A/N: From this chapter onward it will always be a different person's
viewpoint. My first thought was to go in the same order as the books, but
the only chapter I could think of with Christopher in it ripped off an "X-
Men: The Evolution" fic, so instead I'm cutting to Jalil, and will
hopefully come up with something better for Christopher later.
"It doesn't make sense," I said, "it seems like Everworld picks and chooses whatever real-world stuff works there. You can't get the bends from water pressure because the gods didn't know about it, but electricity works. Why?"
"Well maybe lightning existing means electricity automatically exists," Senna said. She sat across from me. We were at Starbucks. David was behind the counter serving some fat couple coffee, but Senna was on break, and I had chosen this as my little research center lately (no clue why, Barnes and Noble would have been better, I could have just gotten the books on foreign languages off the shelves, and not even bought them). I picked up my book on hieroglyphs. The scroll was a stupid mess of every ancient language ever used, and I few I'm sure they just made up to annoy any stupid mortal trying to read it, and no one had bothered to copy all the parts into all the different languages to be sure everyone agreed (honestly I never thought the gods were smart enough NOT to do that, odds are Athena realized they'd never agree and talked them out of it). But from what I had figured out it translated to something like:
Article 1: All gods shall get equal land, except the Greek gods shall get a
lot more.
Claus 1: Whatever the heck is written above applies on if the Egyptian gods
get more land than anyone else.
Claus 2: The Norse gods shall have the most land.
Claus 3: The Celtic gods must have more land for the above to be
applicable.
Claus 4: The Cananite gods shall have the most land.
And so on followed by:
Article 2: All gods shall be supremely powerful, except the Greek gods more
than others.
Claus 1: Gods shall rule mortals, the Egyptian gods shall rule the gods.
Claus 2: We the Norse gods are the supreme masters of Everworld.
Claus 3: The Celtic gods shall rule, or this entire scroll becomes null
and void.
Claus 4: The Cananite gods are omnipotent.
Then a few point that were translated in other languages (I wonder why):
Article 3: Humans are minions of the gods, nothing more.
Article 4: In the Old World the humans made an annoying point of changing,
and using new methods strange to the gods, in an attempt to appear more intelligent than we. This is impossible. This mockery shall never take
place in Everworld, humans shall remain forever exactly as they are,
imitating the gods.
Article 5: No god shall ever harm another god except in anger, revenge, or
for some other reasonable purpose.
Article 6: No god shall ever kill another god, unless that god has challenge the supreme gods of Everworld. Even then only the supreme gods
of Everworld may carry out the execution.
Claus 1: If some unauthorized god does kill another god, the killed god
must agree to die. Upon doing so all gods shall meet at an agreed upon location to decide the punishment. Upon a unanimous vote (including the vote of the accused) as of what to do, a proper punishment shall be carried
out.
Another untranslated Article:
Article 7: The Roman gods are forever banned from Everworld so long as the Greek gods dwell there. Should the Greek gods choose to return to the Old World (an event which can only happen upon their own desire for it to do so, regardless of all else), the Roman gods are banned from the Old World.
Claus 1: The Greek gods are forever banned from Everworld so long as the Roman gods dwell there. Should the Roman gods choose to return to the Old World (an event which can only happen upon their own desire for it to do so, regardless of all else), the Greek gods are banned from the Old World.
And finally a translated article which was so far the only part that might VAGUELY help to answer my question:
Article 8: Everything that transpires in Everworld does so as is
convenient for the gods.
And a bunch more gibberish that I had yet to translate. "I think 'water has weight, and hence a lot of water has pressure" is a bit easier to imply than electricity. Anyway Senna, maybe it comes down to what you think is possible. When we made the electric generator we didn't know about the scroll, but I think April specifically said you couldn't get the bends because of water pressure, since the gods didn't know about it."
"Or maybe," Senna smiled.
"Brigid's been messin' with the scroll over the years?" I asked, getting her message.
