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Lewd Dungeon, Book 34 Prologue
🕑 Added 2024-03-11 21:10:40 +0000 UTCPrologue – Trade Chat
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OwlEyes
I am happy to say that the restoration of the Parthenon is almost complete. Seeing the temple in that state was heartbreaking.
Hearth Keeper
Well, considering that most of it was still standing, after thousands of years and who knows how many wars? That’s still very impressive.
OwlEyes
True. Especially since we weren’t around to provide protection for the sites.
Peaceful Rest
I am happy for you. At least most people know of you. The tribe that brought me into being has almost been extinguished. Only a few thousand remain.
HammerTime
Who might you be, and who are your people?
Peaceful Rest
I am called Tia, of the Haida people. They live in what is called the Pacific Northwest.
Truth
Ah, yes. This is true in many parts of the world. ‘Progress’ and warfare have reduced many tribes, especially as larger religions throw their weight around. And, for those who would know me, I am Maat, of the Egyptian pantheon.
Coyote
However, it is not all bad. The System has woken us up, yes, but it has also spurred others to seek discovery, especially when they are dissatisfied with the religions that have been causing trouble.
Destroyer
Indeed. And there is nothing saying that we cannot go out and spread belief in us, revitalizing our churches, and allowing us to gain power once more.
Hearth Keeper
Sounds like you have a plan in the works, Shiva.
Destroyer
Well, not my plan, alone. With how populous India is, we’ve found some people who are seeking to go and emigrate to another world, planting the seeds for our worship to grow elsewhere. It was FourHead (Brahma) who came up with the idea.
Trickster
For a god of Creation, he has poor naming sense, it seems.
Destroyer
*laughs* He was still waking up when he was given the prompt, and the System truncated his description of himself into that. Now, he can’t change it. Which is why he doesn’t post much, here.
QueenHera
Hmm. Expanding your worship to the stars, huh? That is something to consider.
OwlEyes
Oh, Hera! How are things going with you and ‘dad’? Has he been behaving himself?
QueenHera
Yes, yes he has. The little romp Venus and I had with Pleasurable Domination in front of him curbed his wild tendencies, at least for a while.
OwlEyes
So, he hasn’t gone and taken the form of a goose again?
ThunderGod
No. I went and opened a profile on one of those dating apps. As long as no one is deceived, and I tell Hera about it, then she’s fine, for the most part.
StormLord
You signed up for a mortal dating service?
ThunderGod
I was warned that mortals are… not as accepting of my old ways of finding a companion.
SaintPete
Meaning that turning into animals and forcing yourself on them is a good way to get Godslayers called on you.
Pleasurable Domination
Oh, there’s a new name. I didn’t think the Abrahamic religions had settled enough for any of them to truly ‘wake up’.
SaintPete
This System lists me as a Divine Messenger. Probably the Catholics’ doing. At any rate, more than a mortal, less than a deity, but enough that I can speak on these forums, it seems.
Hearth Keeper
So, what word is there about the rest of your faith? Those schisms must be troubling.
SaintPete
Well, it is very weird. So far, it looks like the fractures are growing, but somehow that is a good thing?
Pleasurable Domination
Actually, it is. If the God of the Jews can break off from the God of the Bible and the God of Islam, then those three will be able to coalesce, and actually start functioning. From my conversations on the galactic GodNet, I don’t think the schisms between, say, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestants, or the ones between Shia and Sunni followers of Islam, or… well, you get the idea, would be enough to cause further fracturing.
Prophet
That agrees with what SaintPete and I have been seeing.
OwlEyes
Oh, Dom. While you’re here, I’ve been hearing some interesting news from one of my worshippers who visits that dungeon town you’re associated with. What is this about some of your followers from another system coming on pilgrimage?
Coyote
Wait, you have worshippers outside of Earth? How did you manage that, and so soon?
Pleasurable Domination
Well, my connection with the Forbidden Chambers of Exotic Pleasures dungeon has allowed me to spread my influence through the Dungeon version of GodNet, including getting my holy book out in the wider galaxy. That’s part of how ‘Dungeons’ got added to my portfolio, actually.
OwlEyes
Interesting. But what about these pilgrims? What are they up to?
Pleasurable Domination
Well, they’ve been running the dungeon on the second hardest difficulty on offer. That allows them to use guns, and other such things, but also means that the dungeon is also not as restricted as it might be.
StormLord
Trying to kill off your own pilgrims, Dom?
Pleasurable Domination
Oh, no. I’m not pulling any punches, as the Americans would say, but I’m not actively trying to kill them. That happens when people go in on the hardest difficulty, because then they are treated as invaders coming specifically to kill the dungeon, and are treated accordingly. No, I’ve been very good. Haven’t even thrown my dragon at them.
Great Sage
Ooh, Domination, you have a dragon? You have been holding out on me! I must fight it!
Pleasurable Domination
I did not tell you about the dragon because it is not worth your time, or attention. The dragon is barely more than a youngster, not even grown into its full power, and certainly not on a level where it would give you a proper fight. The only challenge you would get from the battle is in trying to stave off boredom, I am afraid.
Great Sage
Oh, fine. I do not wish to have the name of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven be tarnished by saying that I seek out unworthy foes to torment, when they have not given me any offense.
OwlEyes
As it should be. My research on this System tells me that gods who make a habit of picking on the mortals tend to get Godslayers called in after them.
Pleasurable Domination
But to continue answering your question, Owl, the pilgrims just broke through into Tier 3, I believe making them the first mortals not attached to a dungeon to achieve that position on Earth.
Hearth Keeper
Good for them. They were properly respectful to my priestess when they visited her floor, even though she was not of their faith.
Pleasurable Domination
The Tome of Kuronoth reminds the reader that greater pleasures come from honeyed words than barbed tongues, especially when the other party has offered no offence to you or yours.
OwlEyes
And they are continuing in the dungeon?
Pleasurable Domination
Yes. They are intent on being the first to complete the dungeon on that difficulty, including the desert floors which no party has managed to complete yet, even on the easier mode. You’d like them, Owl. They might give Odysseus a run for his money in cleverness.
OwlEyes
Oh, really? I may have to get my worshipper to meet with them, when they emerge from your dungeon, then.
Comments
King Hawke
aren't all Jedi psychics? so a special Psychic Cleric Class. while the Sith would be a Psychic Dark Cleric Class.
Jamie wood
Yeah, Jedi being a subclass of Paladin would work nicely. What about Sith though, would it work as a subclass of Berserker?
Andy Ammeter
I want to see a version of the god net but more of a novel with various Gods from your other novels and future ones interacting in a new series. Like “new gods” but have to learn the system and gather faith. Pantheons are the new thing and let there be holy wars, but started from misconceptions and the mortals being hard headed
