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Almost. [waves his hand. HOBBLE INTO THE CLOSET, FRIENDO]

[H... hobbles into? The closet??]

[in the closet!

except actual stepping through, it's a big ol' prop room. There are mannequins, super low quality costumes, stuff for making school play style set pieces, and so many prank items. Just, so many. Fake mustaches, wigs, rubber chickens, silly snakes, you name it, it's probably there.

C takes a seat on a few boxes]

Ta-daaa! Whaddya think?

Looks like you stepped your game up.

Where'd you even get all this stuff?

Most of it came with the upgrade! I figure if I'm gonna do a bunch of big Lives, I might as well have a room dedicated to it, y'know?

But speaking of thinking big! You still have big plans too, huh?

I mean... not so much. Not anymore.

Eeeeh? What happen?

Gimme details, subordinate! Spill your heart out!

I mean... how much've you heard?

You guys got wrecked by an angel while trying to get to Azzy's place--like SUPER wrecked, and had to abandon the other angel you were looking for, and Intensity had to throw down some blank check to get you back.

And you recently decided you were gonna keep looking for the angel anyway! Summoning someone, I believe? Sorry, I peeked at your plan.

Yeah, well. 'S not the plan anymore.

Intensity called me off.

[Please hold, though, while he digs into his super hero belt pouch for a sheaf of papers and hands them over to C.]

...here. I got the long version, if you want it. We were trying to break into P's place, not Azzy's. Were kinda hoping we'd find a clue on how to get to there.

[taking them to look over]

Intensity managed to talk you out of it? Wow, you guys must have REALLY taken a beating. Like, harder than I imagined.

So what now?

[It's these, minus the green parts. Hurricane's taken some care to be neat and pay attention to spelling.]

He kinda wiped the floor with us.

But I dunno what's next. Sounds like he's got better people on the job for finding a way in. So.

[dang nice. idly keeps reading as he speaks]

Oh, yeeeeaah, that's right. He asked me not to tell you the name of the big demon city for now! I'm gonna acknowledge that promise because I really don't wanna see you running off alone. But I'm sure the gears are already turning in Intensity's head for round two.

So all that said, good job!

[I mean. Legit. He can't blame them for holding out on info, though he does hunch in a little bit when C brings it up.]

On what? I messed everyone up, got someone kidnapped and tortured, and got a whole bunch of people killed.

While I'm not thrilled to know it was so bad you all had to go through Lilith to get back, all things considered you set off quite the chain reaction of events! At least SOMETHING interesting happened.

Torture and dying isn't really anything new here, and your angel buddy may be gone, but hardly forgotten. Plus, it was another angel that took you guys out, right? That means there's a high chance they're not planning on snuffing out your guy. So you'll get to see him again.

It's like an intermission! Neeheeehee, I wonder how big act two will be.

Even if they don't kill him, they're probly hurting him.

Oh absolutely! [just like, NO HESITATION THERE]

They could prod him for information or--well, to be honest I'm not exactly sure how you properly torture an angel since holy stuff seems to be demon proof. But that's how it goes. Ultimately, as long as he's not dead, we still have chance.

Knowing you I'm sure you feel super duper guilty, especially since you were so hype about the rescue plan. But personally, I don't think much has changed.

...dude. Case you didn't notice, everyone's got holes in em filled with demon goop.

Yes, Hurricane, I kind of have a reminder about that around my neck every single day.

It's unfortunate, but not something we can't eventually work to resolve. Besides, with the way some games have been going, half of those people would end up like that anyway. [looking at u pp!!]

But it still doesn't negate the fact that we have a better grasp on what we're dealing with. And while it's a fucked up way to get there, maybe some people will start taking this seriously as well. Oooor they were gonna take Azzy's deal and become demons anyway so! No big loss.

Edited 2019-08-29 02:51 (UTC)

Seems like a bad trade, is all. Everyone got hurt growing their new stuff in, and the only person who's wanted to help us at all is getting tortured right now. A whole bunch of people got killed, too.

It's - it's a lot, just to find out we hit a dead end.

Neeheehee. . .you really are too good of a person, you know that?

If I'd been a better one, maybe everyone'd be better off right now.

[gets up to wander closer, poking at a shoulder]

If you were, you'd practically be an angel yourself. Now that'd be fucked up.

Tell me this, what was our plan before all of this happened?

What... what do you mean?

I mean, what were we doing before you got back into heaven, and we all got dumped into double hell. What was the plan? Was there even one? Hell, for you guys, was there even hope?

Edited 2019-08-29 03:39 (UTC)

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