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[timeshares]

[So shortly after the events of two idiots breaking into a military base. One of two said idiots finally gets enough mental dead ends on the questions that very expensive failure left them.

The kid looks quite a bit more peevish than the last time he took to a video addressing the network as a whole. And now seems to be taking to long sleeve shirts.]

So, quick riddle.

For those of you are familiar with the stories of Lachesis in this world, if she's not in the Porter, got any guesses as to who is?





((OOC: Both Nico and Luke will be answering this one!))

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[boobwindow]

Walking up to her at first. Couldn't get close to her even with superspeed. She kept teleporting me halfway around the world.

[ It was a fruitless endeavor in the end. ]

She hasn't spoken to any of us since before we ended up here.

[timeshares]

...

Were you there when the last world ended?

[boobwindow]

[ A measured pause. ]

I was, yes. You must have heard it was Atropos's doing.

[timeshares]

Yeah.

[He hesitates. He's had guesses, but up to this point, that's all they've been. Guesses.]

Do you know why she cut that world?

[boobwindow]

Not a clue. She talked about a "rebirth", but none of it made any sense to me.

She also talked in haiku and poetry's not my forte.

[timeshares]

Ugh... [The sound is genuine by the long-suffering look the kid gives the camera.] I thought that was limited to Apollo.

[boobwindow]

Just as enigmatic as her sister.

I don't know what became of Atropos after we left that world.

[timeshares]

Nor Clotho by what I've heard. But what you're saying doesn't sound like retaliation or revenge...

[He glances aside to something off screen, then back.]

... I'm sorry. It must have been hard to lose that world.

[boobwindow]

I'm not sure what instigated it. We never heard of Atropos after that and I'm assuming she was reborn somewhere, somehow if that's what she meant by her "rebirth".

[ She's a little surprised to hear that at first and is quick to shake her head. ]

It's... okay. [ Well, not entirely, but what's done is done. It isn't the first time she's lost a world. ] I wish we could have done something, but if there is anything I've learned about gods it's that fighting them is not easy.

[timeshares]

Her rebirth, not the world?

And yeah... almost impossible.

[boobwindow]

I haven't forgotten what she said back then.

[ A pause before she recites Atropos's words: ]

"Welcome to rebirth.
Embrace my cataclysm!
Your death yields stark dawns."

[timeshares]

[He frowns, silent a few moments.]

And then Lachesis saved you.

[boobwindow]

Guess she needed her heroes still.

[timeshares]

[The laugh is dry and a little bitter.]

Well. What's a god without their tools?

[boobwindow]

An all-powerful being? Why do they need tools?

[timeshares]

Because there's more than one all-powerful being. If they started fighting directly, or plotting against each other, or do their usual drama the world would be in a constant state of war.

So they get "heroes."

[boobwindow]

And these heroes aren't always aware who's pulling their strings, huh?

[timeshares]

Most of the time, it's through the dictates of the Fates.

So, nope. [And why he just did something THAT stupid.]

Though sometimes you can guess. They're not all that creative.

[boobwindow]

... probably best not to anger them too much, then. Fought a god once before and wasn't all that fun.

[timeshares]

[Contrary to offense, incredulity or reasonable wariness, his expression settles into a sharp curiosity.]

Oh? Which one?

[boobwindow]

He was called Gog. He existed in other universes from what I know.

[timeshares]

... Yeah. Not one I know at ALL.

[boobwindow]

Might be for the best.

[timeshares]

No arguments. The less gods around the better.

[boobwindow]

Definitely.

But I hope that means you're not going to keep prodding the Porter... whatever's in there.