Advancement Opportunity, [ is the somewhat wry answer. ] I wanted to talk to as many of the gods as I could before making a decision. ... what're you building?
Really starting to hate that power. [Merriment's annoyed, and yet he's still playing with legos.] Golden Gate bridge. Some kid came in and started it, so I'm working on the rest of it.
I've seen it a few times, impressive stuff. But it keeps me busy. [He's still busy fiddling with legos as he considers that question.]
I've only lost followers from their own volition or death. None of them have been forced to leave and...maybe that's for the better. Love's been getting hit a lot with someone scrambling you guys around, hasn't she?
Yeah. Zoe and Ray on the same week, and Lightning getting killed as well... [ Shakes his head. ] And Ray's had to stay away for his own reasons. We're--
[ ... we, he says, like ...
Yu sighs. ]
Her followers will keep doing their best. My mistakes cost us, too. But I hope I can help everyone, this way. [ A glance at Merriment. ] Maybe the gods themselves, too.
Focus on helping yourself right now, kiddo. The rest of us are a mess of our own. [...] But we're improving. I can see it. Don't...try to take on all of us at once. That's the best advice I can give you. Get to know us, talk to us, and pick one or two you think you can help. If everybody did that, we could make some progress on fixing a lot of problems.
Oh trust me, I know. It was hard to separate you guys when you first got here, hard for us to know how to talk to you, hard for you to approach us...it's been a hard game all around.
I'm hoping that's maybe the case, but I don't think we're there yet either.
Trust. A lot more trust among the gods. We all have people we prefer over others but that doesn't exactly help when we're trying to rule. None of us know what's being said when one of us talks to one of you. That could cause some damage.
The only way I could see fixing it is figure out what hang-ups everyone has with everyone else and start figuring out how to fix it from there. But I'm also not sure there's enough time.
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In California somewhere, [ he murmurs, because US Geography is hard when you're Japanese. But-- ]
Have you had others come to you because of Advancement Opportunity? ... or lost followers?
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I've only lost followers from their own volition or death. None of them have been forced to leave and...maybe that's for the better. Love's been getting hit a lot with someone scrambling you guys around, hasn't she?
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[ ... we, he says, like ...
Yu sighs. ]
Her followers will keep doing their best. My mistakes cost us, too. But I hope I can help everyone, this way. [ A glance at Merriment. ] Maybe the gods themselves, too.
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It's tough to narrow down, you know.
[ ... he shakes his head. ]
But I'm glad to hear you're improving. I hope, in the end, you're all able to work together smoothly, and trust one another.
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I'm hoping that's maybe the case, but I don't think we're there yet either.
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What would it take to get the rest of the way there, do you think?
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[ it's a sincere question. ]
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