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Murder Mysterium - 10IV
[ Your unit-colored alcove has its own seating—benches, rather than any specific number of chairs, line the green bushels. It's wide enough to comfortably fit all of your unitmates if necessary, though it's likely not all of you will be here at a time. You're aware, somehow, that the space is soundproof; you could say whatever you like here and it won't be heard by anyone but your unitmates.
At the center of your "room" is what looks to be a marble table, but upon further inspection you'll note that the surface is actually electronic, a touch screen that mimics the visual texture of marble. Here, you have a number of options of things to choose from, and you can even pull up a keyboard or write with your finger for a certain freeform answer section. ]
At the center of your "room" is what looks to be a marble table, but upon further inspection you'll note that the surface is actually electronic, a touch screen that mimics the visual texture of marble. Here, you have a number of options of things to choose from, and you can even pull up a keyboard or write with your finger for a certain freeform answer section. ]
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Just to be clear, is this a metaphor for "we had all of you killed to save Creation, except Creation kept having problems?"
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(I'm doing my best to salvage this line of thought!)
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I'm not really mad, just disappointed.
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Have you ever heard of someone being fired from Yu-Shan? I haven't, because it's ontologically impossible for a situation to arise in which that can happen!
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...also, what kind of thing even constitutes "poor conduct" up there? Embezzlement?
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Really though, every single one of those is okay if enough people agree on it and the paperwork is legitimate, except the defying Fate thing. Oh, and the embezzlement. Paycheck politics are our primary method of conflict resolution amongst ourselves.
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You know, I suppose I should have expected that it wasn't all merely the disgruntled Dragonblooded. Not that they couldn't have done it, but that it all fell into place so well.
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...so, you're trying to return, then?
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Besides, I was actually sort of hoping I'd make it to retirement age. I only had a couple hundred years left in me, I think. It has this kind of narrative justice to it - Chosen of Endings takes longest possible route to reach an ending!
Aaaand I'd really like to apologize to everyone for pulling a few thousand years of accumulated strings to try and fix the whole needing to kill every Solar again problem. I still think it would've been a really smart plan if it had worked out, but dying like that probably left a lot of messes for everyone to clean up. Wonder how that circle I put together is doing now, actually.
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I don't suppose I could prevail upon you to actually say what your plan was? Because you've built it up quite a bit.
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I didn't actually know that last part.
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(Do you see what I did there?)
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Soooooo the unbelievably powerful artifact prison was stolen. In our defense, there's only a hundred of us and Creation is really big and always on fire we just really thought nobody would figure that one out so watching it wasn't really a priority.
It's fine because it broke in transit. Well, fine for you. Not fine for us, because some of those sparks were still stolen and that's why we have reverse Solars now, and also the rest of them went back to empowering mortals when we were barely able to deal with the ones we missed in the first place.
So not really fine for you either. Or your spark's current holder as of my current temporal frame of reference, since yours was one of the stolen ones. Really it actually wasn't fine for anybody and I lied to make myself feel better about it.
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Oh! Continuing on - my original plan, the one that basically nobody liked and for which I was severely reprimanded for even considering, was to do what we did for the Wyld Hunt and also what we do to find our own to ferry them to Yu-Shan. But instead of waiting for a mortal to be empowered before terminating or kidnapping them, I wanted to work to manipulate events so that the events leading to their ascension simply never came to pass. Perhaps, for example, someone who is about to decide to spit in Fate's face and charge valiantly against their aggressors in service of someone they've vowed to protect suddenly finds themself saved by a mysterious stranger before their heart is even set. That way, we (eventually) have no Solars, no massacre, and if Creation ever needed them again we could simply stop doing that instead of messing with divinity-entrapping artifacts.
Now, admittedly, at the time I overestimated our predictive capabilities - it turns out we're only capable of determining the general time and location of any given event and when anything with sufficient essence is involved Fate is the first thing to give, and maaaaaybe there were a few other problems too, but that was a really clever plan! Don't you think, don't you think?
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...is that to say you were going to...
...make sure people just never got the chance to do anything the Unconquered Sun would take notice of and simply prevent all problems yourselves...?
I mean, it's clever, it just seems like it'd be a bit difficult given the scale of the problems that tend to just happen to Creation.
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If the Maidens didn't insist on keeping us perilously understaffed at all times, for what I'm sure are very important political considerations amongst the gods but are very inconvenient in our day-to-day administration of Creation.
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