?  What do they think its is, the middle ages? Next they have an account?  I didn’t know we did accounts.  And finally the cursed?”

I suspect that they would rather deal in gold or silver, and they might as well be in the middle ages, Deacon Johan is the only member of their temple clergy that leaves the temple.  Of course they order pizza from time to time so they aren’t total out of touch with the real world. As to accounts, yes for regular customers we have fifteen day same as cash accounts. There aren’t a lot of people on that list.  Basically it’s the Dark Temple, 501 Meat Packing, Suckers and Hill’s.  Oddly the temple listed “The sisters of the temple” for their collateral.  Don’t really know what that is, but our tame land shark said it was OK. The others were a little more conventional in their collateral.  That being said, if someone claims to have an account and you don’t know if they do, call me and I will verify if the do or don’t.  As far as the cursed bit goes they are bit miffed that they can’t get taxed exempt status so a couple of years ago they had a service to  curse the federal government.  Bought all the grade A teen slaves we had for that service, regardless how long they had been enslaved.  Twelve if I recall right. The next day they asked us to take the dead slaves to the zoo so that they would feed the animals.  This was important to them.  In fact they quite adamant that “The  flesh of the sacrificed must feed the beast of the earth from the greatest lion to the lowest weasel.”  Their words exactly. They invited me to the service, but I declined the offer.  Actually I’m surprised that Johan didn’t invite me this time, he normally does.  After cursing service, they started to call the federal government the greater cursed and the state as the lesser cursed.  Don’t know what the call the city council.  The least cursed, don’t know, don’t really care, as the council doesn’t come up in conversations with them.

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The Dark Temple, Dusk of June 6th, the new moon

 

Caitlin lays nude atop the main altar, seemingly accepting her fate. Two nude handmaidens of the cult stand to either side of the altar.

The cult begins to chant first slowly and at a low volume, but increasing in volume as they chant faster and faster.

“Take this sacrifice oh Dark Lord.  We give her unto you.  Take her as your wife. Take this sacrifice, take this sacrifice, take her as your wife.”

Bring forth the harlots!

Two nude  slaves are dragged to the front of the altar, where two nooses are lowered from the rafters.

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Hang them and let their death prepare the way for the bride!

With that the two harlot slaves are hauled up to slowly die.

“Take them as your harlots oh Dark Lord, take them, take them.” the assembled cult members chant.

As soon as the slaves take their last breath, the high priest, with a handmaiden on each side, picks up the bright silvered blade from the altar. “With this blade I offer this sacrifice to you so that I might bring you your bride in death“, holding the blade flat across his hands.

“Bless this blade, bless this blade, bless this blade” chants the cult, faster and faster.

“I consecrate this blade to act as your Dark Member as you take your bride in death”

With that the high priest raises the blade above his head, He pauses, as if to pray, then stabs the blessed knife down into Caitlin’s neck and moves if from side to side, slicing open her carotid artery.  Blood sprays upward, spattering on the high priest vestments.  One of the handmaidens captures some of the blood in a chalice and hands it to the high priest, who raises above his head

“Take this blood as you just due and take this body as your bride in death as is your rightly privilege .”

“Take her!  Take Her! Take Her!” chant the cult members as Caitlin dies.

After the blood has stopped flowing the high priest lowers the chalice then drinks from it,  after which intones  “She is now the death bride of the Dark Lord.  The sacrifice is over.”

The high priest moves to in front of the altar, raised both of his arms

“My brothers and sisters, it has been too long since we have had a life bride for the Dark Lord.  If any of you posses a daughter who is of age and is pure,  on the night of the full moon take her to the flesh merchants so we can make her the life bride of the Dark Lord so that we properly preform the great rite.  It has been far too long since we have done so.  The lesser rite does not bestow the same blessing from the Dark Lord.”

With that he lowers his hands turns and exit  the altar plinth through the passage to the sacristy with deacon Johan and the handmaidens. The members of the cult file out of the temple using the main doors. In the sacristy the high priest removes his blood soaked outer vestments and hands them to Johan.  “Burn these and save the ashes so that the ash may be used in making dark water”.