#The Cleansing Fire

[thysia]

Searing Exarch - Wojtek Depczyński

[timeclonemike]

"That's him? The Cleansing Fire?"

VERILY.

"...thought he'd be taller."

A TRAIT THAT HAS WORKED TO HIS ADVANTAGE IN MANY BATTLES. HE APPROACHES, YOUR TIME HAS COME.

"Hey there stranger, welcome to my humble shop, the name's Johnny, what can I sell to you on this fine day?"

"Uh. Couple healing potions would be nice if you got em. I tried talking to that potion seller down the street, and-"

"Say no more, that guy's so pretentious. It's a mystery how he stays in business if he makes potions too powerful to sell. Okay, got a six-pack from the apothecary ready to go, let me just bag that up for you. Can I tempt you with some magic ethers, enchanted arrows of seeking, beef jerky?"

"Oh, you have beef jerky?"

"Best in the county."

"Yeah, I'll be on the road for a bit, I could go for some jerky."

"One box coming right up!"

"Okay, six healing potions and a box of jerky, what do I owe you?"

"It's on the house."

"...what?"

"It's free gratis. Take it and use it in good health."

"I... I don't want to tell you your business but doesn't giving away goods with payment defeat the purpose of running a business?"

"Let's just say I'm paying forward a debt."

"If you're certain, then."

"Never been more sure of anything in my life."

"Alright then. Thank you... uh... Mr. Johnny."

"...that is the most polite rampaging force of divine vengeance I've ever met."

QUITE SO. YOU HAVE DONE WELL, PROVIDING FUEL FOR THE CLEANSING FIRE IN A TIME OF GREAT NEED.

"Thank you master. I remain confused why you would call upon me to assist someone excommunicated by your own priests, but-"

THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE SACRED FLAME HAS GROWN CORRUPT. THEIR HEARTS ARE COLD. NEITHER WARMTH OF HEARTH AND HOME, NOR BURNING RAGE AT INJUSTICE, STIRS WITHIN THEM. IN MY NAME THEY COMMIT DETESTABLE ACTS OF CRUELTY AND COWARDICE. I WILL SEE THESE FLAWED INSTRUMENTS MELTED DOWN AND REFORGED. THE CLEANSING FIRE IS MY INSTRUMENT OF RESTORATION AND REPAIR.

"...I understand now, master."

YOU HAVE ACTED ON MY BEHALF IN SPITE OF DOUBTS. FROM WHENCE CAME THESE DOUBTS?

"It is written that it is not the place of the apprentice to question the Master Smith, nor the iron to question the fire."

MORE PRIEST CORRUPTION. ASKING QUESTIONS AND LEARNING ANSWERS IS HOW AN APPRENTICE BECOMES A JOURNEYMAN AND A JOURNEYMAN GROWS INTO MASTERY. THAT SCRIPTURE JUST MEANS NOT TO SECOND GUESS PEOPLE WITH MORE EXPERIENCE.

"...I am sorry, mast-"

YOU HAVE NOT TRANSGRESSED. YOUR HEART IS WARM AND BRIGHT AND SO YOU AND YOUR WORKS WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN MY GRAND DESIGN.

"Thank you. What more do you require of your humble instrument?"

SPREAD LIGHT AND WARMTH TO ALL WHO NEED IT. KEEP THE FIRES BURNING IN THE HEARTS OF MY CHILDREN. AND DON'T TRUST THOSE FUCKING PRIESTS, SERIOUSLY. ARSEHOLES, THE LOT OF 'EM.

You haven’t been in a temple for years. Your prayers are usually lip service. You have been ostracized by your community and your family shuns you. You have helped heathens and enemies of the church find sanctuary. Yet the Gods still find you worthy of your Paladin abilities.

[bibyebae]

27 YEARS

and that's just the children

take a second to take it in..

and we didn't get a cease fire.

[shellxrls]

rafe's always touching you, and so you’d assume it to be casual, but it never is — always grossly intimate and an obscene expression of his lust.

you can’t say you dislike it though, a favourite of yours being when he comes up behind you, pushing his front against you like he’s trying to memorise the way each dip of skin rests against his frame.

sometimes he stays like that, wrapping a hand around your front and letting your fingers intermingle. other times he’s more possessive, hand seemingly autonomous from his mind as he’d continue making conversation with your group of friends while groping your ass, digging aggressive fingers into the flesh with the type of affection he’d usually only offer in the bedroom.

he knows it’ll make you squirm, and subsequently when you try to push him away you only end up leaning your back further into him, now grinding against his slacks and pushing his hand up to cup your panty clad pussy, his face morphing into a subtle smirk when he registers the emanating heat.

