in which the jaunt was failed because sera spent the wholetime stealing an entire populations pants

[unagreeable]

Ugh, I hate using this head talking magic!

Hey, so, acording to that guy in all of our heads-there's a bunch of people over in the Caliphate that think they can tell people what to do. Think they can tell people what to wear, and stop girls from kissing girls, and I think that's fucked up.

So I'm going to go steal their pants. As many as I can. Who else is in?

Comments

[oftoomuchfaith]

Getting bigger quickly.

You should meet up with Luci'n me. We've met some folks, and we've got plans, you might like 'em.

[notinthecards]

Plan more carefully. Go for something big.

[private]

[loyalrebel]

As I said, I will not be so quick to offer advice again even if I know things.

[oftoomuchfaith]

But that second wrong can be very very satisfying.

I'm a vengeful goddess, it's kind of my thing. Haven't you ever heard about how it's safer to cross Hades than Persephone?

[unagreeable]

If you've got ideas that'll stop people being pushed around, I'm in.

[unagreeable]

Sounds serious. I don't do serious.

[oftoomuchfaith]

We're staying over in [insert name of lower-class social gathering pub-like place here]. Come see us, and we'll let you know what we're thinking.

[loyalrebel]

I know it can, very well in fact.

I also know that whomever follows the path of it is best off to dig two graves, one for their enemy and one for themself.

[unagreeable]

Just like home. I'm on my way.

[loyalrebel]

It is real, for those here life goes on after we leave.

While the others went off to wherever they were, others of us re-visited a world where a Jaunt had already occurred. They recognized people and attacked us over it.

[oftoomuchfaith]

Yeah, because that's not something that could be planned or programmed.

Other than that, do you have any proof? Because they can do that in video games, so.... it's not really a compelling argument.

[oftoomuchfaith]

Fair enough.

Traditionally, considering the whole "Queen of the Underworld" thing, I'm pretty sure Persephone hasn't minded. I'm not sure yet my stance on things. It's not likely to be very different.

[loyalrebel]

This is not your fight, not here or now. You cannot change what people believe their god says is right any more than you can yell at rain to stop being wet.

People who are different will always be a target by those who want to fit in with the rest of society, hurting those who hurt them out of fear and spite will only make it worse. Help those who are different by being their friend, by being kind and listening to what they want and need.

Anger only begets more anger, which turns to hate which ends in people being killed as an example.

[loyalrebel]

...what is a 'video game'?

[oftoomuchfaith]

They're... games. Simulations. Like this, but just on a... a screen. And you control a character, or multiple characters, and you achieve objectives, and you win or you lose. And some games you can play with or against other people.

The Trumps are playing a game. This place is their simulation, and we're their playing pieces.

[loyalrebel]

They do not tell us what to do, they just throw us here and we have to figure it out or not.

[oftoomuchfaith]

And they punish us if we don't find and complete the objective. Maybe it's more like animal experimentation, then, put us in a controlled environment with certain variables and condition us to do certain things by punishing or rewarding us afterwards.

Either way, it doesn't lead me to believe that we're in anything other than a really elaborate simulation.

[oftoomuchfaith]

...You are so cute when you're being all leadery and shit.

Wanna help us inspire a rebellion?

[because I don't feel like starting a new post, after she's had a chance to calm down overnight]

[oftoomuchfaith]

Malik, you there?

I didn't...

[ a pause ]

I'd still like that mapmaking lesson one of these days. If you still want to give it.

[ She's not going to apologize for losing her temper, but it wasn't really about him, or even the Caliphate, and she does feel a little bad that she might've... fucked something up.

He seemed nice. ]

Re: [private]

[bypartisan]

I know. I... don't think I blame you.

[brokers]

It's more likely that they'll crack down all the harder. People in power are rarely known for their self reflection.

If you want to embarass them in a way that has a chance to provoke change, you'd be better off turning up political corruption or scandal. Reputations can survive widespread clothing theft. Being caught taking bribes or breaking your own laws is far more damaging.

[private]

[loyalrebel]

I was trying to help, because I know that there would be difficulty in relating. I have difficulty relating to them because I am from a time gone by and morals and what is and is not acceptable has changed.

[loyalrebel]

[He's a bit cold, and disappointed sounding.]

If liminal space permits it when we are done, I will likely be working in Leonardo's workshop.

[oftoomuchfaith]

[ ah. ]

...You don't have to. I just--

[a pause, and she's clearly making an effort to be calm] I grew up getting told if I was good enough, and respectable enough and didn't make a fuss, that I'd be okay. That nobody would... throw racial slurs at me. That I wouldn't get told I was too white to be black or too black to be white. That I'd be accepted.

But I wasn't. All it did was make me stay quiet when people did that. So when she said-- when she said that, I just... It doesn't work. Being unoffensive and laying low. It doesn't change anything. And I don't think I'm going to change anything either, probably, but I'm not going to pretend that being "respectable" will do fuck all.

[ she is pure Laura right now. She's the Laura that was gracious enough to comfort the person she thought had gotten the divinity she'd desperately wanted, because they were friends. She really needs to learn to bring more of that into Persephone. Well. Time will help - after all, it's only been about a month that she's been herself since she became Persephone, and she hasn't had even Ananke's dubious guidance to help her deal with it, and without Lucifer's immediate meshing of her divinity and mortality. ]

That's why I got angry. You gave good advice, and I... made light of that, and that wasn't fair or right of me. That's your religion, right? Islam?

Re: [private]

[bypartisan]

As it naturally would. To be honest, I'm sure the only reason I'm not having the same trouble from the other direction is that my planet, well, regressed when it was cut off from everyone else for about five centuries and we're still having to work at catching up with the rest of the galaxy.