[9:30] Artemis kills me. I blame Geb. Useless.
He’s throwing a party. Go and see him. That should
It’s a thirty second walk back to the enemy tower.
pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says “But
Educational. I was sized up by “friendly” minions. I
doctor… I am Bacchus.” Titan is dead. VVGG.■
By Jacob Crawford
waded through their sea of pleas and half-hearted
threats. Then I stepped across a field of human
rubble on my way to kill the witch. I see her.
[10:00] The witch is dead. I kill the tower.
[17:30] I fight Fire Giant. This should be agony. I
should be a mass of aching muscle--broken, spent,
unable to move. And were I an older god, I surely
would… But I’m Cupid. Poseidon’s rain on my chest is
a baptism--and I’m born again… The Giant is dead.
[18:00] I kill Athena. I respected her. In the
cemetery, all the white crosses stand in rows, neat
chalk marks on a giant score board. Like a game. Like
a computer video game. Is that what happens to us? A
life of conflict with no time for friends… so that when
it’s done, only our enemies leave roses. Violent lives,
ending violently… we never die in bed. Not allowed.
[21:06] All enemy towers destroyed.
We march on Mount Olympus.
[24:15] Phoenix is dead. Ironic. Athena
understood. She saw the cracks in society, saw the
little men trying to hold it together… She saw the
true face of this Conquest and chose to become
a blood-thirsty reflection, a parody of it. No one
else saw the joke. That’s why she was lonely.
[24:30] Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says
he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel.
Says he feels alone in a threatening world where
what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says
“Treatment is simple. Bacchus is in town tonight.
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