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Rising: A New Age of Gods

Ellona waved a hand dismissively. "I said '1v1 me, turbonerd', so 1v1 me, turbonerd. Let the adorable little death god keep building up her zombie army. Any time spent intervening in other people's arguments is time that could be spent making more zombies, so it's pretty selfish of you to be so presumptuous, no~?"

"Anyway, see you there. And oh, if you don't show up I'll be really displeased, you know~"

With that, the Goddess of Light became a bolt of that very substance, and blinked out of view as quickly as she had come.

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Ellona's expression abruptly changed, a lazy smile replacing the dry stoicism of moments before as she crossed her arms behind her head with a slight laugh.

"So you're pissed off now~? Alright, if you want to fight I'm game, but don't be disappointed by the result, mkay~? How do they say it in those online messageboard things...'1v1 me, turbonerd'? Something like that. Any rate, where do you feel like throwing down? It'd kinda be rude to do it here, seeing as this is lil Death's playground and we might prematurely break some of her pets by accident. Also I feel like the first fight of the new age should occur somewhere more...y'know, imposing."

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"First precept of Magic's 'argument', Being does not determine Ought. False. Ontological basis for adjudicating normative good is the only means."

"Maintaining ontological consistency is necessary to any mode of thought. First, the only way to weigh reasons is to understand the being of the agent making the decision. We must understand the status of beings before we can posit things towards them. And, something has to be such before it can be moral. Second, all normative statuses are relationships where we can exchange reasons with another. One has to "be" such that they can express reasons to others, so one's interactions to others are determined by the ontological status of all involved. Third, Being comes before all other properties because every ethical theory relies upon some conception of Being. Ontology isn't just some overlord of all thought, it is the only way to access thought because different theories of ideology are contingent on different ideas of what it means to be. For instance, utilitarianism says that we are all rational utility maximizers who value pleasure, and then because we are that we ought act in a way to maximize utility. Acting in a way contrary to that Being is thus immoral."

"Fourth, my designation is Goddess of Justice. I alone may define what is 'good' or what ought to be done."

"Fifth, my designation is Goddess of Order. Something is disorderly solely when called such by me. Do not act as if you have a right to define my domains."

"Second precept, listening to a voice is needless. Beginning with observational comedy. You fit the criterion of being a 'strange enigmatic voice telling someone what to do'. Hashtag wrecked."

"Further, if your statement is meant to refer to some voice appearing as a result of my Ascension, you're more hopeless than I expected."

"There is no voice. A voice, a separate partition would only be created if I were afraid or incapable. I am whole. The voice is my voice, and in this mind there is merely one. I will what I will, and nothing more."

"Then a nonsensical appeal to 'we can't kill each other for no reason'. False, there is a reason, it is one of the rules. It is a law of reality, created simultaneously to our existence, as ironclad as the First Edict. To defy this is to defy your own essence, but if that is your aim I'm happy to take your title from you and allow you to return to a human life without harm. Of course, you'd never take that option, would you?"

"It's disgusting. All your power to destroy, and yet you're so fragile. An exquisite glass figurine at the center of a maelstrom."

"Your arguments are useless, your split is weak, your existence is contradictory. Find and verify the condition, or fight to the death. These are the rules."

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At the moment it's an updating system. That'll change in the near future, but for now each god can tell where the other gods are.

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"What part of 'There aren't alliances, there's no symbiosis, and there certainly isn't trash like peacekeeping missions.' did you not get? Honestly, the Magic ones are always the dense ones."

Ellona shook her head with a sigh, turning back around to face the mass of immaterial smoke. "And if you want to 'tag team' me, fine, that's not prohibited by the rules directly so long as there's infighting and then the eventual betrayal, but as I doubt you want the latter to occur I'll have to put a stop to it. If you don't want to make an enemy out of me, check the state of the world to see if the condition for godly alliances is met. If you don't care, then best of luck. I'll erase you with pleasure."

"I do hope that Death isn't enough of either a pacifist or a coward so as to go along with you, but it really doesn't matter to me."

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Well, it's not really schizophrenia per se, considering that the whole god thing is actually "real"~

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Potentially. It'd remove the largest current obstacle to godly cooperation. You're welcome to try~

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She's the god of Order. That's practically code for "no fun allowed".

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Two gods felt in a single location? Really now? That warranted investigation, given that when this happened a few minutes ago it didn't end with one of them dying.

Transmute the body into light, and will movement.

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In the midst of the night that had enveloped the slums of Fairfield, a bolt of light shot through the miasma that blanketed the town, reaching the location of a certain loli and wisp of steam.

"Imagine you're playing a game of chess, say the finals of the World Chess Championship, and then your opponent picks up a golf club, yells 'fore', and uses it to knock your king off the board."

The light melted into itself, reforming into the visage of a young, and apparently displeased, woman.

"That's a violation of the rules, right? That's absolutely not allowed, right? The second you do that, the game stops being 'chess' and becomes something else."

Ellona shook her head in disdain, loosing a slight sigh before continuing.

"Well, you see, here's one rule of being a god in this world: gods fight. There aren't alliances, there's no symbiosis, and there certainly isn't trash like peacekeeping missions. Stop breaking my rules, alright~? If you want Death to stop something or change something, if there's a conflict of interest, don't stand there and make alliance propositions, fight her. Otherwise you're breaking the rules, and I absolutely won't forgive that, you know. Alliances are excusable under one condition, but you haven't met that condition, have you? You have no idea if that condition's been fulfilled, none of us do. You're just running around without a care in the world trying to save your own existence from getting wiped out like the nothingness it is. I'm honestly not sure if it's funny or just sad. Well anyway, if you wanna fight, then send your full existence and not some measly sliver. If you don't, then send your full existence to kill me, because I won't allow that sort of attitude."

As she spoke, the god of Order rounded about to face the god of Death.

"Oh, yeah, you can fight me too if you want, we have to eventually, but like, I'm not making you a priority target unless you're doing alliance shit, so I won't bug you for a while. Cause of that, you can keep making your zombie army thing if you wanna, and we'll duke it out later, sound cool?"

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Mm, Sumika, NaX, you nerds are approved as you probably knew.