GODLY AUDIENCES: SENRI

[divus]

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[usogi]

[ . . . . . .

he crosses his arms]

What? Is that what Love meant when the god that I pick matters?

[IT'S WEEK FOUR]

[divus]

Maybe? I don't know, I don't know what she told you. I don't listen to her.

[WELP.]

[usogi]

Okay, then you tell me.

What do you mean by that? Do my ideals have to line up with the god that I've chosen to stay with, in order for them to win? How do you even qualify that?

[divus]

It's more like...let's go with, I don't know, Indulgence. Yeah. He's an easy target. So let's say you go with Indulgence, you hear all about his idea for the world, and you don't exactly agree with it. Maybe it's stupid. Maybe you just don't think it's for the best. Even if he wins and you're aligned with him, his vision won't totally work because not everybody believes in it.

Get it? [There's a chance this may not be 100% accurate, but this is how Cunning understands it.]

[usogi]

[ . . . . . he closes his eyes.]

Have you told anyone else about this....

[IT'S WEEK FOUR]

[divus]

[Shrug!] Some of the others maybe could confirm it, but nobody asks me things.

[So suck it, everyone.]

[usogi]

[HE WANTS TO SIT DOWN BUT HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET HIS SKIRT DIRTY HE HATES THIS]

... okay, I'll bite. What's your vision for the world?

[divus]

[There is a chair around somewhere maybe but anyway.]

What're your thoughts on destiny? The world I want...it's going to be a fair world where people aren't bound by a destiny they not only might not want but might not even know because nobody will tell them. It's going to be a world where higher powers won't ignore people who pray to them or ask for help. I don't believe in that. It's a world where respect is to be earned instead of given out just "because", and where power comes to people who deserve it instead of just being born into it and abusing it.

A world of balance. What's so wrong with that?

[usogi]

[ . . . . and senri just sighs faintly - ]

Nothing, technically. But Piety said that he wanted a world of balance too. In the end, it seems like you all have the same sort of thing you want... but you also explain it differently to different people.

Three people got three different descriptors of a world from Ruin - who's to say that I'm agreeing to the same thing that you'd be telling Sasuke?

That's the hard part.

[divus]

I know what Piety said. That's why I made a deal with him. [So there.]

Can't really explain Ruin though. I've been saying pretty much the same thing to the, like, four of you who've asked. Aren't you guys cross-checking all of us?

[usogi]

Any chance you could make this deal with the rest of the gods?

[just wondering!]

But yeah - that's why I'm asking. Ruin's visions haven't exactly conflicted, but it feels weird that she's not telling the whole story to everyone who asks her.

[divus]

Nope. [But nice try.]

You ever consider maybe that's just a Ruin thing and not a gods as a whole thing?

[usogi]

I have! I just don't get why.... Is that how she wants to win?

What do you know about her anyway?

[divus]

I never asked her strategy. She likes me enough but we don't really talk shop like I do with some of the others. [Ruin is still a competitor.] She's okay though. Misguided and a little intense sometimes, but some of her ideals aren't the worst. The execution's off, but whose isn't?

[Hm.] It was her idea to turn this into a killing game though to help us figure out who'll win. It made sense.

[usogi]

.... why did you agree?

[he tilts his head]

Other methods didn't sound as appealing for you?

[divus]

It's like I told the brat. [Ray.] I'm not out to actively kill people. You think we'd be getting anywhere if everyone was in play and nobody was moving? You need some stakes to make people act, but if you know how to dodge death you can survive. The thing about it is, most places don't believe in rebirth. We're giving you the chance to come back unharmed in the end.

We didn't have to offer that caveat, but it's why some of us agreed with her.

[usogi]

[ . . . . senri frown and crosses his arms.]

I don't think you needed death to do it. You could've done something else? Items to be stolen? Like if someone finds your coin and breaks it, you're out?

[JUST SAYING! but - ]

.... well, it's not worth saying anything now.

Though I'm curious - do you know why Passhi decided to stay out of it, even though she voted for the game to be like this?

[divus]

[Shruuuug.] And you don't think people would've found even more loopholes for that? Think about it.

[At the question though he pauses.] ...I'm not really sure. I've never really asked her. We only asked for her vote because she wasn't playing.

[usogi]

[he tilts his head]

... why? Does she just not have any interest in ruling a new world at all?

[divus]

Maybe not. I've never really spoken to her even though she's pretty cute. [Hm.] But she kind of stayed out of everything when we were making plans.

[usogi]

[hm.]

... please think of Dizzy.

[he has to say it,]

You don't know any of the gods who were close to her?

[divus]

...I'm not cheating on Disorder, relax. Like she doesn't say shit about other guys. [But he's moving on.] ...but no. I can't think of any who really knew her that well. Piety knows all of us, and we've all talked a bunch of times but she never said too much about herself to me. Not sure who she would've told.

[usogi]

I didn't think you were but she'd be sooooo mad - I think?

[look she's kinda hard to read]

... ugh. And there's no way to get to where she is? Breaking and entering is your thing, right?

[divus]

[...] Yeah, maybe. [ANYWAY.] Have you tried praying to her? Breaking and entering's my thing, but I've got other things to be doing with it right now.

[usogi]

Huh? What're you busy with?