The Frost Giants

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Some days they tell me the Desert is coming and it will eat us all but I know better. Oh, the Desert is a strong thing, stronger than my poor meatsac brain can hope to comprehend and that's a fact, but it's not me the Desert is going to be fighting. No, a long time ago we knew what we were up against, when the gears started turning and we clothed the world in the dusty tears of children. We knew we couldn't face it alone. No man can. So we broke every promise we ever made to ourselves and turned to the enemy of our ancestors, sitting proud upon his throne in the northern wastes. And he smiled, and he said "yes, children, I will take you in." We consummated the relationship in Halifax to the tune of 2.9 kilotons of TNT.
The Desert can't claim us, we already belong to another.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It ain't a desert, it's America.  It just looks like a desert because it's all stained and shit.  But you can't clean it, because the horrible truth is that it's stains all the way through.  And no Northern ice giant can save you, regardless of maritime shipping accidents/disasters.

Because once America has you, you lose all connection to anything else.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

You think we don't know how deep the stains go? We were there when Daniel took his boys to Springfield and he carried the wounded back to the town where I learned to run. It was never real, none of it was, but we had to keep lying to ourselves because how else do you get up every morning. And we moved out west thinking it would ease our minds but we found the Desert there and it lured us in with shiny rocks and then laughed so hard the wars started and by the time the wars were over there were even more of us and we didn't know how to tell them it was built on a story we knew wasn't true.

The Giants were here before us. Before the men, before the gods, before the Desert. They crushed down the valleys and left these stumps of hills to hold us in. In time, they will take us like they took the men in Greenland. It is our fate.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You think we don't know how deep the stains go? We were there when Daniel took his boys to Springfield and he carried the wounded back to the town where I learned to run. It was never real, none of it was, but we had to keep lying to ourselves because how else do you get up every morning. And we moved out west thinking it would ease our minds but we found the Desert there and it lured us in with shiny rocks and then laughed so hard the wars started and by the time the wars were over there were even more of us and we didn't know how to tell them it was built on a story we knew wasn't true.

The Giants were here before us. Before the men, before the gods, before the Desert. They crushed down the valleys and left these stumps of hills to hold us in. In time, they will take us like they took the men in Greenland. It is our fate.

Optimist.  We've been here forever, which may be 220 years or maybe just last week.  And we'll be here forever.  The ice giants melt in this climate.

[East Coast Hustle]

You think we don't know how deep the stains go? We were there when Daniel took his boys to Springfield and he carried the wounded back to the town where I learned to run. It was never real, none of it was, but we had to keep lying to ourselves because how else do you get up every morning. And we moved out west thinking it would ease our minds but we found the Desert there and it lured us in with shiny rocks and then laughed so hard the wars started and by the time the wars were over there were even more of us and we didn't know how to tell them it was built on a story we knew wasn't true.

The Giants were here before us. Before the men, before the gods, before the Desert. They crushed down the valleys and left these stumps of hills to hold us in. In time, they will take us like they took the men in Greenland. It is our fate.

This is very Cormac McCarthy-esque. I really dig it.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

This is very Cormac McCarthy-esque. I really dig it.

Glad you liked it! I've been bouncing around the seed of the idea for a while, but Roger's hypenated-americans thread was the pants-kick needed to solidify it.

(And sorry I don't have a reply right now for you, Roger. Hopefully the voice will be back later.)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is very Cormac McCarthy-esque. I really dig it.

Glad you liked it! I've been bouncing around the seed of the idea for a while, but Roger's hypenated-americans thread was the pants-kick needed to solidify it.

(And sorry I don't have a reply right now for you, Roger. Hopefully the voice will be back later.)

Never force the riff.