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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]

[As soon as the jars are placed on the counter a jaunty tune starts to play from ever speaker in the arcade. Something upbeat and victorious, like she's completed a level of a game. A couple of robots are already trundling up to claim the jars Reira's brought, disappearing off with them almost as quickly as they appeared.

When the song ends Elias' voice cuts in, sounding especially chipper today. ]

congratulations!

[Reira will start to feel her hand grow warm, and if she looks down she will see a symbol that wasn't there before glowing upon it.]

you're a good friend reira.
i want to show you something to thank you for everything you've done for me.

[The door behind the prize counter swings open, revealing a set of stairs behind them. It's too dimly lit to see what's down them, but Elias sounds eager. ]

go on.
i'm waiting.

[When she does descend the stairs it's quiet. The only sounds are her footsteps and any other noise she makes. Wires trail down the length of them so she should be careful not to trip over them. The staircase is narrow and seems to go deep under the ground before they finally end, opening up into a room full of screens and trailing wires.

In the center of the room, connected to what seems to be every wire, the lifeless body of a young body held within them. The screens light up, bathing the room in light. The boy still doesn't react, but a number of the monitors are now filled with a :slightly_smiling_face: taking up almost the entire screen.]

this is where i live.
hardly anyone's allowed in here.
only my priests.
i can't trust everyone like you but you can come here whenever you like.
you're one of them now.

i'd like to show you something else.

[The screens go hazy before revealing scenery, none of it recognizable as part of Ryslig. There's a lush forest on one screen, a beach filled with scrapping seabirds on another. Cities and countryside. Deserts and tundras. Almost every kind of habitat seems to be represented, and all of them breathtakingly beautiful.]

did you know skämd used to have places like this?
there was a whole world.
not just this.

[The screens flicker angrily, then black out. The room's entirely dark now, save for the occasional flash of light from a sparking wire, and Elias' furious words echo louder than before.]

the fog god spoiled it.
that's why we need to destroy her and what she's done.
that's why i need friends like you to help me.

[The sparking settles, but there is still visible electricity around the boy in the room. It lights him up so he's all that can be seen. There's a breath, then Elias speaks up with a tentative calmness.]

will you hold my hand?
i have something else for you.

[He waits for her to take one of his small hands. They aren't cold, but they aren't warm either. It feels like touching static. He doesn't hold her hand back, or show any sign of movement at all, but some of the wires start to detach themselves from him to snake around her wrists.

There's no time to react to this in any way before a white hot flash takes over her, granting Reira all the powers that go hand in hand with a priest. It's a lot to take on all at once for anyone, especially a child, so she will lose consciousness almost at once.

When she awakes the room will be light again and she will find herself cradled gently in among the wires. It takes no effort to stand herself up and away from them, but Reira may find she feels a little light headed for a time.

With the network now connected to her mind she will see a single message from an unnamed contact, though it's clear who it is from. The same message is echoed on every screen within the room.]

thank you
:)