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When: June 8
From: Anubis

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Are gods expected to work with their pantheons? I don't mind if so, but I haven't the faintest idea whom else might be beholden to the Egyptians.

On that note, if anyone has any great need of the services of one of the many gods of the afterlife that seem to be in the mythology of this world, I'm willing to assist in any way I can. Please feel free to contact me on this odd little device or at my temple.

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Keeping up the image is important, is it. You don't think having some extra arms would come in handy at times? I could totally see it.

Huh. I see. So it's like a secretly Switch type of relationship.

Being here doesn't mean you can't still research things though, if there are things you can research here that you want to research.

'Handy'. Was that a pun?

I'll forgive it this time if it was. But puns aside I'm not sure I have the coordination for something like multiple arms.

I suppose so yes. Nature, even for gods, seems to wish to balance itself somewhere, somehow.

That is true. I'm not sure how to continue the research that had stalled back home, but there's plenty of new things to keep the search for knowledge ongoing. Every world has something new and this one is horrendously massive.

I suppose it both was and wasn't?

Wouldn't that be something one would have to grow used to if one had them? Like getting used to having a snout and prehensile ears and stuff.

So it's just nature just like the rest of nature. Like with the balance between animals and stuff.

Yeah, you just gotta find things you find interesting enough to research is all.

Unintentional puns are acceptable.

I suppose yes, but I admit it's easier to adjust to big ears than many arms. Or at least I am assuming so, since the latter hasn't happened and with luck won't.

As for balance, that's another thing I have a few theories on but it does seem to prove out in myth AND here. I haven't heard of anyone going mad with power yet for example!

Once I'm settled in I'll have to look around. My duty as a god should come first but if curiosity and duty overlap then all the better.

Thank you by the way. It's easy to get overwhelmed.

You never know, maybe in some world Anubis got a surprise gift of many arms!

You sure nobody goes lowkey mad any nobody noticed yet?

I can get that. We're here for the sake of duty and all. Though shinki have their own duties I guess. But if it does then that's just great.

Oh. No problem. I suppose so.

Thankfully, not this one!

If they have and we haven't noticed, how would we know?

There is one duty we all seem to share, seeing to these ayakashi creatures. If there's something to study, perhaps it's those. And more efficient ways to deal with them.

Talk about lucky!

No idea! Make up a special test?

Oooh yeah. Maybe it could work as a research subject.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't actually know how you'd make a test that would demonstrate someone is secretly insane or trying to take over the world. How would you know they're not just joking?

Make surprise questions and trick questions among normal questions and make them not expect things?

Maybe.

Let's think of some questions in the extremely unlikely scenario it'll ever come up. Nothing too obvious like 'If you ruled the world, what would you do?'

This bus ride is taking a while, it'll be distracting.

Maybe not. But maybe throwing in some obvious questions could be good too, and other questions that are obvious about other topics.

Of all the side projects I thought I'd be taking up this isn't one of them.

Are we drawing a line between generalized mental illness or going right for story villains?

I have heard pencil thin mustaches and small goatees can be a sign of malevolent intentions.

You were expecting more common things instead?

I dunno, mental illness and general story villainous things seem to be pretty divided. I don't think there are very many story villains with mental illnesses.

Really?

[ ....hm. Sounds familiar. He should hit the books on that. ]

Actually, yes. Most of my research until coming to this place has been fairly ordinary. I suppose there's something to that old curse, 'may you live in interesting times'.

Wouldn't evil itself be an illness? Say for example you have Lord Babyeater, who gained his name through the dedicated pursuit of doing just that. That sort of person can't be very stable or normal by most standards, could he?

Is that a curse? I'd say it would be fun to live in interesting times.

No idea. It definitely sounds evil but equaling evil with an illness might be rude to those that really are ill.

Oh very much so. Consider your favorite interesting book. Everything that interests you as a reader is absolute disaster for them, be it interpersonal turmoil or even tragedy after tragedy! It might be interesting.. to someone else. But when you are the one living that interesting time..

Evil wears that guise also. Discerning the ones who are intending evil from those who are innocent is also an important part of such questions, isn't it? Evil is evil no matter what gives birth to it! And if they are using such a thing as a shield, then I would think they're even more likely to be our hidden troublemakers.

[ He doesn't know his favorite interesting book yet. Oh well. ]

If I remembered anything I might be able to relate but as it is I'll just have to guess that "I'll see which it is as time passes" or something.

Basically, some people that are evil might be ill and some people that are ill might be evil, but it doesn't mean everyone of either are the other.

As I understand it this place will shove more than enough 'interesting' things to last a lifetime at us.

Yes? Let's start from the beginning again as I believe you may have lost track of the chain of thought in favor of advocating for the sick. We're looking for people who are mad with power. Madness is a mental illness. Insanity is exactly that also. The point of inventing questions is to detect the ones whom have gone mad with power, and I wished to know if we are also pursuing those who are storybook villainous in secret.

It's good to overthink it but not in the wrong directions.

Sorry, I guess I can get distracted sometimes.

It's really easy to get sidetracked on these things I've found.

Yeah? You get sidetracked a lot too then?

Constantly. My master used to find it a little exasperating, back home.

So I suppose the both of us need to practice on that!

Yes! But not right now.

At least not for me. I wonder if any of this stuff on hidden power-mad people should go in the guidebook I'm thinking of writing.