Instant Meow-senger, Tedious Religiousness

Before I could even start thinking about what I wanted to do next, I got a notification on another app. It's… hard for me to ignore those. You see the glowing icon or the red circle telling you there's something, and you just HAVE to click it, otherwise it won't go away. Guess Rosincrye or whoever made the messenger system did the same thing. Ah well, let's see what it is…

I minimize the current tab and click on the flashing notification, which causes a chatbox to open up.

"Hello?"

"hey"

"Hi hi!"

Wait, there's three other people in here? Did I get an invite to a group or something? But I didn't accept anything yet.

"Here's a hint: behind you, heheh!~"

Behind- oh, I know who these are. I peek out from my cubicle and see three sets of cat ears and eyes also peeking out. At least, they were, since as soon as I spot them, they duck back inside.

"How are you able to message me?"

"ra under room number"

"That means Rune Address, btw. You know what btw is?"

I check outside my cubicle again, this time at the sign with the cubicle number. And yup, under it is a line of runes, which must be the premade email address for this MPC.

"I see. And yes, btw is by the way.

"Correct. You earn a cookie!"

They send a cookie emoticon. Good to know those exist.

"Btw, how are all three of you messaging me if there's only one setup per room? Or do you have three?"

"lol, sis and I used magic to connect our own keyboards!"

"ye that"

Huh, neat. You could never really do that back on Earth, it'd just register all the keyboards as the same. Guess they innovated here.

"You ok sharing names or is that TMI?"

Gotta make sure about the netiquette.

"Mo."

"len"

"Zoops! uwu"

"Sharing is good, gotcha. I'm Jamaarl. So… why are you messaging me, exactly?"

Yeah, why me and not anyone else here?

"You had that fresh newbie scent, ya kno?"

"They mean you had no particular smell to describe you with."

"wait u smelled him already"

"yeye!"

"Why are you responding to each other in this chat room when you're all in the same physical room?"

"bcuz we can!"

"2 lazy"

"We don't want you feeling left out."

Well that's nice of-

"queue popped"

"Oops, gtg!"

"Sorry, busy, bye."

… Nevermind, they all left the chat.

"Hey Kandance."

She pops up alongside my God Screen. Having two screens at once reminds me of life back home. I usually had some combination of my laptop, phone, and pc on at the same time as I was multitasking stuff on each of them.

"You called for me?"

"Yes, I did. What were your… initial ideas when it came to making the Gaolras?"

Even though they definitely have to be different from what they originally were almost seventy five thousand years ago, I'm sure some of their base aspects still remain.

"Well, let's see. They usually have large families due to giving birth to multiple mortals at the same time, contrasting the Anthras whose births are mostly one at a time. This also leads to them putting a lot of importance on family."

Ya know, I probably should have used TMI here instead of earlier, but fuck it, we ball.

"Being agile and having fast reaction speed is a given. Well, the fast reaction part still is. Any mortal can lose agility under the right circumstances, but the reactions are a part of their instincts."

I'm guessing the circumstances could be from stuff like being based on a slow animal like a sloth, not that I've seen a sloth Gaolras yet, or from something like gaining weight. Definitely have felt the effects of the latter throughout a lot of my… time on Earth.

"And each one has their own tribe based on their animal features. From there, they can either keep their tribe "pure" by mating with a near similar tribe or Hewmitahl, or they can mix with any other tribe and join together into a bigger family! Oh, by the way, mixed offsprings only inherit one trait, never both."

"Alright, now that's TMI."

"What?"

"Too much information."

"W-well you're the one who asked!"

More puffy cheeks, great. And yeah, there's a mention of crossbreeding again. Just gonna nip this in the bud now…

"So can any race mate with any other race?"

"No, with one exception. Hewmitahls can have offspring with any race, but other than that, each race has to stick to each other. Oh, but you can still marry anyone you want, I made that a doctrine of my religion!"

There's more I could ask about that, like the restrictions of breeding for those mixed offspring, but the latter half of that statement already has me asking more questions.

"Wait, how? Did you spread your doctrine and religion about… yourself?"

"Oooohohohoho, I'm glad you asked! Take a look at this!"

From her own God Panel to mine, Kandance displayed a Mortal Form. It was for a female Deinaaz named "Yubellion Rosencrantz Cahdenza, Archpontifex Of The One True Goddess". I can also see that her obsession with long names and titles has always been a thing.

"Kinda egotistical disguising yourself as a race you made in your own image…"

"It's self-indulgence, I deserved it after putting so much time and power into making Fanta Regauss. Also they have wings, and that helped with my mission. For those five years spent here, I spread Dasshudence, the one true religion that worships me, to any and every mortal I could find. I made all the doctrines, holy symbols, legends, and everything else by myself. All so that it could be a religion whose values were made by me and untainted by mortal sins!"

… Huh. Is that why she sat around doing nothing for so long? She spent an unknown amount of time making the world and then another five years on all that religious stuff? Sounds like too much work. Although it does make me wonder…

"Well, let's see how it's doing now, shall we?"

I have the equivalent of this world's internet right here, why not use it?

"Go ahead, I would like to bask in the fruits of my labor."

Yeah, yeah. I open a new tab and put "Dasshudence" into the search engine, and it gives me a blurb from a wiki article alongside some links. Also, "Dasshudence" sounds to me like someone trying to say "dash dance" in a fake accent, and I cannot get that out of my head now.

"A brief overview of Dasshudence. Dasshudence is the primary religion across all of Fanta Regauss. Their followers, Dasshudians, believe in the teachings of Yugaria Dasshudily Kandance, spread by her many Pontifices since the first recordings of history. These teachings are primarily about fairness, celebrating life and death, and having offsprings to whom better futures are made for."

Damn. Better than the state of some religions back when I was on Earth.

"Oooohohohoho! Don't you see now? All my hard work paid off. I deserve a treat for that, no?"

"You deserve a poke because I feel like it."

I try to poke her small figure, but she moves away.

"Hold still…"

"Nuh-uh!"

She jumps around my God Panel as I try to poke her. It's… honestly a bit frustrating. To the point where I get overemotional. To the point where I slam the panel down in front and to the right of me. Which… caused it to hit the MPC.

But instead of destroying it or doing anything bad to it, the MPC was… perfectly fine. I checked, no damage. I also went to check on Kandance, who was dizzy and otherwise fine, but then I saw it. An icon that looked like the MPC. Holy shit. I just made MPC emulation.