"Yeah it could happen," she looked at the clock, "my breaks over." She got up and walked back to the counter to serve coffee to some other old, fat couple.
"It doesn't make sense," I said, "it seems like Everworld picks and chooses whatever real-world stuff works there. You can't get the bends from water pressure because the gods didn't know about it, but electricity works. Why?"
"Well maybe lightning existing means electricity automatically exists," Senna said. She sat across from me. We were at Starbucks. David was behind the counter serving some fat couple coffee, but Senna was on break, and I had chosen this as my little research center lately (no clue why, Barnes and Noble would have been better, I could have just gotten the books on foreign languages off the shelves, and not even bought them). I picked up my book on hieroglyphs. The scroll was a stupid mess of every ancient language ever used, and I few I'm sure they just made up to annoy any stupid mortal trying to read it, and no one had bothered to copy all the parts into all the different languages to be sure everyone agreed (honestly I never thought the gods were smart enough NOT to do that, odds are Athena realized they'd never agree and talked them out of it). But from what I had figured out it translated to something like:
Article 1: All gods shall get equal land, except the Greek gods shall get a
lot more.
Claus 1: Whatever the heck is written above applies on if the Egyptian gods
get more land than anyone else.
Claus 2: The Norse gods shall have the most land.
Claus 3: The Celtic gods must have more land for the above to be
applicable.
Claus 4: The Cananite gods shall have the most land.
And so on followed by:
Article 2: All gods shall be supremely powerful, except the Greek gods more
than others.
Claus 1: Gods shall rule mortals, the Egyptian gods shall rule the gods.
Claus 2: We the Norse gods are the supreme masters of Everworld.
Claus 3: The Celtic gods shall rule, or this entire scroll becomes null
and void.
Claus 4: The Cananite gods are omnipotent.
Then a few point that were translated in other languages (I wonder why):
Article 3: Humans are minions of the gods, nothing more.
Article 4: In the Old World the humans made an annoying point of changing,
and using new methods strange to the gods, in an attempt to appear more intelligent than we. This is impossible. This mockery shall never take
place in Everworld, humans shall remain forever exactly as they are,
imitating the gods.
Article 5: No god shall ever harm another god except in anger, revenge, or
for some other reasonable purpose.
Article 6: No god shall ever kill another god, unless that god has challenge the supreme gods of Everworld. Even then only the supreme gods
of Everworld may carry out the execution.
Claus 1: If some unauthorized god does kill another god, the killed god
must agree to die. Upon doing so all gods shall meet at an agreed upon location to decide the punishment. Upon a unanimous vote (including the vote of the accused) as of what to do, a proper punishment shall be carried
out.
Another untranslated Article:
Article 7: The Roman gods are forever banned from Everworld so long as the Greek gods dwell there. Should the Greek gods choose to return to the Old World (an event which can only happen upon their own desire for it to do so, regardless of all else), the Roman gods are banned from the Old World.
Claus 1: The Greek gods are forever banned from Everworld so long as the Roman gods dwell there. Should the Roman gods choose to return to the Old World (an event which can only happen upon their own desire for it to do so, regardless of all else), the Greek gods are banned from the Old World.
And finally a translated article which was so far the only part that might VAGUELY help to answer my question:
Article 8: Everything that transpires in Everworld does so as is
convenient for the gods.
And a bunch more gibberish that I had yet to translate. "I think 'water has weight, and hence a lot of water has pressure" is a bit easier to imply than electricity. Anyway Senna, maybe it comes down to what you think is possible. When we made the electric generator we didn't know about the scroll, but I think April specifically said you couldn't get the bends because of water pressure, since the gods didn't know about it."
"Or maybe," Senna smiled.
"Brigid's been messin' with the scroll over the years?" I asked, getting her message.
"Yeah it could happen," she looked at the clock, "my breaks over." She got up and walked back to the counter to serve coffee to some other old, fat couple.