Week Two

[letsplayamod]

Okay, maybe it hasn't been so easy. You've been enjoying a relatively pleasant time here with your fellow gods and Athena, only for a disgruntled Titan to seemingly pull the rug out from under that.

Despite the immediate threat from a hidden foe, you've managed to stave off their first attack. However, even if the grass may seem greener this week, or the sky a bit clearer, Athena can barely hide her troubled feelings. If this experiment is to be a success, what has to happen to make it that way?

You're all alive, though. That's worth celebrating, isn't it?

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[stringup]

That's the point, I think. There's no "better" choice; just one terrible choice and one that gives you relief even though it's also horrible.

[rockymountaindie]

Well why the fuck— [ He grits his teeth and cuts himself off, taking what he intends to be a calming breath. ]

What's it for? Just Death being some petty fucker? You said it's not really an...entity, where you're from.

[stringup]

Like, if you mean "death" as an entity with a will of its own, then no, it isn't an entity. And if it was, I'd know by now. [ She says that with certainty. ] Dying is just the ultimate fate of all things, because there's always an ending. But it's not as if the process particularly cares how or when it happens.

...However, there are a bunch of other beings related to death, and those are the ones with their own agenda.

[rockymountaindie]

[ It's not the same for her. Everyone keeps saying that, that it's not the same for them. He's starting to really believe it.

Everything does end. It has to. But Death isn't a thing calling the shots.

...However- ]

Beings like who?

[stringup]

[ There's this moment where it's obvious Velvet is internally debating if she should answer, before she finally goes, well, if Alex is willing to talk about Death... ]

Deathlords. [ ...Yeah, she figures this edgelord sounding name already says a lot. ] The Neverborn too, I suppose.

[rockymountaindie]

[ He mouths it, Deathlords. His eyes flicker. ]

Fucking charming names, both of them. What the hell do they get out of this? What's the point?

cw: vague suicidal ideation mention

[stringup]

[ Dryly: ] Makes it very clear they're your friends.

For the Deathlords, that depends on who you're talking about. They're all different. Just know they're not the type to think human lives are too high a price to pay for their beliefs or goals.

As for the Neverborn, I think... [ She pauses, because every answer she can think of is rather bleak. ] Either they want everything to suffer, to just cease to be, or both in that order.

[rockymountaindie]

[ His lip curls. A few branches just kind of...slide from his arms. ]

Fuck them. Both of them. That's what you've got instead of Death? They don't sound any better.

[stringup]

I never said they were.

[ ...Maybe she shouldn't have told him any of this. It was always going to be upsetting to anyone who wasn't inured to this brand of supernatural nonsense. ]

But...well, they exist, even if most people don't exactly know about them.

[rockymountaindie]

...Also like Death. [ He breathes out slowly. ] So they're the reason why you've got these...side-effects?

[stringup]

Basically, yes. [ It's a little more nuanced than that, but Velvet isn't sure if there's a way to explain without it being either confusing or damning. ]

[rockymountaindie]

Assholes...

[ For him... It really is that simple. ]

...I'm sorry you're mixed up in somethin' like that because of them.

[stringup]

[ Velvet wants to reiterate that he doesn't need to be sorry to her, she brought it onto herself. Not understanding the consequences of her choice doesn't change that.

...But it feels harsh to do that, so in the end, she decides not to. ]

I'm more sorry for you, since your circumstances seem to have...left their mark on you even more so.

[rockymountaindie]

[ It's a good misdirect, because the attentive, watchful Alex suddenly looks away. ]

...S'not a competition.