*** BlackHat has joined 333.07.333.06 <BlackHat> ^J help <BlackHat> help <BlackHat> J <BlackHat> Official business with Black Hat only. Don't waste my time.
Truth's a slippery concept, I find. I trust him to be honest with me. I don't necessarily trust him to be correct, and I should hate to take action on misinformation.
But he is a very dear friend of mine, and I watched him die, so I hope you appreciate that without mitigating context, it isn't precisely a flattering story for you.
[Regulus's hesitance is largely cosmetic. If he'd wanted to be anonymous, he would have chosen a different username from the one he uses publicly online. This is more a matter of when to yield ground, even a little of it.]
Regulus Arcturus Black. I run the cat café in Bavan.
If you wish to have this conversation face-to-face, that can be arranged, too. Would that set your mind at ease?
So you can tell him how to guard himself in the future? If you wanted to know that, you wouldn’t have told me your affection for him. I’m not going to give up that information to someone who will use it against me.
As for what he actually died of - starvation, I presume. His dearest Fog god didn’t care for his well-being enough to stop it.
I want to know how you did that to someone who was already dead. I want to know how you made it so that he could starve to death while gorging himself.
But if you aren't going to tell me that, I suppose we're back to the why.
Perhaps I'll give you a hint: I simply went off the advice given to me by an angel.
[Technically it's true, but Black Hat is very positive Egon did not intend his carefully-compiled monster guide to be used in such a malicious manner. The lich section was very informative.]
That, I will gladly answer. It was an opportunity.
[He's more than happy to continue. Black Hat just has to have his dramatic pause.]
So she would rather let her follower starve to death than return what she stole. He begged me to stop, you know. Pleaded for it. And yet she let him die! What a loving mother.
I didn't kill him for leverage. He died because the Fog fears me more than she loves her priests. And here I was even willing to let her transgressions go if she lifted her binding magic. I would have taken my leave of this wretched peninsula, perhaps even helped her deal with that little Fourth problem of hers.
The angel was very helpful. I wouldn't have been able to execute such a plan without the knowledge he provided.
I heard she accepted a sacrifice of nearly one hundred innocent souls shortly before bringing me here. That manner of malevolent demand is precisely the type I cater to.
But you're not the first to doubt me here - pray that I don't choose to correct you in time.
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evilopportunityemployer) wrote2019-04-25 07:38 pm
<BlackHat>
[Black Hat has a suspicion regarding what this is all about now.]
<TruthSeeker>
<BlackHat>
<TruthSeeker>
I thought the decent thing to do would be to give you a chance to tell your side of the story.
<BlackHat>
Maybe I’ll entertain you. But first, I want to know your name.
<TruthSeeker>
But he is a very dear friend of mine, and I watched him die, so I hope you appreciate that without mitigating context, it isn't precisely a flattering story for you.
<BlackHat>
I’m not asking again. Do you want my ‘side’? Why I did it? How I did it? Tell me your name.
<TruthSeeker>
Regulus Arcturus Black. I run the cat café in Bavan.
If you wish to have this conversation face-to-face, that can be arranged, too. Would that set your mind at ease?
<BlackHat>
[Someone has greatly misunderstood what a cat café is.]
So, Regulus. You want to know why I killed Aunamee?
<TruthSeeker>
<BlackHat>
As for what he actually died of - starvation, I presume. His dearest Fog god didn’t care for his well-being enough to stop it.
<TruthSeeker>
I want to know how you did that to someone who was already dead. I want to know how you made it so that he could starve to death while gorging himself.
But if you aren't going to tell me that, I suppose we're back to the why.
<BlackHat>
[Technically it's true, but Black Hat is very positive Egon did not intend his carefully-compiled monster guide to be used in such a malicious manner. The lich section was very informative.]
That, I will gladly answer. It was an opportunity.
[He's more than happy to continue. Black Hat just has to have his dramatic pause.]
<TruthSeeker>
<BlackHat>
<TruthSeeker>
<BlackHat>
I thought she would return it to spare her beloved priest an agonizing death. It seems I overestimated how much she cares for her followers.
<TruthSeeker>
You killed him for leverage against Her, then. And where did the angel come into it?
<BlackHat>
I didn't kill him for leverage. He died because the Fog fears me more than she loves her priests. And here I was even willing to let her transgressions go if she lifted her binding magic. I would have taken my leave of this wretched peninsula, perhaps even helped her deal with that little Fourth problem of hers.
The angel was very helpful. I wouldn't have been able to execute such a plan without the knowledge he provided.
<TruthSeeker>
Nonetheless, you've been very helpful. Thank you. I'll be in touch.
<BlackHat>
But you're not the first to doubt me here - pray that I don't choose to correct you in time.
[Not that it'll help!]
<TruthSeeker>
<BlackHat>
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