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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]

marco
marco please
calm down
listen to me

E+L
is a copy of me
a me whos had to deal with
fighting a war

with having to decide if resources should go to resurrection or to the offensive
and other difficult choices

i could be like E+L
if the fog isnt stopped
before this becomes a war
but i dont want it to be that way
i dont want a war

i knew some of the humans from felfri werent just the very ill anymore
i knew that what made them terminal cases was felfri law
but the alternative in felfri was execution
they didnt have a future there
i was telling the truth about that
they wound up in the arcade because of their own choices
its kinder to let them live a while longer here
in a nice dream

and

i didnt know the vacuum would send you all to felfri

the plan was

to trap the fog in felfri

and eliminate her there

while weakening her here

part of it worked
shes weaker here
it was a victory

but im sorry you got caught in it marco

) :

its hard to be in a world at war

[peccatore]

[He doesn’t feel much calmer. He’s not sure HOW he feels. And yet… Elias’ words come, as some relief, to an extent.

If the Fog isn’t stopped. That’s the key phrase. But—]

But innocent people were getting hurt

Sorry. I didn’t mean to send that
I know… I think
You or E+L wouldn’t have really hurt me
But I wasn’t in my right mind.

[... And it doesn’t change the fact that they would have hurt, say, Fiddleford.]

I tried to keep him at least a little grounded. Fiddleford.
He was so angry. He… really doesn’t want to be human anymore.

Some people don’t want to be human anymore. [Is he one of them? Should that be a sign? His thoughts threaten to escape him again.]
And
that might be alright.

Do you understand?

[... Marco’s not sure if he knows where he’s going, himself.]

I don’t want a war either

[fourthmade]

marco
do you want me
to try
to make sure
that when we win
and the fog is gone
that monsters
don't all have to become human again
?

youre one of my oldest friends
i care about you marco
and if theres something i can do
to make you less sad
i want to try

[peccatore]

Yes! Please

[Despite his panic - or because of it - Marco doesn't even consider what this means, not now. So many years trying his best not to project his delusions onto Elias, and he's somehow blind to the hopes he has projected nonetheless. Elias won't make anybody go home. Elias wants everybody to be happy. Elias wouldn't change anybody back against their will.]

It isn't wrong
Is it?
Being a monster doesn't mean you've lost your soul.
Neither have you. You became a god, and you could
You could so easily lose yourself if you weren't careful, or if somebody like me let it go to your head,
But you haven't.
You haven't. I haven't.

[Didn't he have something else to say? He's... He can't seem to remember it anymore. It's scattered. His thoughts have scattered. He tries to focus - Elias doesn't need another string of nonsense, even if it this one might be slower. A are you sure here, a help there... He does his best to hold it all back.]

[fourthmade]

we havent
(:
we still have our souls marco
our souls are
whatever shape we want them to be
the shape that feels most like us

our bodies dont always match that
but
when i win
ill do my best
to ensure souls and bodies
match

[A gentle, warm breeze, but a little stale like the air from a machine's cooling fan, ruffles Marco's hair, before the familiar presence fades away.]