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[forceofnature]

[More information? One new arrival, at least, has all the information she needs. The influx of energy from this one is massive, completely unsubtle, almost as if purposefully designed to attract the attention of anyone with any sense whatsoever of the divine. It doesn’t fade away nor does it seem to be easily localized. This surely wasn’t ‘Magatama Energy’…

Whatever ambiguity this might present is cleared up almost immediately. Despite that no one may be in the vicinity, the voice of a young girl sounds clearly throughout the city of Hinoto-Ri to nearly every inhabitant, as intelligibly as if the speaker were standing right next to those she addressed. …Perhaps too intelligibly. The first sound they hear is an vehement, despairing cry.]

NO!

This can’t be…! The forests… The oceans… The deserts and mountains, the tundra and the plains! W-Where are they?! Who did this?! What did you do to them?!

[For a few moments, the speaker seems too overwhelmed with ire to speak.  The sound of her breathing eventually slows...]

Humans. Look at this world. Look at it!

I knew this would happen.  In every world across every dimension, it doesn’t matter! You -- you’re all the same! See for yourself! This is what will happen if you tear through all of nature without respect for anything but your own wealth and gain! Are you happy?! My children… 100 million species. One hundred million. There's almost nothing left...

I am Viridi, Goddess of Nature, ruler of the Earth and all living things! And I will not allow this land to be desecrated any further.

They say there are monsters ravaging what remains. If you stand against them, then... heed the command of a goddess and CRUSH them!

Comments

[forceofnature]

You go ahead and do that.

I'll be watching, so don't back out at the last minute!

[primordial]

I don't know, you don't seem that mysterious to me. Especially after the whole "yelling in people's heads" thing.

[pastalishe]

I am passionate, not melodramatic! [If melodrama were included in the Olympics, Cloche would take the gold every time. And then she would throw it on the ground, because she's an adult.]

That is a detail that I did not include because I cannot. The Sea of Death and the Blastline have existed beyond the history that I have access to. I don't know what kind of disaster caused our world to be this way. What I do know is that no one wants to just leave it be!

[glassworkgenius]

[ He almost asks how, but Taiyou knows better than to question a god! So over the next half-hour he walks into an ice cream parlor. He then orders two cones despite the cashier's confusion about him not asking for a double-scoop instead. Some things are better left unexplained.

There he steps out, own ice cream already being eaten, waiting for something magic to happen--! ... But it could also be an underwhelming mundane surprise like her popping up behind him. Either way it's exciting. ]

[forceofnature]

((Sorry for the wait! I went on mini-hiatus for a bit. Feel free to ignore if you'd rather drop the thread!))

Oh, so now you're growing a spine. I see how it is. I'm not using those dinky little pieces of plastic; you can mute those things.

[forceofnature]

((Sorry for the wait! I went on mini-hiatus for a bit. Feel free to ignore if you'd rather drop the thread!))

Don't even pretend you don't think they were the work of humans. Planets don't create 'seas of death' because they wake up one day and feel contrary. Your world already went past the point of no return; whatever force was responsible for maintaining the life of your planet is dead or halfway there.

Humans are humans. Even if you revive the world, in a thousand years, your descendents will have forgotten your efforts, and the world will be plunged into disaster again.

You're too short-sighted to make it last.

[forceofnature]

((Sorry for the wait! I went on mini-hiatus for a bit. Feel free to ignore if you'd rather drop the thread!))

[What happens is something halfway between. As Taiyou steps out of the parlor and waits, absolutely nothing interesting whatsoever will happen.

If the ice cream doesn't melt as he stands around waiting, he may, however, eventually turn around and notice that the door he just walked out of suddenly seems somewhat... different.

Were ice cream parlor entrances usually overgrown with vines and blossoming flowers?]

[primordial]

((i'll never drop this thread, nope :3))

Oh, no! No, no, no! I'm...I'm just stating what I think, it's not meant as an insult or anything! I'm sorry!

[SO TOTALLY FLUSTERED OVER HERE]

So...it's just more convenient for you, is that it?

[forceofnature]

Why should I use a city-wide communications device when I can already talk to all of you without one? It's pointless.

And the stupid glasses clash with my look.

[primordial]

I-I see...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to question it or anything. I see now.

Your, erm, look? They don't suit you?

[forceofnature]

I bet they'd give me a squint. I haven't existed thousands of years just to get a squint from human technology.

[primordial]

I'm pretty sure glasses don't give people squints, you know. If that was so, everyone with glasses would have squints, and that would be really bad for them...

[pastalishe]

I do not know who or what what is responsible for the Blastline and the Sea of Death. Human, Reyvateil, Teru--I don't care who it was, because pointing the finger doesn't change anything about the state my world is in!

I refuse to give up on this planet. I refuse to give up on the people. If, one thousand years ago, my ancestors had lost faith in the people of today Metafalica itself would never have been achieved! I have faith that, one thousand years from now, Metafalica will be just as beautiful as it is today!

[forceofnature]

Deitic Rule #4921!

'You're gonna have to live forever with your look so don't chance anything that'll mess it up. Just ask Medusa.'

That's definitely in the Book of Divine Prophecy and not at all made up on the spot, if you were wondering.

[forceofnature]

You have to care!

Forgetting the mistakes of the past just means you'll repeat them again! If you don't know how it happened, you need to find out so it never happens again! There's no point restoring the world at all if you poison it all again five hundred years down the line! You've got devotion and melodrama, but you've still got that shortsightedness in heaps!

You can't just stick your fingers in your ears and pretend that everything will be fine if you wish hard enough! That's not how it works! Human pray for the protection of the gods in war without understanding that it's their own stupid pointless arguments that started the war in the first place! They pray for blessings for their dying crops without realizing that they've completely rendered the earth infertile through their own actions!

This is why you're incorrigible! You ignore everything that doesn't agree with your view of the world!

[primordial]

...

[Totally, Viridi. TOTALLY.]

Yeah, but wasn't Medusa cursed because she was too beautiful? If the story is correct...but huh, deitic rules? What, is that like "How to Be a God For Dummies"?

[forceofnature]

What? No, she was cursed for randomly turning humans to stone for fun and games.

[primordial]

But wait, isn't that after she got all the snakes and stuff? In the books they say she and her sisters were just regular nymphs before they got turned into the Gorgons, and that's when she got the power to turn people into stone.

[forceofnature]

Unless the Medusa you're talking about is the Goddess of Darkness and lived in a place called Skyworld, we're thinking of two different people.

Same awful hair, though, no doubt.

[primordial]

Wow, um. I think we are. That sounds like nothing like the ones in the book.

Except for the snake hair, of course. Huh, what a coincidence...to have two such similar beings in two different worlds, I mean.

[forceofnature]

Um. Not really.

I'd explain why, but I'd rather not break your mind right now. We'll leave it for some sort of non-canonical conversation.

The better explanation is that if we take the infinite universe hypothesis to be true, all sorts of worlds should have weird overlaps.

[primordial]

Non-canonical...?

[Luckily Sam is not the type of person to dwell too deeply on such matters, and he just gives a shrug, even though Viridi can't see.]

Well, that would make sense, then. Infinite universes and all...I wonder if there's another me somewhere, if that's the case?

[forceofnature]

Let's hope the others are a little less whine and a little more bite.

[primordial]

H-hey! I don't whine!

[forceofnature]

He says as his pitch reaches frequencies previously unknown to man.