[network] @curiouschloride | Day 360 | Video | There'll be peace when you are done [open]

[motherserpent]

[CW: references to religious violence; disrespectful discussion of both Abrahamic and Nahuatl religions fairly likely in comments.]


[OTA]
[The Tess who appears on the screen is a rather tired-looking Tess.]

I, uh.

[She glances down; clears her throat awkwardly.]

If anyone actually, uh. Actually took the blood sacrifice thing seriously? I need you to just not. Please. Offer's rescinded, no blessings for blood. Even if it worked--and it's not going to work; I was just being--I was being stupid. Even if it worked I don't...I don't want that. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry I said all that stuff. I'm sorry for the things I called everyone.

[Her face contorts in guilt, but she forces it neutral again.]

And...if anyone's seen my snake? I know you don't owe me anything, but if you could let me know if he's okay, I'd just...I'd really appreciate that.



[Private to Flynn]

Flynn, I...I'm really sorry. That wasn't okay; none of that was okay. I shouldn't have put you in that position. I'd get it if you didn't want to talk to me again.

Comments

[advanced]

Whatever you were back there, and I'm not saying that I believe it was a god, you're not that here.

You don't ask for any sacrifices again. Not people, not cattle, not anything else that we might find.

[motherserpent]

Wow. What an insightful and well-informed message full of information that I didn't already know and an order that I'm totally compelled to obey.

[advanced]

Make sure you do.

[He'll ignore that it was sarcasm.]

What kind of a god can get caught like this, anyway?

[motherserpent]

Nothing is all powerful. Anyone who tells you he's omnipotent is full of shit.

[advanced]

A god is supposed to be omnipotent, or else it's not a god.

[motherserpent]

You're Christian, aren't you.

[advanced]

No. I'm not anything.

[Not any more.]

[motherserpent]

So you don't believe in him, but he's still your baseline? Doesn't that seem a little backward to you?

[advanced]

No, not really.

[He's not very theologically minded.]

I don't need a different baseline to know that you're not a God.

[motherserpent]

That's not very scientific of you.

[advanced]

I'm not a scientist.

[motherserpent]

First correct thing you've said, little buddy.

[advanced]

So why should my views on gods be scientific?

[motherserpent]

Because if we don't approach things scientifically we're never going to learn jack shit about how the world works.

[advanced]

Gods aren't scientific, they're religion and supernatural. You're just trying to convince me that you're something that you're not.

[motherserpent]

So if something exists outside your framework it must not be real. The framework never needs to be revisited.

Yeah, definitely not a scientist.

I don't need to convince you of anything because it doesn't really matter what anyone here thinks I am. I'm just bored because I can't fulfill any of my primary functions right now, so don't confuse me arguing with you for me needing you to agree with me.

[advanced]

[He's done with this conversation.

Discussion about gods makes him angry and uncomfortable anyway, bringing out the resentment still buried in there that the god he had believed in hadn't ever lifted a finger to help him.

So he hangs up abruptly without another word.]

[motherserpent]

[RUDE.]