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[noarchitact]

WHO: You, you, & you.
WHERE: the Pasture!
WHEN: Day 91

[ 🐑 baaa. ]

Comments

[endsjustified]

Such is the role you chose to take on.

[not unsympathetic, but. a little more remote than Cepheus has seen him before, a cool mask of professionalism sliding into place for a moment nigh-involuntarily]

Is two Great Prophecies in less than two decades...normal?

[audacity]

Yeah. That's war.

[ and war has molded the shape of both of their lives, hasn't it

a snort at the question ]

Nah, we're just lucky. The first one took around three-quarters of a century before I fulfilled it. As far as I know, the last one before it was like...a while before it.

[endsjustified]

What denotes a Great Prohecy from, well, a regular one?

[audacity]

There are prophecies for normal quests and all, but Great Prophecies are the highest stakes ones. They're about the biggest bads rising up to tear down Olympus and destroy the world, and what it'll cost to stop them. No one's ever really happy about a Great Prophecy being spoken, and for good reason.

[endsjustified]

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[no he can’t be quiet or polite about this one]

It seems extremely inefficient to do this. Every few decades at the very least, a new outbreak, and someone sent to treat the symptoms instead of the disease at their expense? Your gods are deliberately cultivating a reactionary system instead of solving problems at their root.

[audacity]

[ shrugs ]

Even the gods can't control fate. If they could, I probably wouldn't be around, and a lot of things would be different. Everything cycles — the rise of the Titans, then the rise of the giants. The quests heroes undertake. Monsters get killed and reborn in Tartarus and come back to cause the same trouble. Even mortal souls can be reborn, if they choose to. Immortals and monsters are forever, and that means so are their problems.

[endsjustified]

[shakes his head]

I don’t…believe that. Everything has its root.

[audacity]

I mean...maybe? I've done the best I could with the things in my power to fix. But root problems in the cosmos is kinda above my pay grade.

[endsjustified]

I do not believe you get paid.

[audacity]

Yeah, if only.

[ looks back at the second memory coin in his hand, shrugs, and tosses it in. ]

[endsjustified]

[in the tone of someone who has seen a scene a little like this in his own life before]

A sibling?