Monday, June 30, 2025

D6x6 Dire Dervishes

I did a orientalism. I did an islamophobia. I did a racism. I did a xenophobia. I did a christo-fascism. I did a weak apology. I did a no growth. This makes it abundantly clear I don't understand the intersectional nature of the multiplicity of my offenses.

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D6 These dervishes dance
1 in a sort of stylized military march, with high knees and punts.
2 in a style that includes lots of spins and flips and kicks - it's a fused dance-martial art like capoeira.
3 in cycles of whirling expansion and tiptoeing contraction, kind of like figure skating by foot.
4 impossibly-flexibly, proof in motion that their inspiration could only be divine.
5 by leaping and rolling in a stunning display of athleticism.
6 hand-in-hand, each of the pair in colours contrasting the other's.

D6 These dervishes dance to
1 demonstrate that the divine cannot be grasped rationally, but rather only by direct, aesthetic revelation.
2 wake the righteous dead up from the earth, to enjoy their company and share the joys of the living.
3 mimic on earth what their divinity achieves in the heavens.
4 speak with bees, who they believe carry their words up to the ears of God.
5 keep their bodies strong and limber for when spiritual war must spill over into the material world.
6 the tune of strummed lyres and the beat of their beaded wooden sandals.
D6 These dervishes wear
1 long skirts and taper-tipped hats.
2 billowy scarves and sashes and headbands and ribbons around their ankles and wrists.
3 be-belled & tasselled shirts and trousers.
4 curlicued tunics and spirally torcs and tiaras and belts.
5 hauberks of gold-leafed chain, and tabards stitched with religious symbols.
6 frames like hussar wings flying gaudy pennats, and vests with striped colours.
D6 These dervishes wield
1 weapons like haftless morning stars, or spiked and hollow bowling balls.
2 coiled scimitars made from the treated iridescent shells of flailsnails, which by skilled users can be whipped out to their full length or retained for weighty chopping.
3 wavering, wire-thin bagh nakhs, perfect for piercing around armour and bones.
4 heavy chakrams, more for swinging than for throwing.
5 their own fists and feet and knees and elbows and foreheads, conditioned into iron-hard weapons.
6 twin serrated sickles, engraved with calligraphic prayers.
D6 These dervishes are led
1 by a burn-scarred and wildly-bearded old ascetic who sleeps with his eyes open balanced atop a wooden pole and can laugh off any pain.
2 by a clubfooted prophetess who rides an albino donkey.
3 by a bloodthirsty zealot who pores over their sacred texts for justifications for all-consuming violence.
4 by a fanatical literalist who is certain they have discerned the one perfect dance, which when performed (at great expense to all) will immanentize the eschaton.
5 by a canny politician who knows the right words to whisper into every ear to get people to sacrifice themselves for the greater cause.
6 by a venal secularist who has mastered their art yet wants to render them into mere performers and concubines.
D6 These dervishes' stronghold
1 is a blessed cirque way up in the mountains, carved out and encompassed by a glacier of pale blue, unmelting ice, which acts as a greenhouse for the paradisiacal verdance within it.
2 is an underground city with great earthen doors to disguise its entrances.
3 is a white tower, a cyclopean pillar of atmospheric entry-sizzled stone encircled by a crater-oasis.
4 is down the throat of a hotspring-cenote, the steam rising from its depths channeled into contraptions and contrivances for convenience and defence.
5 is a valley carved with the tombs of pagan pharaohs, walled off with raided bricks and decorated with defaced idols.
6 is an ancient, eroded web of qanats, cisterns, and aqueducts, with a semi-nomadic center of operations that can move rapidly along its waterways.

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