Honestly, I don't think the person who made it was thinking at all.

[Ambition sounds unimpressed.]

I know who you are. So, what - did you pray to me because you have questions?

It's going to happen.

[It's said very bluntly.]

There's no avoiding it. We can bring everyone back at the end, so I wouldn't really call it killing. It's not like anyone will stay dead.

Exactly. It'll suck, but it's not like your life will be over if it happens.

[i hate this]

Play this right and you won't have to. Someone else can deal with all that dying stuff - as my follower, I decree that you have to stay alive.

[fat lot of good that decree will do when people start killing off seconds though]

The people who do kick the bucket early won't leave right away. We have to keep them around so that anyone who died following the winner can still get rewarded, after all.

This is a first for all of us.

[sorry you guys got dragged in here to make decisions for a bunch of newbie gods.]

[if the gods knew what they were doing, they probably would have been able to decide things on their own and nobody would have been dragged here for murder...]

Do you mean how we picked all of you to come here, or how we decided which of you to get to try and choose us in your dream?

Well... we're gods, after all. Looking into other worlds is easy. We saw interesting people, made a bunch of offers, and you guys are the ones who accepted.

[Consciously or unconsciously, but it happened.]

We all had ideas about who we wanted for our teams right away. We started arguing about that, too, and when more than three of us wanted the same person, we had to draw lots. [It's not possible to see behind the mask, but Ambition is wrinkling their nose.] Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous! ...but nothing's stopping us from trying to recruit the people we wanted before now, though.

Somewhere around then.

[it might go on longer depending on what you all get up to but that's an ooc thing]

[Well. That's certainly a question.]

Why? Are you planning on getting rid of some of the other gods' followers for me?

If any of us lost all our followers, we'd try to get more, of course.

[by like.. bribery]

Right. Losing our followers isn't the end.

[Ambition doesn't sound quite as sure of this as they've sounded about other things, but... they sound sure enough.]

[Ambition gets that too, but after a slight pause...]

I don't expect that to last for very long.

Love is one of those ridiculous goody-two-shoes types.

[Ambition huffs.]

Once people start dying - and they will, because have you seen Ruin? Ugh, completely bloodthirsty - people are going to realize they need to follow a god who will let them do something.

It might. [Ambition shrugs.] The problem with Love is, if they don't want something badly enough to fight for it, why should they be in charge?

People will realize that eventually.

That's because those others are idiots.

[Ambition does not mince words, apparently.]

[Grumbling:]

I hate needing those idiots.

[but, alas, it's true]

I'd much rather just keep people like you around. But we have to win, so... I guess we can play nice with them for a little while. If they help us get what we want, it's worth it.

Right now? No... but keep an eye out for people who we might be able to convince to defect. If you give me a name and they actually do choose me, I'll reward you for it.

Good. See? That's why I wanted you around.

[Ambition makes a motion as if to toss hair over their shoulder, and then realizes a moment later that there's no hair to do that with because it's all under their hood. Ugh.]

We'll both get what we want out of this.

Did you have any other questions for me?

I'll be waiting.

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at least it sounds like ambition believes she will make progress??]