<strong>Location:</strong>Outside in the rain<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Clio<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Clio’s thoughts keep buzzing about her lessons from Professor Durgan yesterday, especially about sacrifices.  Hephaestus didn’t want people thrown into the volcano to sacrifice them to himself, but other pantheons had things like that.  More often, it was Titans, who were often nemeses of the gods.  The Theoi cast down such creatures to the depths of Tartarus, but not all pantheons fought them as viciously.  Often, the Titans were more forces of nature, more than happy to destroy or corrupt humans, or seeing humanity as chattel more than servants.  People who spoke of Mother Earth were actually referring to Gaea, a Titan whose cultists war against and betray the Theoi in deference to her.  As Old Redbeard had taught Clio, Gaea would rather everyone gave up all technology altogether to live no better than animals, and many Titans followed that same pattern.  Not all, but many.<br/><br/>That was the problem with human sacrifice: it<em>worked</em>because human life was precious, even if those who would sacrifice innocent people didn’t see humans as valuable.  Sacrifices gave power to gods and titans, and a enough sacrifices could certainly cause a dormant volcano to grow more and more, perhaps even erupting.<br/><br/>Except that the people who lived on this island had a vested interest in keeping that from happening.  That meant pitting power against power, like an arm wrestling contest.  For all the people that wanted to keep this volcano dormant,<em>someone</em>felt otherwise, and was willing to kill people to force it to happen.