TERRACE Draft - Day 1

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: Arrival at TERRACE
When: The first day, from 8AM to the wee hours of the night
Where: TERRACE!
Summary: Information post here
Rating: Varies on thread, please mark explicit material.

This post covers the first day, before the attack. Remember, characters here are not expecting an attack and are under the impression they will be going to Region 1 to fight. During this day, draftees will be restricted to T6 and T7 and not permitted access to other areas.

Be sure to tag this post appropriately: [canon] character name

Comments

[complicatedliar]

"I wouldn't characterize it as such. He's not my brother, to begin with. He deposed me and chucked me into a black hole. I think enemy is the proper term, and as such the hammer makes sense," Loki said dryly.

[herotypical]

Ah, yes. That old chestnut.

"I'm not sure hammers ever make sense. Not really my weapon of choice, to be honest. Seeing a troll come at you with one really ruins the charm."

[complicatedliar]

"I don't think I've ever seen a troll use something that sophisticated. You must have a smarter grade in your realm."

[herotypical]

"In his sorta-defense, he wasn't always a troll..."

[complicatedliar]

"Oh dear. How did he manage that?" ...this promised to be a hilarious story.

[herotypical]

"He pissed off a...very interesting woman. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And sometimes scorned women like to turn their faithless lovers into big hulking trolls."

[complicatedliar]

Loki laughed. "I like her style."

[herotypical]

"Her style...wasn't bad."

She and Anya hadn't always been friendly. But..."She meant a lot to the group. Scorned womanhood and all."

[complicatedliar]

"I don't think I follow."

[herotypical]

"Sorry. I just mean...that was kind of her job. Finding scorned women and enacting vengeance on their behalf. Really bloody work."

[complicatedliar]

"...I will guess at this point that she wasn't an ordinary human. That's not the sort of job humans seem to have."

[herotypical]

"Vengeance demon. A wish granter. And -- granted -- she wasn't one for always. But after a thousand years of reigning bloody revenge, I'm guessing it's a tough gig to just abandon."

[complicatedliar]

"Fascinating." Now that was some power he'd like to investigate. And he was rather find of vengeance himself, even if others had begun to talk him out of specific plans. "Though I don't suppose she's here. How does one become a demon? I haven't heard of that add such before."

[herotypical]

"There are all kind of ways and -- honestly? Few of them are at all pleasant. In Anya's case, it took a particularly influential vengeance demon to notice how creatively she dealt with her pain. He offered a job -- goodbye mortality, hello fatalities. Despite the ick-factor, it's one of the kinder ways to go demon."

[complicatedliar]

"Hm, interesting indeed. In my experience beings such as that are quite stingy about sharing their power. But we've already established our worlds are quite different." He tilted his head. "What ways are less... kind?"

[herotypical]

"Being sired by a vampire seems to have very little in the way of perks."

[complicatedliar]

"Huh. So in your home universe, vampires are demons?" He looked amused. "Reality can't seen to agree with itself what those things are. It doesn't seem to have that trouble with any other species."

[herotypical]

"Mmhm. Demons. One vampire sires another, their soul skidaddles and the demon sets up shop. It's their face and their voice and their memories but...it's not really them. Not completely."

[complicatedliar]

"Interesting. What happens to the souls?"

[herotypical]

"That might just be the million dollar question, Loki. They're not irretrievable. I've personally known the only two vampires who've ever managed to regain what they lost. It's rare, but it can happen. So they don't disappear entirely."

[complicatedliar]

"An interesting problem indeed. And I imagine the souls in question do not recall where they've been? Curious, that. Though why would a vampire want their soul back? They seem a tiresomely, pointlessly nihilistic lot."

[herotypical]

"He wouldn't. At least, not usually. But it's apparently a very effective way of cursing one to finally feel the weight of his sins."

She grew reticent. Vague. Though it isn't Angel's motives she's hiding. Instead, she's loath to talk about the second vampire and the reasons why he'd want his soul.

[complicatedliar]

"Interesting. I didn't know that was an effect of having a soul. It certainly doesn't seem to bother other people." And of course hinges on the definition of sin and a belief in the existence of good and evil.

Loki is in favor of neutral. The universe doesn't give a toss about anyone; at this point he doesn't see why he should in a general sense either.

[herotypical]

"I think it depends not just a little upon what that soul was like to begin with -- the implication being that the death and carnage and horrors he committed in his unlife were things he would have at least shied away from in life. And when he got the soul back, it all caught up with him."

[complicatedliar]

"Huh. It's all a bit fuzzy, then." Loki of course knew that there was an immortal spirit of varying strengths that belonged to living creatures; that was fairly basic magical theory. But the effect of it was always a more interesting question. "So it made him feel quite guilty, I take it?"