"So that's the Treasure?" The old man had explained to me his grand plan and I'll admit IT WAS CRAZY BEYOND WORDS! Let me explain. The old man was another child of a god like Valrym (because apparently the gods love to have children they discard all over the damn world like so many toys), he had at one point been associated with the god of wisdom (wonder why my world is filled with unwise decisions? yeah the god of wisdom is dead shocking I know). He was supposed to fill the world with knowledge and learning and all the rest of it. Turns out that's kind of boring, so what he did instead was build this trap trove of hellacious horrible, because he's a freaking mass murderer (remember how I said it felt like a killing jar? yeah because it is). So the Treasure as it were, was his vast amounts of knowledge, that he had written down on scrolls for decades. Which would at least kind of be something? If his hand writing WASN'T FREAKING HORRIBLE! Everything was in a chicken scratch of illegibility, making trying to understand his "wisdom" a task in and of itself. Like I think I'd have to spend as much time trying to read his garbage as he had spent writing it, and based on his level of crazy I don't think I'd learn anything, other than a great recipe for human (yeah he had become a cannibal, or had started to eat people, really is a godling enough of a person to consider when they start eating people cannibilism? The questions I'm left with). So all of that to say I was not pleased with his gift.
"This is the sum equivelent of my life's work, I have to admit I never really expected anyone to make it this far, though it seems you didn't actually defeat the traps as I expected."
"I'm an outside the box kind of thinker."
"Yes I can see that, now I'm kind of at loss as to what to do."
"I have a solution for you."
"You do?" I drew him close and took his life force. Look I'm not exactly sorry I killed a demented Godling (I mean especially not with all the dead people he had made), and my ass was really really hurting. So all in all I think I canceled out the bad thing with the good things. The only issue I ran into, was because I kind of dispersed his mind instead of taking it in (because I didn't want to fry my soul like I almost did killing the god of vengeance, at least I almost think I did that, look my brain is a mix of horrible so who's to say what I did and what memories did). I didn't actually see a way out. So yeah my ass was not broken, but the way I'd come was kind screwed up. I tell you I need to start thinking these things through better.
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