-Overflow- for 24 - Autumn Reception

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Autumn Reception
When: September 30, 6 PM
Where: The Gods' Meeting Hall
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a formal party! Old and new gods alike are invited, so put on your nicest outfits and some good dancing shoes, and come see what this shindig is all about.

Continuing from HERE!

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Lenneth

[futhark]

(( continued from here ))

So does it means, you've been to Valhalla of this world?

[ Ever since he learned it's possible to drop at just any side of the world, and that perhaps no permission is needed for this- at least according to Yoon - he's been considering it. But he'd rather know what might be waiting out there.

Who is better to ask than someone clearly belonging to one of those pantheons on the other side of the world, not by representation but actual origin? ]

[nibelungvalesti]

The Far Shore is meant to be the heavens, as I understand it. [Which may explain why so much of this world is a disaster. It is a poor heaven at best, jumbled up and confused, without any proper sense of afterlife for mortal souls...] Regrettably, I cannot properly complete my duties by sending my Einherjar to Valhalla, but I shall train them and await the moment I can.

[futhark]

[ Caster prefers the word "Otherworld" for their afterlife worlds, really, but it's not the one used here, so he'll adapt accordingly... ]

Yeah, but there are other "Heavens". [ He never left this, but he heard others mentioning it ] Have you ever trying paying visit one in the Scandinavia?

[ On the other hand, if she's representing Egyptian god, would the paperwork allow her only visit in Egypt? Damn you, bureaucracy!! He shrugs and adds just to be sure ]

You might get a better info on that from Nekhbet, he's the one who told me about this.

[nibelungvalesti]

None of those are my Asgard.

[Which seems enough of an answer. There is no benefit to going other places, hunting other information, when all of them are simply flawed reflections of where she properly belongs.]

[futhark]

Fair enough. That's the most likely [ To that statement he can relate. Albeit her reaching this conclusion comes from a place of duty. His is mostly from apathy - when he visited the Otherworld of his land it ended with lot of trouble... To try it again, sounds like too much hassle. ]

But the conversation turned pretty grim, at least for a pleasant party like this one.

[nibelungvalesti]

The conversation is what it is. I have no illusions about this party being enjoyable or entertainment. It is one more thing to be endured.

[The Valkyrie is not much on socializing.]

[futhark]

[ Oooh, a wet blanket or wallflower or both at once. Picked out of its natural habitat and thrown into the social fray. ]

Lack of expectations can be a good thing too. I do hope you will be positively surprised.

[nibelungvalesti]

[More of the former than the latter, as befits a goddess bound only to duty.]

I would wonder if such a thing could happen, but if it did... it would indeed be a surprise, and thus unforeseeable.

[futhark]

I'll raise a toast for the unknown and for surprises in your name.

[ Unless you drink too, but if she's treating it like a professional responsibility - and one that is not to be enjoyed - she probably does not. At least so Caster assumes. ]

[nibelungvalesti]

[The Valkyrie lets out a little breath, almost close to sounding like an ordinary normal person.] I suspect this gathering will be short on mead as well, so I can only worry about what you will toast with.

[futhark]

[ And to that his expression drops ]

No mead? [ How dare..!! ]

That would mean no ale too... [ Was she to more Heavenly parties to know that deal? Probably, the way she spoke suggested she was here for a while. ]

Eh, at least the local sake isn't that bad.

[nibelungvalesti]

Ale is slightly more likely... which is not particularly likely still. [It's no mead, but it would do as a substitute... were it only an option. Alas.] Sake is... I suppose it will do.

[futhark]

What a shame- [ But nothing unexpected. Japanese Heavens having godly sake and not other alcohol makes a lot of sense. But there is not just Heavens, there is also rest of the world ]

I know a place that serves acceptable ale and mead. [ It's of course modern done, and compared to her experience, it's made by mortals. Surely the mead Valkyrie drink is NOT made by mortals ] If you ever wish to toast with the real deal.

[ And it took a while to find it ]

[nibelungvalesti]

Is that the one Shizuo tends at? [She knows of one as well, but isn't certain it's the same one. Knowing of another would be valuable if it is not, but so long as she gets her mead...]

[futhark]

Shizuo! [ Ah, a common ground, er, friend!! A good topic, possible gossip to share, etc- ]

I haven’t been to that one yet! Have you? [ The yet is hanging here, he must, he must visit Shizuo’s bar if that’s the case. ] The one I’m talking about is in the Near Shore, in the area known as Shibuya.

[nibelungvalesti]

[Is that accurate? Shizuo has helped her in the past, but she has not seen him for a while... Can she say he is a friend?]

I believe I visited near there once, but I did not know of this establishment. It seems strange to envision attending a mortal bar, as a god...

[futhark]

[ Sounds like a friend, but then he is quick to call people friends ]

Why not? Where I come from, gods were often pretty close with mortals. [ He's the effect of some being way too close ] It's important to understand your followers, right?

[nibelungvalesti]

Quite the opposite was true in Asgard. The Valkyrie was the sole point of contact between the two. Lord Odin took a philosophy of noninterference, as heavenly matters took his attention.

[While that isn't quite true, she believes it, at least.]

[futhark]

Mhhm. I see. Different places, different outlooks on life. [ Or Heavenly duties ] Not sure if it was better for mortals in Ireland that our gods were more prone to interfering. Their blessings helped us a great deal, but then their curses were...

[ That one time a previous king offended goddess Macha-- ]

Eh, probably better not to speak about it.

[nibelungvalesti]

[She nods, understanding the general principle.] Were I a mortal who knew what I know, I would be grateful the gods looked away from Midgard.

...though as a god, I regret that we do not offer more boons.

[futhark]

Yeah, it does seem like we're more of a heavenly cleaning service. [ With all ayakashi killing, it does seem like pest control at times. Just at times, sometimes they providing exciting battles, that sadly no one will witness to sing songs about ]

But maybe it's tied to rank. That we've been here too short to be given such responsibility.

[nibelungvalesti]

[She shakes her head, a slight gesture that makes her hair ripple in long waves.]

You misunderstand. As a true god, an Aesir, I begin to regret that we are not more active in Midgard. The same may also be said of the true gods here. Those mortals who have been given divine titles, and their shinki, are more active in the Far Shore than they by far.

[futhark]

[ Ah so it's an issue back home ]

Do you think anything could be done about it? [ Sometimes talking to superiors works. Very rarely though. And some superiors would behead you for even trying. Given how different places are from where they come from, he's not going to jump straight into giving advice ]

[nibelungvalesti]

[She shakes her head slightly, without hesitation or consideration.]

Lord Odin has no mind for Midgard.

[futhark]

[ Caster mulls over that reply. He's not that knowledgeable about Father of the Runes. Even if Scáthach received the runes or stole them somehow is in the end not much of his concern - although he's sure there must be a story linked to it, there's always a story.

He answers carefully albeit a little resigned. ]

When you get all time in the world, changes can take you by surprise.

[ No one says it has to be a good change though. Twilight of the age of the gods is a thing, it's kind of amazing the Near Shore kept existing for as long as it did. ]