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<P>Nyx looked up at the lack of something, and said, That went well.
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<P>Then, it was decided that Eris would be the leader of the survivors of the great battle, as it was she who knew chaos and nothingness best.
<P>Nyx was alive now, as were most of the other gods. But Eris was left to lead, first thing that she did was pass out the Principia Discordia, then she pointed out the site www.poee.org  Finally it was decided that the world that they would create (They had to create one if they wanted any non gods to be about, and if they wanted Gaia back) would be a world that would have the appropriate amount of humor and wackiness.  Drebin would be one of the many saints.
<P>The wackyness would be provided by wooden paddles. This was decided on very early on in the decision making process.
<P>Next they had to figure out what to do. Who would they bring back? Ryan for sure, maybe the child of the four halves. But who else? And who would be the main characters? Eris was in a controlling position, that meant she and Elis would be back. If there was need for divine retribution Nemesis would come in. If they needed either night or obscenely large amounts of power they would have Nyx come back from her break. But that still didnt answer the question of who the main characters would be.
<P>They decided that Altair would make a cameo appearance but would die again in the usual way. Continuity was an important aspect of the new world. They also decided that they could bring Lo back, he didn't get much of a showing earlier.
<P>It was decided that for a little while the story would be about the savior Eris and Elis making the world a good place and keeping it that way. But first they had to make the world.
<P>They began by taking individual elementary particles and putting them together to form complex forums such as elephants, telephones and water droplets. But after a long amount of time (it is unknown how long it was, they had not implemented time yet) they decided that it was taking to long (whatever that means in a place where there is not time) and looked for a different way to do things.
<P>They decided to do it the old fashioned way, Nyx laid some eggs, chaos let loose new things from the mists of nonexistence. The surviving gods (which was most of them) also began to reproduce. Eros started causing things to mix like he always did (Eros is Cupids real name if you didnt know) and pretty soon there was a world, a universe, and such. Helios (the sun) and Selene (the moon) got back to their old spots, and Gaia came back to life with the reinvention of the world. The story was ready to start anew.
<P>The only thing left to do was to insert the elephant, the telephone ad the water droplet they had created through so much hard work. But they would only find an appropriate place for the water droplet. The other two didn't seem to quite fit in.
<P>So they smashed the phone saying, "down with technology," (they were god after all, they didn't need it) and put the elephant on ice.
<P>Ryan was brought back to them again, and he finally asked the burning question, he looked at Elis and asked, "Is Eris your girlfriend?" Elis nodded and the world moved on.
<P>Ryan found that there were now matching sunglasses in all colors in addition to his green ones. Ryan put on his orange sunglasses.  To do this he first took off his green glasses. He was very proud of this. Then he began to explore his new world.  He met Lo, who had suddenly appeared on the landscape.  He was very bewildered as the last thing he remembered was being burnt to a crisp by a dragon.
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<P>The first thing was to take a tally of new gods born in the great recreation. There were many new gods, they all had names and purposes. They had to be recognized, and recorded, but this would take too long and everybody was too busy exploring the new world. Ryan and Lo, who was still recovering, got everybody together and they all went exploring together. First they went down to the seaside, because whatever they had been doing while the world was created, it was thirsty work.
<P>There was a river that flowed of pure clean Coca-Cola, and on the first day they discovered it and saw that it was good. It was just the right temperature, and after drinking from it they were ready to do whatever they would do in this new world.
<P>But then the thing that had been preying on everybody's mind since that first pico-second occurred... what were they going to do. They had a new world sure enough, but nobody knew what they should do in it. It defeated the point of having a world if nobody had anything to do in it.
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<P>It really was becoming the time to figure stuff out. What they had was a world with lots of nature, a few animals, and zero human population. In fact not only were there no people, but there were no vampires or weretigers (renowned for the fact that they are good looking females) werewolves (renowned for the fact that they eat people) bat people (renowned for being nice fruit eating things of both genders) wererats (renowned for being feral looking males) dolphins, or ferrets.
<P>Actually the human population was two, Ryan and Lo.  These two thought and thought and thought. They remembered back to when humans were quite populous, and they did what humans always used to do. They fought and fought and fought.
<P>Then they decided that the humans of past days were stupid, and they should never be allowed to attain a significant populace again. They even debated turning into dolphins as soon as other dolphins were created. But they were unsure whether they should do that and spend their days in the water mucking about having a good time, or try to lead the new humans into the unexplored areas of peace and brotherhood, and good stuff. The third possibility was to change in between the two repeatedly.
<P>They decided to do all three. They separated into three groups (which was difficult because there was only two of them) and each went their separate paths. Now that Humans were playing around in water, trying to lead lives of peace and brotherhood and doing both alternatively it was up to the gods to get something done.
<P>And they decided to give some names to their groups. Group 1 was called The Troglodytic Nostrils, group 2 was the Heaving Garnish Brothers, and group 3 had no idea what was going on because they were too lazy to look over the logbook or even ask anyone, so they decided to rename nameless. From then on, group 3 decided not to take part in any further activities for fear of ignorance and/or humiliation.
<P>They secluded themselves in an obscure area of the world where their civilization floundered. This was mainly because of the impediment of having to be in water for half of everyday. But one day one of the nameless found the remnants of the telephone. The most preeminent scientists of the nameless developed this into the biggest super weapon the world had ever seen.  This weapon was exactly the same thing as Supergenius's great weapon idea, so the plan was immediately scrapped. Then Nyx and Eris entered the story again somehow.
