I'm trying to think... call each idea, each possibility NP-complete... they reduce to each other. And they're impossible sofas!
Attempts to develop a vertical aqueduct have proven to be an extremely poor idea.
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It's fine to have gods be around in your story if the conflict taking place in it is just not worth their attention, for the most part. Once it becomes a threat to the entire world, the fact that they're sitting on their butts not using that unfathomable power to fix it themselves starts to get a bit frustrating!