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Interlude - The Creation of Idonius Pt. 2
Transcript provided by GNN (Godly News Network)
Interview of Yama by GNN Correspondent Eros
*Intro Music*
“Hello, and welcome to GNN, the galaxies leading news provider on the Magic Mirror Network! My name is Eros, and I’ll be your host tonight for this special where we will interview everyone's favorite dwarf… YAMA!!!!”
*Clapping…. endless… clapping…*
“Now, as all of you should know, the Council of God’s are on the verge of completing their greatest project since the creation!”
*Roll Clip*
*Yama is standing in space while a world behind him is forming; and just at the edge of your view lies the elemental sea. He waves his hand at the world, and then starts laughing.*
“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Welcome, to paradise! Bored of your life as a god? Have nothing better to do but screw with mortal’s heads? Miss the heart-pounding action of fighting to the death? Then, come to my courthouse and submit an application to be reborn on the planet of Idonius! The world will be stocked with high-caliber mortal souls who are on the verge of becoming immortal! Only 500,000 ascended beings will be allowed on the planet at a time; so put in your applications now!”
*Clip fades as Yama keeps talking…*
“Well, I for one am looking forward to hearing Yama’s story about the creation of this new universe! Please, give a big round of applause for YAMA!!!!!”
*Clapping, hollering, cheering*
“I love you YAMA!!!!” (Random guest #580)
“It’s so good to have you back on the show.”
“It’s good to be back, Eros. Honestly, it’s nice to get out of the courtroom every now and again.”
“You say that, but recently you’ve been hearing fewer cases than ever. In fact, my sources tell me you haven’t heard a case in nearly a thousand years! “
“Well yea, I’m a little busy with this project at the moment. I never realized just how hard it is to get my brothers and sisters to work together on something!”
“Of course, and I must say that this is quite the project you have going. There has been a lot of secrecy behind this until just recently; tell me, what is this all about?”
“Well, we’ve been trying to figure out something for newborn god’s to do as the galaxy gets more and more crowded. There’s a limited number of worlds with available management positions. Also, quite a few of the older gods have been stuck in a rut doing the same thing for hundreds of thousands of years!”
“So, this is an attempt to stave off the war of the ages?”
“There is no way to completely rid ourselves of war between god’s. Anyone who actually manages to ascend will without doubt be strong of character and unafraid of anything! This is just a place where a god can take a vacation for a few thousand years.”
“A vacation costing all of the divine power accumulated through hundreds of thousands, even millions of years! Isn’t the cost too much?”
“To some reincarnating on this planet is simply for fun; but to others it’s a chance to get stronger. As you know, when you ascend, your mortal body is remade by the elements, and the elements that you’re closest too make up the vast majority of your body. It makes it nearly impossible for you to cultivate the other elements. But, if you are reborn into a mortal body that is naturally attuned to those other elements than you can train in them!”
“So, you’re saying that in actuality this is a place for god’s to train?!?”
“Not just A place to train, THE place to train. This universe is closer than any other to the elemental sea! Not only that, but the world we will be placing everyone on, Idonius, will be the largest world in the Galaxy. Each and every member of the council, including the Creator, are involved in turning this place into a cultivators paradise! Secret Treasures; Ancient Ruins; Immortal Monsters; The best cultivation techniques in the galaxy! Hell, if the elixir of rebirth would work on me, I’d hand over my stupid job and go play on this world myself!”
“Please, don’t kid with us! Who else could possibly handle your job?”
“No one, Yet! But, who knows. Maybe someone will become strong enough to handle it on Idonius!”
“So, you seem quite excited about this, and so are many of our viewers. Before the show started, we had the audience write down some questions and we’d like you to answer them for us.”
“Alright, bring it on!”
“Ok, to start off we have a question from a concerned Goddess. Please, stand up and ask your question my lady.”
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*Random guest #228 stands up*
“I would like to know what kinds of guarantees we have on the protection of our souls? We all know that some people practice arts that use other souls as power, even enslave powerful souls to themselves permanently. As gods, we have ways of blocking this, but without our memories we’d be easy targets.”
“That is a great question, Yama?”
“Well, the world in question will be personally governed by every member of the council. No soul extinction or enslavement techniques will be allowed, and any attempts at such will result in the immediate destruction of the perpetrator’s soul. Normally, we don’t bother with policing such, but as this is supposed to be a vacation spot for the gods any such action will result in immediate action. I’m sure that you can trust our abilities in dealing with such.”
“That’s quite the guarantee. I’m sure all of us considering spending time on Idonius feel much safer now! Next, we have an anonymous guest who asks, “When are you going to visit me again? She even included a picture.”
*Eros shows the crowd a picture of Shiva dressed in her famous dominatrix leathers while standing over a naked Yama, holding a whip in her hands*
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I think someone’s been playing around in photoshop again!”
“O, so this video is fake too?”
*Video pops up on screen showing the image from before and Yama’s distinctive voice begging for more…*
*Crowd starts laughing and doesn’t stop for nearly half an hour*
“Well Eros, what can I say? I have a thing for good looking women in tights…”
“Well, as the God of Perversion I certainly agree! Now, when will you be visiting the mistress again?”
“Well, I usually stop by every few-hundred years to drop off a shipment of the damned and pick up those whose sentences are up. So, sometime in the next hundred years or so I think.”
“Moving on, we have a guest from Xion in our audience here today. She asks, “My master wants to know if their are any restrictions on the power of those allowed to be reborn on this planet?”
“Of course, if you are too powerful to have your memories completely wiped by the Elixir of Rebirth then you will never be reborn again! Other than that, the only cost is the complete destruction of your divine body and loss of divine power. For that cost, you receive a contract giving you the rights to specify a goal for your next life, to pick what region of the world you will be reborn into, and guaranteeing you that you will always be reborn on Idonius as a human.”
“Wait, as a human? While every god has at some point lived as a human, the vast majority of them do not manage to reach even immortality, much less ascension, as a human! Why not allow them to be reborn as their own race?”
“It’s simple, to make the playing field even. Think of this as something of a competition, a challenge. There will be many powerful souls born as Dragons, Gorgons, even Spirits! But, none of those souls will have ever ascended!”
“Then, how many lives to you expect these gods to take to ascend?”
“Tens, Hundreds, Maybe even Thousands! The average lifespan for a human is little over a hundred years of age. Everyone on this planet will have access to cultivation techniques, so assume that you at least reach the 5th rank which gives you another hundred years or so. This is a part of the challenge of this world; humans have the least amount of innate power out of all cultivating lifeforms, and yet they have the greatest potential! Very few people reach godhood as a human, but each and every one of them is powerful! You’re all gods, if it wasn’t challenging it wouldn’t be worth doing!”
“You also said something about allowing you to pick a goal for each rebirth? How is that possible?”
“Now, now. I’ve already said too much! This will be a new world of wonder and adventure that will be open to the public in another hundred years. We still have some open spaces, and will be creating a waiting list for those who don’t make it in the first round! As someone ascends, they will leave Idonius and the next in line will get his/her vacation.”
“Well, I guess thats all you’re willing to answer tonight?”
“Yup, for the rest you’ll just have to discover it yourself! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”
*Yama disappeared into thin air as his laugh shakes the building, and lesser god’s faint at the power of his voice…*
“Well, I for one always love it when Yama visits us! That’s it for this special, I hope you enjoyed it! This is Eros from GNN signing off, goodnight god’s of the galaxy!”