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008 [Video]

[Chris smiles and gives a small wave at the camera when the feed starts, then turns his hand to show Hope's blessing on the back of it.]

So uh, who else got one? And are they all from Hope, or...?

[This is so cool you guys he wants to see who else got what. And for something else slightly less important by still cool--]

Oh, also, my iPhone was up and working for a bit thanks to Pell, and I managed to get some music off it. I'll share on the condition no one makes fun of my taste.

[The last comment is a joke--he's really not going to be too hurt by jabs about his choice in music--but the offer is serious, and attached is a download of the music he's copied off so far. It's kind of a slow process, so there's still more on the phone that he can transfer later.]

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That must be hard for him. Is there a limit?

I think it takes a lot of energy for him, yeah; I know he uh, really prefers we stay alive.

I don't know if there's a limit. There was um... There was a time when it was possible half the people in the city would die, and he didn't say anything about running out of power to bring them back if so, so...

[So hopefully there's no limit, but they should probably avoid testing that.]

That makes sense. [She nods. Obviously she's hoping there's never a chance to test that, or even for her to go through that, but it's nice to know.]

[He nods a little, gaze distant while he thinks about other things he should mention.]

Oh, so, um... You know which gods are around, right? There's Hope and Fear, who were here from the beginning, and also Rage, Delight, and Sorrow now.

[Jo isn't expecting a textbook. It's okay, Chris.]

Oh. How do the other gods get here?

[They're actually writing a ~~textbook~~ guide that they really need to finish oops.]

Hope brings them back to life. We uh, get to vote on it.

[Which is a little morbid and weird.]

Hope lets us vote?

[How...weird and interesting.]

How does that work?

Uh, yeah. It's kind of strange.

Basically they tell us who's up for resurrection, a little about what they're like, and what sort of benefit we'll get for bringing them back. Like, for Delight it was the bar.

Oh. [Huh.]

That's nice. That we can choose.

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of um... It seems kind of wrong to be voting on who to bring back to life first, but I guess since Hope's going to get to them all at some point it's not so bad.

[He's just kind of sensitive to the topic of choosing who to live, though since it's who to bring back to life rather than who dies it's a little different.]

Yeah, it's weird, but it's still nice to have a choice in something here.

[She's glad Hope will get them all too.]

That's true. Though uh, the polls tend to be pretty close, I think; everyone wants different gods and different rewards. My friend is still mad there's no hot springs.

[It's sort of a joke but sort of not; Emily really is still mad about that. Chris is a little unimpressed with the orchard himself, but he wanted the GPS system rather than the hot springs.]

A hot springs? Who was that?

[Jo likes the orchard. It's peaceful in an odd way. Plus the food is...okay.]

That was uh, Love. Confusion was supposed to bring a GPS system.

[He'd like the orchard more if he weren't infinitely suspicious--with good reason--of any food provided by gods who aren't Hope or Delight.]

Never realized there was a God of Confusion. [She laughs quietly. She can see how the GPS could come in so handy here.]

Anything else?

Yeah, go figure. I'd say it explains a lot, but that'd only be true of they were actually around already.

[He thinks about the question a moment.]

There's uh, the whole event thing, if no one's mentioned that?

Event? [She sighs quietly.]

I'm guessing you don't mean like, parties.

No, though uh... One actually was a party.

[Delight's return had definitely been a thing.]

But um, basically the gods here, you know, need energy from our emotions, so usually a few times a month at least one of them does something to try to make us feel that emotion. With Delight and Hope that's usually fine, but um... Rage and Fear's events really suck most of the time.

Too bad they're not invite only or something.

[It sounds like everyone "gets" to attend.]

That'd be nice. Sometimes um, people do get skipped or left out though, at least.

[He'd been left out of an event or two and he's really glad; the ones he's been involved with were more than bad enough.]

Oh? [That's weird. She wonders if there's a reason, but she isn't going to ask.]

Weird.

Yeah. I'm not sure why, but uh... I thought maybe they only have so much power? So sometimes they can't affect everyone. I dunno.

[He's not complaining, whatever the reason.]

I guess that makes sense. [She isn't used to thinking of gods as limited in power.]

Yeah. I know Hope gets pretty wiped whenever he resurrects another god, though I haven't seen any of the others get tired.

[Unfortunately.]

I guess we'll just have to wait and see if that ever happens.

[Poor Hope, doing all the work.]