[Text] un: have_hat_will_travel, subject: Board Game Night?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Okay, so, we've obviously had some crap going down the last little bit. I've got one full-disclosure, and then one recommendation.

First, the full disclosure about my nature: I am a Succubus, a demon of lust and desire. No, I do not 'hunger' for the lifeforce of the living. Yes, that does mean I can influence people's minds in various ways. And Yes, that means I'm inherently strongly predisposed to both Chaotic and Evil tendencies; in my world, both of those are capitalized concepts with pretty clear definitions.

I have promised, and I'd like to keep to this promise, to not use my powers on people here unless they literally ask for it, or for my own self-defense. Also, I will be deeply worried about anyone who asks for being mentally influenced; I'm not exactly a therapist, but I'm pretty sure that isn't healthy.

That's not the important part of this post, though I'm sure I'll get questions about it.

Here's the important part: Who here, besides me, has gotten their hands on some board games? I don't have enough for a game night for the newly-expanded group at this station, and most of the ones I've gotten are... Weird, in various ways, but I'd like to work on what I can here.

Because right now, we need at least a useful semblance of camaraderie. And since I'm keeping to above-mentioned promise, that means teambuilding somehow or other, and this is my first crack at doing something about it.

Feel free to offer ideas in-person; room 21.

Comments

[have_hat_will_travel]

I can't just assume it will... But someone has to try.

[burninglight]

No, but it's as good a start as any.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Pretty much.

[burninglight]

I think it's a decent plan. It might even work, or at least be a good step forward.


Could I ask you an odd question?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Sure?

[burninglight]

Has anyone here ever given you trouble for it? Being a daemon, I mean.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Very little. I assume it has to do with the nature of our situation; most would know better than to join one like me voluntarily, unless they were comparably corrupt in nature.

[burninglight]

[A pause, then:]

That's good. I'm glad to hear it. You don't sound like the kind of daemons I'm used to, so I was just curious.

[have_hat_will_travel]

What sort ARE You used to???

[burninglight]

The mindlessly bloodthirsty kind.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I can see them being less agreeable, yes. Plenty of them around the Abyss back home too, though.

[burninglight]

It's pretty rare to find one able to hold a conversation, where I'm from. Rarer still to find one able to hold a sane conversation.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Well that's a worrisome clarification.

[burninglight]

It's complicated.

[have_hat_will_travel]

More than "the Abyss creates us to seek to destroy everything"?

[burninglight]

Not too far off the mark, but a bit more complex. Try 'sentient infectious plague'.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Fucking Orcus.

[burninglight]

'Starscourge', actually.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Orcus is the God of the Undead, in addition to being a powerful Demon Lord;
corrupting diseases that turn people into feral demons would be right up his alley.

[burninglight]

That'd be Ifrit, then. He was the one that created it in the first place.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Urgh. Hopefully he doesn't end up in our way.

[burninglight]

Unlikely. He's dead, for one thing. For another I don't think I want to entertain the idea of an interdimensional rift that even an Astral could stumble through.

[have_hat_will_travel]

With my luck, it'll be inevitable we run into something on that level.