🜲 IC CONTACT 🜲

[craftpunk]

🜲 It's Woden. 🜲

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[reexamined]

What criteria?

[YEAH, HE'S ASKING. Just get it out of the way, Woden.]

No, they aren't. You're going to need more expensive and intricate equipment. Not easily obtained without the right connections.

[Not that he has the right connections right now.]

I'll see who I can find.

[Is this an offer, out of friendship-]

I want to see what else you can do.

[Nah, it's mostly selfish. But Woden can probably respect that.]

[craftpunk]

[ He started ticking his fingers off. ] Tall. Asian. Beautiful. [ Willing to sign on with him and not get paid that much. [

[ There's a pause, then. He's honestly surprised that the robot is willing to help, but... ]

Noted. Any assistance would be appreciated. And then I can show you what I can do. I've always had... unique abilities with crafting.

[reexamined]

Ah.

[If one had said this to him before he did his research on the world, and it's countries, he would assume "asian" was just another descriptor word. But now he knows it means, explicitly, people of a certain race of human. It'd be like if someone explicitly wanted to date humans from Naboo.]

You have a predilection.

[ If only because he doesn't know it's a sexual interest. Because then it'd just be a fetish. ]

Were you always a god?

[craftpunk]

Something like that.

[ Yeah. Date. That's what he does. Date them. ]

And I was... born to be myself. [ Diversion. ] But I didn't know for some time.

[reexamined]

["""""""""""""""""""Date"""""""""""""""""""""" them.]

You discovered your own godhood? That sounds uncommon.

[craftpunk]

Well. It was... revealed to me by someone else.

[reexamined]

This is sounding less like discovering godhood, and being bestowed it, you realize.

[craftpunk]

I know what it sounds like, but it's not.

It's... all about discovery. All Ananke does -- did -- was let us in on the secret.

[reexamined]

I won't say I understand, because I don't. But it sounds interesting regardless. Who's Ananke?

[craftpunk]

She's...the one who found us, and brought us together.

The one who pulled the strings.

[reexamined]

That's an interesting choice of words. Saying someone else pulls the strings would imply a "puppetmaster" aspect. Is this true?

[craftpunk]

Nobody pulled strings like Ananke.

So, in short, yes.

[reexamined]

How powerful does someone have to be to be the one who pulls strings on a god?

[craftpunk]

A god in her own right, obviously.

[reexamined]

One stronger than you.

[craftpunk]

Maybe. But she's dead now. It doesn't matter how powerful she is now.

[reexamined]

Technically, I'm dead. I died before arriving here.

So I wouldn't write her off as no longer a threat. Unless you don't interpret her as a threat.

[craftpunk]

That depends.

Mostly on what she could hold over our heads this time.

[reexamined]

Ah, she was blackmailing you.

Was it because of your predilection?

[You know, that weird racist fetish.]

[craftpunk]

Yes and no. She's the one that awakened us, and she's the one who knows how it will all end. She's been with us before. In the past.

Kind of like a guide, but an asshole one.

[reexamined]

I think if I had a dollar every time you were oddly cryptic, I would be wealthy enough to buy an oil bath.

[craftpunk]

Likely, yes.

But it's not going to change my ability to obscure the truth. I'm not well-liked for a reason.

[reexamined]

Did you think I'd be put off by your opaqueness? I occasionally get the impression you intentionally don't want others to like you, so you say things in a specific way to attempt to push people away.

1/2

[craftpunk]

What?

[ NO????? ]

[craftpunk]

That's ridiculous. Who doesn't want to be liked.

[ I-- IT'S NOT LIKE THAT BAKA

It is absolutely like that. ]