Audience - Mizu

[holyspirits]

Comments

[configurer]

I don't even know that they've got enemies. I mean, they're...

[ gestures ]

[purities]

The almighty?

[configurer]

Yeah, that.

[purities]

Hm... But that does not exclude them from having enemies. There is surely someone out there who resents their power.

[configurer]

I guess in theory? Most people aren't aware of their existence, is the thing. That's true of most real gods, from my experience.

[purities]

In your experience. [raises an eyebrow.] You've met more than one god?

[configurer]

Uh? Oh, yeah. [ waves it off like it is normal. to meet gods. ] I know that's not a common thing.

[purities]

No, not common at all. Those who claim to have met the gods in my world are usually full of it.

Was this after your death?

[configurer]

Honestly, that's a more complicated question than you'd think. [ but she says it like it's an inside joke? ] But no. And I did meet some people who considered themselves gods who weren't.

[purities]

Some. But not all of them were men with delusions of divinity?

[configurer]

I think assuming they were all men is a little sexist. [ she shrugs ] Gods and the people who believe themselves to be gods are kind of two very different things.

[purities]

[ROLLS EYE. just a little.]

And women with delusions of divinity, if it makes you happy. [rude?] Clearly. One has power, and the other has merely deluded themselves into thinking they do.

[configurer]

And women who are gods, too.

[ now she is being a little shit. anyway; ]

I think anyone with that kind of power doesn't show themselves so easily.

[purities]

I imagine they have very little reason to. You made it sound as though you've met the real deal before, though. Even before your death.

[configurer]

Yeah. Though... that's a little complicated to explain.

[purities]

Because it's a long story, or because it's hard to put into words?

[configurer]

Because it involves a lot of technology and you barely know what a phone is.

[purities]

[



CLOSES EYE IN YE OLDE.]

Fair enough.

[configurer]

Sorry.

[ sorry.... ]

[purities]

It is what it is. It's hard to believe that all this technology will become so commonplace in the future.

[configurer]

That's the thing with progress. It's not only inevitable, but it makes everything before feel obsolete. Technology is so ubiquitous in the future people don't care as much about the physical world.

[purities]

... Sounds like it's to their detriment. How could you live, if not in the physical world?

[configurer]

Inside the machines. By the time I was fourteen, people had already started to download their brains inside a computer. It's a bit like... moving yourself, your soul, to another realm, I guess.

[ she does not look much older than fourteen ftr ]

[purities]

[hmmmm dislike that]

That seems like a good way to ensure that humans one day go extinct.

[configurer]

... Yes and no? [ hm ] The idea was that in there, humans could live forever. And physically there were limits to who could be brought in. But honestly, I think you're right that it would've lead to the end of humanity as we know it eventually.

But they'd stay alive in computers.