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[fifthreturned]

Wow, time flies, huh? Hope says he's about ready to bring Love back, which is great. I'm looking forward to all of us being together again. Just doesn't feel right without everyone here, you know?

Anyway, you don't really get to pick which of us to bring back this time, but you should get a choice anyway. Makes being here a little less stressful, I hope. So we were talking, and it doesn't seem like any of you were that into the hot springs thing. How about a couple other options?

You could go for the hot springs, that'd be pretty nice. A place to chill out and relax or take your date, yeah? I'm thinking another fun option for dates would be a cafe - you know, like Delight's bar, but with food and less alcohol, more of an intimate atmosphere. Or maybe you guys could use some new housing, if you're starting to feel cramped. I bet Love could make something nice.

Let me know what you're into.

Poll #18058

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50

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Hot springs
26 (52.0%)

Cafe
19 (38.0%)

Housing
5 (10.0%)

Comments

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Laughing so hard he coughs, although of course that doesn't show up in the text. ]

Well! I've only been here since mid-December, but from what I've experienced so far, I have tell you honestly that I think the whole lot of you gods are LUNATICS.

[fifthreturned]

Sounds like you've got some friends who think the same thing.

[so_dark_a_road]

It seems so. Can you blame us?

[fifthreturned]

Not really. I think you guys are pretty wild too.

[so_dark_a_road]

Not surprising, is it? Didn't you pick the wild ones, to bring here?

[fifthreturned]

Nah, we didn't pick you.

[so_dark_a_road]

Then how did we get here? I don't recall choosing to come.

How did you gods get here? Is it the same for you?

[fifthreturned]

The Door brought you here. I don't know much about its criteria for picking people.

That's not how we got here, though.

[so_dark_a_road]

Ah, then it is the Door I must address, if I want answers to my questions!

[ Small laugh, shoulders shaking. He's imagining standing in front of a Cosmic Door that has a rather oaken expression on its face, and challenging it in formal Elvish that sounds a lot like Henry's formal English. You, Sir Door! By what criteria doest thou essay to hijack the good citizens of the multiverse? ]

How did you get here, then? I was wondering, because the gods of my world did not create it. They were themselves created, before the world was, and then they were invited to enter it and become its caretakers until the end. Is it so, with you? Or is yours an entirely different history? If you don't mind my asking?

[fifthreturned]

Kind of hard to answer that, really. Like, I made this city, you know? But it's not like I created everything in the whole world. But yeah, I guess we're probably pretty different from your gods.

[so_dark_a_road]

What's it like being a god? -- the type of god that you are, I mean? Are you content?

[ A bit of a pun, since he's talking to Tranquility. ]

[fifthreturned]

Sure. But I mean, that would be like me asking you what it's like being a... whatever you are. You probably don't think about it most of the time - I'm not much of a navel-gazer myself.

[so_dark_a_road]

I'm an Elf. But I see what you mean. I never thought about being an Elf until I met mortals and spent enough time around them to perceive how radical were the differences.

[ However, he guesses that Tranquility is not going to tell him anything about the godly experience. ]

How long did it take you to build the city? The architecture is really beautiful. Very strange to my eyes, but beautiful.

[fifthreturned]

Huh, hard to say... maybe a couple weeks?

And thanks. I like it a lot myself.