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[yol8]

[Hey, this guy looks new. Looks like just your average sort of dude, too, except for the laurel tattoos. Oh, and his eyes are kinda bloodshot, like he hasn’t slept in a while. But his smile is gentle and friendly.]

Feeling kinda like Rip Van Winkle right now, so I'm going to just keep working past that. Name's Dionysus, and yeah, that Dionysus of that Pantheon.

[And here, he links like every form of popular social media account- Bwitter, BlueTube, Rumblr, and Instagrahm. And then he also links a few more obscure social media sites. Point is, he’s got it all.]

I’m thinking about keeping my scene a little more underground for a while. Don’t worry though. If you want in, you’ll get in.

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[yol8]

[SIGH.]

No. 'Course not.

[fehus]

-- He swept for 20 years.

1/2

[yol8]

[This face.]

[yol8]

...Still not the worst I've heard.

[fehus]

You really wanna make it a challenge?

[yol8]

I don't know, man. Baphomet had some of the worst.

[fehus]

Another god?

[yol8]

Yeah. He's... a good friend of mine, too.

[...]

[fehus]

-- Sorry if that was nosy. Persephone hasn't really talked much about the other gods. Um, besides Amaterasu.

[yol8]

No, you're fine. Just realized something...

[No one's going to save Baphomet if he's dead. Only Persephone knows, besides him.]

Well, there's twelve of us. Thirteen including Persephone. She hasn't told you a lot? I guess I can't blame her.

[fehus]

She's told me that being part of the Recurrence is mostly a bummer.

[frankly delivered]

But that the adoration and groupies aren't bad.

[yol8]

Yeah, she's not wrong. I don't really do "Pantheon" things. I'd rather be with my fans, giving people a good time.

[fehus]

What are "Pantheon" things?

[yol8]

Living in Woden's "Valhalla," doing meetings, discussing things, whatever. For a group of people that really see to want to be a group, they also start a lot of drama I'd rather stay out of. I only went if something important was happening.

[fehus]

Gods, starting drama? No way.

[wry, dry]

-- I hope there was some good important stuff. Not just shitshows.

[yol8]

I know, completely unheard of.

[You get it, Magnus.]

Not really. By the time I was around, Luci was already dead.

[fehus]

[that's at least not new information, this time; Magnus gives Dio a rather wry look]

Hey, some of my best friends are dead.

[yol8]

Nothing against the dead. Definitely something against the ones making them dead.

[fehus]

Man that's... such a low bar. And somehow so hard for some gods to reach?

[yol8]

Right? It's unbelievable. "Just don't kill people" shouldn't be that hard.

[fehus]

In my pantheon it's like, "hey, why haven't you killed people? lazy meinfertr" so this might be an unfortunate divine cultural thing.

[yol8]

Seriously? I'm kind of mad on your behalf right now.

[fehus]

Um, the Norse have a different way of thinking about death. It's all very rowdy and grim and gritty and un-Mediterranean, mostly. Nobody lounging around in repose eating fruits of any kind. They're big on smoked fish and getting fucked up? Anyway. That's the title of my after-biography. "Smoked Fish and Getting Fucked Up."

[yol8]

Look, I'm also all about getting fucked up and smoked fish, but when I want that, I just go to a fish restaurant with a big booze selection.

[Sorry Magnus, he has No Respect For Tradition, but that's also very Dionysian of him, isn't it?]

[fehus]

[holds his hands up like easy, easy -- and though Dio's busy having no respect, Magnus is starting to smile]

You sound like Persephone. She gets really pissed about this stuff too.

["this stuff" being, like, dead kids and abused demigods, or whatever]

She challenged one of the gods in my pantheon that's like, a huge headache in my afterlife, to a cage match? It was awesome.