Annie shakes her head.
"Nothing we didn't already surmise. Anima was surprised by a manticore, Sobek appeared to save her, then Ra incapacitated Sobek and sent him away, presumably somewhere he couldn't bother him. There, the recording gets fuzzy, but I'd say that Ra threatens Anima into taking her bracelet off, knocks her out and kidnaps her."
"Not much more than an unsubstantiated guess, but I'm leaning more towards trickery on Ra's end than threats. She removed her bracelet willingly, I didn't see any evidence of coercion...possible, but I'm leaning away from it."
"It seems to me that Ra was paranoid, attempted to take out all threats to the pantheon within it. Including Isis."
"Brilliant deduction!"
Well, a huge load of magical energy, and a clear magical battle happened here.
What's curious is that a Norse rune is dug into the ground.
"Well this is disappointingly clear."
>Ciro. That's it. The rest of us are about as useful as piss.
We're going to have to talk 'im down.<
<Which reminds me.>
"Hey, gods, could you give me a general overview of Ra's headspace?"
Well...it seems to be a rune used for a powerful illusion of some sort. Definitely Loki.
"Supporting the obvious conclusion. Dammit, I should have brought a book."
<Guys I found Loki!> Sen is distressed and trying to heal Loki.
"<Found Loki? Remarkably boring twist.>"
<What about this place...thing..Tartaros? I heared legends that Chronos, who ws supposedly head and shoulders above mots gods was imprisoned there. I say we grab Ra and give Chronos a room-mate. Don't ask me how, it just seems like an idea. Maybe we should contact Zeus about it?>
<Yes, because cracking open an ancient prison containing a more ancient and horribly powerful monster to stick another powerful being in with him is bound to not fail or backfire. I'd say making a new prison would be better, maybe on the Moon. Or, perhaps, seal Ra like Shys'm Caes was sealed. By the way, where's Yuri?>
Loki blinks, coughing.
"Before you ask, I have no idea where Anima went, and I had NO idea she was Isis."
"..."
"We have to do this before my father looks for me. I don't think I want to fight Ra, not particularly."
"I'd be more worried about Odin."(In the original myths, Loki was Odin's blood-brother (ie, they shared blood), not adoptive son.)
>Also, we need to not drag in every pantheon in the world, Hain.<
<Yeah...that could also be a bad thing.>
<Nothing wrong in seeking help when a task is beyond you. Whatever is Ra's reasoning, what makes you think his reasoning is so faulty and his conviction in it so shaky that you can just "talk him out of it"? I am sure he considered this long and hard before taking action, and likely has at least one more backup plan, if not more. Talk him out of it? He's already passed that point.>
<You're not the past the point of being talked out of doing something until it's been done.>
Selina turns into Ghost in her sleep, who promptly gets up.
<Am I needed at all?>
<If you're not doing anything else, could you pull out the server pieces? I can tell you where the blueprints are.>
<Getting gods equal or more powerful than Ra involved creates *pressure*, which is what you need when you want a diplomatic solution. As I said, Ra will have backup plans, and as long as he thinks he can win, he has no reason not so simply blast us to kingdoms come, rather than listen to us. And we need him to listen, before we can even attempt to break his conviction.>
<Two things. One: Getting the other gods involved won't cause so much pressure as chaos. This world's first World War is an excellent analogy, although given the power of the gods it would be more like if they all already had nuclear ICBMs. Two: I can get darn near anyone to agree with me, if I understand him or her well enough, if I have enough time, and if I don't get killed or otherwise interrupted halfway through.>
<If Anima knew Ras true name, that would explain why he wanted her gone. In that case, I doubt we will recover her alife.>
<If she knew his true name, how would he kill her?>
<Have you thought of just putting him in hand cuffs that have a rubiks cube to open them? Then it'll be to hard for him to get out and we can get him to stop being a massive cock.>
<Anyone can solve a Rubik's cube with enough time.>
<I can't imagine that he would start putting things into motions like this and then suddenly sit around not knowing what to do. He had enough time to plan beforehand, and is likely not sitting around idly waiting for us to take initiative.>
<He's been repeatedly described as having gone insane, and you expect his actions to make sense to a sane guy?>
>He could be trying to figure out how to...get Anima's true name. If he hated her as Isis so much....he could easily want her to die by irony.<
<What, exactly, do true names let you do? And what do they relate to?>((And once someone explains true names to Will, how hard would it be for him to determine the true name of someone? Say...himself, Kyle, Luna, Jac...))
<Hey Conny, could you come step on the circle in Yuri's room for me?>
<No offense, Kyle, but that sounds awfully suspicious.>
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