[ senri & ray are not okay ]

[usogi]

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[selfimmolates]

[i hate this]

Call it whatever you want. You're still the idiot.

[usogi]

My grades in school are pretty bad.

[please don't admit that so easily]

But I can at least talk to people without getting sparkled all over.

And in the game of information, you can only do so much of it running around by yourself when other people have different specialties. So I don't think that - at least this early in the game - you can do all the legwork yourself and expect it to go great.

It's faster to share, and as you know, I talk a lot. So at the end of the day, why not put together what we both know for more information and you make sure I don't mess anything up by using your brain to make sure we can save the most amount of people?

[he has a deck of cards in his back pocket so he could quite literally show his entire hand for dramatic effect but he refrains]

[selfimmolates]

[the sad thing is that ray would not be in a position to judge for being a dramatic bitch

anyway, he just stares at senri with an air of utter exasperation, before he sighs. again. why is this life.]

... You're really lucky my patron god made talking to people my task.

[but why did it have to be! this loser!]

[usogi]

[nice.

senri seems totally fine with that? he more or less got what he wanted in the end.]

Any idea if there's a reward attached to it?

[selfimmolates]

Yeah, but they didn't specify. Ante gets upped if I fail, though.

[usogi]

Whoa, harsh.

How many people do you have to talk to?

[selfimmolates]

At least two.

[usogi]

Oh, that's not bad.

[back to eating cake!]

Maybe between all three of us we can talk to all the gods.

[selfimmolates]

[ray has not eaten a single bite of cake yet]

It's a little more complicated than that, but—"all three of us"?

[usogi]

You, me, whoever your third person is.

[senri shrugs]

You can be the go-between if you want but there's no point in talking to people in a game like this if you keep it all to yourself.

[selfimmolates]

Thinking of a third person is getting ahead of myself right now. We haven't even discussed anything yet and I'm already exhausted dealing with you.

[usogi]

I'd say just make it Shishimaru but that's not as useful since I've already got a connection to what he knows. Make it another emo. Maybe the ninja emo.

[please stop trying to collect emos]

Anyway, I've talked to two gods so far and know about some others through secondhand. How many did you get through before Disorder decided to make you fabulous?

[selfimmolates]

Do you really trust Sasuke right now?

[he hates that he knows who senri is talking about]

Successfully met with five, excluding Patience. Heard about a few others too, including the ones who didn't like my offerings.

[usogi]

Not really, but that doesn't mean I don't want to know what he knows...

[it's bad when smart people he doesn't like have a chance of learning things!!]

Fine - I'll start. I met with Beauty and Merriment, aside from Passhi. [why don't they have nicknames, senri] Apparently Ambition is super rude, but might be a cute girl.

With that in mind, I think that besides Ruin, she's the one I'm scared of most so far.

[senri is a diva but he doesn't get along with other divas it's fine]

[selfimmolates]

Huh. We actually managed to avoid overlap. Would I be right if I guessed Beauty Salon and Game Room?

[...]

I met with Justice, Cunning, Love, Fortune, and Sincerity. At least two of 'em expressed wariness over Disorder, Ambition, and Ruin, so agreed.

[usogi]

Yep and yep.

The lab's with Justice, Fortune's probably the spooky mystical room... Is Cunning the costume hall? Sincerity the mirrors - and Love is... what...

The Dance Studio?

[which god likes to break it down]

[selfimmolates]

[he can't even be satisfied because those two were the really obvious ones, damn it]

... Before I answer that: Senri, have you met your patron god?

I'll even throw in a gesture of goodwill and confirm right now that one of those five gods is mine.

[usogi]

[fortune scares senri it's cool

though at the question, he sighs]

Mm, I have. One of those two are mine - I tried to reach out to everyone who held their hand out to me to start, but the last one snubbed me. I tried to be nice too...!

[selfimmolates]

Them's the breaks.

[he pauses, seemingly examining senri, before,]

You're right about Fortune and Love. [and justice, obviously.] But Cunning is the armoury and Sincerity's the costume hall.

[usogi]

[what]

Seriously? That doesn't seem very sincere.

[.... wait - ]

Love's really the dance studio too?

Who are we missing then? Indulgence, Disorder, Piety, Ambition, Ruin?

[selfimmolates]

They just really like fashion, from what I can tell. And yup. Love's a music fan, apparently.

[go break it down with them, senri.]

Yeah. Ambition and Indulgence were the other gods who rejected my offering. Ambition told me to "try harder", and I've heard that Indulgence generally won't get offended, but they're pretty picky.

[usogi]

Indulgence snubbed me too - and I brought a suuuper awesome cake! How come, huh?

[spoiler: senri just gave a bunch of gods cakes]

Does Love seem decent at least? They're not my god, so I don't want them to win - but if they've got the most amount of followers, we have to be careful?

[selfimmolates]

[senri...]

Love and Justice have both been pretty clearly anti-murder, if that's what you mean. They're easily the softest of the gods I've met.

Fortune and Sincerity would prefer to avoid bloodshed, but will use it as a last resort. Cunning, as you might expect, would go with whatever's smart.

[usogi]

Yikes...

[he doesn't know how he feels about that!]

... Beauty and Merriment were both nice. Beauty thinks that opting for killing is cowardly, and thinks that the game is best played by trying to pull people to his side.

Merriment's... odd. Really, I don't know if he even wants to win the game - he seems really... patient, actually. Like he wants us to make our own decisions.

Oh and - the god that wins is the head of the pantheon, but also depending on which god wins, even if you're not on their team, you might get a consolation prize just for participating apparently. I think they also get to build the rest of what this world is gonna look like.

[selfimmolates]

Yeah, I talked with a few about what kind of world they want. Pretty interesting stuff.

I was planning on hitting up Piety next week. Merriment's pinged my interest too, if they're as "odd" as you say. What would work as an offering?