“yeah i know you like that— wanted this from the beginning hmm?” muttered softly into your ear to preoccupy you while he cruelly finds your clit and pinches.

nodding, you tense your jaw and let out a soft hum, excuses rapidly formulating in your mind for how you’d be able to get out of this party and alone with rafe immediately.

[aalya1988]

On Saturday, October 28, the place where Rawan and Razan live was hit by 3 shells. Rawan sustained minor injuries, but Razan had both her legs amputated. Her condition is still unstable and she keeps asking about her leg and asking to travel abroad. Razan needs you more than ever today. Please help her.

في يوم السبت 28/10/2011، تعرض المكان الذي تقطن فيه روان ورزان لقصف بثلاث قذائف، مما أدى إلى إصابة روان بجروح طفيفة، أما رزان فقد تم بتر ساقيها، وحالتها لا تزال غير مستقرة، وهي تسأل عن ساقها وتطلب السفر للخارج، رزان تحتاجكم اليوم أكثر من أي وقت مضى، أرجوكم ساعدوها.

Help her

[news4dzhozhar]

Yasmin Porat, a survivor of the bloodshed at Kibbutz Be’eri, near the boundary with Gaza, says many Israeli civilians were killed by Israeli forces.

An Israeli woman who survived the Hamas assault on settlements near the Gaza boundary on 7 October says Israeli civilians were “undoubtedly” killed by their own security forces.

It happened when Israeli forces engaged in fierce gun battles with Palestinian fighters in Kibbutz Be’eri and fired indiscriminately at both the fighters and their Israeli prisoners.

“They eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” she told Israeli radio. “There was very, very heavy crossfire” and even tank shelling.

The woman, 44-year-old mother of three Yasmin Porat, said that prior to that, she and other civilians had been held by the Palestinians for several hours and treated “humanely.” She had fled the nearby “Nova” rave.

A recording of her interview, from the radio program Haboker Hazeh (“This Morning”) hosted by Aryeh Golan on state broadcaster Kan, has been circulating on social media.

Notably, the interview is not included in the online version of Haboker Hazeh for 15 October, the episode in which it apparently aired.

It may well have been censored due to its explosive nature.

Porat, who is from Kabri, a settlement near the Lebanese border, undoubtedly experienced terrible things and saw many noncombatants killed. Her own partner, Tal Katz, is among the dead.

However, her account undermines Israel’s official story of deliberate, wanton murder by the Palestinian fighters.

Although it no longer appears on the Kan website, there can be little doubt about the recording’s authenticity.

At least one Hebrew-language account posted part of the interview on Twitter, now officially called X, and accused Kan of functioning as “media in the service of Hamas.”

Porat also gave her account to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

However, the Maariv story, published on 9 October, makes no specific mention of civilians being killed by Israeli forces.

And in a half-hour interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday, Porat speaks of intense gunfire after Israeli forces arrived. Porat herself received a bullet in the thigh.

Not only does Porat tell Kan that Israelis were killed in the heavy counterattack by Israeli security forces, but she says she and other captive civilians were well treated by the Palestinian fighters.

Porat had been attending the “Nova” rave when the Hamas assault began with missiles and motorized paragliders. She and her partner Tal Katz escaped by car to nearby Kibbutz Be’eri where many of the events she describes in her media interviews took place.

According to Porat speaking to Maariv, she and Katz initially sought refuge in the house of a couple called Adi and Hadas Dagan. After the Palestinian fighters found them they were all taken to another house, where eight people were already being held captive and one person was dead.

Porat said that the wife of the dead man “told us that when they [the Hamas fighters] tried to enter, the guy tried to prevent them from entering and grabbed the door. They shot at the door and he was killed. They did not execute them.”

“They did not abuse us. They treated us very humanely,” Porat explained to a surprised Golan in the Kan radio interview.

“By that I mean they guard us,” she said. “They give us something to drink here and there. When they see we are nervous they calm us down. It was very frightening but no one treated us violently. Luckily nothing happened to me like what I heard in the media.”

“They were very humane towards us,” Porat said in her Channel 12 interview. She recalled that one Palestinian fighter who spoke Hebrew, “told me, ‘Look at me well, were not going to kill you. We want to take you to Gaza. We are not going to kill you. So be calm, you’re not going to die.’ Thats what he told me, in those words.”

“I was calm because I knew nothing would happen to me,” she added.

“They told us that we would not die, that they wanted to take us to Gaza and that the next day they would return us to the border,” Porat told Maariv.

In the Channel 12 interview, Porat elaborates that although the Palestinian fighters all had loaded weapons, she never saw them shoot captives or threaten them with their guns.

In addition to providing the captives with drinking water, she said the fighters let them go outside to the lawn because it was hot, especially as the electricity was cut.

[i-am-aprl]

Everyone needs to shut up if you’re not calling this a genocide.

