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From: Lugh
Date: Feb. 17th

[There's a muffled sound of Oscar trying to get something to do a thing, only his hands visible for a moment before he sighs and adjusts the phone so it's recording properly. He's standing in front of a large span of land, sheep and some horses visible behind him.

He sort of. Awkwardly waves at the camera before rubbing at his neck.]

Uh. Hi. Ignore the name on the top of this, it's Oscar, not Lugh, I just can't figure out how to change it...anyway! I, um, got here last month and my...temple? Is basically a small farm. There's chickens and a stock pond and horses and you can see the sheep back there...

[He gestures behind him.]

...and there's space for me to start growing things next month. I can handle it for now, but come spring and summer I...may need some help? If anyone wants to help? I don't have any shinki yet, so it's really just me here for now.

[And that's incredibly lonely. Not that he's saying anything.]

There's not a newspaper to put a help wanted ad in or anything, so...I figured this would work? I can't exactly pray for help when I'm a god, y'know?

[He chuckles, it peters out because oh god this is awkward, and then he just shrugs.]

Yeah. Anyway. I can pay people in food or wool or whatever? So. Yeah.

Comments

[unlucky7]

Probably something hardcoded in. You see gods become shinki and vice-versa, but it doesn't change things they posted previously.

I've helped picked sweet potatoes, if that counts. Some weed-pulling too. Anything beyond that, I don't know, but I'm willing to learn. If anything, I'm good at moving heavy stuff around.

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Wait. What??? You see gods become what???

[unlucky7]

Haven't seen it happen right before my eyes or anything, but yeah. I know people that have switched roles.

Do gods get a pamphlet? They pass out pamphlets to shinki at the training session and it's one of the things mentioned on it.

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I.

I didn't exactly read all of it. It was a rough day for me.

[unlucky7]

That's fair. Probably tougher for gods showing up here, pulled from your world, told you're a god and all. It's a lot to take in.

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You have no idea.

[unlucky7]

I mean, I don't. I woke up here, knew I was dead, knew I didn't have memories, and was given a pamphlet and told to read it and wait for my god.

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That was me agreeing.

1/2

[unlucky7]

Sorry. I have a tendency to take things too literally.

2/2

[unlucky7]

So what kind of plans do you have for the fields?

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Right now? Not a lot since it's just going to be me living here for a while. I want to do corn and stuff like that, but I may have to keep it to lettuce and things I can grow in the space right by the house.

[unlucky7]

You could open it up as a community garden if you wanted to grow more things. I've seen a few down in the Near.

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A what?

[unlucky7]

It's a plot of land split into smaller gardens shared by multiple people/community groups. It's a way to make use of land within cities to provide more green spaces and give purposes to otherwise unused space.

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Ooh. I'll have to think about that, that sounds like it might be fun.

[unlucky7]

It would be a good way to use the land for smaller crops until you have the numbers needed to harvest larger quantities.

I take it you grew up on a farm?

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Yeah, with my aunt.

[unlucky7]

Was it nice? You seem to not mind farming if you're continuing it here.

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I liked it. It's hard work, but it's good work.

...and chicken tastes best when it hasn't been frozen.

[unlucky7]

Can't say I've had fresh chicken, but I did have fresh caught pheasant and it was delicious. I imagine it must be the same.

If you ever want to trade fresh chicken for fresh fish, I can set you up.

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I will! I was never patient enough for fishing.