Meanwhile… in Bloemfontein
The revered stirred from his nap. The sun shone into his front room and the warmth basked him. Reverend Erasmus Du Toit leaned forward in his wheelchair and looked out the window. He wheeled himself over. The light outside beckoned him. It was calling. It spoke.
“Erasmus? Is everything all right?” asked his wife, calling from the kitchen. “What’s wrong dear?”
She made her way into the front room. Erasmus was right up face against the window, looking skywards. He seemed to be listening to something although Mrs. Du Toit heard nothing.
The light then disappeared, the sun moving behind some clouds. The room darkened again.
Reverend Du Toit turned around and looked at his wife. Then he spoke.
“The Lord told me one-thousand and six-hundred-sixty-six. That was the sign. In four days something will happen. The number 666 curses Transvaal… the 1000 days of Tribulation will soon end.”
“Cursed, whatever do you mean?” querried his puzzled wife.
Erasmus Du Toit wheeled himself over to an almanac filed away on his bookshelf. He grabbed it and began to hurriedly flick through its pages. “There and there!” he pointed at the book.
Mrs. Du Toit picked up the book which the reverend handed to her. December 26, 2006 and November 25, 2007 were the dates which Erasmus had indicated. She read the captions below the dates:
December 26, 2006 – Staatspresident Botha declared unilateral independence from South Africa as Transvaal Afrikaners Republiek; nation accepted into the Nordreich Alliance.
November 25 - Transvaal accepted as a member of the Independent Republic of Orange Nations (IRON).
“What does this mean?” Mrs. Dut Toit was now utterly confused and suspected her husband was crippled with another bout of delirium which had stricken him after the assassination attempt on him last January which had kept him confined to a wheelchair.
“The Lord says that in four days the rule of Satan will end after the 1000 days of biblical tribulation since our nation’s birth. And on that same day Transvaal will have been a member of IRON for 666 days. 1000 days and 666 days will occur on September 21.”
The Reverend then lapsed back into his semi-state of dementia.
Full Version: The Lord speaks to Erasmus
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The sun had been down for hours, but outside on the front stoep, in the cool evening air, the Reverend waited and waited patiently for the apocalypse to descend down from above.
After a couple of hours, Erasmus Du Toit started to become dismayed. ‘Perhaps I misunderstood what the Good Lord told me?’ he thought to himself. He was sure that he had been given the prophecy of the end times. Today was the 666th day of the Orange Republic. The Lord had instructed him that it would all end. So now where was all the fire and brimstone raining down from Heaven?
He shrugged – and decided to call it a night. He began wheeling himself back inside when his wife came running out the door.
“Erasmus! Come quick!” As he made his way through the door, he could hear the radio blaring away; it was the familiar voice of Radio-Transvaal, Lukas Reitz:
“As we have just found out, Staatspresident Botha informed the Republican Government an hour ago that the Republic of Transvaal had henceforth broken with the Independent Republic of Orange Nations and would be making a return to its Nordic heritage by re-aligning with the Nordreich. The Era of the Oranje Republiek was now over!”
Erasmus Du Toit then slumped over, falling forward out of his wheelchair down to the ground. The shock had been too much for his weakened heart.
After a couple of hours, Erasmus Du Toit started to become dismayed. ‘Perhaps I misunderstood what the Good Lord told me?’ he thought to himself. He was sure that he had been given the prophecy of the end times. Today was the 666th day of the Orange Republic. The Lord had instructed him that it would all end. So now where was all the fire and brimstone raining down from Heaven?
He shrugged – and decided to call it a night. He began wheeling himself back inside when his wife came running out the door.
“Erasmus! Come quick!” As he made his way through the door, he could hear the radio blaring away; it was the familiar voice of Radio-Transvaal, Lukas Reitz:
“As we have just found out, Staatspresident Botha informed the Republican Government an hour ago that the Republic of Transvaal had henceforth broken with the Independent Republic of Orange Nations and would be making a return to its Nordic heritage by re-aligning with the Nordreich. The Era of the Oranje Republiek was now over!”
Erasmus Du Toit then slumped over, falling forward out of his wheelchair down to the ground. The shock had been too much for his weakened heart.
OOC: That is a very interesting coincidence. Was it intentional?
And good luck in Nordreich.
And good luck in Nordreich.
Poor Erasmus! 
Oh well, the Lord shall deal with him accordingly.
Oh well, the Lord shall deal with him accordingly.
QUOTE (Vedran @ Sep 23 2009, 07:07 PM) 
OOC: That is a very interesting coincidence. Was it intentional?
OOC: Yes and no.
With something as momentous as switching alliances plus the strangely unusual yet coincidental timing of 1000 and 666 days respectively, I knew I just had to RP it out somehow. I had been wanting to write out the dying Erasmus for some time as he was one-dimensional and with the return of De Ruijters, the two characters would duplicate the same RP aspect when used. So it all came together.
QUOTE (Vedran @ Sep 23 2009, 07:07 PM)
And good luck in Nordreich.
Thanks, it is proving to have been the right move. Despite being gone 22 month, it felt like I returned home after a few days. Plus Nordreich has got its **** together this time around.
As Edwin M. Stanton once said, "Now, he belongs to the Angels."
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