audience: aerith

[mygod]

Comments

[residentflorist]

Perhaps so. [gazing...do you still have your traitor word just out there for god and everyone.] Does that worry you?

[mygod]

[ yes... it is out there on their chest, just chilling. ]

If I'm honest, yes.

[residentflorist]

[gentle gazing...]

What can be done to make sure that doesn't happen? Can something be done when we don't fully understand what happened to Nehan outside of suspicions?

[mygod]

[ reluctantly, they shake their head slowly. ]

I'm afraid even we do not have all the answers, as frustrating as that is to admit aloud to you all.

We are making attempts to adjust as we go along without catching the attention of the larger cult.

[residentflorist]

[she looks at them questioningly for a moment.]

It shouldn't be a surprise to us that you don't know everything. [this isn't even mean? she just means that this is a new situation for all of them.]

...the veil that you guys put up when you come to see us. Is there any way for the cult to trace back to when that goes up? [i.e how close is the cult going to watch now?]

[mygod]

You're correct, but many are frustrated we have nothing substantial to offer sometimes.

[ but everyone is also mad, understandable. ]

Let's hope there isn't.

[residentflorist]

[hum. she assumes that war, perhaps, will just go "it's fine stop asking" but she asks anyway.]

Does it bother you that people are frustrated? [or is it about just not having answers period?]

[mygod]

[ it's fine, stop asking.

it sounds like they start to say something, but then stop to reconsider. maybe they were going to be mean, maybe they weren't. ]

I understand the resentment, but we are doing what we can with what we have.

[residentflorist]

[no, i think they should be mean. and she seems to pick up on the hesitance, watching them for a moment.]

If you're worried about offending me, you shouldn't. [she would prefer if you just said what you wanted to say man.] But I believe that. It's hard to imagine any of you three want to be doing this part any more than we do.

[mygod]

[ quit encouraging the meanness. ]

It's fine. I'm sure the questions and resentment will disappear with time. At least, the ones about loyalty and what's happening.

[residentflorist]

Oh. Did you finally give up thinking people would stop asking questions about you in general? [they are all kind of nosy so that's kind of war's fault. she has actual questions about what's happening but she has to comment on that anyway.]

[mygod]

[

a long suffering sigh. ]

[residentflorist]

[there there.]

Your magic's a little unfamiliar. That shouldn't be a surprise. [that people would ask. bro you are literally out here with a floating, magically vanishing book.]

[mygod]

I think the magic is less why people heckle me than other things.

[ leave their floating book alone... ]

[residentflorist]

Well you do have "inviting bullying" on your poster...[so like that could also be a problem, she supposes.] There's nothing you guys can do to even change your own?

[she continues to veer further and further from what she initially came here to ask, but that's fine.]

[mygod]

Please ignore whatever asinine things are written on those.

[ do they do this to return the favor? maybe not. ]

We cannot change them, no.

[residentflorist]

Well if they can't be changed and we're supposed to ignore them, wouldn't that mean your only option is to tell us what's actually true when asked?

[mygod]

We are not restricted from lying in any way, I'm afraid.

[residentflorist]

Then...this place and everything happening. Does this feel familiar at all? Not the cult part exactly, but the rest. [she has figured war is from some sort of place where magic is a thing, so she's curious if possession and monsters and the like are the norm before she will return to her actual point.]

[mygod]

Yes, in a way. I don't dabble in these sort of occult arts myself. That's a warlock's trade.

But it is familiar to me, yes. As are gods.

[residentflorist]

[the fuck are you then if you're not a warlock.]

But do you dabble in other occult arts then? [it doesn't necessarily have to be evil...] Why did you join this cult?

[mygod]

[ hehe. ]

They are not considered occult arts. I study a particular branch of magic dissociated with necromancy and the like. [ ... ] I wanted to see if it was possible to summon a god and how.

[residentflorist]

[she. very much wants to ask because she's intrigued by this, but one thing at a time...]

So...just to satisfy curiosity? [not judging! just wondering why you had to join a whole cult to do this part.] I guess if you really didn't know what this ritual would do, that makes some sense.

[mygod]

[ will she remember to come back. ]

In a way.

Where I'm from, gods usually do not appear from some sort of... common ritual. So I'm interested.

[residentflorist]

[you are really just making me want to threaten to start a new audience and keep bugging the shit out of you for chitchat.]

I can see why that might be of interest. [...] Have you ever seen the gods of your world then? How do they usually appear?

[and is there any way they can maybe take that principle to apply to the cult and not do a blood ritual?]