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✘ yi pian dan xin: su you

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[Su You has his hair in a low pony tail, still dressed in the white robes he arrived in. Modern clothing is...odd.

He has some clementines in front of him, one of which he's peeling.]

Does anyone know a way to summon a god? Preferably one that is beginner friendly. [He pauses, then adds.] I suppose a method for summoning spirits may be suitable as well.

[Is he going to give context? No. At least he didn't ask about summoning demons...?

He takes a piece of clementine and puts it into his mouth...then makes a face when he chews it. He looks down at the fruit as if he had been betrayed by it.]

...this is supposed to be this world's sweetest orange? Why is it so sour...?

[Did someone believe the advertisement? Maybe.]

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Gods are not the sort of thing you'd want to rely on for protect--wait. Call on you? Why would you want a god to set something up so your friend can contact you? They gave us these communication devices when we arrived.

[He taps his earpiece.]

There's also spells that can send a message without trying to have some bloodthirsty god that doesn't care about the affairs of mortals deliver it for you.

[He has not yet worked out that this guy was the god in question, and why should he? Gods don't talk to people in his own world, though he's heard of gods showing up and killing elves that grew too powerful. Of course, that was actually a dragon attack, but Dwayne and the other Seekers aren't aware of that.]

[He is growing increasingly confused and it's very obvious from his expression.

Gods were sworn to protect humans...? Though the term for demons where he's from had the word god in their titles they were not...gods?]

I know he can send me messages. [Well, he does now, anyway!

...then suddenly it clicks. Ah Maybe gods are different where this person is from? White hair may not even be a sign that someone is a god in other worlds!]

I'm the god he would be summoning. [Pause] Where I come from, the Ling Xiao Celestial Tribe are sworn to protect humans.

You're a god?

[He stares, a mix of wariness and confusion. Actually talking to a god wasn't something he expected to ever happen, and he doesn't trust any part of this.]

And have any of you ever actually protected humans? Where I'm from, gods usually don't show up, and when they do, people don't survive them showing up.

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[Su You has never claimed to have the most patience or the best temper...actually, the handful of people who did know him would say that his temper is actually quite bad. So as he listened his expression became icy.

He took a deep breath...then exhaled it in the audible, 'haaa' of someone who, if this conversation was happening in person would be trying to not grab someone by the front of their shirt.]

Since you are asking, my mother died fighting the demons that regularly slaughtered entire human cities for amusement. One of my tribesman had been enslaved by a mortal and still chose to take on the misfortune of those he had been forced to lie to, knowing it would condemn him to a fate worse than death. My entire people are gone because we chose to seal a terrible evil in our realm so it would not terrorize the mortal one.

I can sympathize with how you feel. I can understand that you are not trying to be rude but are responding to the real crimes of these gods from your world. But it does not give you the right to speak of my people in this way, when you know nothing about the sacrifices we've made--that many of us had made willingly.

[He listens to this guy's backstory and is...confused. His head tilts, and he just stares.]

I'm sorry...your people? Gods have people? That can be wiped out? Are you sure you're a god? Maybe it's some kind of translation error, because last I checked, gods were unknowable entities of pure power that created the rules for what it means to live and die. Which one of you, while crafting the fabric of the universe, decided to make demons powerful enough to not only hold their own in a fight against the gods, but actually be able to wipe out entire tribes of gods?

[Having gotten his angry arguments out, Su You feels a lot better already. He is short tempered but also doesn't hold grudges. Was he going to be really friendly? No, but he's at least neutral.]

I do not know what it is like where you're from. Gods do not have that sort of power where I am from. No one has or, as far as I know of, ever had. We are immortal and far more powerful than mortals. As for demons...we do not know where they came from or why they are powerful only that they are dangerous and since we receive the prayers of humans we have an obligation to destroy that which endangers them.

[It's not complicated! (Except it is a little bit because demons are actually related to gods but shhhh. No one knows that at this point in the story.)]

So gods where you're from are just a race of people that are extremely powerful and won't die of natural causes?

[This sounds more like the elves in Aliarra's world than anything.]

We can't die except when killed by a stronger god or a demon.

[...should he really be telling someone he's just met about this? Probably not. But he does it anyway.]

Oh. I guess that part does sound godly.

[So not just an elf, then.]

Wouldn't you be able to just grant whoever you wanted to summon you the ability to do so, though?

I already taught him the way I know, but at the moment it requires me to lend him some of my spirit energy. I thought if there wasn't an easier way for him to summon me until he is able to do it on his own power.

The gods in your world are fine with humans getting enough power to summon them without having that power granted by a god?

[It was definitely power that could be achieved by ordinary people in Dwayne's own world, but gods didn't like when they did it on their own.]

Is there any reason you don't want to grant him some of your spirit energy?

It's a little annoying but if they're desperate it can't be helped.

[He doesn't shrug but the feeling is there in the way he says it.]

I don't mind. I gave him some already and I have a way to give him some he can use when needed but...if there is a way he can summon me without all that then it's safer, right? There would be less chance that he'd be in danger and I can't go to protect him. I thought with so many people from so many different worlds here that someone might know some other way.

Yours is the first I've heard of that summoning a god is something anyone would casually do.

It's not that casual, is it? It's quite a lot of energy. It's supposed to be for emergencies. Or when it's necessary. Only an idiot would use it casually.

[He is, in fact, dating such an idiot...though he hasn't found that out yet.]

The way you described it, it as definitely a lot more casual than what I'm used to. Sure, it might take a lot of power, but the way you talked about it, it didn't seem dangerous.

...that makes sense. Cultivation in general isn't dangerous. At least, not usually to the user in normal circumstances.

Cultivation? What does that have to do with summoning gods?

Cultivation is when you circulate the natural energies in your body to cast spells or create arrays. This includes the spell for summoning gods.

Oh, that part isn't what's dangerous. Our magic users cast spells the same way, and I've never seen any sign that it was dangerous for them. It's just that while I've heard some people claim that some gods in their world might even help humans from time to time, your world is not only the first world I've heard of where they're obligated to protect humans, your world is also the first one I've heard of where they have any obligation to not kill any human on sight who displeases them.

So not a lot of worlds other than yours really work out the best way to summon a god, because generally most people don't want to summon a god unless they're reasonably certain they'll be happy about being summoned.

Just like there's not a lot of worlds with 'summon a swarm of angry bees directly on my own face' spells, either.

...it still confuses me why gods would do that. Even if they are so powerful...especially because of that, why would they need to do that? Can't they just ignore what displeases them?

They could, if they wanted to. Or they could wipe it out. I guess they just choose the latter.

That sounds like the behaviour of immature children.

Sure, but they're gods, so who's going to tell them they can't act like that?

...that's annoying.

[He's never even met any of these gods and he already wants to punch them in the face at least once.]

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This first meeting is going so well. XD;;

So very well! The challenges of different universes with very different concepts of gods

There's also the whole east vs west concept of godhood...so many layers of culture shock!

Definitely

It does make for the best crosscanon interactions!

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