Tiny Chat People

why does nobody like or even remotely trust rein all of a sudden? is it just that the people who remain even considering going to war (and thus allying) as a possibility are all alike in viewpoint to warmonger grind?

I get the feeling that part of it is just that if one person continues saying something loudly enough people might start to think they actually have a point.
The only reasons we have to distrust Rein right now is that Grind doesn't like them, they think that Spit shouldn't be executed (someone who isn't even in this game and we have never met), and they've been very nice.

I wouldn't say right now that we can definitely trust Rein but I absolutely wouldn't say we can trust Grind either.
If we want to ally with someone who isn't Wax (who automatically joins the smallest side) then someone whose domain is control surely wouldn't seem like a bad idea! It certainly makes more sense than a god of justice (which we already are) who thinks we are completely incompetent.


But I also still insist that we shouldn't dedicate ourselves to a side until we've seen what other people's cats are up to.
We've spent so so so much time on inter-god relationships, which are important if you want to win a game, but I feel like that was actually a mistake if we want to be a worthwhile god.

If all we are good for is politicking with other deities and using our followers are game chips then frankly we should just let Wax fail us out of existence right now. What should matter to us is TCPs, not other deities, and we have absoutely no idea how any of them are being treated (which is something we should have made a priority much earlier so we could learn by example) and that surely should be a key piece of information in figuring out who our friends should be.

Anyone can claim to be totally into the same things as we are. We arbitrarily decided that we were the god of justice, after all. It doesn't mean they are actually embodying them!
Seeing how other tcps live should be vital to making our decisions on who to make friends with, and as that will take a long time it probably means Wax will have to suffer alongside us. Sorry buddy!

We are awful diplomats and have spoiled the pot with regards to most of the other deities, but it's possible that our tcps are better than us and may prove useful diplomats to other people's cats.
Winning might be dependent on making an alliance of all players, and it's quite likely that we are going to have to fight at some point because not all gods are going to want to be our friends and not all cats our going to want to be our cats friends, but we should avoid that for as long as humanely possible, find out who is treating their followers best and why, and the absolute best case scenario would be to convince other people's cats that fighting isn't their only option.

We've pretty firmly established that they are people, so they shouldn't be tools for our proxy war game even if it means we'll probably die.
And that includes everyone else's tcps, not just ours.
Maybe they could join our side or maybe they could go rogue, frankly as long as they aren't going to war for the purposes of a video game it's all good to me.

If we've decided that we're a god of justice, and we will compromise our principles and support an unjust war in order to live, then we shouldn't exist in the first place.