fandomtownies | Our Lady of Fandom; Tuesday [ 09/26 ]

Rosette must have hit her head sometime yesterday or that morning or something because she was feeling the strange desire to be productive. Or, at the very least, organized, and she sat in a pew with a clipboard and a pen, trying to work out some sort of schedual. She was warming up to the idea of a regular routine around the church, especially since it had started to get a little bit of traffic, even if that traffic was minimal and mostly unimportant.

She'd slated Mondays for Confessional/Gun Cleaning, because that worked so well yesterday. She figured she should have a regular, structured service on Sundays, although was reluctant to be conclusive about it because Sundays were brunch, and she'd hate to miss that. She was drawing blanks on how to fill the rest of the week; Wednesdays would be cleaning days, she figured, mostly because she didn't want to do it today. And some day had to search for treasure in the graveyard day, but, again, wasn't sure which.

She tapped her pen idly on her chin as she though.

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Joxer entered with a mission.

"Who's this temple for anyways?" he asked no one in particular.

Rosette tilted her head back to look and see who entered the church. It lead to prompt and distinctive blinking. Okay, this was going to be interesting.

"Uhhhh, no one in particular," she said, raising her head. She started pointing her pen around the various different areas about the church. "Up there's all the God and Jesus stuff, we've got Buddha over there and an that Hindu elephant guy over there. Various other alters in the other copses for this, that, and the other. Pretty much you name 'im, you got 'im."

She grinning proudly at the young man with a nod. "We're an interfaith church here. But I specialize in all the Christian stuff, so if you need something else, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you, but Chrono might."

"So... Zeus, Aphrodite, all them... they're only in the other altars section? That's... weird." Joxer made a face.

"Well, they have gone a bit out of style in the past, ohhh....couple thousand years," Rosette said with a smile. "I'm sure if you've got an offering to make or a prayer and would prefer to use the main alter, it would be okay. I just ask that no blood sacrifices because it stains, and offer the disclaimer that if you are struck my lightning from doing so, we here at the church are not to be held accountable."

Joxer scratched his head. "How does a god go out of style?"

"The new popular kids come in with swords and literacy and convince everyone that the other gods are just not cool anymore," Rosette nodded.

"Wouldn't the gods just smite the heathens?" Joxer asked.

Rosette blinked, considering this deeply. "Huh. I guess I never really thought about that..."

But now she was thinking about it, and was getting excited. She turned in the pew, shifting, so that she leaned on the back of it, addressing him with a wild fire in her eyes as she pictured it and babbled to him. "But maybe when the Christians and Jews were all 'Our God can totally kick your gods' asses,' the other gods were all, 'Okay, whatever, we don't want any trouble.' And they back down. But, really, what they're doing is building up a secret underground force and are waiting for the right time to show up and proclaim, 'Who's the bigger gods now, God?' and then the monotheism will shriek out 'eek! oh no! How can I-slash-we who are all seeing not have seen this coming!' and step back, while Zues and Thor and Venus and who have you all come back and they're the popular kids again, until the Christians come back, and the whooooole thing repeats itself."

Rosette really got into her stories sometimes.

Joxer was totally lost.

"Who's God guy, anyways?"

"God is the god of the main monothesiastic religions," Rosette began to explain simply. "If you believe he has this son Jesus, then he's the Christian god. If you don't believe that was him, and that his son is still on his way, eventually, then he's the Jewish God. Annnnd, if you call him Allah instead of God, then he's the Islamic God." She nodded. She sort of paid attention in her theology lectures at the convent...

Joxer blinked. "Why would you only want one god?"

"Streamlines the process?"

"But makes the one way too busy, you'd think. I mean, Ares has his hands full just dealing with wars, and Aphrodite with love," Joxer said. "You'd think a god of everything'd be too busy to actually, you know, listen to people."

"I think the general idea is that, because He has so many more things to do, He's that much more powerful. And that's also why he has angels and people like me," she said the 'me' with a particularly noticable chirp, "to help Him."

"Ohhhhh," Joxer said. "So he lets all his underlings do the work? That's smart."

Rosette nodded, tapping her head. "If you're going to be the supreme being of all the world, you've gotta me smart."

She smiled at him, having enjoyed the conversation thus far. "So, what's your name?" she asked. "And can I help you with anything in particularly, or are you just checkin' the place out?"

"Joxer the Mighty," he said. "I'm... well, I was here cause I hoped to get a hold of one or two of my gods. Maybe see if they can't send me home or something."

Rosette nodded. "Do what you've gotta. I'm sure if they're there, they'll hear ya."

"Thanks," Joxer said, going off to do his little bit of ancient, outdated worship.

Which was especially useless, since he decided to pray to Zeus. Who was kinda dead.

Our Lady of Fandom; Tuesday [ 09/26 ]

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