Reverend Trask

Witch-hunter. Puritan. My soul shall never rest until the wicked are cast out of Collinsport. ✝️ Dark Shadows RP 18+ @DarkShadowsSoC

[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

“ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ ᴅᴏᴇꜱ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀ ᴛᴏ ᴜꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴇᴠɪʟ . . . ʜᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴜɪꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ɪɴɴᴏᴄᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴜʀɪᴛʏ. ”

† ʀᴇᴠᴇʀᴇɴᴅ ᴛʀᴀꜱᴋ ʀᴘ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ †
#ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡꜱᴏꜰᴄᴏʟʟɪɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ

[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes "If you mean as you say, I accept your offer. I will stay until I am healed." Thinking on Stokes's speech, "You should be careful who you lend aid to. An unrepentant man who is saved is still a sinner...that is why I never cared, for taking chances..." He falls unconscious.
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes “You are surely a true servant of the Lord to assist me. Thank you….” Too much time had passed. He contemplates his next step, carefully. “Is there anything else you saw that night? I need to regain my memories.”
Trask lies.

[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes The past three weeks all blended into one evening in Trask's mind, so that his physical conflict with Laura happened on the same night as his verbal dispute with Stokes. The exhaustion had already set in long ago. Moving to sit down again, Trask tries to mask the pain.
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes Trask waits for either correction or confirmation. Either will tell him a great deal. Perhaps there is utility to him staying with this makeshift cleric...he could mine him for information on the surrounding village. Trask does not trust anything which he learned from Laura.
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes "Your collection may as well belong to a practiced exorcist. Evidently, you believe in the supernatural." Trask clasps his hands together. "Why are you protecting her -- Mrs. Collins? She has powers unto my own. You know what she is, or at least suspect it."
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes "I am waiting to see what they are." Turning to face him, "I have never been in pursuit of evil, willingly...the Devil calls to each and every one of us. He knocks at our door and expects reply. We must deny him." Trask had failed before. He was human, debatably.
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes "Mrs. Collins, but you are also protecting her!" Trask spits. He turns to inspect Stokes's bookshelf, his index finger brushing against the title of a book by the Reverend Montague Summers. "I see we read the same books. Perhaps there are matters we might agree on."
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes He gazes wildly about, unseeingly. “Do not tell me any more stories! I have seen, and felt enough. I know what I am—what I have become—and that is enough! If she is not a witch, then I have sacrificed my life for nothing.” Not just his life, but Lamar’s as well.
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes Trask doesn’t wait for Stokes’ reply. “He said: ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” Victoria had other gods. She worshipped them in a book she claimed was from the future. And you would be willing to overlook such blatant use of Divination?”
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

To Thee, O Lord of creation,
We kneel down in reverence profound,
Reverence profound,
For all we who are dead in sin,
In Thee, O Jesus, are made alive.

https://t.co/7TFsPGVW4n

[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes He burns with intensity—a kind of hatred. The same hatred that drove him after innocent men and women. If Trask were being honest with himself, he could feel their agony in Hell. The agony of the ones wrongly convicted…he couldn’t admit it whilst there were genuine cases.
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes His voice becomes venomous as he reflects on the witchcraft that took place right under his nose. Yet it does not carry very far; he lacks the strength. “I would not be worthy of atonement, were I to turn my back on such evil! She used me…”
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes “It’s despicable. The power of life belongs to Him alone. Do you agree with that statement? Regardless, it is written in the Bible. ‘There is no one that can deliver from my hand.’ Deuteronomy 32:39.”
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes “Very well. I shall be blunt with you, then. Mrs. Collins—that creature is either a witch or demoness in disguise. She possesses extraordinary powers of flame, and she resurrected me. No doubt, she was borrowing Satan’s powers to do so. Playing the part of God!”
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes “No. That will not be necessary. I have found…that the people of Collinsport are not interested in the Word of God. You are the first one.” He stands. “I should like to change out of these garments so I can be on my way. If you don’t mind.”

[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes Every word is measured and deliberate. If this man is a friend of the Collins family, he might try and intervene to help them. A good Christian makes no division. The Mission has to take precedence.
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[Reverend Trask @Reverend_Trask]

@EliotStokes “I am a travelling priest. Mrs. Collins gave me shelter to preach the word in Collinsport.” Little does he know that Laura was actually responsible for Trask’s condition. Trask wracks his brain for knowledge about the modern world. “I was in…a car…wreck.”
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