— text; maybe i'm the only one who survived

[dedikated]

( Life gets in the way a lot at Hadriel, between events and polls and everything else, but eventually, Kate and Lup manage to follow up on their talks and discuss the story of the invasion. And all the people who don’t know, or don’t know enough.

For so much information, text is probably better, she thinks. )

Know a lot of you probably haven’t heard everything about the invasion and how it happened. You should, especially now.

( Which means it’s time for a Hadriel history lesson. Strap in, kids. )

We were brought here when Hadriel was still underground. Hope revived the other gods. We didn’t know what the Null were, or that they existed. Didn’t even know that Fear was teleporting the city each time. Or that the city was being pursued. Hope revived Love and something went wrong during the teleport. City got split in half, one half stuck dealing with the Null trying to get in.

Think that’s when Delight made a deal with the Null. Said it was to let us go in exchange for Hope’s life and the energy of the other gods. She gave them access to the network and information on the underground sites and movements.

( And here’s where Kate’s story has to involve some amount of hearsay, because she was immediately branded a danger to the Null’s plot. She’s still proud of that, but it might be easier to let Lup explain, since she actually got to interact with the Null there, however briefly. )

yo what up its ur girl lup here for hadriel storytime
long story short
the null contacted us outta the blue w their own lil personal hitlist
a group of hadriel folks they wanted to see put into the ground
promised to give us a god killing weapon or some shit
natch folks werent too happy w that
especially when there were kids on the hitlist
actual children that a bunch of dumb robutts thought were some kind of threat
so folks fucking rebelled the null got even more agro
and i guess thats when they decided to take shit into their own hands and come after us themselves

People were defending Hope’s temple. That’s when we found out Delight was the traitor. She killed most of the people there. Tried to kill Hope.

The Null invaded. Destroyed the original clinic and guard buildings. The library. The power generator. Hope was nearly killed. Sorrow was killed. Took using the monsters in the tunnels outside the city and from the fog zone to help us fight off the number of Null that were coming at us.

it was shit
absolute shit from all sides

( Kate pauses before adding to this, because she can’t ignore the personal side to all of this. She’d been on that list from the start. The Null were very specifically looking for her, and Delight had tried to have her hide in her temple, tried to keep her safe. )

Her decision killed a lot of people. Would have been permanent if Hope wasn’t protected by people here. Gods captured Delight during the attack. They asked us to vote on what to do with her. Locking her up won.

the whole point of this is the null cant be fucking trusted
the end
they dont get more chances after trying to murder us all before
trying to meet their demands or playing nice is gonna end in bloodshed all over again
u can fucking quote me on that one
they want the turbo liches dead and theyll cut thru all of us to get to them
delight fucked us all over sure but doing anything but attacking rn is a stupid move

( And, while that is the jist of it, Kate knows there’s other things to be said. That other people will remember other details, or have explanations about what happened to them personally during all of this, so she tacks on: )

If you’ve got something to add, do so.

Comments

[deadlining]

Thanks. That's something the non-magical beings can work with.

Has anyone thought about organizing training groups for an eventual battle? This is something we should be united on, should it happen.

[restinglichface]

on and off through the last two years
weve had heavy duty magic training sessions for sure
p sure the guards run through some basic weapons training

but now that u mention it
it has been awhile
couldnt hurt to brush up on shit
get folks ready

that something u interested in fam?

[deadlining]

Absolutely.

I'd bring my team along. We're all fighters but our specialty is space craft combat and we haven't had experience with opponents quite like the Null before. While thinking on the fly has often helped us, being prepared is always the better choice.

[restinglichface]

no shit u have a whole team here?
how many? throw down some names
i wanna see what were working with

also just btw
space craft combat sounds sick af

[deadlining]

Four of us are here, three are missing. Keith, Lance and Allura are the names of those in Hadriel - and then there's Cosmo, Keith's teleporting wolf, who is certainly of use.

All of them are war-tried. Keith is excellent with blades, Lance is a sharpshooter and Allura's raw physical and spiritual power never ceases to impress me.

[ PROUD OF HIS FAM? Never. No way. ]

[restinglichface]

[how frigging cute????????? um excuse u]

ok so like
i def wanna see this dream team in action

u guys do free demos?

[deadlining]

Our repayment would be your training regimen. Advantages for everyone :)