hadriel_logs | Event Log: A Hope for the Future

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Event Log: A Hope for the Future

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Hope for the Future event
Where: All over the city!
When: April 15th-April 19th
Warnings: Stealth Rock

It's finally time to reap the rewards you've earned from all that hard work collecting and returning the Hope orbs! Be careful walking the streets during the small earthquakes, but feel free to admire the scenery as your beautiful city reassembles its way back into its former glory.

There are new houses where the destroyed buildings once were, and they're perfect for a single person or pair of lovebirds. In addition, you'll find that the electricity to these new houses, and all other homes and shops in the city is restored. The food is better, the monsters are gone- hey, this city might be livable again!

To cap it all off, we've got a feast waiting for you on the 19th! Come one, come all, and enjoy all of your favorite foods, drinks, and party games. It's been awhile since we've all gotten together to celebrate something good, so get your party on and toss all your troubles away!

► This log covers April 14th-April 19th.
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► If you get hit by levitating rubble or eat a food that wasn't meant for you, please let us know here.

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[Tucker tamps down his disgust, not wanting to give her that much satisfaction. Though maybe if he gives her the satisfaction she'll leave him alone? God, demons are harder to predict than people.]

So if that's a soul, and you eat it, does that mean that person's just like, nonexistent now? Like you digested their whole... everything?

Yes. Gone, just like that. [Have a toothy grin. Aren't you a smart boy. But then she shrugs and looks at the grublike corpse in her hand.]

Normally, anyway. I don't know what to make of these already being dead. Maybe the actual soul itself is still out there somewhere. I don't even know how these got here.

[But they're delicious so she bites it in half and chews contentedly.]

Sort of like shrimp. Do you like shrimp?

Maybe it's the artificial version. [Like fake crab meat, or egg substitute.] Either that, or these bastards got lucky.

[Since surviving as a soul and/or not being alive while eaten are both good options.]

Shrimp, huh? [He's going into full conman mode to hide his disgust.] So they're kinda fishy and generally unsatisfying?

So you don't like shrimp, that's what I'm hearing.

[She happily polishes off the remains with a wet crunch.]

More like sweet, tender - oh except the bones. Shrimp don't have those, right? I actually can't remember the last time I had shrimp, come to think of it. Bad analogy.

Yeah, not so much.

[Especially not now?]

I think shrimp bones are on the outside. Like bugs. Wait are you saying souls have bones? What the fuck.

Um, sort of, yeah. Maybe souls don't last very long outside of a body or they get all weird like ghosts. Just a guess. But by the time I see them, they've made themselves these little bodies, and-

[She sets her plate down, summons her blade as a handy little knife, then selects one of the larvae and severs its head from its grubby torso, then proceeds to slice a slit up along the back of the head from where its neck ought to be. She slides the end of the blade in against the skull and pries the skin back with her thumb and forefinger to reveal an inch or so of bone on the back of the tiny head, then presents the result to Tucker.]

See? They have skulls at least! Crunchy on the outside, gooey on the inside.

[Tucker lets his indifferent mask slip because he's pretty sure it's just the normal fucking reaction to be disgusted by this.]

Jesus H Christ. What the fuck?

[He takes a step back from this... honestly, this train wreck of a display.]

That is some nasty-ass shit.

Well you asked! And now you have your answer.

[Also it's very clear that she's enjoying his reactions. How long do these things last while dead? There's a question. Because it would be funny to just keep some of the little heads and distribute them around the city to startle people. Definitely the most harmless thing she can do, but that doesn't make it not worthwhile.

Anyway, this one - wouldn't want it to go to waste! So she shrugs as if Tucker really shouldn't be so offended, this is all perfectly normal, and then pops the miniature head into her mouth.]

[Yeah, she's enjoying this, but honestly? It's probably better to give her a little of what she wants. Makes her less likely to keep pushing for a reaction. Maybe that's a good strategy from here on out.]

