[a few days into the jaunt]

[meanballerina]

[Natasha's voice comes across terse, as if she's not used to or comfortable with the network...and trying not to let it show. Anymore than it already does, anyway.]

It's pretty clear that the gods are the problem here. I don't know if any of the bigshots here are going to actually convince people to head up Mt. Olympus -- but I think we should try to beat them up there. To do some recon, if nothing else.

Who's with me?

Comments

[fridgeninja]

If it makes a difference, Travelers come back when we die.

It's still not something I'd recommend, but I've died before, so it isn't just a rumor.

[phobophage]

Oh, that changes matters. Then I'll be going up after all. I simply have to see the gods' home for myself.

[fridgeninja]

It's guaranteed to be interesting, whatever we find.

[phobophage]

Definitely. I'm looking forward to it. We'll just have to avoid being cursed by the gods.

[fridgeninja]

I've done that before, too.

[phobophage]

Been cursed by the gods?

[fridgeninja]

Well, by one of them.

[phobophage]

That sounds like a real pain. Details if you don't mind? I've only been treated as a toy by the creator of my world. The Dream side anyways.

souji is awful at explaining things

[fridgeninja]

Before I became a Traveler, a goddess of death put her husband in my head to help her discover what facet of humankind was strongest.

[phobophage]

[Surprisingly enough, Deimonea considers that explanation acceptable.]

Which facets? Sounds like the kind of crap gods from mythology would get up to. Also sounds kind of like the whole bullshit that goes on now and them with the embodiments of humanity's despair and self-destruction going up against more positive forces. I had to take part the last time. It was a huge pain, but that was that or risk having them incur a massive massacre, or even gain control of nukes and end humanity and the Dream World with it.

[fridgeninja]

Hope, Despair, and Emptiness.

I was "Hope."