-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

[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.