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[verynormalturnipseller]

[Gods can be emergent phenomena. The name isn't as important as the practical effects.]

More important to know what it can do. Can it enforce its rules outside its area of influence?

[rou_gui]

Important to know?

[ Dubious! ]

[verynormalturnipseller]

[He just considers gods a potentially solvable problem.]

Well, if it could reach you on a port, then it's definitely got reach, but that doesn't mean significant power. Not automatically.

[rou_gui]

I haven't fed it since-- The big concert port.

[ Months ago. She does put everything she has into ignoring it but... yanno... sometimes... ]

[verynormalturnipseller]

[He's not sure what she means, since he spent that port dutifully shopping for mundane supplies. But sure, a while.]

Does that weaken it, or just weaken your connection to it?

[rou_gui]

It won't bestow on me without offering. So I get weaker, and it gets louder. More insistent.

[verynormalturnipseller]

[Not the tone of someone who's still bought in entirely, good.]

Is that it punishing you or a natural consequence?

[rou_gui]

...both, maybe?

[ John Doe talked her out of her lifelong buy in. It took some crying. ]

[verynormalturnipseller]

Well, either would be a problem on its own, why not both. Oh, well. Weakness, is that dangerous or returning you to where you'd be without the bargain?

cw: infanticide

[rou_gui]

...I'm fairly sure my cousin will kill me again if he ever sees me.

I may or may not have murdered his hideous half-dead infant and bride. Several of his brides.

And the Hill is on his side.

[verynormalturnipseller]

[Cousins are like that.]

Wait, the source of your power is also feuding with you? And it hasn't cut you off?

[rou_gui]

As far as I know, it's never cut any of us off. It just has its favorites among us and let's us fight about it.

It has come to my attention that this isn't the kind of loyalty I'm really looking for in a pact for my soul.

[verynormalturnipseller]

Always possible it can't cut you off. You seem to have more freedom in this agreement.

[rou_gui]

Oh yes, it certainly feels that way when I can't get it out of me.

[verynormalturnipseller]

And it can't get itself out of you, apparently.

[rou_gui]

All that talk just to circle back to: just leave me to rot.

[verynormalturnipseller]

Rot's quite a useful thing if you look at it the right way.

[rou_gui]

You can come scoop up my remains for the Greenhouse at the end of the month.

[verynormalturnipseller]

I don't think Aerith would like that.

[rou_gui]

Tsk. Wasting perfectly good compost...