hadriel | Fifth ☂ Voice

Hadriel.

[His address begins in a straightforward tone. The issues of the past few months are behind them, and they've eked out survival for awhile longer. Sorrow isn't optimistic, but he's not inclined to give up, either. He makes plans, he executes them, he lets things fall into place.

Which is the reason for this.]

Now that most of you know the truth, and now that it has been shown that these creatures will truly follow us to the ends of creation, I have decided to send two of us to scout the location we left behind and intercept with the forces of the machines there. Their purpose would be to gather information- how these inorganics continue to find us, how we might be able to thwart their technology in an attempt to escape for good.

Of the eight of us, there are four pairs which work better together than others. Hope has asked me to let you decide who is to go, but I warn you to consider your options carefully. The gods who leave will not have any events until they return, so we'll throw a large one for their departure.

[Sorrow takes a deep breath. Onto the selection.]

Hope and myself could go. This would leave you without replenishing food and water, as well as limited methods of revival... Hope is valuable, and I would do everything in my power to protect him, and I can also ensure that we're not discovered.

Your second option would be Confusion and Tranquility. The two of them are our builders, and without them, the city will not be repaired and their various contributions will not be functional. Confusion would be adept at avoiding capture, though detection is another story.

Thirdly are Fear and Love. Fear... [He sighs.] Fear operates best in the shadows, though he's still weakened- however, if he leaves, it will mean that we'd be left vulnerable if attacked again, as none of the rest of us can move the city. Love themself is... well, perhaps they can be used as a distraction if Fear needs to escape.

[Sorry, Love.]

Finally, you have Delight and Rage. Since Delight is no longer maintaining the bar, your only significant losses with both of them would be the ongoing deals any of you may have with each of them. The two of them are our most accomplished fighters and would be able to wrestle themselves out of an unfavorable situation, given the power they'd take on from their final event.

[So that's that.]

I welcome any questions you may have.

Poll #18323

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Who should go?

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Sorrow and Hope
4 (7.5%)

Confusion and Tranquility
22 (41.5%)

Fear and Love
5 (9.4%)

Rage and Delight
22 (41.5%)

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Shitposting and helpful. We're geniuses. We better tell Rosie.

Heck yeah we are.

[...oh, right. Rosie.]

You, uh...heard from her lately?

No, why? Did something happen?

I heard she might'a pissed Rey off a bit.

[So that's...fantastic.]

Well I'm apparently really behind on gossip.

Happened right around the time Love got ressed.

So why wouldn't we have heard from her? Was she hurt?

I'd be the wrong guy to ask.

Can we skip the vague-posting? I'm guessing you're team Rey on this one. What even happened?

[He's...conflicted, to say in the least.]

Still ain't real clear on that myself. Apparently that whole "chart" thing she made raised some hackles down the line.

Did she list something that wasn't real and the actual couple got mad? It was just harmless fun.

That's what I figured too.

But apparently it's worth some roughin' up.

Yikes. So what's going on between you and Rosie, then? Is the trifecta dead on arrival?

Nothing.

[That is most assuredly a lie, but he don't much feel like gettin' into it just now.]

Just figured it'd pay to make sure she's okay.

[connor makes a frustrated noise. he probably would not be nearly so frustrated with the skeleton if they hadn't had it out in his inbox themselves, but as it is apparently!! theres still some unresolved frustration on his end there]

Would it kill you to just tell me what's on your mind?

[Hrgh. He forgets that some people ain't gonna let him off so easy. As well they shouldn't, but he's - far from used to people figurin' he worth that.]

'S just...complicated. Nobody wants to get dragged into somethin' like that.

If I didn't want to get dragged into it I wouldn't have asked three times.

Yeah, but you also dunno what it is you're askin' about.

You, uh...were you around when Confusion got voted in?

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I don't think so...Tranquility's the first one I remember.

Yeah, well. Things were...rough.

[To put it mildly.]

People's powers were goin' haywire.

[And he remembers, from his double's memories, that Sans has somethin' of a kick up his sleeve. It was the tip of the proverbial iceberg, but it's liable to give the impression that he weren't exactly the safest person to be around at that particular point in time.]

[yeah, he remembers -- and catches on pretty quick.]

And this shipping-chart is tied into that?

Not so much.

[Turns out there's some layers to this. Like the world's most rotten onion. The only issues Sans can speak about with any authority are the ones that pertain to Sans.

And, uh, he asked.]

Rosie kinda ran into me when things were real bad. And, uh...we kinda never really got past that.

[connor considers this for a moment, quiet.]

If powers were all messed up though, it wasn't your fault.

Yeah, well, I figured she wouldn't want me swingin' by like I didn't almost break all her ribs.

Back then, or after the post?

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