hadriel | 002 [video]

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[Maketh doesn't look well, but she's putting forth a solid effort. She's got her hair up and a coat slung over her shoulder, half buttoned, to cover the mess of bandages. But her face is pale and strained. She's been injured and hasn't yet recovered.]

Hello, Hadriel. I hope you're all well, or at least -- recovering.

Recent events have made two things clear to me. First, that the gods will attempt to turn us against each other. And secondly, that they can influence our minds in ways far more direct that I had anticipated. A protocol must be created so this will not happen again.

[She takes a deep breath and winces.]

However, I don't have the proper training to make such a thing. So I am reaching out to everyone here. If you have ideas, I would like to hear them.

Thank you.

[There's a pause.]

I am sorry, to the man I hurt. I'm afraid don't know your name.

That is all.

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[Maketh nods.]

It does seem curious to me that so many of our worlds are -- not alike, per say, but perhaps comparable. I'd say the vast majority of individuals pulled here have been human. That might be significant.

I've noticed that too, yeah, and I mean like... Even a lot of people come from the same planet, sometimes even the same country. Enough people that it's weird if there's like, an infinite number of universes people could come from, that a lot of them are human and even from the same general world.

[Just... Different iterations of it, at different times. But that should be so incredibly unlikely that it's definitely worth thinking about.]

[Maketh nods thoughtfully.]

There must be some common factor that makes us a better food source. The gods claim that the Door acts randomly and without their control, but I don't think that's the case. Who they pick feels deliberate.

Maybe, yeah. And that it picks multiple people from some places is weird too; I mean, all but one of the eight of us that were on the mountain have shown up here at some point, and Mike did twice.

[That can't be coincidence. He isn't certain the gods do actually have any control over the Door, but he doesn't think it's random chance either.]

Exactly. Some of this may be random, but at least part of it is by design. There is an endgame.

[It frustrates the hell out of Maketh that she can't see what it is yet.]

Something beyond raising the rest of the gods, I mean. They mean to do something once they are united.

I uh... I wonder if it has anything to do with what happened to the people that were here before? That built all this stuff? Or whatever happened that made all the gods but Hope and Fear need to be resurrected to begin with.

[Those are kind of worrying things to be totally in the dark about.]

It likely does. [Maketh rubs her forehead.] I haven't been able to determine much about whoever was here previously, though.

Me either. I asked Hope but he was uh, not super forthcoming. Fear's better about actually like, answering questions, but I um... H-Haven't wanted to talk to him.

[He's, well, scary.]

[Maketh has avoided speaking to the gods as much as she can. It's foolish, a childish sort of fear, but it holds tight nonetheless.]

That's understandable. And there's little to stop them from lying, I'm afraid.

[Chris is mostly terrified because one of the two times he really talked to Fear he ended up negotiating how long everyone would have before Fear would kill them in an event; he's really afraid he'll end up getting into a situation like that again, or worse making Fear angry somehow and something bad happening because of that. He'll just stick to talking to Delight, if possible.]

Yeah. I mean, they seemed to be genuine, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

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