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[secondreturned]

Hey again!!!

Hope just told me that he'll be able to resurrect another god by the end of the month! I guess everyone's been sort of letting you guys pick who we get to bring back, right? That's so great for you guys! I'm glad we're doing it this way, I'd definitely hate to have to be the one to choose between my friends...

Anyway! Your three options this go-round are:

Confusion! Again... poor Confusion. She's pretty cool, actually- I don't know if you guys knew this, but she's the one who made the tunnels all around the city! I think Hope was going to try to get her to make a clinic, but since you guys seem to already have one of those up and running, I think it'd be more helpful to make what you guys have been calling a, um, GPS? She could make it so you guys could find one another, even if you're in the tunnels, and you'd be able to tell when someone is gone from this place. Super cool!

Love would be your next option! Last time Love was up, you guys got the choice of hot springs. I still think that's kind of important? Everybody loves (haha) hot springs! I could see about some nice soaps and things too if you want? Love and I aren't super tight, but there's usually a bit of overlap between love and delight so I'd super appreciate voting that way!

And last and newest is gonna be Sorrow! Sorrow is a good guy, he's the oldest of us and he takes care of us. He's really responsible... so I think he'd definitely like to bring something in that can help you guys out. Maybe a really big garden and orchard, across the river so there's more space. He'd have enough power to make sure it was big enough to feed a lot of people, so Hope wouldn't have to make so much food. Doesn't that sound nice?

Anyway, those are your options! Let me see if I can fiddle with the polling system here, um...

Poll #17502 Third god resurrection

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 58

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Go ahead and pick!

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Confusion
19 (32.8%)

Love
15 (25.9%)

Sorrow
24 (41.4%)

There we go! Okay, go ahead and have at it. I'll close this poll in a week or so, okay?

Oh, also- I hope you guys had some good dreams!!!

Comments

[secondreturned]

Yes, it is.

We... well, I, want you guys to be happy and comfortable. None of us have the power to send you back directly, I don't think.

[glacius]

[The ice alien stares at the first response for a good few minutes, trying to decipher if Delight is simply being blunt or has crossed the line into being remorseless and not having much luck. He's not a huge fan of text conversations, their only merit being that they allow him to be discrete at times.] Happy and comfortable in a glorified prison-cave. Tell me, if you lack the power to send us back, then how by fire did you manage to pull us all here? Interdimensional phenomena don't just happen--there has to have been some sort of tampering.

1/2

[secondreturned]

[She's trying to be nice :( She's still getting the hang of this, and Glacius' exasperation is difficult to interpret over the network.]

We didn't! The Door did. It's an artifact that pulls in all the evil and discord and bad stuff around us. I guess you guys fit the bill.

[secondreturned]

Oh!!! Not that I'm calling you evil! That's just how the Door apparently works.

Sorry...

[glacius]

[Right now, Glacius is directing his anger and exasperation at the gods because he perceives them as both his captors and tormentors--any attempts they might make at making nice simply feel like a slap in the face. Delight's latest bit of information challenges this perception, causing him to pause yet again before he responds; he really doesn't know what to say to what sounds a whole lot like an offhand accusation.]

If you were, it would not be wise. You know nothing of what I have endured; to this day I work to the benefit of those that have wronged me. [And that's all he seems willing to say on the matter. He starts to type out a few more responses--"I never wanted to hurt anyone" or "my hand was forced"--because there's only one act he has committed in his life that he views as a true atrocity, and he's still grappling with it. On the best of days it's something that causes him sorrow; on the worst of days it's enough to get him questioning his nature. Either way, it's something far too personal and something he guards too closely to even drop hints about over the network.]

[secondreturned]

...that's really sad.

I'm sorry.

[glacius]

[It's some time before Glacius responds again, but he can't quite help himself. Despite how uncomfortable he's feeling, he's trying to get a better read on the beings that oversee Hadriel.] You gods are a strange group. I can understand why you try to keep us alive and provide for us, given that we are tools to you. But apologizing, attempting to relate to me? How does that help you? [Is it an act, or is it genuine? He's having a hard time distinguishing, and his previous experience with being detained against his will is not making him hopeful.]

[secondreturned]

We aren't incapable of empathy.

[They just... have to curb it at times. Sorry, Glacius.]

[glacius]

[He honestly isn't sure if that makes it better or worse that they're putting everyone through this.] But you force it down in order to get what you need. So what, then, would you say your driving goal is? Power, or to send us all back to our rightful worlds?

[secondreturned]

We can work toward both goals at the same time. Choosing between them is irrelevant until we can learn more about the Door.

Not here

[dedikated]

[ she's been stalking this post out of curiosity but holding back, and that? Ouch. It's enough to make a girl put her phone down for a bit, because Glacius is definitely in the wrong place if it's all about evil and chaos. ]