Audience - Euphausia

[holyspirits]

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[trifocal]

I... suppose that I did.

When I made it to the altar, there was something else there... Something that was not my god.

[configurer]

You didn't meet the dragon god. [ hm ] What was it?

[trifocal]

A human.

[configurer]

The--weird, giant monster ones, right?

[trifocal]

[ she nods... ]

This one had six arms and long claws...

[ normal human stuff. ]

It attached itself to our god, much like a parasite. And... dwelling in the altar deep inside our temple, it passively consumed the sacrifices that were offered to it.

[configurer]

That's. Gross.

[ first of all. disgusting. second of all, messed up. but: ]

So did you remove it from your god? Kill that one?

[trifocal]

Yes.

Of course, I did not have the power to do so by myself. I was aided by others, and by a strange guiding force that awakened a new power within me.

In the end, I was able to return the Dragon God Eht to its sacred vessel.

[configurer]

And that meant you didn't need to sacrifice anyone, right?

[ a pause ]

Wait, what guiding force?

[trifocal]

[ a nod. and then a pause. ]

It was very strange... There was a voice that spoke to me inside my head. It was not the Dragon God, but not the human, either.

It told me to choose a path, and... when I did, I was bestowed with a sort of ancient magic. An Archetype. With its power, I could wield magic akin to that which was used by heroes of legends past.

[configurer]

So... someone--something--gave you the power to fix it? Via magic. But it wasn't your god.

[ ... ]

Do you have an idea what it was?

[trifocal]

I don't. Perhaps it was a deity of a different sort?

[configurer]

... That could be it. Someone trying to help you out along the way without being too in your face about it. It sounds like the kind of deity I know.

[trifocal]

What sort of deities do you know of?

[ looking very interested in that. ]

[configurer]

Well, this God, for one. And then I've met another, and I know of one a lot of people would think of as one. The one I've met I didn't get to talk to for a long time. But they gave me a nudge towards a path I might not have taken if they hadn't said anything.

[trifocal]

That does sound similar! What were they like?

[configurer]

I didn't talk to them long. But... big? Ancient? The power they talked about was intense, but the path they pushed me on was one that was... good, I think.

[trifocal]

What path was that?

[configurer]

Well. By the time I talked to them face to face, I'd already gone on it. They'd given me a hint through someone else, first. [ complicated... ]

[trifocal]

A hint...?

[configurer]

More like a time, really. I didn't know what it meant, but it was a start.

[trifocal]

What did you have to do, on this path?

[configurer]

... Find a way to recreate the circumstances where I'd first heard that date on the date itself, to make it simple.

[trifocal]

... Huh?

[configurer]

Sorry, I don't think explaining it more would be clearer. It was just--recreating the day I first heard them on the date they gave me.

[trifocal]

[ ????? ]

And... what did that achieve?