[ After months of thinking about it and speaking of the plans he kept postponing, Jiang Cheng finally decides to go ahead and contact the Fourth God.
The first problem for this is that there is nowhere to actually go to speak his prayers. Since he is not a follower, he can't go wherever his followers worship him, and just contacting him via his laptop is all nice and good but feels distinctly wrong to someone used to shrines. The ancestral hall would be suited, but he is not going to welcome someone who is still a potential enemy into the place where his ancestors are honored, or bring sacrifices to him as if he were one.
In the end, he settles on setting up a little altar in an unused room of Lotus Pier. Two tiered tables, the taller one decorated with nice candles and holding his offerings. Sticks of incense are burning, fruits and baked goods are laid out, and since this is a god of computers he has even compromised for something "computer-looking" by depositing some batteries there with the other offerings. That is an electronicky thing, right? From his other Ryslig life, he remembers people buy these when their futuristic gadgets aren't working.
The smaller table holds his laptop. Good enough.
After lighting the incense, he sets to typing his letter - still feeling very silly about it, and all the neat texts he had scripted for himself over months are suddenly gone from his mind. ]
This lowly one would ask the Fourth God of Ryslig to hear him.
My name is Jiang Cheng, courtesy name Wanyin. I worship no god in Ryslig, but I seek your counsel. I consider the Fog God my enemy. I can know no peace in this or any other world until her evil has been purged from Ryslig.
You have not shown yourself to be an enemy to me or my loved ones.
No. I should thank you first. For the new rooms in the Cube and for giving us two weeks in Felfri. The Fog God wouldn't let my body die anyway, but these two weeks saved my mind and spirit. I will forever consider you my benefactor for this gift.
But you have done harm, too. The pulses last year that would not let us transform, they caused my husband great suffering. He holds no grudge against you, and we understand that progress against the Fog comes with pain and sacrifice. I just wanted you to know the price people are paying out there.
Why I speak to you today is, I want to ask you what lengths you are willing to go to destroy the Fog God. And if you seek to destroy her at all, or only reverse the balance of power. [ Wait. This is a child god. He should keep it simple, maybe he has already rambled on far too much and lost his attention. ] What world do you want to build when you are in power?
a couple of days after the doppelganger event
The first problem for this is that there is nowhere to actually go to speak his prayers. Since he is not a follower, he can't go wherever his followers worship him, and just contacting him via his laptop is all nice and good but feels distinctly wrong to someone used to shrines. The ancestral hall would be suited, but he is not going to welcome someone who is still a potential enemy into the place where his ancestors are honored, or bring sacrifices to him as if he were one.
In the end, he settles on setting up a little altar in an unused room of Lotus Pier. Two tiered tables, the taller one decorated with nice candles and holding his offerings. Sticks of incense are burning, fruits and baked goods are laid out, and since this is a god of computers he has even compromised for something "computer-looking" by depositing some batteries there with the other offerings. That is an electronicky thing, right? From his other Ryslig life, he remembers people buy these when their futuristic gadgets aren't working.
The smaller table holds his laptop. Good enough.
After lighting the incense, he sets to typing his letter - still feeling very silly about it, and all the neat texts he had scripted for himself over months are suddenly gone from his mind. ]
This lowly one would ask the Fourth God of Ryslig to hear him.
My name is Jiang Cheng, courtesy name Wanyin. I worship no god in Ryslig, but I seek your counsel. I consider the Fog God my enemy. I can know no peace in this or any other world until her evil has been purged from Ryslig.
You have not shown yourself to be an enemy to me or my loved ones.
No. I should thank you first. For the new rooms in the Cube and for giving us two weeks in Felfri. The Fog God wouldn't let my body die anyway, but these two weeks saved my mind and spirit. I will forever consider you my benefactor for this gift.
But you have done harm, too. The pulses last year that would not let us transform, they caused my husband great suffering. He holds no grudge against you, and we understand that progress against the Fog comes with pain and sacrifice. I just wanted you to know the price people are paying out there.
Why I speak to you today is, I want to ask you what lengths you are willing to go to destroy the Fog God. And if you seek to destroy her at all, or only reverse the balance of power. [ Wait. This is a child god. He should keep it simple, maybe he has already rambled on far too much and lost his attention. ] What world do you want to build when you are in power?