✤ One. (voice;)

[kingslight]

[The Network. As useful as it may be, Regis is quite hesitant to use it. Why? Well, there's plenty of reasons 'why' but none any better than the fact there's depraved criminals lurking about. How depraved? Those twisted enough to devour the corpse of their victims for all to behold. His brief conversation with one of these killers completely stamped out all of Regis' desire to converse with others in his realm.

That is until now.

After speaking with Faith regarding this sinful realm and the deities who rule it, Regis decided now was the time to seek an audience with the alleged "Gods". Though, how is he to speak with them? It's not as if they broadcast themselves on here often. Since Regis has arrived, these so-called deities been silent, oddly so. Still quite anxious about using this Network as a means of contacting these False Gods, Regis eventually does speak after a moment of deep contemplation.]

I humbly beseech any and all who knows of the "Gods" to speak plain and true.

[His voice is quiet but not without certainty. He's a king after all. Hesitation isn't permitted even in strange matters such as this.]

The last several weeks have been quite daunting to plenty and many who've endured great hardships. Bonds have been broken and friendships lead askew by murderous endeavors of those who perverted the good image of many. With this known to all of us here, I think now would be the time for the Gods to speak.

Is it in hubris alone that 'Fear' and 'Hope' would steal others away from their rightful worlds for the sake of this war of attrition? If so, there's much to discuss and I'm willing to do so in private if the public channels ill-suits any who speaks.

[He ends the recording with that for now. It seems as good a place to end it. Now the wait begins...]

Comments

voice.

[bheidh]

They would claim that they don't bring us here.

Re: voice.

[kingslight]

[Ah, another speaks. Regis doubted his words would reach the deities but his voice has reached across this city in just a matter of minutes.]

A claim I hesitate to believe without proof.

[bheidh]

There is no proof for either side. I haven't seen the door they speak of.

[kingslight]

Then what have you seen? What sort of happenings have transpired in this city? What have these Gods done?

[He pelts her with question after question. The desperation to know more about this world is urgent.]

[bheidh]

They have brought monsters here from our worlds -- creatures that would kill us, and never anything that you would hope to see.

[kingslight]

[The woman's explanation for this twisted farce is downright chilling. There's no doubt That Regis believes her claims after witnessing some of what she proclaimed himself. He knows this is true and fears the day that these wretched deities bring about the Starscourge, a deadly illness hailing from his world. If such a day comes, many would die and become fiends over the shade of night.]

So they mean to torture us...? [There's an inkling of fear in his voice, one he cannot hide.] Is that why they've summoned both the living and the dead?

[bheidh]

Yes.

( Although in some respects torture doesn't seem like it sums it up enough -- torture eventually has an end )

Their become stronger with everything that we feel. Fear, anger -- even hope. Our captors name themselves after what they wish for us, and they have no limit to what they will do.

[kingslight]

Is there no way for us to break free of their control? No means for us to unbind the chains they have upon us?

[He utterly refuses to play slave to a deity again. There must be a way to escape their influences. Regis refuses to bend his knee for anymore deities.]

We must escape from here!

[bheidh]

We have not yet found our own way out but it does not mean there is not an answer, it just means that it is not easy to come by.

Do you think we are all just willingly sat here?