Yeah, I asked, but you could warn a guy before you just start up the impromptu dissections, Christ.

[He makes another face as she crunches away.]

I wouldn't expect someone like you to be so squeamish. Don't your kind normally enjoy sinking their teeth into raw flesh?

[This whole time she's been very good about keeping her gaze at eye level with that shade of a human form, at least. It's difficult to have a conversation with someone whose head appears to be simultaneously on two legs and on four, though.]

Question, first, though - a lot of the people here from all sorts of different worlds keep swearing to a "Jesus Christ". Is that a god?

Yeah, raw flesh that doesn't have a person-face. And isn't still alive when I eat it.

[Not that Caedra's bowl-o-soul-worms is alive, but it's apparently supposed to be. So yeah.]

Anyway, Jesus is like... It's complicated. Short answer: yeah, he's a god. He's like an avatar of a god, a human form. I'm not especially religious, but it's just the common vernacular.

[He'd show her the St. Christopher medal under his shirt, but just in case it's effective against her kind of demon, he'll keep it a secret.]

[She nods a little at his explanation. Seems unbothered, largely uninterested.]

That explains a few things, then. Odd to hear of a god that spans multiple worlds, but they're out there, I'm sure. Not important, just a curiosity.

[She picks up another soul larva and dunks it in butter.]

You're really missing out when it comes to food, if you limit yourself to the dead. I thought wolves dragged off children and rabbits and things all the time, to be eaten still hot.

[Oof. That hits a nerve. Tucker has to work to control his reaction, keep it as neutral as possible.]

We don't eat children. We're not animals.

[But it's common enough for people to think they are. His people are basically maligned as a whole, but none as much as those who turn into large predators. They get lumped in with werewolves, and, almost worse, with the predators themselves.]

Rabbits, sure. But eating one is pretty difficult when it's still kicking and screaming.

Oh, is that something only animals do? How could I be so mistaken.

[Yeah of course there's no sarcasm there whatsoever. But she shrugs, unbothered, as she eats. And is mildly appreciative that the gods didn't decide to provide her with one. They're quite good and she views them about the same as one might view veal. They're just not her favorite, is all. Plus, it would make too much of a stir for her to be left in peace while eating.]

I swear I've seen creatures hold others down and tear chunks out of them while still alive if they're too big to eat in one bite. I guess it depends on your goal - filling your stomach as quickly as you can, or enjoying a more leisurely but less kicky meal. Personal preference, maybe.

Sure, maybe you've seen animals do that. But like I said, I'm not an animal.

[Well, it's possible she's seen demons or other things do that, too, but he's not those, either.]

And if you've seen sentient people doing that shit, then that just makes them an asshole, it's not something they do as like, a race.

It's practical and effective. You don't need to try to bring morality into it. I've heard gnolls eat like that sometimes, they're intelligent mortals. Well - no less intelligent than most of you, I mean.

[No she genuinely doesn't see the problem, just thinks it's funny that others get so squeamish about it. It's not something she cares to do often since it's rare something is small enough for it to count as 'practical and effective' for her, but clearly the soul larvae are an example.]

Okay, but that just proves my point. Most gnolls are assholes.

[He's not gonna say they all are. But he's never met one that wasn't.]

Like fine, I get it, people got different kinds of morality. But from where I'm standing? Assholes.

[She shrugs. Doesn't make much difference to her what he thinks of gnolls. They seem reasonable by her standards. Maybe that's the problem.

But this conversation has gotten boring fast and she smiles once again with a wink.]

Well, don't dismiss it until you've tried it. What if you end up liking it! I give eating live creatures my full recommendation.

All things considered, no offense, but I think that might be a good reason I shouldn't.

[Taking recommendations from the demon who summoned monsters and murdered people is uh, not the best life plan, in his opinion.]

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Event Log: A Hope for the Future

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uhhh cw body horror/dissection i guess lmao help please make her stop

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