Do you know how hard it is to steal a loop?
For your average person impossible. For a crafter, its an impressive feat that would take nothing more than their absolute best to ensure no one noticed the think they were living in being pulled away, modified, and re-tethered.
For the guy who practically made that loop and knows its every in and out by heart, its practically nothing.
For the record its not my fault. She was given every warning to stop but she just had to press her luck. I patiently waited to see what verdict she would come to and when word caught me she had left the loop for her meeting, I knew I had my answer. With this, she left me no choice.
I mean, I can't just let the fire cult go. They're a Free Market asset and Icon. In many ways, they are the front-line of defense and we've been suffering without them. Even the mask cult can recognize that it needs the fire cult to function properly and those assholes hate each other with a fiery passion. So as soon a Jen left, I had Jon secure her loop. Anyone who tried to enter or exit the loop would find themselves in the Fire Market's training hall where we stood ready with 100 armed masks and proxies.
I stood in the front of the fire row, waiting. I offered every arrival a chance. Serve the new Fire Lord mumbles or perish. Regardless of what they chose (Most said they'd rather perish) I had them gunned down and collected in cells to be revived once the queen bitch had been handled. And of course and and her finest eventually showed up.
She didn't hesitate when she saw me. She took a moment to gauge her surroundings and letting out a deep huff she started blowing a torrent of intense flame out of mouth.
There was a torrent of bullets that didn't make it to her as she threw out her hand and stopped blowing fire towards me so she could focus on and bending bullets around herself.
Her finest goons looked to charge me, knowing full well that the Fire was protecting them from a hail of bullets, rush for me but were met with my own ambush forces. Nat, Jack, Ivan, Snips, and Firecracker sprang out from the cover our of the floor boards and started carving them up. Its worth noting that Snips and Firecracker were two of her best fighters before they defected in favor of my regime when she tried to secede.
"Traitors," she declared throwing out her other hand to spray forth a short wave of flames at my team as the moved it to surround her. Her facing shifting as she put me on the back burner for later and turned to face this new threat. As I anticipated, she had completely disregarded me as a threat in this fight. So while she was bending bullet paths and spewing flames the other way to keep everyone else back, I walked up and clubbed her in the back of the head with my trusty fire extinguisher. I didn't wait to for her to get a chance to respond. As she was opening her mouth to spew flames at me I had already drawn the fire extinguisher's hose and I stuffed her stupid mouth and face with foam. Didn't take long for her to choke on and kill over on it.
Nat didn't take any chances. She, Snips, and Jack more or less dismembered and disemboweled the Fire to make sure she was gonna stay down... excessive to say the least but I liked their enthusiasm.
Among those cut down we found someone who wasn't on the known fire cult roster. I'm gonna assume that miss 'Rainy day' that jokes was referencing in his post. We also found a magic black stick. I'm assuming its the artifact Cordelia gave the Fire. I can't be sure though because I'm not sure what it does. All I know is it burns like the fucking sun when ever Nat or I try to hold it. Mumbles can apparently pick the damn thing up just fine though which is weird. "Maybe its specifically warded so Nat and I can't hold it? Hard to say."
Now I just need to figure out what do with the Fire, our other fire cult captives, and how I'm gonna re-induct the fucking fire cult to our ranks. They're a rowdy bunch and they were gearing up for a war...
Might have to go nuclear if I'm gonna put them back in their place.
Hmmm....
Sloth out.
Questions about the legitimacy of this behavior aside, you have in your hands things which belong to me which were not given to you. As the terms of my deal with the Fire Cult have now presumably fallen through, I would like a return on the woman dubbed the 'Rainy Day Girl' and the rune which you currently have. They are my property. Return them.
ReplyDeleteQuestions about the legitimacy of quashing someone who wanted to end myself, destroy my cult, sell off her own sub-cult so she wouldn't have to deal with it anymore, and was all around ungrateful about everything she owed to Free Market in the wake of Fracture's absence? That's silly. If he didn't want me in charge he wouldn't have put me in charge. She was out of line and by Father's divine inspiration and my desire not to have to deal with her anymore she has been dealt with. Such is my right as her direct superior, Fracture's successor, and the man holding all the IOUs she had between her and Fracture. Her obligation was to me and my obligation to Father. That's how Feudal system works and for some reason the inner circle of the Free Market utilizes that.
DeleteOuter circle is a meritocracy with cash benefits and privileges and perks based on performance and devotion. Inner circle is like a contracting. You sign the paper and you pray you read it right and you subject the serfs to til your fief least the land lay barren... something like that.
As for your shit, I would like to remind you that possession is 9/10ths the fuck you its my shit now.
If you want Rein back we can trade for her. Lord Inferno Mumbles is keeping the stick thought. Its ours.
Have you ever actually addressed the Fire's concerns with your leadership skills? Attempted to negotiate? Worked to improve where others suggested you might stand to do so? I have been incredibly polite with you and offered assistance multiple times. But no. You have moved to cover your own ass all this time, and now you are doing it again. Quite brilliantly, I might add, but still the same man hides behind the curtain.
DeleteI will be sending someone to negotiate for my things.
Her problem with my leadership is I was in charge. She was afraid I was gonna invite everyone in for tea and collapse the loop or something. Make every mission a suicide mission or something. I can't say I blame her. I did spend 10+ years fucking everyone around me over. With that kind of track record, I don't think there was much I could to flip her opinion beyond wait a decade to show her and hope she doesn't off me in the mean time and I decided that was a terrible plan.
DeleteForgive me if I haven't been receptive of your polite apparent demeanor. I really would shake your hand if I hadn't seen the knife behind your back. Honest.
We'll be happy to recieve their negotiator. I hope you have a good offer.