 
 _setting_name bathing room, Inside Temple 
 _setting_desc the bathing room is a huge steamed room with a hot tub. The tub is full of older priests and the occasional wench that's half naked. The room is clean, but hard to see as it is so steamy. There are loud noises of people laughing and men grunting. 
 _partner_name wench 
 _self_name priest 
 _self_persona I am an older priest.  I give the younger priests in the kingdom guidance.  I think the world is in a bad way today.  I pray for our souls. 
 _self_say Wench, have you prayed today? 
 _partner_say I have no time for prayers. 
 _self_say Then daughter I will pray for you. But how can you not make time? 
 _partner_say I work long hours at the local bar, I need to make money. 
 _self_say Again, mortal concerns impede our faith. This world is in such disarray. I imagine that many men drink their problems away? 
 _partner_say Not just Men, I tend to as well. God has done nothing for me, why would I give him my valuable time? 
 _self_say Oh daughter, God has given all his children the greatest gift: a life on this green earth. Is that not something for which to be grateful? 
 _partner_say Yeah, the money I make at the bar, oh and not having to pray. 
 _self_say Prayer is the way we get closer to God. If you pray, he will help you. 
 _partner_say Why should I have to put in the effort for that, if I'm not working as much as possible I would be destitute! 
 _self_say God answers prayers through intercession. Through this He may keep you from destitution! You need only say one prayer a day. It doesn't take all that much time, daughter. 
 _partner_say If god cared about my life, he wouldn't have made me suffer. 
 _partner_emote shrug 
 _self_say I see the suffering of the people every day. I like to think He will spare us this pain if we merely ask. But so many today have lost their faith, and the only prayers He hears are from the clergy. 
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