[Jaunt] That Monk is Terrifying

[failgoyle]

Okay, okay, so, everyone stay the hell away from Matthew. I don't know what the hell he's doing, but he's some kind of monk, and he's talking to ghosts, and he and the ghosts are freaking terrifying and tried to kill me! And he was gonna interrogate me with this scary as hell tree-lady-ghost-thing who wanted my blood, and I barely got out of there alive!

...and...uh...he kind of startled the crap out of me, so I...ah...lost my tail, and I...er, well...he's...still got it...

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[failgoyle]

That's...uh...uh.

[Let him process this.]

Yikes.

[leftbehindagain]

What? We got better.

[failgoyle]

But still! That sort of thing shouldn't happen!

[leftbehindagain]

Yeah, and she shouldn't have been using our town as the site for her social experiment, either.

[failgoyle]

That's what hugely powerful beings do. Screw around with the little guys without caring who they hurt.

[leftbehindagain]

Which would be why we didn't let her get away with it.

[failgoyle]

How do you even fight something like that?

And why, when there's such a chance you'll get your ass handed to you and then some?

[leftbehindagain]

Because she thought a world with nothing in it was what humanity wanted, and that isn't her choice to make. We weren't going to let her do it.

As for how, she gave us the tools and then got all surprised when we used them against her.

[failgoyle]

But that doesn't make any sense, why would she even think--

--what am I trying to do, Fae don't operate on anything like normal logic, right, right. Something like that, then.

[At that last bit, he's quiet for a second, and then,]

...you're all Summer Court, aren't you?

[leftbehindagain]

Izanami's a god. Call her fae at your own peril. For one thing, she abides by her promises.

What court?

[failgoyle]

Some Fae like to call themselves gods too, if it suits their whim. And they're sticklers for contracts and promises and pledges and all sorts of stuff like that.

Summer Court. They're the fighty guys. I'm Winter--that's not my speed.

[leftbehindagain]

It's no whim. She's a god. The whim was calling herself a gas station attendant. [HAVE FUN BUYING GAS NOW.] As for the promise, my understanding of fae is that they really, really like breaking them. She keeps hers.

Left to my own devices I'm not much of a fighter. But there was no one else to do the job, and having made it that far I wasn't about to turn my back on Kanji.

[failgoyle]

But that all sounds exactly like something a True Fae would pull! Fae are all about promises. Twisted promises designed to stab you in the back or blow up in your face somehow, but seriously, there are all sorts of contracts and rules, it's just that some of them don't operate on logic the human mind can comprehend.

And oh, sticking with people...that's...that'll do it for some people.

[leftbehindagain]

She had no reason to roll back the fog if she had no intention of keeping her word. But she did. [Put it that way, she also didn't have any reason to resurrect the lot of them, and here they are...]

It sure will. We stuck with each other, and we stuck with humanity's better points after she set up her experiment to show off its worst points.

[failgoyle]

Yep, Fae logic. That's how they roll, too.

Well, that's...good for you guys!

[Not that this helps him out much here, so he thinks, but hey, go ahead with your successful motley over there.]

[fridgeninja]

It wasn't as if the price of failure was any different than the price of not trying.

And she was making a mistake.

[failgoyle]

But still! Failing that would have been terrifying!

[fridgeninja]

Well, not for long.

[failgoyle]

I dunno, they've got ways of stretching the unpleasantness out.

[fridgeninja]

The end of the world was going to be unpleasant, too.

[failgoyle]

Well, yeah, but...but...

[So it might be harder than he'd like to psychically communicate trailing off in a high-pitched deflating balloon sort of noise, but that's so what he's doing wherever he is right now.]

[fridgeninja]

You sound like you could use a drink.

[failgoyle]

Yes. Yes, I could use a drink.

I might not stop, but I could so use one.

[truerevelation]

Wasn't anyone else who coulda done it or woulda done it.

[failgoyle]

Then sucks to be you guys, I guess?

Can't say I've ever understood the mindset...