[Event Post]

[theheadmonarch]

::So, Onni, you've cornered your cousin... and you find there are two of her.

And one is unzipping her back like it's a suit, as the demon Noriko climbs out.::

Comments

[becomeanwarrior]

So in your usual answer-a-question-with-a-question way.

"Yes, she's full sunk cost fallacy triage spiral, and the reason Alt Universe Shikou swore you to secrecy is because his wife has gone completely off the reservation."

[theheadmonarch]

And he is heavily co signing it. Half of me is here only by the [Tenpr naq Tybel bs gur Sver Ybeq, gur Jrfgrea Znfgre bs Wncna, naq gur Qrzvhetr bs Xlbgb].

[becomeanwarrior]

Ugh, of course he's co-signing it if he's gone full Obsidian Lord in that timeline... I'm not gonna be able to make sense of that string at all, so I'm not even going to try.

Okay, so let me make sure I have this crystal clear. Suzume is using the Otherworlders to stage an invasion of our world, hoping their chaos collapses our already threadbare reality. She's then going to try and cannibalize our world for whatever latent energy it has left to keep her shambling Maximum World alive. She has no plans to actually 'save' her world, she just has enough of a plan to keep it from collapsing.

Am I missing anything specific? Is there some sort of load-bearing pillar of reality that she plans to target? Or is it just 'sow enough chaos to get an instability meter to 100% and then we fall into Neo Exdeath Realm where the laws of reality mean nothing'?

[theheadmonarch]

... I don't know, I wasn't allowed in the meetings on the specifics.

::Sweatdrop.::

[becomeanwarrior]

Ah. So as to how she plans to accomplish her goals beyond the grand scheme, you have no useful information.

[ Smiles, as the webs start spiraling out again behind him.

'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.'
'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.'
'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.'
'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.'
'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.'
'I'm going to headbutt my cousin.' ]

[theheadmonarch]

I can't help with what I can't help with!

Isn't what I've brought up plenty!?

[becomeanwarrior]

Oh, yes, it's been very useful and now I have a more active direction I can prepare for, at least, but it's still annoyingly broad - there are so many ways reality can collapse and now I have to prepare for so many of them!

[ He reaches out as if to grab your shoulder... and pulls you into a headlock, Super Noriko. ]

I just figured if you were geas'd so that I had to drag this information out of you in the most circuitous and obnoxious way possible that you might have more going then "she's intentionally using the otherworlders to collapse our world, and has no idea how to save hers like we have no idea how to save ours."

So, you aren't holding out on any other information that might be extremely important? Like the fact she knows Kamala is a load-bearing reality pillar and might try to kill her to destabilize reality? Or any other complications hers being a 'Maximum World' might be bringing?

[theheadmonarch]

There's More Than One Of Everything!

[becomeanwarrior]

[ Pauses, briefly. ]

I assume there's three of everything, then. Given, y'know, Maximum.

How is this directly relevant.

[theheadmonarch]

I... can't say because... ya know. Geas.

[becomeanwarrior]

But there's more than one of everything. Okay. Noted. Filing it away for later.

[ Exhale. ...And then he winds up and HEADBUTTS you out of his headlock grip with full force. ]

[ ...Before he spins around and sees the tangled mess of red thread that's become of the balcony. ]

...When the fuck did this get here?

[theheadmonarch]

OW OW OW OWW!

::Stumbling around, whining for a minute or three.

Pause. Blink. Beat.::

... It's been there for like 10-15 minutes!

[becomeanwarrior]

[ Pause, blink, beat. ]

...What, really? How'd it even get here?

[theheadmonarch]

... I think magic from you going all mad-- gnosis. Shiyoko tells me to not use madness or insanity.

...

Is it bad I like looking like this?

[becomeanwarrior]

...Come on, Noriko. I know I'm a hothead but I don't think I can do that. [ Gestures. ] Besides, isn't that like, Illusion Witch stuff? I'd clearly be an Illusion Warlock and that's not a thing.

...It's not a bad look but I suspect Souha might object for, well, the obvious reasons. Might be a bit hard going out in front of the paparazzi like that...

[theheadmonarch]

... Your mind is beginning to correlate all the world's contents. For a moment, you saw the face of God, whose shape and colors words cannot describe, and you saw the sixfold shape of the world.

::Pause.::

But I look cute!

[becomeanwarrior]

You're blowing it out of proportion, cuz. I just lost my temper for a bit there, that's all. [ Waves you off. ]

Yes but imagine trying to make that work for the public who you already have to look all business for. Can't imagine they'd take to it well.

[theheadmonarch]

A fit of rage can lead to revelation! And I can just hypnotize them all!

::Pouting, she seems very 'Noriko when she was in high school'.::

[becomeanwarrior]

Well, I mean, sure, but you're still blowing it way out of proportion. I can't warp reality, Noriko - It's like you said, me and Artemis are way too grounded in logic and practicality and 'what is'.

And you can but I think Souha would take offense. And world leaders abroad who you couldn't get close enough to hypnotizing would probably still not take you seriously...

[ Gods, she really is Noriko from High School... what have I done. ]

[theheadmonarch]

::Created a purr-fect life form.::

Yes, and you saw past the 'what is' due to me pissing you off.

Souha's basically the only part of that argument I'm accepting.

[becomeanwarrior]

Iiii dunno. That seems like a stretch, 'cuz. I warped reality because I got really mad??

Yes, and they'll say the same thing I'm saying - you'll have a hard time convincing people you're professional like this.

[theheadmonarch]

Yes! Gwen bends the world because she gets so mad and she hits the world by punching it!

So???

::God, this is literally her being back in school!::

[becomeanwarrior]

Yeah, but she's an Illusion Witch, and I'm not! That's totally different!

[ I don't remember her being this bratty, but time does funny things to a mind...! ]

So I'm telling you right now that you might as well listen to me because Souha will just try and shake you over this anyway!

[theheadmonarch]

::Whines.::

Why are you so dumb for a smart guy! And maybe I want Souha to shake me!

[becomeanwarrior]

What's so dumb about that!? And if Souha shakes you then they'll also want to shake me since I accidentally did this to you somehow and I prefer not being shaken by my Sibling-In-Law The Regent Of Japan!