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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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[conniemaheswaran]

((OOC: This takes place after this thread, where Reira lead Connie inside the arcade.))

Connie stares down the robot for a few moments, suddenly overcome with heebie-jeebies now that she was (hopefully) out of immediate danger. But that was the problem, wasn't it? As far as Connie knew, it was just her. There were still others out there in the cold, where they could be picked off by probably very angry villagers considering what Reira told her and who knows what else. So Connie decides to start off directly.

"Hello. It's Elias, right? I'm Connie Maheswaran, Reira took me in here from the beach. Look, this is a big ask, considering that I don't even know you, but... Reira told me that a lot of people were hoping that because the last scheduled arrival didn't come, that there wouldn't be any more people dragged to this place period. And, well, uh, that didn't happen, and apparently there are some pretty not-friendly people out there who are probably very angry about the fact that a bunch of new monsters are showing up right when they thought they were done with them. Us. I don't know if I really qualify at this point." Connie chuckles nervously, running a hand through her hair. She sounded like a huge idiot. "Sorry, I'm rambling.

"Anyways, considering all of that... is it okay if we bring more arrivals in here? I only know a few of them, really, and none of them very well since it was kind of chaos inside the simulation and I didn't get a chance to talk to many people before Reira found me. But--and I know this sounds super sappy and dumb--we're all in this together, right? Everybody got yanked out of their normal lives, away from their friends, their family, everybody they ever knew, everything they ever knew," Connie starts choking up a bit, but forces back tears. She had to sell Elias on this idea before she could let herself break down.

"And I know at least a few are scared to death just like me. And, and all of us, even the people who are acting like this is normal for them and that everything is fine, need a place to calm down, get our heads together, and figure out what to do next. I think, what was it... 'Vandare' isn't really the safest place to be right now, since the non-monster part of the town that Reira told me about might get angry and do something stupid since, again, they probably thought they were rid of any new people coming in for good. So... yeah. That's my piece." Connie realizes her fists are clenched tight, and forces herself to relax them.

[fourthmade]

When Connie finishes speaking, the robot chirps softly, its dull eyes flickering into a bright green. The voice that emerges from it doesn't sound artificial, exactly -- more like a child's voice soaked with static.

hello connie
you're right
my name is elias
it's nice to meet you

The robot chirps again, the sound high and cheerful.

you can talk to me as much as you'd like you know
i never think you're rambling
but
i need to be careful about who i let inside
sometimes
people want to hurt me
sometimes
they'd rather help her

but you wouldn't let someone hurt me
would you?

so yes
you can bring your new friends here
they can be welcome
after all
we're all in this together

[conniemaheswaran]

Connie almost collapses with relief when Elias gives his reply. "Thank you," she replies hoarsely. "Really. Thank you. I don't know much about you other than what Reira told me, but... I'm glad that you're at least trying to make things better. Now, um, I'm... going to go break down in Reira's room because it's been a long few hours." With that, she limps up the stairs, intensely tired.