First we had to contend with Ra, golden Ra, who knew the rules and followed them to the letter to their furthest edge;
Then we had to contend with Mercury, who came to us apologetically, warning us that chaos was coming, and breaking our things when we refused to take his hand;
Then we had to contend with Vern, of Venus, a contemptuous scoundrel of a simp, acting alone on behalf of Ishtar's well-known preferences;
Then we had to contend with En Ki, who captures and kidnaps Nin Ki and squeezes the brilliance from her;
Then we had to contend with Horus, the mad war god of Mars Attacks! Ack Ack, we come in peace, do not be afraid!
Then there were the rocky, barren ruins of Marduk, lonesome and featureless and stretching on and on and on;
Then we had to contend with En Lil, who we slept with, who showed us his brand of light therapy, who murders and pleasures simultaneously in great quantities;
Then we had to contend with Orion, the Vain Hunter, as he tried to make us into his son, as he tries to do with every resource he can tap;
Then we had to contend with Derek Sheppard and his acres of aeons of psychological torment, the tortures he wreaks upon mortal minds in the name of noodling gyrification;
Then we had to contend with Neptune, the alien visitor, who did not give us trouble and let us pass without incident;
Today we had to contend with the Marovingian and his pomp, his misplaced grandeur and his flatulent impotence;
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