Apollo [open]

[truthsandlyres]

Who: Apollo and mysterious guests
What: Exploring the city
Where: The El Train
When: Veerdi (Friday) afternoon
Note: Multiple threads are great!  Apollo can be hitting up multiple locations.


After finding a job, Apollo had decided to celebrate by taking himself out to explore the city.  He hadn't really taken much time to use the strange train that was used to get around the city, choosing instead to explore nearby areas on foot.

Now that he was actually using the train, he was realizing just how small a scope he'd been seeing.

He was sitting on the train, fiddling with the CiD and looking through recent posts to the network, though he would glance up occasionally to glance around at the other passengers.

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[truthsandlyres]

"There's twelve of them, and only one or two sounded like they'd be any fun at all. I didn't memorize most of their names."

It was true, it had been strange that the temple was devoted to all the gods at once. "I'm not entirely sure who the head god is," he mused. "But he's the one that I'd like to blame for bringing us all into this world."

[primogen_vampirate]

"You seek someone to blame?" She rolled her eyes, good-naturedly. "Typical male, I think." Typical Kindred too, for that matter. "Then again, I rather like having someone to blame. It means I have someone to aim at when I get a little hot headed." She patted the bulge in her pocket where her pistol was resting.

She smiled slightly, glancing at him. "You're the first god I've ever met so forgive my questions if they seem sophomoric, but why, precisely, would a god, any god, want us at all? Couldn't he or she just snap his or her fingers and conjure up people, if that was what he or she wanted?"

[truthsandlyres]

"I hate to admit it when I don't have an answer," he began, "But I guess I don't have an answer."

He really did hate that.

"The gods of this world seem to function differently than the gods I'm familiar with. Their jurisdictions, powers, interaction with the world. Even their expectations, judging from that temple." He ran his fingers through his hair. An annoyed expression crossed his features and for a moment, he looked more like a put-out schoolboy than a deity.

"I don't know if they created this world or just took over or what they need us for."

[primogen_vampirate]

"Well," Mina said, putting her free hand on his elbow. "It sounds like we have a mystery on our hands." She gave Apollo a fierce, little smile. "If nothing else, it'll certainly be fun trying to unravel it."

She bumped her hip against his. It wasn't particularly ladylike or authoritative, but it felt appropriate in the moment. "Are you up for the challenge?"

[truthsandlyres]

He wasn't sure what the hip thing had meant, but it was sort of cute. Strange. There wasn't much else about this woman that he'd really describe as cute. Maybe the laugh. Somehow, he didn't think that she'd appreciate hearing those thoughts.

"I've never backed down from a challenge," he replied.