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[Wayward Device]

Ponder over the purpose of your existence.

Go to a bar, earn cash doing magic tricks.

+1 If we spot an ugly whore in the bar Illusion her beautiful.

[LordBucket]

I say we make the guard who killed our prophet our next prophet.

Also, why are we collecting money? What use do we have for it?

[Aklyon]

We're collecting money because demigods in a world that know the former gods are dead, makes it a bit hard to get people to giveaway services just on your semi-deitic claim alone.

Attempting to make the guard your prophet results in a panic about sudden beams of light that must also be Skideathian death from the sky, and the guard being rather confused he is not dead. Zan is not a particularly smart town, honestly.

[LordBucket]

Good. We want to prey on their stupidity anyway. Conjure up a voice in his head. Explain to him that he killed our prophet, and as a result he is now our new prophet. If nothing else, when he explains this to others, maybe they'll be less likely to kill him than they were the thief.

Also...what "services" would we want that we'd be likely to need to pay for? We're a god, right? It's not like we need to buy food or stay at inns or anything. And once we start building temples it's not like we'll be paying for construction work out of our own pocket. We'll have followers to do that kind of thing.

[Aklyon]

Services like convincing guards we aren't a thief. We're rather darkly clothed and don't nessesarily need to sleep at night (though it certainly wouldn't hurt to), and guards will be guards. Or buying food to convince people at the start. The stuff that we need to pay for to get to the point that we have sufficient followers (again) to have them pay for it.

And since, the people still like thier money. Might be easier to convince them through that than anything in some cases.

[LordBucket]

Services like convincing guards we aren't a thief.

We're a shapeshifting god of illusions. Using money to convince guards that we're not a thief seems...silly.

people still like thier money. Might be easier to convince them through that

Scenario 1:
Guy walks up to you, hands you a couple gold coins and says "I'm the god of illusions."

Scenario 2:
Misty tendrils snake out from the ground and you are engulfed in an obscuring fog. You lose sensation of contact with the ground, and a voice speaks to you, explaining that it is the god of illusions who has done this to you.

Which are you more likely to believe?


My point here is that if we're using money, we're doing it wrong.

[Aklyon]

Well, we can't do everything right now. We can do small things like fake coins, fake most anything we can hold in one hand, make ugly people look nice for a hour or so. Everything else is well, godly, and we don't have the godness required to do it if no one knows we exist. As soon as we have any kind of notable fraction of people acknowledging us (a shrine or small temple in Zan would be a good way to cement that) it won't be a thing.

Basically, we need to return to actual (lesser) godhood first.

[LordBucket]

Ok. Then...let's get some converts. Create an illusory 4 inch tall version of ourselves to sit on the shoulder of this guard that only he can see or hear. Explain to him that we're a god, he's now our prophet, and instruct him to start preaching. If he resists, keep talking nonstop until he either relents, goes insane, or dies of sleep deprivation.

[Supercharazad]

Ok. Then...let's get some converts. Create an illusory 4 inch tall version of ourselves to sit on the shoulder of this guard that only he can see or hear. Explain to him that we're a god, he's now our prophet, and instruct him to start preaching. If he resists, keep talking nonstop until he either relents, goes insane, or dies of sleep deprivation.

[Aklyon]

"Hello."Miniyou says. The guard does not take this appearing of a miniperson on his shoulder very well and eventually ends up being tackled to make him calm the hell down.

Later, you pop back up on his shoulder, and he tentatively replies back with a hello. Mentioning your godly status makes him ask why you're a miniperson when everyone knows the gods died after a massive purple explosion in the sky, followed by a return of the Skideatheans and their deadly beams of light. Preaching would probably be...awkward at best after his incident earlier, he explains, but you get him to go back out, stand on the platform in town square, and preach about you, the Returned God.
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He is considered still a bit crazy. THere are a very few optimists who come up and ask him more though, and he attempts to do so in his rambling, easily distracted into tangents way. He manages to pronouce your name correctly at least, and they promise to come back to the square tomorrow with some ideas on how to improve his speaking.

[Supercharazad]

Keep him at it for a while, try to get a nice flock of sheeple. They shall become our priests.