Event 1: Gods and Monsters

[letsplayamod]

[Time is a bit difficult to measure in this place. The storms that rage beyond your safe barrier, overtaking the horizon with their shifting lights and shadows, aren't doing it any favors. If you were to ask Athena, she'd say it's been about a week since your arrival. And since then... there's been scant signs of things improving.

Today, you wake up to quiet. No drone of distant winds. Not even birdsong breaches your bedrooms. Like a inhaled breath, the world seems to have paused.

And then, it exhales. The ground under your feet trembles and shakes. Dirt flies. Rocks shower down from the direction of the cliffs.

There, like an open wound stabbed into the earth, was a large crack where there wasn't before, spilling out an oppressive red light. Stranger still, some larger rocks are floating over the opening itself.

...Investigate?]

Comments

[mygoodbye]

[...Athena walks back down to where you are all waiting. Her mood is... solemn.]

If everyone alright?

[markofnobility]

Are YOU alright, Lady Athena? You were quite close to that fissure...

[mygoodbye]

Perhaps a little scratched. But gods are stronger than what these things could do.

You fought well, Ferdinand Von Aegir.

[She thinks so.]

[markofnobility]

[Man just wait till you see what he can do when he actually rolls a successful attack!]

Oh... thank you my Lady!

[tailoredfate]

... You brought us here to help with that, didn't you?

[Straight to the point. But there's... a remarkably less amount of suspicion in her voice than there was when Athena first revealed herself to them.]

[mygoodbye]

No.

I didn't know that was here.

I swear I thought everything here was dead.

[tailoredfate]

Would you swear on your divinity, on your very being, that you didn't know that being was there?

What is it, to escape the eyes of the goddess of wisdom?

[literarybehemoth]

...So, would that be what is responsible for the state of the rest of the world? Or is there something else going on?

[no point in not cutting right to the chase.]

[mygoodbye]

No. This is something very different.

[literarybehemoth]

...I see. Is there any possibility the two are connected?

[cannotunravel]

Does this entity have anything to do with the state of the world?

[It's likely the answer is yes, but better ask and make sure]

[mygoodbye]

I can't say. It's not going to make the world better, that's for sure.

[cannotunravel]

Now that you know it's here, are we expected to keep fighting it and its forces? Be straightforward about that for once.

[Because that's a hugely important thing right now, golly]

moved for organization purposes

[sweetsynergy]

[Yeah Vanity's got questions. Question. Singular.]

[mygoodbye]

[A quiet exhale as Athena pinches the bridge of her nose.]

That... Is something I did not know about. For once, I'm as shocked as you are.

Because that was a Titan.

[necromants]

Care to elaborate on what that means?

[A Titan is a type of monster where he's from, but he's guessing that may not be the case here.]

[sweetsynergy]

A titan being what, besides presumably really big and weak to icebergs.

[murchada]

...Like one of the twelve titans that came before the Olympians?

[pariunt]

A Titan?

[Not sure what that is, but it sounds bad.]

[necromants]

I'm fine, though if anyone requires healing, I can provide it.

[He's also got a question for Athena!]

[taintedfayth]

[He nods in agreement.]

I can offer my assistance on that front as well, though I fear my abilities are less potent here than they would be in Spira.

[latinumsbetter]

[The Ferengi also has some questions]

also moving this for organization sake

[catsgothistongue]

[Bluntly as hell]

[threeapplestall]

[Mutsumi hasn't suffered any wounds, but she's asleep. Poor thing tired herself out. Somehow. Despite not contributing anything to the fight, at first glance.]

[pariunt]

I’m afraid this rather changes things.

I’d like to go back. Becoming a god doesn’t amount to shit if I die in the process.