GODLY AUDIENCES: RAY

[divus]

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[divus]

Right? [Sincerity seems proud of themself.] I thought hard about it! It's paying off, too.

[selfimmolates]

Good for you.

[said sincerely! or at least, like. not meanly. that's about as much as you can expect from ray.

and because jes just reminded me—]

Also, I just remembered: there's something else about this competition I want to ask, if that's all right.

[divus]

Oh, go ahead! Ask me anything, little guy.

[selfimmolates]

[but can you not. call him that.]

... I've got my suspicions, but—what are the "trials" mentioned in the powers?

[divus]

Oh, that...

[Hmm. Sincerity actually takes a moment to think about that (which is rare).]

I don't really know exaaactly how it's going to work yet, but basically, if someone does anything big, someone's gotta be held accountable for it. The trials are for deciding who takes the blame.

[selfimmolates]

And executed.

[divus]

Yeah.

[Sincerity sighs heavily.]

That'll be messy, too.

[selfimmolates]

... Well.

That sure is something to look forward to.

[divus]

Believe me, it's not how I want to spend my weekends!

[selfimmolates]

Are we going to be spending a lot of weekends on this?

[divus]

Six weeks, six weekends. [Sincerity shrugs.] As long as people keep acting on behalf of their gods, it's going to happen.

[selfimmolates]

So, we should expect a trial every weekend—including this one?

[divus]

I'd be surprised if we didn't have one. Some of the others are... well, you know...

[selfimmolates]

[he mimics shooting a gun with his fingers. you mean that, sincerity?]

[divus]

[Good, they didn't have to say it.]

Exactly. Sure, sometimes you have to be cutthroat to get ahead in life, but nobody's supposed to mean that literally.

[selfimmolates]

Yeah, apparently some people didn't get that memo.

[ray included, oops.]

[divus]

[A HEAVY SIGH.]

You can say that again.