Life Hacks/Hallomod(Sammael-Useful-Friendly-Cora)/Ask her about God
"Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" you ask Rose cautiously.
"I guess not," she says slowly, eyeing you with some slight trepidation.
"You don't have to answer if you don't want to . . . but what's the deal with you and God?"
Rose rolls her eyes. "God huh? That's one of my problems right there. What kind of ego do you have to have to forbid your followers from using your name? His avatar's name is Yahweh! The fucking prick made edicts that . . . you know what, this is confusing. I'll start from the beginning.
"Yahweh was part of a polytheistic group of gods in the Middle East a long time ago. Back then he was called El. The pantheon didn't even start out as an Israelite pantheon, it was Canaanite. I came in shortly thereafter. I attained godhood as Baal, the god of storms. I was considered the child of El and Asherah . . . Yeah, God had a wife . . . anyway that's how it was done back then. To attain godhood, some gods had to claim your avatar as their kid. Anyway, at a certain point, I became more popular than El. That made me head of the pantheon.
"Now we were good friends, and I didn't want things to get weird, so I tried to smooth things over. El made like everything was cool between us. He gave me a 'shit happens' kind of response. Anyway, El took the name Yahweh, which was a shortened form of 'El who creates the hosts', then he made a bid and got back the pantheon. After this, he started to systematically undermine the other gods of the pantheon. That's when the whole Thou shalt have no other gods before me. thing with Moses . . . because there were other gods in the fucking pantheon! He set up a law that he would always be the most important god of the pantheon . . . fine, whatever, no big deal right . . .
"Then the fuckers starts manipulating things to strip the other gods of their divinity. He'd make like 'Oh, that's too bad, let me keep you on as an angel.' like he was doing use a favor. Before you know it, we are all angels instead of gods. 'Well fuck', we thought, 'humanity is fickle.' He even tore down Asherah. He made me the first among the angels, because we were good friends at the time, and I took the name Sammael. That should have been good enough for him, right?
"Not a chance! The fucker then starts getting his followers to be intolerant of anyone that doesn't worship him. That's when I confronted him. There was a big war, and I lost. Since then I've been fucking with things pretty hard core.
"And that's the story of God, the prick! The fucker never plays anymore . . . at least I have that victory. Now his avatar is a lifie . . . a protected lifie that happens to be a god, but a lifie none the less."
"Wow," you say, a bit taken aback, "that's a lot of crap to deal with. The guy sounds like he was a prick."
"Yeah, sorry if I got worked up," she says, blushing. "I get kind of angry when I talk about it. It feels good to let it out again."
"So what's the deal with Jesus?"
She laughs, "Oh, that guy? He was a player that made a play for Yahweh's vacant power. He was a hippy type, so he tried the peace and love thing. I let him get the power, then immediately tore him down. I haven't seen him in the game since. It was hilarious!
"You know what? I haven't had this much fun with anyone in a long time. We're really hitting it off . . . and I don't make friends easily . . . and never this quickly. I can help you out if you want . . . Much more than Loki did."
What do you do?
- Accept the power she offers
- Loop Loki in first
- Try to take the relationship to the next level first
- Politely refuse
Infinity Pocket
Loki controls the local area.
