3rd Performance | The Gods must be crazy

[with_the_big_top]

[Video]

Y'know, I haven't been here for very long and I'm still trying to figure this place out. I know it's really jarring to be pulled out of your own world and into another without any warning. Heck, it's even downright scary! I can totally understand being angry at the people responsible for it, too. Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess.

I saw the cute little thing one of the Gods posted for someone, and it kind of explained a lot! Even before I saw that, though, I noticed a little bit of a trend.

Every time one of the Gods posts something a lot of people treat them pretty rudely. Like I said, I can understand being angry and scared...but is it really a good idea to act that way toward the most powerful people here? Sure, it would have been better if they had asked for our help before just pulling us here...but would anyone have said yes to their request?

I don't know if anyone else here has ever been in a situation where they had a chance to do something to save an entire world, but even despite the circumstances it's a chance to do something really cool and incredible! We can help save an entire world, and if what that God posted is true, a whole bunch of other worlds too...even our own.

I dunno, I kind of feel like I'm rambling. I guess I'm just saying we should probably try to cooperate with the Gods and do something to help. We're here anyway, right? I bet the quicker we get it done the quicker we can go home. Plus, it'll probably end in some kind of grand show! A final battle with the evil bosses! It's like something out of a video game, and will probably be something really cool to be a part of.

Besides, they're Gods. That demands some kind of respect, right? I'm not trying to suck up or anything, and I'm really not even sure why I decided to do this. I just figure we should be more cooperative since we're here anyway, and we might even become some kind of mythical heroes in the process! Even if you don't like the Gods, we should definitely all work together ourselves. We're going to have to fight for our lives, right?

I'm just a circus performer, though...so I guess I might be a little naive or something?

[Cerebella thinks about that for a moment, before the video feed mercifully shuts off.]

Comments

[circuses]

Some of those messages are rude! Baldr and Loki make fun of people!

[with_the_big_top]

You gotta learn how to take a joke! If you can't laugh at yourself, what can you laugh at?

You're a circus performer, aren't you? Don't the clowns ever pull you into their act? You're always the butt of the joke.

[circuses]

...You remind me of Moe. He was always laughing at himself. He was a clown, too! But he could never bear to make fun of me.

[with_the_big_top]

I'm nowhere near a clown, though. They told me I just didn't have the fine arts of clowning within me.

Then they hit me with with a pie.

[circuses]

[ She giggles. ] Hehe...pie.

Yeah, clowning is hard work. Moe practices every hour he can, reading books and making holes in the ceiling. But every skill is valued in the circus!

[with_the_big_top]

I feel like I got the easy job.

I'd lose it if I had to figure out how to be funny all the time!

[circuses]

Well...not everyone thinks clowns are funny. [ Especially Moe. Never have there been such awful gags in the history of clowning, and everyone on the planet knows it. ]

But I like their corny jokes!

[with_the_big_top]

I thought clowns were supposed to be funny because they're corny.

At least...that's why I think they're funny!

[circuses]

That makes sense! It goes with the theme ours has got at the circus: how many ways can a fat funny guy fall down?

It turns out, a lot.

[with_the_big_top]

[Cerebella just laughs.]

We'll have to see if we can find some clowns!

[circuses]

Alright! It wouldn't be a proper circus without clowns! Soon we'll have an Asgardian circus to be proud of!

[with_the_big_top]

I sure hope so! Not many people have seemed very open to it yet...

[circuses]

Maybe we should encourage those guys to learn circus skills. Like acrobatics and stuff.

[with_the_big_top]

We could try that, I guess...but, you've gotta have the passion for it, you know?

You've gotta really want it!

[circuses]

Or be born into it! That works too!

There's got to be passionate people in Asgard somewhere.

[with_the_big_top]

There's bound to be, we're just going to have to look harder.

[circuses]

Then let's do that! If you see anyone good, you should write their name down and have a big gathering one day. A big meet-up at a big top!

[with_the_big_top]

That's not a bad idea.

I was too focused on getting myself started so that maybe I can attract people to it...but if we form a family BEFORE it'll be easier for us to set up a real circus!

[circuses]

Even if we don't make a circus, we can still look out for each other and do performances. A new family in Asgard!

[with_the_big_top]

That sounds like a great idea!

[circuses]

Okay! Starting from now, then. Promise?

[with_the_big_top]

Promise!