GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[bakaomi]

[ he blinks in surprises, glancing away for a second before looking back at him

... ]

One of the worried for Ambition is that since her lead spiked so suddenly, we're not really sure how many of those people genuinely want her to win or if they switched to her for something like power usage.

[divus]

Given she has some of the strongest powers in the game, that's a pretty genuine thing to worry about. [He finishes a second taco and takes a drink before replying.] Do you know who her followers are?

[bakaomi]

Maybe Entrapta, Catra, Ludger, Hiro, Alex, and Shang, although we're not 100% certain there.

Catra's been with her for a while, so she's probably safe.

[divus]

[Huh.] Pretty impressive line-up. You have a read on any of the others as far as what their motivations might be?

[bakaomi]

It was more of a process of elimination at that point.

Entrapta... would probably because of Catra. Senri's been talking to Shang about it, who seems generally undecided. I don't understand Alex at all, we've mostly been having other people talk to him for us since none of us get along with him. I can try talking to Hiro.

[ looks at ty,, ]

[divus]

Whatever.

That also leaves that Ludger kid. [Good luck finding Hiro Francy he's dead probably.] If they really back her vision, fine, but I don't like the sound of someone being "generally undecided."

[bakaomi]

We'll keep trying to talk to him and see what happens.

... how are you holding up?

[ uno follower ]

[divus]

I'm alive which is better than usual. [Hm.] And Guy's still alive, so I'm a little less worried about that. It's been a weird week with the whole "cat who came back" thing.

[bakaomi]

[ HM ]

... it kind of makes the whole thing with Guy last week even more pointless.

[ they kept him under guard but now there's so many known murderers wandering around ]

[divus]

Tell me about it. You've got, what, five known murderers left alive now? At some point you guys have to learn to live with each other.

That's why the idea of justice is kinda skewed.

[bakaomi]

... it was kind of bound to happen, especially considering how many deaths we didn't get to solve during trial. People still don't know who killed Bart, too, although that one seems less likely to come out...

[divus]

Shit, make that six. [He shakes his head.] That's the thing about justice and "doing the right thing" sometimes. Depending on what reason you tell everybody, you're either regarded as a hero, or a villain, even if it's the same thing. Look at what happened to Guy versus how people are treating Sasuke.

[bakaomi]

... mm. Luke outing him didn't help Guy either, since people feeling bad for Luke's position in it all painted Guy in a more negative light.

[ kind of similar to how people seem more forgiving of sasuke than ishi ]

[divus]

Can we make it a ground rule to stop using the other guy's name? It's weird. [But anyway.] But yeah, can't disagree with that. In the end people will believe what they wanna believe even if murder's still murder.

But we still have a few more days. If you guys can keep it together until then...we'll see what the final outcome can be.

[bakaomi]

...

Do you think we could make it without anyone dead this weekend?

[divus]

It's entirely possible. Depends on how you guys feel about each other and about us. That's the thing about competition, Taka. Who you're playing against can change at the very last minute.

[bakaomi]

... I'd like to think the rule on revenge will stop people, since that's the only reason I can think of as to why someone might do it.

[divus]

Considering last week, yeah. It was a smart rule, I almost wish I'd thought of it. Not that we would've needed it back then.

…revenge is a lot of why wars and competitions like this start anyway. Maybe we should've thought of that from the start.

[bakaomi]

... well, it's not like you guys could have predicted how this would go.

[ since it seems like none of them thought they'd catch feelings ]

[divus]

It's obnoxious. I thought I was done feeling stupid.

[He wanted to start over, the fuck is this bullshit.] I don't believe in karma, but maybe it's like that.

[bakaomi]

[ ... ]

It was really that bad?

[divus]

The answer's probably yes, but which specific it?

[bakaomi]

Back home.

You don't have to answer, obviously.

[divus]

[…well.]

We were fighting in a war back in my world right before the ascension. A few years before the final battle, some asshole stole Zeus's lightning bolt to get the gods to turn on each other and miss the bigger picture. Think I told you that part, yeah?

What they missed was a resurrection of the lord of the titans who was coming back to tear down Olympus and start a new golden age. Be a better and new ruler. Don't know how up to date you are on mythology, but it's history for us. You have Gaea. You have the giants. You have the tians. And then the Olympians.

The planning of the resurrection went on for a while before the first steps were taken. The titan, Kronos, had been hacked to pieces and sent to Tartarus. He needed time to basically be put back together and come back to his full power. Without it, and without a body, he wasn't exactly going anywhere.

Took about…five years for him to get somewhere. When he did, he was the most powerful being around and had raised a bunch of armies made up of monsters and other demigods to begin the attack on Manhattan. A bunch of the kids from Camp started joining the Olympians to defend Olympus…whole big mess.

Didn't stop Kronos from getting to the throne room though to start destroying everything. [But that's more than he's ever said so he's stopping to let Taka take all of that in.]

[bakaomi]

[ yeah, he remember the first part of the story

he listens along, nodding his head, although there is a... bad feeling he's getting, considering luke has been hinting for several conversations that he wasn't really one of the good guys back home. ]

And what happened?