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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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[peccatore]

[This is a series of messages spoken into the radio Elias gave Marco once - in fact, he's been speaking into that thing relatively frequently over the course of the whole conduit business. Not hoping for a response or anything - it just... made him feel better.

This message, though, pains him to deliver:]

I failed. I-- At every opportunity... I failed. Completely.

I'm sorry.

[Another message follows, not long after the last:] I-I understand. It's the only way. Right? If you let the park go, then she'll... she'll just seize control again. It has to be this way. Until we've defeated her.

Poor nymphs, poor... anybody, everybody who can't survive in the places you've cleansed... It's like she's pried all of their humanity out of their bodies.

[The next message comes after the fog falls and, somehow, monsters have found themselves becoming human again.]

You...

You did it?

[And the last message, once it becomes evident that those monsters are, in fact, changing into new forms... Well, it's not really a message. Not like the last few. It's more like Marco running into the Arcade, rushing into the room holding Elias' real body, and staring at him as he tries to process everything, and by "like that" what I mean is that that's exactly what Marco does.

He will make sense of this. He will, he will, because Elias can do no wrong.]

[fourthmade]

[Elias's body doesn't move. But shortly after Marco enters, one of the screens near him flickers quietly on.]

hello marco
whats wrong? : (
we won

[peccatore]

[The light of the screen catches his eye, and he immediately turns to face it.]

The... T-The changes. The recent ones. Y-You managed to give some people their humanity back. Why are... Why... What's going on? Why are they changing into different monsters now?

[fourthmade]

it was her

[The screen jitters slightly.]

i tried to use the power i put inside you
the power you all kept safe for me
i thought i could get her this time
but she stopped me

i got really far, though!
farther than i ever have before
i think we're winning marco
we just need to keep going

[peccatore]

[Marco takes a deep breath.

Right. It makes sense. What other explanation could there be? And if people are changing into different monsters than they used to be... Well, that doesn't mean it's not her doing it, all the same. Of course not.

There was never another answer.]

T-That's what I thought, too. I tried to tell-- Well, you know that, don't you? I told people we were finally winning. I just... I got a little discouraged, I suppose. S-Sorry.

[He sighs.]

... You've come so far... I only wish people would believe in you.

[And in him. He wishes people wouldn't call him crazy.]

[fourthmade]

don't worry marco!

im sad that some people dont believe : (
but thats okay
because of you and all my friends
i can keep going
and wait until everyone understands

we'll beat her
even if it's hard
i know we will
and then people will listen to you

[The screen's lights dim to a softer colour.]

you're a good friend marco
thank you for helping me

[It flickers and goes out. In the back, Elias's body hangs as still as it always does. But the air in the room is slightly warmer, encouraging, with the buzz of restrained fans underneath.]