Part 17: First Playthrough - 2 AM

[MUSIC: Greenhouse]



♀: It's done.
♀: Well, shall we tune in on god?
♆: Whatever.
♀: We could also try calling the captain again...
♃: Hmm, yeah, we could—



♆: Calling will absolutely make everything worse, it always does.
♆: If there was any chance the devil wouldn't come, god will ruin it. But who cares. Of course the devil is coming tonight.
♆: So do it.

We arrange our radios in a circle. We all hold on to a length of copper wire. We feel like we're part of a christmas display. We pray.

♆: We don't really need to pray to it.
♀: Sorry. I'm just so used to it. I start hearing it in my head, as soon as we start, every time.
♃: Right? It just pops in my head.
♆: *sigh* Same, it's fine. I'm just saying.

We hold hands. We're looking for the signal. We can tell the difference between god and the devil; finding god is pretty easy. He's 109.8 FM.

The devil is never on the same frequency, but you sometimes hear a bit of him by accident when you're changing channels.

By the time we find god he's already talking. He never says "for those just listening." He expects attentiveness.



God sounds like every boy you are afraid of talking at once.

GOD: —the fist which can give takes too, and gives by taking, or takes by giving. Just as a word is honest or dishonest not by how it is spoken, but by he who speaks it, so is the honesty of touch—



♃: Shh, let's listen.
♆: Whatever.

GOD: —each of you shall choose. It is certain that the devil is coming.

♀: Oh no.

GOD: It is certain.

♆: I told you.

GOD: It is absolutely certain the devil is already here.

♃: ...

GOD: Parables I:I "The devil is only the shadow of man cast from the light of god."

There is definitely no parables chapter in the Bible, though this saying itself might be real, in some form or another? It could refer to Plato's cave allegory, but other than that I don't know, sorry.

GOD: The meaning of this parable is that there is no devil.

GOD: The weather is scheduled for 100 with humidity tomorrow. And now for the news—

[SFX: The radio turns off.]

Jupiter shuts off the radio.



♀: We should have called the captain.
♆: What would he have done, even.
♀: Something else?
♀: It's okay, it's not the end of the world, it's not like being the devil means you're going to die. The devil just happens—
♆: Don't pity me.
♃: It'll be the end of something.
♀: It's me.