Dated to precisely midnight between Groundhog Day Prime and GD2

[where_the_hearth_is]

[Locked separately to Unohana, Loki, Magneto, and Lucifer (SPN). Whatever mechanical signs of urgency best suit your NV - flashing lights, relentless beeping, oozing blood, etc - is set to maximum.]

ARE YOU STILL HERE? ARE YOU OKAY? DO YOU KNOW ME? IS THIS STILL SIREN'S PORT? AM I MALFUNCTIONING?

EVERYTHING IS DISJOINTED, EVERYTHING IS WRONG, THE PLANET ISN'T WHERE IT SHOULD BE AND I THINK I MIGHT HAVE GLITCHED AND I CAN'T TRUST ANY OF MY SENSORS OR DIAGNOSTICS!

ARE YOU STILL THERE ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU THERE ARE YOU

Comments

[where_the_hearth_is]

Do you know anything about the time it supposedly happened before?

[magnetic_magpie]

It was a few thousand years ago. 'God did it' was the official explanation.

[where_the_hearth_is]

That's what Lucifer said too.

[This tone. This tone. It is so dubious, with a side of disgust. It's as though they're telling it that two plus two equals apple turnover, and the turnover was baked by Hitler and is infested with the plague.]

[magnetic_magpie]

He would know. He was around back then.

[Awww House. So cute.]

[where_the_hearth_is]

[Epic humph. It is so disgruntled.]

Next you'll all be saying we have to leave pastries out for the Time Thief.

[All of this is a distant archeological fable to it, on top of being an obvious impossibility. And even if there was a world where some stone-age sky-patriarch had the power to flout the laws of physics, House considers it supremely irresponsible to actually go through with it. >| ]

[magnetic_magpie]

Not yet but you never know what the Core will steal.

[Implying that the Core had stolen God.]

We don't know how everything works - what is magic and superstition in one time is science in another. Germ theory, for instance.

[where_the_hearth_is]

That analogy doesn't work at all. Germs were still germs when people called them demons in ignorance.

[magnetic_magpie]

God is still God, even when we understand the science which makes it work.

Not that you will typically find me defending Him - but. Even before here, before meeting the angels, even if I assumed Thor and Loki - and others from my world - where simply a fluke, I've seen too much to believe there isn't a God, even if I don't believe he cares what happens to us.

[where_the_hearth_is]

'That which makes science work' is not what anyone actually means when they say God, even though they people try to pretty it up for Secularists that way.

And a God who makes science work and then capriciously ignores it in a fit of temper is both unworthy and - in my world - entirely nonexistent. The oddity is not that such creatures might exist in the vast possible configurations of elserealms, but that they should so neatly coincide with stories that were once popular in worlds where they don't.

[Trying for a snit, but sort of derailed into nerdy contemplation by the end.]

[magnetic_magpie]

I'm not arguing about the unworthy part.

And perhaps He existed once in your world. Who knows?

[Or He took off and ran away like He had in Lucifer's.]

[where_the_hearth_is]

Amazon would know.

[Not in any doubt at all.]

It has access to more information about the planet Earth and it's past than any other entity in existence. If there were a God who interfered, he would leave evidence, and however trace it might become before Amazon's emergence, it still would have discovered the patterns. And Amazon would tell the other Rix, and they would use it as propaganda against the Emperor, and then everyone would know.

[magnetic_magpie]

If your universe had a God, then likely His actions well predated recorded history.

Does the mythology exist in your world?

[where_the_hearth_is]

I'm not talking about what humans notice. Humans are notoriously unreliable witnesses. I'm talking about what a Rix would notice, even ages later.

Pre-Imperial myths are generally in mangled where they are not forgotten - the Emperor cannot abide rival gods - but I had a mild interest in folklore, enough to patch together most of the basic stories.

[magnetic_magpie]

I'm not human.

[Very slightly offended.]

And there may not be much to notice.

[where_the_hearth_is]

[As far as the House is considered, anything with a squishy lipid-and-ion-channel-based brain counts as close enough to human for government work, but it doesn't mention it just now.]

You're the one who brought up recorded history - human records, presumably.

Rix don't need much. They process everything, orders of magnitude more than I do. And if the whole point was too show off, according to Lucifer...

[magnetic_magpie]

Humans are frighteningly good at easing their own history. And yes, it was. Showing. But even then, people forget or try to make others forget later.