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01 Text - Cult Recruitment!

hello residents of hinotori. i am here today to extend a helpful hand to you all. what a dead world you reside in. a miracle you survive for so long. demons prowl and yet humans still manage to survive in the face of adversary. how does such a weak creature gain such strength. they are wild and conflicting in their ways. their emotions are inscrutable. perhaps it is those things that are their strengths. they are like cockroaches. i mean that nicely. the humans of my world lived in a world that was dead. this one still has some life. some. in any case i should get to the point. please excuse my poor literacy. i do not know how to write human very well. i am trying however. the spellchecker function on this is very useful. the point. cries of assistance was given. i enjoy helping humans. i wish to be benevolent to you. however power lies in faith and faith can only give power. my followers are no more so their prayers cannot reach me regardless. therefore i extend a hand. i will be blunt. residents of hinotori join my cult. :) i added an emote of a smile because smiling is said to make people more relaxed when asking them of things. so please. consider my proposal. :) :) :) :)

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but i was told smiles made humans happy. was i misinformed. :(

No, smiles are good! It just takes more than just some smiles to convince people to do something big like that.

[A long pause of thinking!]

i recall someone telling me that bribery of food works in persuasion of humans. what if i said that i will give you food. but that feels like trickery on my part. :( ): this is hard.

Yeah, I kind of agree. Bribery isn't really the best way to get believers.

I guess with stuff like this, you have to convince people it's a good idea. Like, why should people have faith? What do you do?

[is he really having this conversation with a god yep sounds like it]

that makes sense. what i do is encouragement of the human condition. humans have a myriad of traits that make them fascinating to me. perseverance. free will. emotions. dreams. ambitions. i believe and accept all humans. no matter what decisions they have made in life. my cult believed that standing together had a higher survival rate. that so long as our brothers and sisters did not fall, we would not either. we would continue to struggle forth to succeed, be it our dreams or simple survival, and we would be helped by those that struggled with us. am i making sense. i know i am not the best when it comes to explanations.

[Heh. The more he listened, the more he thought this guy kind of sounded like Alcor. Could he get nostalgic over something like that? Regardless, he kind of missed starbro.]

No, that makes sense to me. You're doing good! That's the kind of thing you should tell people if you want them to join you. I think a lot of people would be able to get behind that!

i see. so next time i should explain myself clearer. do you believe in my views then. would you be willing to join me. :)

Uh, well yeah, I think you have a lot of good points. I'm not sure I'd be a very good follower though. I'm not really the "believer" type or anything...

there is no bad follower in this. you just have to be you. and never stop being you. you can strive for whatever dreams you have. believe in anything. or simply drift through life. you will still be a precious follower to me no matter what decisions you make.

I'm kind of working on that last option, really. Though there's no doubt I'm not bad at being me! Being me just isn't the best type of believer after meeting a handful of god figures. Geometric or otherwise.

oh. you meant believer in the divine. that is fine. you do not have to believe me to be a god. not many do anyway. humans are very suspicious beings.

Uh...wait. How are you supposed to get power if people don't believe in you as a god? Aren't you starting a cult? The whole, Clap If You Believe thing?

clap if you believe. i do not understand. i said power lies in faith and faith can only give power. i did not mean myself specifically. when humans have faith they gain power. i have seen many humans endure many hardships because of faith. when they have one sole thing that they believe in. it gives them great power. if you believe in me as divine you will have that power also. if you do not then you will have to have that power from somewhere else.

Oh. That sort of makes sense, I guess.

[Spoilers, he doesn't get it.]

So you want people to convert and believe in you to help THEMSELVES?

yes. i am benevolent. i hate to see humans suffer. unless they brought their own suffering upon them. then it is interesting. they bring about their own misery just as they bring about their own happiness. the choices they make. the consequences. it is enjoying to watch them struggle. to see how they try to escape their unhappiness. but they are weak species. despite being so incredibly strong. i am moved to assist. even if i do not wish to meddle in the actual free will of the human condition. does that make sense.

Yes.

[Spoilers, he still doesn't get it.]

Can you really help people be happier without meddling in the whole human condition thing though?

it is difficult to judge when the time is right admittedly. but i have it as such. those that choose to be within my cult. choose to throw themselves beneath my protection. i will only assist is something outside of their choices moves to harm them. such as. if a demon appeared and attempted to kill them. i will move to assist. demons are not as interesting as humans anyway. so i have no hesitation in obliterating them if needed. although i do dislike killing things. even demons. especially human looking ones. but again i am off topic. so although i cannot directly affect their happiness. i do try to prolong their lifespan to continue pursuing their happiness.

Hey, I'm friends with a few demons! Some of them aren't so bad.

[Well, his, are pretty cool. Don't worry he's mostly joking.]

Still, that's not so bad. What if someone's on the path to self-destruction or something though?

i wont help them. it is their own choices that would bring about their self-destruction. in fact. it would be absolutely fascinating to witness. as much as humans defeating the odds of defeat is fun. so is watching humans dig themselves a bigger and bigger hole for them to tumble into when their choices bring them to failure. free will is a glorious and terrible thing. you are free to do as you wish but you are also free to destroy yourself in the process.

So basically you just want people to do whatever the hell they want?

yes. be it for good or ill.

That sounds kind of dangerous, doesn't it?

but the full potential of humanity can flourish when unrestrained. that is what i want to see.

I guess, but... It seems like a lot of people could get hurt or in trouble that way. Or some people would "flourish" at the cost of others.

[...Aw fuck this was just like the Meritocracy vs. Equality debate all over again.]

yes. i know. is that not beautiful. it would be amazing to watch. humans thrive best when thrown into chaos. they scramble and claw themselves to higher and higher heights. i do not like to see them die. such potential snuffed out. but if they fight and fight til the end of their time. i cannot complain. they would have lived to the very limits of their being.

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