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  • Only the God Changed (4.5)

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    The life of a god is but a mythical parting of the eternal dark.  About fourteen centuries before Christ’s eastern star pierced Pagan skies, a goat fell into a chasm, and began to bleat strangely.  This perplexed its shepherd.  Having got his goat safely out, he climbed back in, and down, to inhale the vapors…

  • The Oracle at Dolphin (4.4)

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    A dragoness born of mud—a child of Gaia named Python—guarded this cave from which her mother’s oracle spoke, at Pytho. Legend tells that the dragoness was drawn into the jealousy of Zeus’s sister-wife, Hera. Gentle Leto carried the faithless Zeus’s twins—Artemis and Apollo—in her womb. In her jealousy, Hera set the serpent upon the Titaness.

  • The Wombstone (4.3)

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    Cronus swallowed his children. The prophecy had foretold that, just as he had overthrown his own father, Uranus, so one of his own children would overthrow him. This foreknowledge tormented him. Transformed him.

  • Waypoint 2.3: The Birth of Pleasure

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    “Who are you?” she asks. With an infinitely tender voice, the stranger replies: “That, I can never say. Nor do you need to know who I am — if you love me.” Night after night, he returns to this room — to her. And night after night, they make love in the moonless dark. Invariably,…