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Yeah. You're right. It just feels like it shouldn't all go back to being "normal" the way it has.

And, yeah, once Laura broke me out. Persephone, if you knew her before her last port-in. And then shit got real and I found out I was participating in a cosmic lie and lost my powers, but that's a good thing? Long fucking story. You have more important shit to worry about.

It sounds like a long fucking story. But I've got the time if you want to share. I know a couple things about everything being a lie.

That's a shitty life experience to have to share, you know.

Fine then- what do you even know about my world? Anything about the Pantheon? Godhood? Or jack shit?

Just the basics. Some people get power and fame, and are called Gods for it. But it comes with a two year expiry date.

So the basic summary? That was horseshit. We were only dying because we were told that was how it had to be. If we didn't display our powers the way we did? Performing, attacking shit, all of that? It would never have mattered. We were being tricked so we could be used.

Would have been a great fucking thing to know here.

Wait, hold on. You're saying there was no time limit? Using your powers is what really caused it?

Basically. I don't know if you ever got this detail, but there was this woman, Ananke, who would show up and tell us we had powers. Turns out she would make us think we were gods so we'd use more of our powers quicker, basically. That's what would kill us.

And then she'd use our severed heads to become immortal. As you fucking do.

If I'm understanding this right, then she was basically farming you. Gave you powers, encouraged them to grow, then harvested you for her own purposes.

Is that basically right?

[There are parallels to the horrors of Jacob's own universe.]

Oh, god, don’t make me think of us as fucking farm animals. But yes?

The thing is, she’d be doing this for thousands of years. She didn’t have to make us think we were gods because once she made us ascend, that just seemed like a fucking given. We didn’t question it because it wasn’t even a possibility until Laura realized something we hadn’t. Who fucking knows how many people Ananke killed that could have spread the word. She would have.

Sorry.

[He doesn't say 'it's true though.' Because tact.]

That's horrible. What the hell was her problem? Did she just want to live forever, or was there something else behind it?

I think that was pretty much all of it, yeah. Why not take the opportunity while she had it? Maybe at some point she started justifying her bullshit to herself, saying it was better for society or something, but we'd never had society without it. She was like six thousand plus years old, by the way, that's yet another fucking thing.

I guess she got scared? As if that's a real explanation for all of it.

I can't imagine being as old as civilization. Maybe that's a good thing.

Please tell me you stopped her.

I mean, I’m sure it warped her brain somehow. That’s the only way she would have been able to justify her bullshit.

I think we did. As long as Lucifer isn’t about to fuck us over, because the moment I ported out, Lucifer was pitching a fit over having to give up her powers to end it all. She’s always been the fucking worst, but Christ.

[ Luci was a little bit better, when she was in this world. But she didn’t get that in her own. ]

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