Aphrodite: Difference between revisions

When the [[faceless magician (Magic Trick)|faceless magician]]'s [[The Hat|Hat]] flooded the [[Cupid Homeworld]] with illusory white rabbits for three days, the [[Department of Problem-Solving]] eventually admitted they had no other recourse but to follow [[Valerius-1497]]'s suggestion of summoning Aphrodite to enact a literal ''Deus Ex Machina''. Aphrodite, who had been watching a particularly engrossing piece of TV involving characters called [[Anthony (Magic Trick)|Anthony]], [[Alice (Magic Trick)|Alice]], [[Aunt Eileen]], [[Vanessa (Magic Trick)|Vanessa]] and [[James (Magic Trick)|James]], was upset at being summoned by a common demon-summoning ritual, without a chance to compose herself, and, even though she'd promised herself that she'd give up on the practice of turning impudent mortals into animals, she zapped [[Valerius-1497]] into a parakeet, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'', ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') something which the Crew had not found a way to reverse by December 2021. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') However, she then agreed to fix the problem, clapping her hands thrice and making the rabbits and Hat vanish before returning whence she came. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'') The [[Department of Quasireligious Obsequiousness]] and [[Nostradamus-066]] subsequently released a joint recommendation to the rest of the Crew that they should organise great sacrifices to Aphrodite in thanks. [[Colonel-028]], who still believed the Hat to have been created by the [[Department of Haberdashery]], snidely suggested sacrificing its members. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Parliament Destroyed? (short story)|The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?]]'')

=== In the 97th Cosmos ===