GODLY AUDIENCES: SIEG

[divus]

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[divus]

Well, he better not. You're way too important to the people here to just up and die once this is all over.

[heartmunculus]

The people here... I'll be able to see them again when this is finished?

[divus]

I'm not sure any of us can guarantee it, but I don't think your friends would feel very good about going home if they knew you might die...

[heartmunculus]

That's too bad. I would've liked to keep in contact...

[He shakes his head.]

I won't die, I'll just be waiting for Ruler on the Reverse Side of the World.

[He'll be asleep for hundreds of years, basically.]

[divus]

There might be a way... it just depends on what happens and who wins, I think. Also, on what you ask for if you're on a winning team.

[s h r u g]

...waiting doesn't sound very fun. Why not go look for Ruler, instead?

[heartmunculus]

It depends on how I ask?

... I can't. I can't leave the Reverse Side of the World.

She can travel away from the Throne of Heroes, because she's partially a legend. Something that's fully mythical like a dragon can't leave normally.

[divus]

And what's within the power of whoever wins to do, yeah. If you're on the team of whoever wins, they'll be able to do more.

[giving big favors to everyone would lessen the power they have to devote to their new world ... small favors would be fine, though]

...well, that sucks.

[heartmunculus]

Within their power...? Is that going to be different for each god?

[He gives a small shrug.]

It's alright. I can sleep until she finds me.

[divus]

I'll depend on a few things, like how many followers they end the game with, and how big the wishes they're granting for their followers are, you dig?

[he also shrugs]

If you're suuuure. Sounds like a boring way to pass the time though!

[heartmunculus]

Does it work like the more followers the stronger they are? Or does it get divided up?

It's not too bad.

[divus]

We don't know all of the specifics yet. I think we're trying not to make promises we can't keep.

[heartmunculus]

That makes sense... This is the first time you've done this, right?

[divus]

Yeah, it's a first for all of us.

[heartmunculus]

Is that part of why you can't agree? Or do you think if you all had your own world before you would still be having this trial?

[divus]

Well, we had our own world - this one... but it got kind of, uh, wrecked. While we were arguing about who should be in charge.

[hastily:]

There weren't any people living here yet! We were all newly ascended and getting ready to start the world.

[heartmunculus]

... I see.

[There's a pause.]

How did it get wrecked?

[divus]

...I mean, take a bunch of feuding gods with a whole host of powers that some of them don't even know how to use yet, and what do you get? A mess.

[heartmunculus]

Only some of you knew how to use your powers?

[divus]

Some of us came from worlds without powers. We might've gone a little wild...

[heartmunculus]

Huh... Were they new to you?

[divus]

Oh yeah. I was totally normal before I became a god - aside from my otherwordly fashion sense, after all.

[heartmunculus]

[Sieg takes a second.]

It sounds nice. Being normal.

I never had a chance at it.

[divus]

Do you think you'd want to be, if you had the chance?

[heartmunculus]

If my world didn't have secret magical wars, I think I'd like the chance to just live.

[divus]

...hey, that's possible, you know. [Sincerity chuckles.] Your god's not out of the running yet. If a normal life is what you want, you could get it by winning here.