The irony of this is astounding

[all_onis_are_true]

Excuse me... ah, I believe I am using this properly?

My name is Hiroshi Yamane. I thought it prudent to inform the rest of the Travellers that a young man - a Prince, I believe - has been attempting to recruit young men and women to serve as priests and priestesses under the idea that the Goddess Hebe will be able to help resolve this incident. I myself have my doubts, but at the same time I feel that if I allow myself to be recruited, I may be able to better understand what else may be going on beyond what we know of the Titans and the Gods themselves. That said, I admit I am still very new to this, ah, "investigating" process, and if anybody should desire that I look into anything in particular as I work towards this endeavor, I am more than willing to listen to suggestions.

Thank you for your time.

Comments

[not_the_question]

We're dealing with the gods and titans of Ancient Greece, is there anything to suggest it wouldn't be a sacrifice?

[happyhalloween]

It's okay! Hiroshi's in his Jaunt body, so he's not gonna end up in the Floor!

[not_the_question]

So you're saying that just because he'll come back at some point, I should just let someone die?

You don't know who I am, do you?

[happyhalloween]

No, I don't. And you don't understand about this stuff, maybe 'cause you're new. It's like this:

The body Hiroshi is in now isn't him. It's his piece on the Trumps' game board. Arcanas are Trumps. That's what we used to call them.

Anyway. That body isn't Hiroshi. That body is a piece they made for the game board. Hiroshi's mind is in the piece, but his real body is waiting for his mind to come back to it. So Hiroshi can die bunches of times as a piece and still be really alive! Because it's not his real body.

So even if they do kill him on the game board, the real Hiroshi will be okay! So you don't have to worry. And we don't even know if he'll get killed anyway. You just think he will, so you're bullying him because you don't really understand how stuff works.

[cloudpotter]

Someone with too many presumptions and not enough basis.

[Yakumo is getting sick of all this in-fighting, especially in regards to what he sees as a perfectly reasonable progression of a good plan.]

Whatever world your knowledge is based on, this isn't it. Until you have proof that something in this world aligns with yours, forcing the rest of us to assume it will only hold us back.

[all_onis_are_true]

Um. Yes. Thank you, Maria.

[That is a hella cavalier attitude about death.]

[happyhalloween]

Even if he's right about you dying, you're not gonna die for real, just as a piece, so I think you should be able to make that decision yourself! Maybe it'll be worth dying as a piece. And you won't even be out until the end of the game either, so it's a lot better than dying as a piece back home.

[all_onis_are_true]

I suppose. Dying is not particularly pleasant though, I will admit.

[At least from the moments he assumes are memories of him doing so. Yeah, those... those aren't the better memories.]

[happyhalloween]

Nope. It's not much fun at all. Especially when you're being squashed by giant desserts.

[all_onis_are_true]

I... suppose not...?

[ON the one hand, memories of death are something the two have in common apparently. On the other hand, what.]

[happyhalloween]

That only happened the once though.

[all_onis_are_true]

[Thank God. Hiroshi isn't sure he could function in a multiverse where that could possibly happen MORE than once.]

I shall not question this too much and simply take your word for it.

[happyhalloween]

Good. People should do that more!

[all_onis_are_true]

My understanding is that the sacrifice of farm animals was far more common in this era than the sacrifice of humans.

[not_the_question]

And you're willing to be your life on that understanding?

[all_onis_are_true]

I think, perhaps, you might be putting too much weight on my life considering we have never communicated up to this point.

At any rate, I have... a feeling. A feeling that this is where I should be going.

[not_the_question]

Every life is important. I don't need to have met you before to know that much.

Really? A feeling? Because a moment ago you were talking about doubts...

[Gah, humans are confusing.]

[all_onis_are_true]

[He doesn't say anything about that. He's not sure he could really communicate to the Doctor why he feels his life isn't worth much anyway.]

Mostly, they are doubts as to how much one goddess can achieve. But as for my feelings, it is less about the Goddess herself and more about the man recruiting. I... cannot explain it, I am afraid.

[not_the_question]

Fear is good. Fear is rational.

Fear tells us there is danger about even when our eyes tell us there aren't any dangers.

[all_onis_are_true]

...Sir. With all due respect, I do not feel you or anybody else have the right to lecture me about fear.

[There's an angry terseness in his voice. You get the feeling you've touched a nerve.]

[not_the_question]

I wasn't lecturing. I was stating facts. Facts that have been gathered over a thousand years worth of fears.

[Well, Billions, but he won't go into that.]

[all_onis_are_true]

Sir, when you have had your world view violently ripped away from you in the worst way possible, THEN you may talk to me about the importance of fear. In the meantime, I would request that you allow me to continue to make my own choices, mistakes or otherwise.

[not_the_question]

You make it sound like I'm forcefully preventing you from doing anything. All I am doing is providing information so you can make an informed decision.

As to having your world view violently ripped away... it's happened to me twelve times so far. And that's before I mention that my home world was put into suspended animation while it burned for all eternity.

[He might be taking a little bit of creative license with that last description, but it's easier than trying to explain the Time War and Time Locks and other such things.]

[butthemiracleneverhappen]

I shall borrow a friend's idiom to say that I am certain this is the case.

The smell of burning fat and bread is pleasing to the Olympian Dodecatheon. The smell of burning human... pleases only Ares.

And not even the other Gods will indulge Ares on this point.

[all_onis_are_true]

I am glad to see you agree with me on this point. Priests and priestesses are useless if they are too dead to maintain your shrine.