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[revolutionfalcon]

Posted by: Nekhbet
Date: January 24th

So, did anyone else run into the kid god on the volcano? I hear the Heavens have been claiming he was defeated, but me and a few others were there for that and "defeat" isn't the word I would have used. It looked a lot more like he sealed himself away or escaped.

We need to be prepared for the possibility of him coming back, but if anyone actually got him to talk instead of just retaliating, it'd be useful to have that information to work with. I get the impression nobody told him what he was going to be dealing with, but he definitely thinks us and the old gods are one and the same, so he's going to need convincing if any of you decided there was a misunderstanding.

[Or, as he doesn't really want to put it in case the Heavens are overseeing the conversation, in case anyone decided they want to protect him. Shun's been meaning to do this for a few days, but he's been given even more reason to be focusing on work in the last two, so why not use this to take his mind off things a bit.]

Comments

[bakusatsuo]

Well, they'd better fucking learn how to climb out of their ruts, because we're going to outnumber them soon enough. And the heavens can't be stuck catering to the ideas of a static, outdated, shrinking minority forever. Our way of doing things is going to become the MAIN way of doing things.

And asking a god to learn how to fucking cope isn't asking too much.

[revolutionfalcon]

I'm guessing you haven't heard of the "eight million gods". Even if it's not literal, there's still a hell of a lot more of the old than there are of the new. Otherwise this wouldn't be such a problem in the first place.

[bakusatsuo]

However many of them there are, unless there's a crop of new old gods cropping up regularly - which there aren't, I'm guessing, because there's no such goddamn thing as a new old god - then current trends still aren't favoring them in the long run.

[revolutionfalcon]

If you're planning to be here for a few hundred years to last out that long run, then it might pay off then. Though considering we lose a lot of our numbers within a few months of them arriving as well, it might end up being more like a few thousand.

And they do have their own newcomers, spirits enshrined as gods in this world. Old gods is the easier way to refer to those that are originally from this world, but don't take it literally.