Week 11.

[azumods]

WEEK 11 The meeting with Mars could have gone infinitely worse. It's difficult to say that it went well, admittedly, but at least it didn't go as poorly as it could have; either way, her departure leaves you free to look around the Valley Windworks, and it shouldn't take you long at all to find something interesting on the floor. It's bright yellow and glowing, set into the ground like any other normal part of the floor otherwise; stepping on it will cause the world to spin briefly in your field of vision, and when it straightens itself out again, you find yourself standing in the corner of the lobby of a large building you've never seen before. Welcome to the Jubilife TV station. The place seems staffed with Galactic grunts, but they leave you alone outside of just watching you in that dead-eyed, vaguely unnerving way they have of watching everything; they'll let you leave without a fuss at any rate, and it's probably for the best that you get yourself situated for the time being. After all, you've got an entire new city to get accustomed to. The people here seem to be trying to get themselves situated as well, though obviously that's for entirely different reasons. The world continues to change, around them and you both, and overall things do seem to be going in a direction that might be considered favorable. Noticeably, the grunts in the TV station don't seem to be changing at all, regardless of what happens to the other locals; that might be cause for some concern... CURRENT LOCATION: JUBILIFE CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week eleven of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend!]

Comments

[eudaimonikos]

...if I'm honest, I don't know if I could feel loyal towards someone like that. I'm not even talking about him being evil, I mean that he's not...really close with any of them. It seems like a strictly professional set of relationships.

[Michael folds his arms, and is quiet for a moment. He's not really sure he expressed that exactly right.]

I wanted very badly to impress my boss, once. But I knew he didn't care about me. We weren't friends. So, no reason for me to really care about him, either.

[discutio]

...You raise a fair point. But on the other hand we don't know how long they've known Cyrus for, or how they came to meet him. Whether he cares for his subordinates or not, it's clear they're quite literally prepared to follow him directly into hell.

[eudaimonikos]

Really not a quality we're known for down there, ironically.

[Which is another reason he can't relate well to that kind of intense loyalty, probably?]

Jupiter at least seems like she'd jump ship if a better deal came along. But "commander of a country that entirely lacks free will" is hard to beat. She's probably been living the high life, when she isn't chasing after gods.

[discutio]

I didn't write the descriptor, you know.

[just gonna gloss over the Oh Right, Actual Daemon bit with smartassery]

Of the two of them, I'd say you're right; Saturn seemed more loyal to Cyrus for the sake of it, while I could picture Jupiter having other motives or plans. But even then...she doesn't seem likely to turn and run off without warning.

[eudaimonikos]

She would if she thought it was the best option for her - if Cyrus were going to punish her, or if she thought he was going to fall soon. Neither of which is probably the case. So yes, I agree that she likely didn't do this on her own...

[Really, none of the options they've thought of for this seem quite right. Michael hums thoughtfully.]

I don't care about the other two, but I think I'll be miffed if something's offed Saturn.

[discutio]

...I’m worried about him myself, as well. I don’t think Cyrus knows he spoke to us, but I also can’t truly begin to guess what happened. I’d wager Mars is going to follow suit somehow.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, yeah. Ten to one she's gone already.

[And he clearly isn't bothered at allllllll]

It'd be nice if I could believe that their foot soldiers just turned on them. But, I don't know if you've been able to tell, they still seem to be complete drones.

[discutio]

No, I can hear it. Rather, the lack of it; they scarcely even move unless necessary. Makes them difficult to track, but provides a rather unfortunate picture echoing what we met in Veilstone.

[eudaimonikos]

I'd suggest Saturn might have been going at them with the machines, if he were still around.

[Oh, man, he hasn't thought about those in a bit.]

Those might be a fun thing to go destroy, actually, if we're still in need of work after looking into Mesprit and the other two gods. Bit of a hike, but we're used to that.

[discutio]

We shouldn't do something like that carelessly. For all we know, we'll need the machinery to truly reverse all of this.

[eudaimonikos]

I don't know, it's not like they're really what caused it in the first place. They didn't march the entire population up to Veilstone. We're more likely to need the gods to reverse it all.