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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 17:16:34 GMT
Médecin Mabuse, still staying in the eternal city, hears word of the calamity and tragedy that has befallen Genoa only days prior. He immediately makes to seek an audience with the Holy Father in order to negotiate a means for the papacy to reconcile the folly of the Duc de Luxembourg.
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Post by Pope on Feb 25, 2015 17:36:23 GMT
The Medecin is shown to a rather tart the Cardinal, who informs him that the Pope is still ill. The shock received from the news of the attack along with his advanced age have conspired to lay the Holy Father low, and he may not survive long.
The Cardinal suggests that he may say his say, and it will be relaid to the Pope.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 17:42:00 GMT
The Sun King wishes clarification as to whether if he were to promptly provide the King of Poland French troops to partake of the crusade, and if he were to pay sufficient alms to the poor, would it be permissible for the excommunication to be lifted?
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Post by Pope on Feb 25, 2015 18:04:22 GMT
"Tell him to go and suck cocks in Hell."
The Cardinal returns to the Medecin.
"His Holiness desires peace between Catholic nations. If the King would be willing to withdraw from Genoa and send troops to the Crusade, the Holy Father will be in better spirits."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 22:40:55 GMT
The Cardinal is informed that the Duc cannot leave Genoa without the terms he was sent to war to procure. Mabuse frankly condemns the Pope's reluctance to restrain Venice and Spain in a war that would otherwise have been a short and localized affair. Europe now faces war and infighting on both its frontiers. Without mention of the Turk.
The current Pontiff has done nothing but further his own parochial interests in fueling war, polarizing Christendom, and alienating loyal support. Nevertheless, French troops will be deployed to East Europe to combat the Russian Tsar's despotism. Unless the excommunication is lifted promptly, the spiritual authority of Pope Innocent XI will be challenged. The Sun King and those French Cardinals that support his divine right may be forced to elect an Anti-Pope.
Mabuse questions the Cardinal regarding the Holy Father's refusal to condemn the wholesale Imperial invasions of the treaty-bound sovereignty of the Swedes but sees fit to excommunicate the greatest monarch of Europe over a trifling merchant city.
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Post by Pope on Feb 25, 2015 23:42:33 GMT
OoC: I hadn't seen the Venetian and Spanish posts until recently, from the point of IC, the Pope and the Cardinal wouldn't have known about them when they made the demand to leave Genoa, I'll deal with that presently.
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"The point is this, Medecin," the Cardinal replied, "Venice and Spain may have joined in the war, but who was it that started the war? Who has been throwing their weight around Europe recently, flagrantly marching soldiers into places they have no right to be, and lying outright about how the maneuvers came to be?"
For a man usually so calm and collected, the Cardinal is enraged. He informs the Medecin that the Pope will, once his health returns, issue a declaration calling all nations to the table. Elsewise, the next Pope will make the declaration. He re-iterates; France began the war, all actions taken by other nations are as a result of that, and the Sun King has no-one to blame but himself. Perhaps, the Cardinal continues, if the Duc hadn't flagrantly executed the Pope's cousin, the Holy Father may have been a bit more composed in his actions. Whatever; the Pope's declarations and actions are held to be divinely inspired. Questioning the Pope's suitability for the job may lead honest Catholics in France to question the Sun King's suitability. The excommunication remains.
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