[color=#fa7d32][u][h3]Flint[/h3][/u][/color]
[quote][color=1e90ff]“Imagine every legend, champion, god, myth, and monster humanity has ever dreamed of being unleashed upon the world. That should paint a sufficient picture for now.”[/color][/quote]
To summarize, an insurmountable trial awaited them. To carry out such an impossible task, they would be granted gifts that 'will seem unbelievable' to them now. There was, really, only one thing that could bear such an onus, and it would certainly be unbelievable.

What would that be? Why, the power of god, of course. Gods, perhaps, given how Igor had summoned forth several people. It would make sense if they were all believers of different faiths, which implied the existence of multiple 'true' gods; as opposed to the false gods which either cannot or will not deign to perform miracles. Flint was tempted to try summoning forth the god of love right there and then, but Clerval's wording meant that the power to do so had not yet been bestowed upon them.

Is such a power necessary?

Muttering a prayer to himself, he gave it a try. [color=#fa7d32]"Oh, god, I beseech thee..."[/color] He got halfway through it when Father Dominic's words echoed in his head. The god of love did not perform miracles when they were not necessary. Humans can never achieve true freedom of thought and spirit if they never learn to take care of themselves, and nothing in the present called for the power of god. Still, Father Dominic said that asking for spiritual strength was supposed to be fine, because it was somethings humans lacked on their own. [color=#fa7d32]"...grant me strength in the face of adversity, amen."[/color]

As Flint returned his attention to Igor, he didn't feel any different than he would after any other prayer. Not much actual adversity here, yeah? There's no way he's wrong about the power in question being that of a god, though. Or, a god by any other name, he supposes.

[color=#0096c8][u][h3]Radcliff[/h3][/u][/color]
[color=#0096c8]"Igor. Nice to meet you."[/color]

As Igor finally began speaking in more concrete terms, Radcliff's last remaining shreds of sincere denial began to crumble. It was still a tale as tall as a mountain, and the logical part of his mind still kept scrambling to find the molehill, but all in all, the odds of all of this being an elaborate hoax were starting to tip over into the territory of minority. Constructing an elaborate narrative for some kind of 'gotcha' moment should inherently end with them doing something worth using as entertainment, and unless they need to strip down and/or climb into guillotines to receive such power, this level of detail is untenable for a simple prank show. It would be a waste of time and money.

Igor's exact words were, “The world as you know it is on the precipice of oblivion." 'The world as we know it' is very different from the world as a whole, which was a much more realistic prophecy than figments of the human mind ending all human life which created them. Radcliff did not consider himself remotely religious; an atheist or perhaps agnostic atheist, given that the divine are generally unfalsifiable, though if there is one belief that made sense to him, it was Shintoism. It wasn't their mythos or anything like that that made sense, but the fundamental principle of Shintoism was that human belief held power. With enough belief, anything could become a god. The idea that "every legend, champion, god, myth, and monster humanity has ever dreamed of" would be "unleashed upon the world" hearkened to, if not outright proved that idea. There was no other way for so many conflicting mythoi to coexist.

The logical outcome would be for the Earth to get wrapped up in an existential holy war where a bunch of nigh-all-powerful beings who are intractable by nature recruit and then whip up their followers into a frenzy aiming to eliminate all competition. And, given belief would be the basis of their existence, that would mean eliminating all the followers of other gods. Their goal, both the group of them that Igor summoned, as well as the gods themselves, would be to commit genocide, something they couldn't realistically accomplish before the extinction of the human race, unless-

[color=#0096c8]"Igor, would my assumption be correct that you would have us fight these gods, myths, and legends, directly?"[/color] That might actually prove to be harder than the alternative, though he supposed they wouldn't really be saving the world at all if they weren't doing just that. Either way, there was another thing that had to be asked. [color=#0096c8]"What power would you have us wield for this?"[/color] In hindsight, he almost resented Igor and Clerval for pausing here without explaining. [color=#0096c8]"You don't need to beat around the bush and make us ask every obvious question. Let's cut to the chase."[/color] Is it going to be given out now or held back as if to punctuate Igor's need to be cryptic and unconvincing? Is it ethically sourced from the wave of a magician's hand, or are they making blood sacrifices to an eldritch god? Radcliff wasn't exactly keen on trying to start a religion worshipping himself, nor others doing the same, and it'd feel rather awkward for Igor to bust out a propaganda advertising campaign for each of them out of nowhere. So many obvious questions and not a single one on the easily-anticipated-FAQ is being answered without first being prompted. He probably wouldn't even have these questions if they were just given the full rundown from the start.

He'd ask Igor about meeting the others in the real world, but his cryptic bullshit prophecy said they'd meet already, and he doubts the long-nosed gremlin is keen on elaborating in a simple and straight-forward manner. If Igor had foreseen them exchanging contact information before actually making contact, he should have said something about it. It was funny in a grim sort of way. Five people tasked with saving the world and they never accomplish it just because nobody told them to trade cell phone numbers.