RPG Gods Among Us [M-LSV]

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[COLOR=DarkRed][CENTER]?Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.?[/CENTER]
[RIGHT]-Arthur C. Clarke[/RIGHT][/COLOR]

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[COLOR=DarkRed][SIZE=1]The fan turned slowly above the silky bed in the room that was dim and cool. Upon the bed lay Zeus: a man of slim body and pale tone. The jet-black hair of his head fell gracefully over his silver eyes, obscuring his view of the ceiling fan above him. He had been on his bed for hours on this rainy day. In a dark corner of the room, a black widow spider silently waited as hellish gnats landed in its silken trap. Finally, Zeus sat up on his bed and snapped his fingers. On came the dusty television. The World News was on now: [I]In other news, famous rapper Fifty-Cent has switched to a career in country music after --- [/I] he snapped his fingers again. It was already five o'clock, and he had to go into the office at five thirty to have a video conference with his American Electric Power advisors. The company had been doing great lately, and now he had to figure out how to make it do even better.

Out of the bed he got and he buttoned up his black, silk shirt. It was a gift from his brother, and his favorite of all his shirts. In the bathroom he brushed his hair, tied it back, and brushed his white teeth. He put on his cologne and left the house. He owned one car, a black Mercedes Benz, but he never drove it. People never saw it, for it was always kept in his garage. His method of travel was far easier than driving.

As he walked out into the rain that was falling from slate gray clouds, he opened his mouth as he looked upward. He said something indistinguishable, and the rain ceased. Slowly the clouds departed from the atmosphere, and the sun was visible again. "Hmm, that's a little better," he said to himself before jumping a thousand feet into the heavens. Intense speed was second-nature to this god; his office was located an hour from his home, but he arrived there in less than a second. Most people would grow bored by such short flight, so of course he did not always fly this fast. Sometimes he would fly "slowly" above the mountains and rivers, enjoying the view for hours.
When he landed at the AEP Greek office he immediately went inside and set up the video equipment. When he finally finished hooking things up, he turned on the monitor expecting to see his balding advisor from America, John. Instead, he saw a man with long, silver hair and very pale skin. And he noticed the man was without a shirt, which at first struck him as odd. The man looked rather serious, and Zeus finally realized who he was looking at. "Poseidon."[/SIZE][/COLOR]