GODLY AUDIENCES: RAY

[divus]

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[divus]

A good skill to have. [Love continues walking ahead, footsteps light in the snow.] ...anything else you'd like to update me on? [What have you been doing, child?]

[selfimmolates]

[he's not stabbing guy for another two days, it's fine.]

Disorder and I are cool now, apparently?

[he's still half-convinced she's faking it.]

[divus]

Seriously? [That's surprising, but...] You must have flattered her somehow. Good job. What'd she have to say?

[Not that he has to tell her, but she wants to know.]

[selfimmolates]

That she's sorry for her behaviour last week? Have to say, I wasn't expecting that.

[divus]

Neither was I. That's...pretty nice of her. [...] Do you buy it?

[selfimmolates]

On the one hand, nothing she said was completely unbelievable. She claims the rumours about her are blown out of proportion, and Chuuya isn't helping. And Chuuya is dramatic. Plus, I did hear she could be sweet when she wanted to be, and she did something worthwhile enough to earn another follower this week.

On the other hand, after a week of a bad reputation, why wouldn't you lie to try and earn sympathy?

[divus]

Well...[Oomph.] I don't want to talk badly about her because I don't really know what she might have said. Sometimes she can be really nice? Like. Really, really deep down. She's nicest to Ambition and Cunning and that's where you can see it most. Buuut I think you have a point that it could be a tactic.

I don't really know what the others are trying now. You may have to keep talking to her and scoping out her motivations.

[selfimmolates]

'Cause I just love talking to people who curse me when someone else was the one who pissed them off. But yeah, fine. I'm leaving Indulgence and Ambition to Senri until I know what to get them, so I might as well suck up to Disorder for now.

[divus]

I really doubt she will, and if she tries it I'll just curse one of her own. [Petty.] Are you guys really splitting up who gets who now?

[selfimmolates]

Why test to see what offerings work when I can delegate that task to Senri and have him report back?

[divus]

And this is why you're my strategist. Just don't get him cursed or killed either, okay?

[selfimmolates]

I'm not responsible for whatever ideas he comes up with on his own.

[divus]

That's true, but if you're instigating...[Still maybe your fault.] But he'll probably be fine.

[selfimmolates]

Being fake is his special skill, right? It's mine too; if I can manage, so can he.

[divus]

Just don't forget that you're supposed to be working together, not competing to see who can lie better.

[selfimmolates]

I'm not competing. I'm just saying that I probably wouldn't be working with him to this degree if he couldn't act.

[or is that one of ray's lies? who knows.]

[divus]

Whatever you say. [Love is rolling her eyes behind the mask. Boys.]

...keep me posted either way. I'm creating a network of people at the moment and hopefully that'll help us stay in the lead.

[selfimmolates]

Do your best to win over people with your charming personality, then.

[divus]

I can't tell if you're being mean or not, but I will. [So THERE.]

[selfimmolates]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[he's a little shit.]

[divus]

[Love is just going to scoop up some snow from a nearby ledge and gently dump it on Ray's head then. How dare you.]

[selfimmolates]

[SPLUTTERS]

[divus]

[There's a laugh.]

You know you sort of deserved that. [Hm..] I've been talking to a lot of people lately. I'm hoping to sway them to our side, but it's still pretty early in the week. There's still time.

[selfimmolates]

Better act quick, before Sincerity steals them all away. They've been getting popular.

[divus]

They're easy to get along with so that doesn't surprise me at all. I like them, too. [But?]

...I used to be able to draw in crowds of thousands of people. This shouldn't be as hard as it is sometimes. So what am I really doing wrong here?