three. video. id: the Outsider. later tonight.

[crypdick]

[ It's traditional, when asking simple, broad questions to the Network to do so in a text post but that's not nearly melodramatic enough for the Outsider.

He's in the desert in the outskirts of Jeopardy, night has fallen and he's looking not at the communicator but up at the stars. There's some faeries nearby he's bribed to leave him alone with pizza, but they make it cold enough you can see his breath glittering on the air. ]

The places you come from are varied, where even the things that you take for granted may be different here, or for other imPorts. Even this reality is changing week to week.

With that in mind, I have a question for you.

[ Now he turns to look at the comm, eyes empty and black. He tilts his head. ]

What do you think makes a god a god?

(( And regular reminder that if you respond with video, you are completely free to include a vision for him to see if you want! ))

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[nightmarist]

Aseity, infinity, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and a whole bunch of other three-point spelling bee words.

I've been called a god, but I think people just say that because of what I do.

[crypdick]

But you don't fufill any of those, do you?

[nightmarist]

Who the fuck knows.

[crypdick]

You would, if you were omniscient.

[nightmarist]

It doesn't work like that.

[crypdick]

Doesn't it?

If it doesn't, you must have some reason for saying so.

[nightmarist]

[ Why must you make him use words to express ideas!!! ]

Okay, let's say, like... The whole universe is written in a book. And you could totally sit there and read the fucking thing if that's what you felt like doing literally forever. But usually you're just flipping to a random page. Or it falls open in front of you and you didn't even mean to read it.

[crypdick]

[ Town's not big enough for two needlessly cryptic godlike goth boys. SOMEONE has to use words.]

Like glimpses of time - what was, what is, what may come to pass? Forever within your grasp, but beholden to it just as it is beholden for you?

[ He's projecting. ]

[nightmarist]

Sure. You could put it like that.

[crypdick]

Does it work here, or has it been hampered as if a blindfold has been put over your eyes?

[nightmarist]

[ When doesn't Ronan feel like there's a blindfold over his eyes? ]

It's different. Not hampered, just... I used to have to stay close to home. Now the only time I get weaker is when I'm off the planet.