GODLY AUDIENCES: ALEX

[divus]

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[psynergy]

[So...someone needs to be faster and just do random PCs, got it.]

I see. [Yeah, that's why he went to you and took that power, he's glad you saw that too.] That definitely has potential, yes.

Can you convince current members to take that power if they haven't? And might I ask how many more opportunities we'll have to make people defect?

[divus]

If you stay with us, you can switch with power at the time you'd switch to a different god if you want. I'm thinking I'll ask my followers to do that in our last week.

[She has a plan... probably.]

A couple more times. This is only supposed to last for six or seven weeks, after all.

[psynergy]

That seems like a sound strategy, so long as enough people are still with you.

[Not that he's defecting this week (or next), just...commenting.]

So there will be one last chance to force that after whenever the final trial is held?

[divus]

I'm not sure exactly how the end is going to play out. We'll know when we get closer to it. But the last week before the final tally, that's what I'm planning to do.

[psynergy]

All right.

[Not QUITE as specific as he likes plans to be, but given his own lack of information he can't complain too much.]

I'll be sure to keep that in mind as this plays out then.

...What factor will the deceased play in this, if any? [Someone told him you win if you die aligned with them, it might have been you but I'm too tired to check right now, sorry.] Or will only the surviving participants determine the winner?

[divus]

The people who died following the winner will still get rewarded, but it's the number of participants included in the tallies each week that determine who that winner is going to be.

[psynergy]

All right. I suppose with the collective brain power of some of these participants, it need be that simple.

[divus]

Uh, have you looked at some of the other gods? They're a bunch of idiots too. Most things are as simple as they sound here.

[psynergy]

Oh yes, I've noticed that as well... The level of incompetence is a bit troubling, honestly.

[divus]

You can say that again. It's ridiculous, utterly ridiculous.

[psynergy]

It does make me wonder what the qualification process is, if there even is one.

[divus]

I have no idea what made any of them into gods.

[psynergy]

I see. Do you know what made you one? Or were you always in this position?

[divus]

I became a god because I wanted something very badly. [She shrugs.] That's why I'm the Goddess of Ambition. Supposedly, strong feelings around the time of our ascension had something to do with it.

I don't really care about the specifics as long as it helps me get what I want.

[psynergy]

Was it a similar offer as this game was to the rest of us?

[Now he's curious about what "fortune" Sheba was after, but she was always so vague about that, the little brat.]

Heh, I quite agree with you on that point.

[divus]

I guess? It was probably a little different. We specifically called you guys, but no one specific called us. We just ascended.

[psynergy]

Curious... Yet somehow you still knew what you were doing?

[divus]

Well, obviously. When you were born, did you have to be taught how to breathe? It's something like that.

[psynergy]

Allow me to clarify: I meant you were still aware you were coming to this world to become a deity?

[divus]

Not right when it happened. But... I figured that out pretty quick.

[psynergy]

That must be quite a journey for all of you to make when you have no idea of the potential reward.

[And Sheba leaving Weyard is still not adding up, especially with this info. Though maybe she just wanted power and he'd already won there?]

[divus]

It's a leap of faith, or whatever.

[psynergy]

I see. And the positions went to whoever was willing to take that?

[divus]

[she shrugs]

I don't know how it worked for the others. All I know is in my case, I heard the call and I answered it.

[psynergy]

All right. Perhaps that lack of order explains what's lacking in some of the others...