In Which The Overlord Is Moody [Open, Post-Council Meeting]

[i_am_the_bafo]

He'd said a lot of things at the Council meeting, of course. A lot of talk and enough action implied that he hoped he'd accomplished something, anything. It wasn't like Overlording, nowhere near as fun or as rewarding, but it had to be done

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[ternaui]

The Chancellor steps into the area. Hearing that was a little hard to miss. "It is difficult to be left waiting, is it not?" He can't help but say.

[i_am_the_bafo]

"It's inexcusable," Zetta said darkly. "She's an Overlord and she's my disciple. I trained her better than this. What's the excuse? Her soul is in danger of falling out? That's crap."

He rammed the knuckles of his hands together, hard enough to spark. Not hard enough to break the skin; he was a demon, and thus awesome like that. But as much as he wanted to pretend he was angry -- and had even convinced himself -- it would take a very oblivious soul to think he was anything other than worried.

[ternaui]

"I take it she is probably far too competent to find herself in this situation?" This is diplomatic speak for 'would you like to talk about her?'

[i_am_the_bafo]

"Damn straight," Zetta grumbled. He looked down at the floor for a moment, then back up, fire in his blank white eyes. (Not literally. This should be clarified.) "I guess it's rougher on demons than people. It only makes sense that I was the first Overlord out. But if ALEX is out, then Salome freaking should be too. She could make a laughingstock out of him!"

[i_am_the_bafo]

The Overlord went still for a moment -- or as still as anyone could get with the level of shameless power display and flaming hair and billowing cloak as standard effects could get -- then smiled darkly as he turned to look at her. "If you stop at just a word, I'll be impressed. Let me guess. You're still pissed at how I was talking in the meeting, and you'd like to lecture me."

[i_am_the_bafo]

Haters gonna hate, was Zetta's philosophy. "So what part didn't you like? The part where I didn't sit around and try to soothe the people who were, I'll remind you, going to be pissed about the decision no matter what, or the part where I explained my reasoning to everyone and asked them to consider if there was really no hope for working together with someone evil from their own world?"

[ronnae]

"Yo~" Ronnie greeted a bit cheerfully. "You alright Zetta?" She asked curiously.

[i_am_the_bafo]

"You sound cheerful," he said, ignoring her question blatantly. "I'm a little surprised. I figured next time I saw you you'd be scowling at me third-party."

[ronnae]

Ronnae tilted her head curiously, "Why would I be scowling at you Zetta?"

[i_am_the_bafo]

"I pissed off Kaya. Kaya and Billy are like this," he said, crossing his fingers. "Billy and you are like this." He made a V with the index and middle fingers of each hand, then thrust them together crudely. "So I figured it'd go down the line."

[things_go_boom]

"Probably wherever Hawke is," Lash answered close by, leaning on one of the walls, her arms crossed. "And I hate waiting so much! I wanna go down there and just break him out with my own hands."

[i_am_the_bafo]

"He at least has an excuse! What the hell's Salome's? I trained her better than this!"

Zetta, of all people, probably could go down there and start ripping people out. It was a good thing all around that he wasn't so inclined.

[things_go_boom]

"An excuse? I don't think any of us have an excuse to stay down there unless Stacy decides to wake us up when she feels like it." She sighed loudly. "If I wasn't going to get punished for it, I'd just blow up the whole system and wake everyone up. I think it would be much easier that way." She grinned at the thought. "Or at least chaotic enough. Maybe a trim within the ranks might help."

[i_am_the_bafo]

"But the last thing we need is the ship flipping out on us," Zetta said. "I'd survive, but I dunno about the rest of you. And it would irritate me to have done so damn much so far and have it all get ruined by that."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"So I guess you're gonna keep this new for, huh?"

She was Mindy at the moment, preferring to go for a stroll and having helped Sasami with her restaurant for a little while, seeing no reason to sweat her ass off in her suit so after.

"Good for you. What the hell do you have that look on your face anyhow? Oh wait, that's right. You're on the council now, right. Bet you just had a meeting with the civvies. That was probably fun."

Yeah, not dripping with sarcasm at all.

[i_am_the_bafo]

"Just because you told me I was a book doesn't mean I'm really in a hurry to be one now," he said, rolling his eyes as he turned to her.

Did she realize she'd never actually told him about the Hit Girl/Mindy dichotomy? He might have never noticed that they were the same person except that the status screen didn't change, so he'd always just accepted it as an odd quirk of hers, never knowing the reasons.

"Actually, it was fun," Zetta said. "I pissed people off by not locking up someone forever because they said she was bad, pissed the other Councilors off by speaking honestly and openly, and generally got to enjoy myself."

[hit_girl_mindy]

She shrugged. "Hey, I just figured you'd want to be yourself, with all of your memories and crap. Then again, I'm sure you like having a body again, who wouldn't?"

Mindy snickered. "Yeah, I heard about that. It's their own fault for talking and shit. I would have just killed the bitch and made sure it didn't get back to me. They're so stupid, they make it obvious what they're going to do. Everyone would suspect if she died, it would be one of them that did it."

[i_am_the_bafo]

"Suspect nothing, they said they'd do it." Uh, had anyone actually passed that on to Security? He assumed someone had... "How's that for a laugh? Me, the Overlord, defending a girl's right to live and be free against the 'good guys' of their world who want nothing more than to kill her or lock her up forever. Man, I freaking LOVE being me!"