NaNoWriMo 2011 #2

A week of NaNo, and I'm only at 3,239 words. The unfortunate thing is what most of those words came from whatever homework assignment I was working on at the moment. I currently have my character reading my homework as random sheets of paper that his nephew picked up off the ground. It's really confusing for Marcus, my linguist, because the paper keeps mentioning congress. Now, a congress of people, and a sexual congress, he's heard about, but a Congress as part of a government? He has no clue what that is. He's lived his whole life in a monarchy and none of the countries that he knows of have a democracy. As well as puzzling out Congress, I've decided to bring back my goat.

Last year's NaNo, one of my main characters was an Oracle who told the future. As is traditional, in exchange for a prophesy, the penitent would have to offer something in exchange. One person gave Eneles a goat, who proceeded to eat his notes.

So now I've decided to bring back my note-eating goat, who is now eating Marcus's linguistic notes. Jayahn, who first discovered the goat, and Marcus had a battle of wills with the goat when they threw it out of the house. Unfortunately, the law has decided that the goat belongs to Marcus, even though he wants nothing to do with it. They were contemplating having it slaughtered for stew meat (quite tasty, actually), when Alissande took a liking to it. So now they're still stuck with the goat, and I don't think its going to stay out of the house...

And I am pleased to announce that I have finally figured out religion for my modern culture. They pray to the ancestral spirits. The whole country also pray to what the people presume is the ancestor of the King. These particular ancestral spirits are like gods. I currently have a whole host of soldiers praying to these Great Spirits for deliverance against the crazy madwoman who's been locked up in their prison for a year. Understandable since the soldiers still can't figure out how she has a live tree growing in her cell. It popped up out of the blue one day.