So we just ran this ritual at the Cincinnati meetup. We had nine participants, and went three rounds; everybody spoke at least once, and some three times. It was clearly possible to continue with more rounds, but I think we were roughly at the limit of our attention span; more would have been counterproductive. in accordance with the insight about confessions and struggles being much the same thing, we combined these into one category, which seemed to work well. We had a mix of all four categories, with some being, as our resident theorist put it, superpositions.
Everyone seemed pleased with the results; it was even suggested that we might run the ritual more often than once a year. In truth, any organised activity that leads to someone shouting, in full seriousness, “Sweden shall be CLEANSED with FIRE and FLAME” cannot be all bad.
In truth, any organised activity that leads to someone shouting, in full seriousness, “Sweden shall be CLEANSED with FIRE and FLAME” cannot be all bad.
I think that the Swedes might disagree about that.
The context is that the Swedes had just spent the better part of two decades in revolt against my humane and enlightened rule, and all the jarls and most of the chiefs were in my dungeon awaiting my decision on their fate. Moreover, most of them had ransomed themselves at least once and then rebelled again; so I was not particularly inclined to mercy. Their opinion, then, was not actually very important. :)
So we just ran this ritual at the Cincinnati meetup. We had nine participants, and went three rounds; everybody spoke at least once, and some three times. It was clearly possible to continue with more rounds, but I think we were roughly at the limit of our attention span; more would have been counterproductive. in accordance with the insight about confessions and struggles being much the same thing, we combined these into one category, which seemed to work well. We had a mix of all four categories, with some being, as our resident theorist put it, superpositions.
Everyone seemed pleased with the results; it was even suggested that we might run the ritual more often than once a year. In truth, any organised activity that leads to someone shouting, in full seriousness, “Sweden shall be CLEANSED with FIRE and FLAME” cannot be all bad.
I think that the Swedes might disagree about that.
The context is that the Swedes had just spent the better part of two decades in revolt against my humane and enlightened rule, and all the jarls and most of the chiefs were in my dungeon awaiting my decision on their fate. Moreover, most of them had ransomed themselves at least once and then rebelled again; so I was not particularly inclined to mercy. Their opinion, then, was not actually very important. :)
The category for this was “other”.