justicereigns | New Yurk Stock Exchange [Video Post]

I don't know what to make of this place. It's got moments of dead quiet and then-- [Cut off by a sudden stampede. Bears and bulls go running by and Smoker just dodges out of the way and climbs onto some high rocks and lets the laptop camera take it in. And then there's more of the stampede with men in business suits carrying briefcases and running desperately out of breath chasing the bulls and bears.] This is completely nuts... shit wait for it. [And then they all come running back again in the other direction they originally came from, the businessman running away from the rampaging bulls and bears.]

[Waits for the dust to settle and sighs.] So I guess the bulls are supposed to be on the stock exchange? In exchange for money or bears I don't know. But apparently something happened and it's all gone to hell. And anytime I lasso those men in suits away from their herd they just babble about needing to chase the bears and bulls and "dollar signs." I have no freaking clue what a dollar is supposed to be. Unless they use sand dollars for currency? I guess I could go dig some up to try to bribe one of them for information.

This is ridiculous. If this is supposed to be a punishment Sengoku, you made your goddamn point. Can I have a real assignment? They don't even have a boss to talk to. Tch. Who the hell wears a tux to deal with bulls? Stupid...

[Walks off back to shore and in the background the stampede starts up again.]

Oh Tsuzuki. Happy Birthday. Is the color okay?

[[ooc: reminder to Smoker's crew to check out the MM_SS crew post so you know what islands we're at. And SUPER EXTRA IMPORTANT REMINDER OF THE 7 SINS PLOT!]]

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So they were willing to kill you over a city?

The city represents Western Civilization as we know it. If the city was destroyed it would be the end of life as we know it.

... I see.

Tch. I still don't see what a prophecy has to do with it. They're purposely cryptic so they can cover their ass either way.

The gods don't make the prophecies. The Oracle does, and she's mortal.

Look...this was the prophecy.

A half-blood of the eldest gods,

shall reach sixteen against the odds,

And see the world in endless sleep,

The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap,

A single choice shall end his days,

Olympus to preserve or raze.

....

So you're destined to die when you make the decision or did it predict you coming here?

I wasn't the "hero" in the prophecy. But the choice was mine.

I see.

And that was only one of the prophecies. Every quest has its own prophecy.

Every quest?

Yeah. When you have to go on a quest you go and talk to the Oracle and she gives you a prophecy.

A prophecy related to yourself? Because if they didn't know that prophecy before you went there, then why did they make the pact not to have any more demigod children?

The prophecy I just told you wasn't for a quest. It was the last Great Prophecy. The Oracle gave it something like fifty years before I was born.

I see. So... someone else went on a quest to get it? And then you had to go on a quest to get a new prophecy?

...a prophecy doesn't always involve a quest. But a quest almost always involves a prophecy.

All right, I think I get it.

So you had to go on a quest, right?

I've been on several quests, yeah.

And they all had prophecies involved?

Yeah. And all of them came true.

What were they?

Well. The one I got for my quest when I was twelve went like this:

You shall go west, and face the god who has turned,

You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned,

You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend,

And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.

... All this when you were twelve years old?

Yeah.

New Yurk Stock Exchange [Video Post]

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