hadriel | Video One: The Play's the Thing (backdated to August 12th)

[the video opens on a young woman sitting sideways on a large, overstuffed armchair. legs crossed and slung over one arm, head resting on the other. she's got an anticipatory smile on her face, like someone who has a secret]

First thing is, I don't know most of you and most of you don't know me, so Alice? This is Hadriel. Hadriel? This is Alice. Moving on.

Okay, I think we're all in agreement that the entertainment options around here? Suck. [she waves a hand] With the exception of the Speakeasy because who doesn't love booze? But anyway, entertainment!

We have no TVs. No movies. No internet. Not even books. [she rolls her eyes to show what she thinks about that option] But there's one thing we do have and that's people.

And what can you do with people, I can hear you all asking. And the answer to that is plays. Acting! And I even have an idea for the play: the history of Hadriel. 'Cause not all of us have been here five million years.

First act can be a drama, the story of when it was just you guys, Fear and Hope. Second act is a comedy, the weird shit that happened when the rest of the gods came back. Third act? The Null attack. Which will be a musical. And you can't talk me out of that one, so don't even bother trying.

So I'm looking for volunteers! Actors, stagehands, costumers, set painters, shit like that. So fucking volunteer. And those of you going out to sea, don't worry. It's gonna take some time to get things organized, so you can get in on this, too.

((OOC: this is entirely the brainchild of Rey-mun who was kind enough to let my character be the public face of her idea. Thank you so much!))

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Pretty sure they never actually fought each other, beyond some verbal disagreements on how to do things and getting strength from us. Think the clashing would be expected since one half of their "family" are polar opposites of the other half.

Even that's useful. I mean, who says people can't play the gods?

So, what were some of the early things done to get emotions?

Well, doubt they'd want to participate themselves, anyway. They do just act like a squabbling dysfunctional family, but the appearance of the Null was a twist.

[Seriously. Rey would rather be dealing with two gods fighting for power over a race of genocidal synthetics, but she might be biased.

[She snorts.] Some of the stunts they pulled on us back then seems a bit more extreme compared to their recent shit. Within my first week, people were fucking buried alive. Then Rage and Fear tampered with the food that turned anyone who ate the meat into monsters. Made some of us each want to kill a random but specific person for no goddamn reason.

Just to name a few from early on...

Edited 2018-08-16 03:09 (UTC)

Probably not. Most of the ones I've seen posting to the network seemed kinda stuffy.

[she'd rather not deal with either as she's not a fighter and has no plans to become one]

Buried alive? Holy shit! Okay, that one's out 'cause for one thing, I have no idea how I'd stage that and for another, holy shit. The monsters. . . could work with the right makeup? And it would be dramatic, but not too traumatizing. Unlike the whole killing a random person kind of thing.

[she releases a low whistle] They really weren't fucking around, were they?

Well, "stuffy" sure as hell is one appropriate description of the bastards.

[Not everyone is cut out for grunt work and Rey understands that well. Non-combatant positions can be just as useful as the dogs of war.

[She scoffs at the ideas that Alice seems to be getting from all of this. Rey doesn't get it, herself, but you do you, boo.]

Yeah, seems like they were much bigger assholes back then than now. Think Rage's shit was probably the worst... Don't know why people voted to revive her first, other than for a shitty "armory", if you can call that thing that.

And assholes. Let's not forget assholes.

[she thinks she'd be useless in a crisis. whether or not she would be has yet to be determined.

she's trying to find the balance between exciting and interesting versus will freak people out

she sounds incredulous] Seriously? That's all she had to offer, knives and swords? And people were willing to put up with her crazy shit for that?

Video One: The Play's the Thing (backdated to August 12th)

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