Mustafa Barghouti appears on Piers Morgan with American Alan Dershowitz and states it as it is. A GENOCIDE. ETHNIC CLEANSING. COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT. After being interrupted several times he tells them to shut up and rightly so.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

A humanitarian pause is just a lie. This 10 year old from the west bank was shot yesterday by Israeli soldiers who felt like it. 75 years and they still kill our children with no consequences.

[agentc0rn]

The Visionary’s Soliloquy

-> The Professor's Elegy

-> A Wanderer's Entreaty

I feel at peace after finishing this! While it was great to finish, I do miss working on the process though. Nonetheless, it took a good while to complete this due to real life stuff and creative stumbles. I wanted to nail Lysandre's character and stay true to canon as much as possible, but at the same time show more facets of his that were not addressed/fully fleshed out in the games as opposed to the anime and manga counterparts. I found him difficult to draw and write lol. Lysandre was a pretty interesting character with an actually well built evil organization if XY went deeper with them.

With that, a three-part comic series, unofficially titled as the Triad of Kalos, has been finished! This mini project was a way of dabbling in good ol Kalos' story and its potential, added with my ideas.

[fiteclub1999]

Something about forest fires and destructive forces ft jason

[thysia]

The Searing Exarch - Ondřej "WidoX" Špaňhel

[480pfootage]

Something I haven't seen talked about a lot in CRP or Slenderverse spaces was the prevalence of fire in relation to the Slenderman (who, for brevity sake, will be referred to as the Operator in this post)..

What really made it click in my head was finally playing the extra level, Nightmare, in Slender: The Arrival (and also my gorgeous @pechadream pointing out the specifics to me ehe..)

Under cut will be a sort of analysis moreso long winded talk on fire in the story of Marble Hornets, JTK, STA, and Toby's...

It is to be noted that Joseph, Troy, and Tim S. all worked on STA -- not sure to what extent, but they are credited. This is important as there are two instances in MH wherein a fire happened. Linking that with the whole "Cleanse with fire" message that STA was going for, it could explain why people like Alex, CR, Toby, or perhaps Tim W. chose the option of burning in an attempt to kill/cover up tracks instead of anything easier.

Talks of purification are laden in this level of STA which reminds me of the biblical motifs of Marble Hornets. The major cleanses with fire in the Bible (Sodom and Gomorrah, Revelations) all refer to God using fire to cleanse a place of its sinners. Alex himself is often seen with stigmata's and imagery of Christ, of a savior; therefore he sees himself doing a favor by not merely attempting to kill Tim (at first at least lol), the root of it all, by typical means, but to purify him in a sense by letting him die by flame. (CR's plan is similar -- basically the same -- to Alex's so I won't talk about him and Kate ;()

Now it's not really confirmed how Tim's psychiatric institute burnt down, but I think it started in his hospital room? Either way, I think it's an interesting link if it was kid Tim who started it: trying to cleanse himself and everyone he affected, but in turn not doing anything useful.

Creepypasta-wise I think it is extra interesting as we never got a reason as to why Toby would choose to light his entire neighborhood on fire. @pechadream pointed it out that the Operator's influence could play into why Toby would do that.. Whether it be as a last ditch effort to cover up his tracks or deluded empathy trying to free everyone (especially his mother) from the Operator's influence.

Now Jeff (talking about Woods here) is a bit more.. farfetched. This is also if he was in the same universe as the Operator. Story goes that he gets set on fire and he comes out fucked up, why the bullies burnt him? Could be related to the Operator could not be. ANYWAYS. Purifying in the Bible is not only limited to fires, of course. I'd like to think of Woods's burning as a sort of baptism for him.. He was born anew and all that and come to think of it this could refer to Toby too

I think what m trying to say is that cleansing with fire should be explored more when talking about slender.. okay thanks

[bibyebae]

My name is also Heba. But when i was her age, i was always within the embrace of my mother. food and shelter were not a thing my parents had to worry about. Why am i almost 24 years old, but she didn't even get to 4 months old? what is this world we are living in?

CEASEFIRE NOW AND OPEN RAFAH CROSSING

[martellspear]

how did it end? x hoax x my tears ricochet — rhaelia

my twisted knife, my sleepless night, my win-less fight. This has frozen my ground. we hereby conduct this post-mortem // he was a hot house flower to my outdoorsmen. my only one, my kingdom come undone, my broken drum. You have beaten my heart // our maladies were such we could not cure them, and if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too // even on my worst day, did I deserve, babe, all the hell you gave me? and so a touch that was my birthright became foreign

[aalya1988]

Hello, I am Alia from Gaza. I have 4 children, along with my mother and father. I was displaced to Rafah, and now they are asking us to move and there is no longer a place. Help me get out of this bloody war with my children and my parents. We are being killed in every way. I have a link through which you can help me

https://gofund.me/2bdb463f

please don't hesitate to share the link.🙏🙏