Endgame: Part 2

[letsplayamod]

The week goes on. A small miracle, how quiet it is. With no motives or attacks to speak of, you can breathe a sigh of relief even when a tension gripes the air. So few of you now, what exactly would you do were Typhon to return and decide the game was over? Was Athena always going to be out of reach? And what exactly did she want you to find in the center of this mountain temple, anyway?

Questions abound, and no answers.

...Until this morning. The sky itself is clear with very few clouds, but something still falls into your home. Not "physically," though, it's more of a feeling. The sensation of some great power entering this space. Everyone will notice it, and the way it passes by, sinking beneath the floors - all the way to the bottom level.

And there it ends up, waiting for someone brave enough to investigate.

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cw: suicidal ideation

[taintedfayth]

... as have I. I believed that the only escape from it - from all of it - was death, and so I sought to force my thoughts onto everyone else and grant them a fate they did not seek for themselves.

I do not need to tell you that my beliefs destroyed me as well, and had it not been for someone who strove to claw my mind back from the abyss [a squeeze of Zvei's hand], I would not be standing before you now. I chose to believe in him.

You, too, can choose the same.

cw: suicidal ideation?

[mygoodbye]

A part of me no longer wishes to choose. Years wasted, again.

And you'd still attempt to hold onto hope for me.

[pariunt]

I spent two centuries without hope.

Maybe that's nothing to a god. Maybe you've spent longer. But I know what it's like.

cw: suicidal ideation?

[taintedfayth]

[Seymour just shakes his head.]

In the beginning, I did not wish to choose either. I would have remained locked in my own mind, hiding away from the world to protect myself. But he was... most insistent.

[And he will never, ever forget that, nor will he take it for granted.]

If a single person believes that there is meaning in my existence, how could I have chosen anything else?