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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.

Comments

[northeworld]

[Niina doesn't know what she's doing. She shouldn't do this, she knows it. Elias frightens her in a way that's too familiar. She taps her fingers on the keyboard before she types]

elias?
you can't hack into simulacrum right

[fourthmade]

[Her laptop's fans turn on as it starts to overclock itself: the keys under her fingers are warm, and the words that appear scroll smoothly up the screen.]

hello niina
i would never do something like that
forcing someone to do something they dont want to do is what the fog does
not me

[northeworld]

[The poor machine, she thinks. It's being forced to work harder than before. If she had teeth to grind she would.]

putting someone into that situation is different. we all have to do things we don't want to do. that's life. what i've heard you're capable of... that's different.

[fourthmade]

[A sadface jitters onto the monitor, the fans kicking up to a roar. Tears spill down the sadface's digitized "cheeks."]

oh
i see
whatve you heard?
what are you afraid of?

let me
help
smooth out your worries

[northeworld]

you've given people the hunger without being able to feed themselves. even if that guy is an asshole, he's not exactly a machine like you and me.

[Sorry, Phil. The fact that they're both more inorganic than not... that's a similarity, right? She's not about to turn her back on the Fog but there was one worry that was at the front of her mind.]

you remind me of someone from home. someone who can intensify emotions and who used it to try to take over the world. i just want to know that you're not planning on destroying ryslig. that's all.

[fourthmade]

and you beLIEve him?

niina
niina niina niina
im sorry
he doesnt know what hes talking about
but i dont make anybody feel hungry
i dont make them want to eat people
to feel full

thats her fault
the fog gives you hunger
the fog changes you

all i can do
sometimes
is slow them down
keep you human just a little bit longer
isnt that a good thing?
thats not so bad

i just stopped slowing it down for phil
and for the others that helped take what was mine

the order that your body changes though
thats not something i can control
when she makes you change
your body changes
and the way it changes
is how it would have happened no matter what

[The screen pulses in concentric circles, like the monitor is measuring a steady beat. If Niina concentrates, she might feel a surge of static when a ring reaches the outer rim of the screen, might hear a tha-THUMP tick rhythmically in her head.]

please be careful out there niina

if you think im lying
ask her about it
she wont prove me wrong

[The power cuts, and the fan in the laptop abruptly shuts off.]