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[farfairersoul]

...Do you people actually believe this?

Makers, and I thought the Mar and Precursor legends were overbearing.

[Pauses to clear his throat quietly.]

"There an angel of the Lord appeared to him from a burning bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it was not burning up. 'This is strange!' he said to himself."

[Pause.]

...No, really?

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[shadesofeco]

Doesn't sound any stranger than the Precursors and the Dark Makers.

[farfairersoul]

...It is a bush. On fire. How does that even manage to rank in comparison?

[shadesofeco]

... the Precursors are ottsels.

[As far as Jak's concerned, that pretty much trumps everything.]

[farfairersoul]

They do not go around lighting bushes on fire to make people worship them, Jak.

[Razer's opinion remains unmoved. Although hearing the truth from Jak after all the similar things he's heard on the street about what happened in Spargus is a nice final confirmation.]

[shadesofeco]

[Yeah, but Jak knows all the kooky weird shit they did do to get people to worship them. Like project lame holograms and build goober-eyed statues with deep voices. The Precursors are nuts.]

... right.

[farfairersoul]

[Flatly, 'cause he can kinda guess where your thought train is making a stop.]

...Oracles are so much better than flaming bushes.

[shadesofeco]

... they don't look anything like ottsels.

"Fluffing up the myth" is an understatement.

[farfairersoul]

At least they are orange. ...Esque. A nice shade of copper, really, when they are kept clean. That matches up.

The rest...perhaps not so much.

Regardless my point is that at least our gods know how to manifest themselves without looking like complete fools.

[Chuckles a little.]

Unless, of course, you just happen to have come across a Precursor who preferred to show itself through lighting shrubbery on fire?

[shadesofeco]

[Jak is actually kind of speechless. Mostly because there isn't a time when the Precursors didn't look like complete fools to him.]

... you've never actually met a Precursor, have you?

[farfairersoul]

Unless I were to count your rat--which I don't--no.

[shadesofeco]

I hate to disappoint, but they're kind of ... lame.

[Very loquacious, Jak.]

[farfairersoul]

...I never said I practice the religion. I've never really put much stock in it as far as a style of living goes, but I am not so arrogant as to claim that the progenitors of it do not exist or anything like that.

[Oh yeah, Razer, you're reeeaaal humble.]

[shadesofeco]

... right.

[And now Jak's imagining Razer as a deeply religious Haven slummer. The mental image is stunning.]

[farfairersoul]

[Dramatic sigh.]

And what was that tone about?

[shadesofeco]

Nothing.

Just uh ... thinking about something Daxter said.

[He's so good at lying.]

[farfairersoul]

...Yes, of course you were. He is, after all, so entertaining.