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[multitudes.insanejournal.com]

Discovery of the week: You're not allowed to sign for packages in blood. Even if it's the only thing you have on hand.

_Ha Ha ^Ha.

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[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Hmm, well, I can understand that. Blood writing is messy, usually illegible, non-permanent, not to mention the whole biohazard aspect of it.

[multitudes.insanejournal.com]

Funny, blood-writing was always considered binding to my kind.

Good enough for soul-binding pacts with infernal spirits,

but not for the UPS guy.

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Well, yes, but it doesn't work so well for writing out alphabets on scraps of wood, for instance.

[multitudes.insanejournal.com]

I suppose not. Unless you carved it in first.

Is that something you did, then?

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, afraid so. The very first oghams were written in blood, for the reasons you cited earlier: blood has power. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold up well to elements. I used ink and carvings for the next batch.

[multitudes.insanejournal.com]

Cool story, bro.

Where'd you come up with the idea?

[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

You'd be amazed how hard oral tradition can be to keep constant, especially under the influence of heavy drinking. So, I thought it would be great if there was a systemized way to standardize it all. So, I took some trees, created symbols that could be put together to reflect the different sounds--I wanted a syllabary at first, but then decided an alphabet would be simpler.