WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[Well, this is...happening. This is a thing. This is your life now. The Commander is expecting you to just up and kill one another, and then try to get away with it. No big deal, right? You guys can handle this. You won't fall for what she has. She's clearly an idiot. A loud idiot, but still an idiot. She's not going to get one over you.

...Right?

In any case, the Commander's quarters are now open for anyone who decides they can actually stand to be in the same room as her, but beware - any favor you might ask of her is going to come at a price, and who knows what she'll ask you to do if you decide to gain a boon from her. Unless you're a suck-up like Baku - then she'll apparently be flattered. Maybe that's a good tactic to use?


Whatever you do, try not to murder the bread again. The Bread Did Nothing Wrong.


There are fifteen strangers in this place.]



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Comments

[stealsyourduelist]

Even if you were, it's been stripped of you now. It's impossible for there to be a higher power than God, so how can you explain this?

And you're not a man, either.

[losergod]

[ ... Oh, you just hit a major sore point, but it's probably not the one you think. ]

... I don't need your input to tell me what I am.

[ His words are terse and his expression icy. It's likely Rosenkreuz probably meant age, but... that's such a sore spot for him it doesn't matter. ]

In all likelihood, the only reason that I am stuck here is because they stole me while I was still in this boy's vessel.

[stealsyourduelist]

[Well, yeah, he saw C trying to correct him to not call him a boy as disrespect toward his elder. But he really doesn't care that he's angry, the guy hasn't earned himself much respect yet.]

Is being a god not synonymous with omniscience? Pray tell how this could have happened in the first place.

[losergod]

[ ...

Ah.

No, he's right, of course. He... isn't omniscient. Not even omnipotent. ]

... I... don't know.

[ It's an honest answer, and he looks... upset, himself. ]

I don't remember how I ended up in this vessel in the first place. I know I had good reason for it, but... whatever power I had isn't fully present when I'm stuck like this. All I could do in the House was open doors others couldn't... and I can't even do that, here.

[ He's quiet for a long moment. ]

I...

[ Our god is a loser, scrawled on the class blackboard. Getting his head smashed into bowls of soup. Getting jumped just trying to go home. He suddenly feels very sick, and very unclean, because all those doubts he'd had about the validity of his identity before are coming flooding back. He knows who he is, doesn't he? He's... he IS God. He's supposed to say something else, anything, but he freezes up. ]

[vividsins]

[ > Baku will remember this ]

[losergod]

[ You're lucky he's too busy being upset to notice you creeping, Baku. ]

[stealsyourduelist]

[Whoops, he broke the kid. Well, what he's saying doesn't make much sense to him, but it wouldn't do to appear antagonistic at this meeting, so he's just going to stare him down for a moment and then step back to give him some space.]

Why don't you have some tea. It may ease your nerves.

[if tea is also your trigger he gives up]

[losergod]

... I'm sorry. It's not your fault.

[ He will probably take some tea, though. Rosenkreuz is right--he really needs to calm down. He's not in the School right now. ]

You're not the first person to express that I'm not exactly what most would "want" in a higher power.

[stealsyourduelist]

Hm. It is a matter of belief. What I want has little to do with it.

[But pardon him for believing that the higher power should actually have... power.]

[losergod]

[ BUT HE DOES HAVE POWER. They just stole it! That's... kind of the problem. ]

... No, it's not. It's a matter of power. Well... certainly, belief is important, but I wouldn't cease to exist simply because people stopped believing in me. But my power has been stolen from me. I just don't know how they did it...

[stealsyourduelist]

[He was responding to "what most would want", so he doesn't see how that much is wrong?! He just doesn't believe you're God dude.... but whatever. He'll just get that tea now.]

I suppose that makes them an even higher power than you. [He doesn't manage to sound fully unsarcastic with those last two words but he's trying, plunking the cup down in front of him.] You shall have to come to terms with that in your own way.

[losergod]

[ He does not look very happy at the suggestion. ]

I never asked to be that important in the first place. Anyone else would make a much better protagonist.

[ It's said bitterly--he knows he's not suited to the role. Not really. He tries his best, but... he can only do what he can do. ]

[stealsyourduelist]

[Staring at him a bit.]

Then what do you seek to accomplish by announcing it so frequently?

[losergod]

... It's the truth. Is there a point in being deceitful?

[stealsyourduelist]

Perhaps. Were I a God and did not wish to be bothered over it, I would see it more as... omitting an unnecessary detail.

[losergod]

The idea of lying never occurred to me, when I was in the House or back here.

[ He's, uh, honest to a fault sometimes. ]

Besides, I am a very poor liar. I do not think I would have been able to hide it for very long.

[backuphero]

[He's not stepping in because... well, what is chronology anyway, he's yelled at the poor bastard enough for one day and 1400s Guy is already trying to make up for whatever he just did, but... well, shit.

His roommate's convinced he's a trapped, maybe even broken God? That explains a lot.

So yeah, Baku's not the only one eavesdropping....]