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[fourthreturned]

[ Say hi to everyone’s favorite god! ]

You somehow managed to convince Tranquility that we should help you.

Here’s what we can do for you:

• I can make you boats.
  
• Hope can make food and water.
  
• Sorrow can make maps and instructions—follow them to the letter unless you have a thing for pain and dying.
  
• Love can create compasses.
  
• Fear can create diving equipment.
  
• Rage can make sails for the boats—they’ll be better than anything you could possibly produce.
  
• Tranquility can create containers so you can bring the fragments back.

Our help is not free, though. You have to give us the power to make the equipment with. Before you start whining about how you hate us for forcing feelings on you—even though it’d be easier than this waste of time idea—you get to pick who to empower. Choose one of us, say our name out loud, and we’ll help you and long as you get us the emotion we need. Choose wisely and don’t complain later about hating the one of us you picked.

Don’t mess this up. If you do, your little adventure will probably go very badly, and you dying stresses Hope out a lot.

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[puzzlingly]

thanks

「Is it too soon to say it?

Yes, probably.

Oh well.」

well try our best

[fourthreturned]

Your best isn't much, but ok.

[puzzlingly]

「wowtf...」

you think you can do better?

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[dragonsgrasp]

I'd love to keep my right mind for once, if it's all the same to you. But I'll keep this in consideration if it really becomes necessary for me to join these efforts.

[Ah, little does he know, he's inadvertently said Love's name, whoops. He definitely would have picked someone else, but it's too late now!]

I'm glad that you're lending aid and offering us a choice, though.

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[fourthreturned]

See, there you go with the whining. At what point did I say you had to feel your chosen patron's emotion? Go ahead if you want to, but you can give us more by causing it in others.

[dragonsgrasp]

Whining is going a little far, I would say. Some of us don't appreciate having our emotions messed with so often, though.

So... you really don't intend to influence it this time? You'll leave it up to us to cause emotions in each other?

[That's... maybe not so bad, right?]

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[so_dark_a_road]

So, if I pick you, and I create your emotion amongst all my friends, then who gets the boat(s)?

1) Only me?
2) Me and whoever else caused your emotion?
3) Everybody who participates in this event, regardless of which god they picked?

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[fourthreturned]

Engage in combat for them for all I care.

[so_dark_a_road]

Ooh! Somebody's grouchy today! [ Grin. ]

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[hot_mes]

I feel like I should be both personally and professionally offended that the lot of you don't seem to have grasped that some, like me, have lived on rougher seas than this one for most of our lives and are not so stupid as you think

but that would just mean feeding the one who would give me the most useless item so instead I'll settle for bemused.

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[fourthreturned]

I reallydon't care where you're from.

Do what you want.

[futurebullets]

[It's the first time Hinata has weighed in on any of this, trying to observe the situation as much as he can - but now he needs to ask.]

You said the price for your help is giving you power, but is that really all it is? No other catches or strings attached?

[fourthreturned]

Your friends might hate you if you choose to piss them off.

[futurebullets]

"Friends" as in the other people like me who are getting roped into this? Or "friends" as in you and the rest of the gods? [The answer doesn't make much difference in the end, probably.] I'm not here to tick anyone off, and I'm not against helping. I just want to know what we're getting into before I sign up for practically being a food source.

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[fogsong]

[ This whole post brings back a wealth of negativity and fury and is an incredible reminder of how much she hated them and just how deeply it went. She's already typing up a reply before she stops herself, backspacing every word she thinks might relay her current emotional state to a group of beings she'd enjoy seeing stomped out like the cockroaches they most definitely are.

Ooh, yes, backspace everything, Sharon. ]

If you consider it a waste, why bother? [ That's... sufficiently non-violent. Yes, good job, Sharon, pat yourself on the back for having the briefest moment of self-control. ]

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[fourthreturned]

I was outvoted.

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[fogsong]

How many sided with you?

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[theweakhavepurpose]

for how long?

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[fourthreturned]

Which part?

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[theweakhavepurpose]

the part where we say one of their names and then run around harvesting emotions for them.

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[abbatis]

Now this is something I can get behind. We give you something and you'll do something for us.

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[fourthreturned]

Congratulations on having one functioning brain cell and understanding what I said.

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[abbatis]

Ah, aren't you bag of kittens and sunshine.

Afraid that this will come bite you back later?

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[hasitsthorns]

Do we get extra points if we like make cool banners? Team T-shirts?
Sorrow doesn't have a favorite color so, like, it's gonna be rainbow but do you think that's too tacky?

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[fourthreturned]

No, you don't.

Yes, it's tacky. :)