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[fourthmade]

This is a place to send your prayers to the Fourth god. He may not always respond, or he may respond in ways you don’t expect, but he is always listening.

Speak, he hears you.

OOC note:  As of April 2020, threads with the gods will be capped at three NPC replies! Please keep this in mind when writing god prayers to make sure you get everything you need out of the thread.It’s also possible to handwave prayers by titling your comment HANDWAVED PRAYER. Handwaved prayers lack our usual flourish, but you can expect a faster response!

As of February 2024, god prayers will be handwaved only. Please only submit a prayer if you have a question for either god which needs answering in order to progress your character's arc within Ryslig. If this is something you need to tier up within the god boon system, or just to set up a player plot in general, please don't hesitate to submit a prayer about it! You may shorten it down to an OOC summary of what your character is asking. This will allow any of our helper mods to reply much faster, without having to dig into the specifics of either god's personality/writing quirks. Should this limitation be lifted again in the future, this note will be removed.

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[fourthmade]

[Souda's keyboard sparks white and hot where he touched the letters L-O-Y-A. POP! POP! POPPOPPOP! LOYAL spelt out in showers of embers, which, though they'll sting enough on contact to cause a bit of a shock, don't seem to harm the function of the laptop at all.]

what will you do
when loyalty to her
means loyalty to me?

tell makoto to revoke your protections

i might not be as willing
to honor them next time you side with her conduits

[creamsouda]

[Souda watches the screen, watches the flames dance. The shower of embers are hot and bright but in Souda's mind all he can see is PINK, PINK, PINK, pink splattered on the walls, pink splattered on his hands, pink splattered on the laptop.

He moves both hands to type this time, letting them sting, embracing the pain. His strange tongue lolls out of his mouth, his eyes become wild, despite the way he begins to smile at the laptop, like he welcomes Elias's rage. Hunched like a real gargoyle over his keyboard he clatters out another message.]

keep your protection

my only gods are hope and despair

you'll meet despair when she chooses

me

[he slams that enter button with each new word. it's vindictive. it's an attack.]

over

you

[fourthmade]

[A smiley face appears on the screen and melts away into a smear of pixelated blood, coursing down, down, until the blocky sparks and flames lap it up.]

be careful what you promise
i dont want to make a liar
out of you

your protection will stay until makoto gives me the ok

or

the minute you pledge as a fog conduit

choose me and choose hope
choose her and choose d e s p a i r

ill make sure makoto knows what to expect

[The flames disappear. The screen settles to blackness. 60 seconds pass before Elias writes again, plain white text on a black background.]

i know how to treat my friends
do you? do you really?
how many friends of yours were killed because of you?
maybe next time you should stop the crowd
from diving into a stupid plan

guess we will have to see what happens

goodbye souda
i dont forgive you
not that you asked for it

[The power shorts out, and Souda is left in darkness.]

thank you so much that was amazing

[creamsouda]

[If Elias wanted fear, he gets it; Souda backpedals, scooting back some from the computer when that 'blood' appears. He shudders, he clicks, his lungs make that strange defensive drumming— and he even instinctively hisses at the computer right before the lights go out.

But then he's left in the dark, nothing but the sparks from his own nostrils glittering in front of his eyes.

Moments pass, and Souda begins to laugh, and laugh, and laugh until he can't stop laughing and crying all at once, keeling over onto his back with his wings spread on the floor, until he hasn't the breath to laugh or cry anymore.





...It might be a few days before Souda bothers to start repairing the power connection. Wouldn't want any more sudden shocks, after all.]