HEAVEN'S BBS | VOICE

[talkbirdytome]

I know everybirdie is really busy and there's been a lot going an lately but I've been thinking a lot about what happened at the party.

[Hiyoko is well aware that a lot of other stuff happened right after and there were plenty of gods and shinki still dealing with the fallout from that. That's why she gave it a few days. But now it's time to see if anybirdie else is thinking along the same lines as her.]

That fire was obviously set by people who aren't happy with Amaterasu. I'm not sure if it's her they don't like, or if she's put some unpopular policies in place, but we can't really ignore an attack like this. Has this group tired anything like this before? Have they made any other demands?

[Because 'down with Amaterasu' is one thing, but 'down with the heavens?' What are they supposed to do? Start hurling their temples at the near shore? That demand is way too vague.]

I also heard about an incident with poisoned chocolates. That was before I got here but the whole thing sounded pretty fishy. Does anybirdie else think that might have been an attempt to discredit Amaterasu? And if there any other incidents like that, I wouldn't mind hearing about them.

What you guys think?

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[talkbirdytome]

What's she like?
Can you give me any details?

[koukai_kirai]

She takes the form of a child -- a young girl with a golden headdress. She doesn't seem to be thoughtless, but there's a certain naive quality to her, as I said. Like she's too innocent herself to understand people whose hands and hearts aren't as clean.

My overall impression, again, is that she means well, but might be too quick to overlook potential threats.

[talkbirdytome]

She's a kid?

[Holy crap that changes everything! And brings up a lot of new questions. There's a long pause before she types again.]

Have you heard anything about the gods from this world?
Specifically what happens when they die?

[koukai_kirai]

I understand they're supposed to reincarnate, but not the way they have in us; I don't know the exact details otherwise.

[talkbirdytome]

Apparently they lose their memories and become children.
And I guess have to grow up all over again.
But if Amaterasu is a kid now then it means she died recently!

[And depending on when that happened, it opens up a lot of interesting possibilities.]

[koukai_kirai]

Do we know what sort of rate they typically age at after reincarnating?

[talkbirdytome]

No clue.
This is the kind of info I wish the native gods would just share with everybirdie.
But I think if it were really slow there'd be more kids around.

[koukai_kirai]

That's also going to depend on how often they tended to die in the first place, though. One gets the sense that whatever caused the vacuum we came in to fill was on a fairly anomalous scale -- but no one seems to have any idea of that, either.

[talkbirdytome]

Because they won't tell us anything.
They ask us to help out with all kinds of things but they still keep us in the dark.
I don't mind lending a hand but it's getting hard to trust the gods in charge.

[koukai_kirai]

They might just be in the dark, themselves. That's the impression they've given so far, in all honesty.

[talkbirdytome]

They could at least tell us stuff like gods become kids when they die.
Information like that might be important.

[koukai_kirai]

I didn't get the impression they were being too secretive about that part. There IS a lot to catch us all up on, in their theoretical defense.