GODLY AUDIENCES: SIEG

[divus]

Comments

[heartmunculus]

Alright.

Jeanne d'Arc, Astolfo, Achilles, Jack the Ripper and Chiron are some of them.

[divus]

...

I've heard of Jeanne d'Arc. We learned about her at school.

[no fucks given about the others though, apparently]

[heartmunculus]

Are you French?

[The others, well, maybe they don't come up as often.]

She's kind and forgiving. I was lucky to meet her during the Holy Grail War.

[divus]

[SHRUGS. She's not confirming that.]

Did she win it?

[heartmunculus]

She wasn't playing for the Grail. As a Ruler she had nothing she wanted to wish for.

Because the circumstances were strange the War needed an arbitrator. It was her duty to make sure things went as smoothly as possible.

[divus]

...

[squints]

So she was basically Patience?

[heartmunculus]

Yes, but she had to keep getting involved because people kept breaking rules.

[divus]

You guys break the rules.

[sometimes.]

[heartmunculus]

I haven't broken any.

Assassin of Black kept involving people who weren't part of the game and killing them. So we had to stop her.

[divus]

How did that go?

[heartmunculus]

We did, but pretty much everybody there hallucinated dead children raining down from the sky.

[divus]

What the [some really loud noise in the temple drowns out the "fuck" she is not allowed to say because she's from a children's show]

[heartmunculus]

Between the horror it definitely felt like that...

[divus]

Well, I hope this contest has been better for you.

[minus the

broken leg]

[heartmunculus]

I haven't seen any dead bodies raining from the sky, just um, those knives.

So I think it's going better.

[Also he hasn't died this time!]

[divus]

Well, hopefully we'll keep it that way.

[hopefully knives are the only thing... that will get yeeted...]

[heartmunculus]

[Knives... and cups...]

I guess that's up to the participants to decide.

[divus]

Isn't everything?

[heartmunculus]

... Is anything besides the rules up to gods?

[divus]

Until this game is over? No... not really. Even some of the punishments for breaking the rules are up to Justice's followers, if they're the ones who made them.

[heartmunculus]

Is that frustrating for you?

[That's so little power for somebody who's a god.]

[divus]

It's ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. We can't even step in and stop it if someone we like is going to be--

[...

why can't she just learn to shut up.]

Well. You know.

[heartmunculus]

You can't stop a killer and you can't defend somebody who could die.

... Somehow having your hands tied like that seems worse.

[divus]

All we can do is watch. We can't even say who did it - well, I can hint at it, but that still relies on you guys figuring it out. Ugh, it's the worst.

[heartmunculus]

Like saying the culprits were good actors last week...

Can all the gods give hints, or is it just you?