-Overflow- for 24 - Autumn Reception

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Autumn Reception
When: September 30, 6 PM
Where: The Gods' Meeting Hall
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a formal party! Old and new gods alike are invited, so put on your nicest outfits and some good dancing shoes, and come see what this shindig is all about.

Continuing from HERE!

Comments

[redotiertwo]

Considering the average competence of the ones who are supposed to be dealing out the unending wrath, I'd probably take my chances.

[But then again, Amaterasu does make for the shinier target. There's enough war gods here that nobody's going to be vying to get into that position, whereas "leader of the Heavens" is pretty exclusive.]

[reformedsinner]

Oh, I don't know about that. [Hakkai smiles cheerfully at Davesprite.] In direct combat, they're quite effective.

[And he just won't mention how he knows that. Elsa's attack on the Meeting Hall to rescue Goku might not have gone as well as they'd hoped -- and Hakkai blames that, at least in part, on the fact that she'd refused to do any worse than maim; death is much better at preventing your opponents from telling one another where you've gone and blocking your escape.

It's sometimes a little embarrassing to think that she'd been influenced by magic that left her in a murderous rage, and it still didn't leave her willing to kill outright. He'd gone much further with much less excuse.]

[redotiertwo]

Do I want to know how why you sound you know that for sure instead of just theorising. [Davesprite isn't quite letting him get out of that train of thought that easily. Especially considering the previous conversation tangent. On one hand, whatever it is probably happened before he got here since he's never heard about it, but on the other, it does sound like the kind of thing Hakkai would end up involved in given the right circumstances.

He just has to wonder what those right circumstances were.]

[reformedsinner]

There was a small incident with my first goddess, just before she disappeared.

[It's one of the reasons he'd wanted to believe, for so long, that the disappearances were deliberate punishments imposed by the Heavens for wrongdoing. So few of them fit that pattern, though. He'd had to abandon it at last.]

[redotiertwo]

I definitely believe that it was a "small" incident. [No he does not. The Heavens have failed to intercede for some pretty significant things, so for them to be prompted to fight with Hakkai and his goddess, he's going to guess they were doing something a bit more noteworthy than that.]

It'd be way harder to shittalk them if they actually showed that kind of actually being fucking competent all the time instead of just once in a blue moon.

[reformedsinner]

Unfortunately, investigation and combat require very different skill sets.

[He's not convinced at all that they have anyone skilled in investigation. They hadn't caught the murderer, after all. They don't seem to have caught anyone involved with the burning of Amaterasu's temple -- and while they claimed to have resolved the issue with the chocolates, Hakkai isn't even sure he believes those weren't just scapegoats.]

[redotiertwo]

I mean, yeah, but they could at least lend some help fighting shit from time to time instead of leaving all of it to us.

[It's kind of annoying that every major incident seems to be left to them, with no visible help from the older gods. Davesprite didn't give too much of a damn about it starting out, but it gets more and more obvious every month he's here.]

[reformedsinner]

Perhaps if they felt they were endangered.

[But if they can send the expendable newcomers up against a threat, well... Hakkai can't complain about the practicality of the tactic. It's entirely rational.

He shrugs, smiling cheerfully.]

But they seem to welcome the chance to send us up against challenges.

[redotiertwo]

Yeah, I'm starting to wonder if they're getting their rocks off on it or we're just lucky. [Or...well, not both, because that would be even weirder. It's definitely a habit by this point, anyway, enough that it's pretty difficult not to remark on it.]

They've been doing those patrols recently, I guess, so maybe something finally browned their pants enough for it.

[reformedsinner]

Or they could just be snatching every chance to keep us busy, in the hopes it'll keep us from causing too much of our own trouble.

[He pauses, and adds, with a thin smile:]

Not that it seems to have been very effective so far.

[redotiertwo]

I mean, exposing people to all those juicy ideas on how to make trouble is just gonna encourage the shitlord percentage of us, right.

[Either that or give them the connections they need to stir even more shit than they would do otherwise. It's kind of a lose/lose letting them do this unsupervised.]

[reformedsinner]

I'm sure it's a difficult situation for them to handle. To have so many strangers, with no particular inherent loyalty, cast into a place like this, far from our homes and loved ones - and subject to the stresses of constant disappearance and upheaval, for that matter - does seem like a recipe for unrest.

I sometimes get the feeling that the Heavens aren't very used to dealing swiftly with crises.

[redotiertwo]

Yeah, they've been around for how many hundred or thousand years, they're probably not used to this kind of shit happening all of a sudden. If people have the potential to plan shit out for that long in advance, why not do it.

[Which is good for them, but less so for the ability of the Heavens to actually respond to things promptly when they happen faster than a hundred years coming.]

Shitty situation either way, but that probably isn't helping.

[reformedsinner]

Indeed not.

[And he's not very impressed that they still don't seem to have fully adjusted.

On the other hand, if they had adjusted, he doubts that the new gods and shinki would still have the freedom that they do. Unrest and confusion are an opportunity, and since he's not adjusted to the idea of staying here peaceably until he disappears in the night, opportunities are to be snatched wherever they arise.

He shakes his head, after a moment, and manufactures a lighthearted smile.]

In any case, I should go check on Chikusa and Ken, and make sure they're enjoying the evening.

[Not starting fights, for example. Or biting the servers.]

[redotiertwo]

[Davesprite is pretty suspect about how genuine that look is, but then, he can't really call out anyone else for that sort of thing. So he lets him back out of the conversation without pressing it, especially since that's an entirely valid reason to be doing so.]

I'd probably be more worried if they were enjoying the evening, they might've poisoned a server or something.

[Davesprite might be sort of friends with Chikusa, but he's also a bit too down with murder at times.]

[reformedsinner]

Not fatally, I'm sure.

[And it's all fun and games as long as nobody really dies.]

I hope you enjoy your evening, Davesprite, regardless.

[redotiertwo]

Yeah, this kind of party isn't really my jam, but I'll try. Maybe I can enjoy it enough for both of us.

[Since it seems like Hakkai is having the kind of pretty shitty day that a party isn't going to salvage.

As it is, he floats up and starts to drift off over the crowd, raising a hand.]

See you around.