"The Hags"

Berri Baines, fucked up godbeing, Host of Battlestone || She/Her || Ancient || ((OCRP blog, follows from Mercwercs))

[mercswercs]

GAH, FECK

This ain't it.

Need a fight, not a gym session.

I think I know a place, too.

[interdimensionalburnout]

You know how to reach the Battlestone, punk.

Come get your hands really dirty for a change.

[wintertraumaposting]

100,000 year old goddess *lighting a cigarette*: "Y'know I remember creating the forest your people live in. I probably planted the tree you were born in, isn't that funny?"

1000 year old elf: "Ccan yuou put that out on mme??"

[interdimensionalburnout]

This has been a productive week!

The fuck was in that weapon that made it touch my core like that though, and how do I get one.

[mercswercs]

Pourin' one out fer all the fatherless sonsabitches what made more St. Germains an' then died themselves.

Anyway.

I ripped out a lock a' the big bitch's hair.

[saintworks]

You did WHAT

you actually won the bet? Really?

Mercy please be for real right now.

[interdimensionalburnout]

I don't know where she got that ax, but it fucking hurts. Consider the Ledger balanced. She put her soul on the line as collateral, and paid with victory. The people killed in the crash, all 18 thousand and change, will be restored along with the devastation wrought on the planet.

You're welcome. And Mercury, I hope I never have to do that with you again. Fucking ouch.

[interdimensionalburnout]

You've got ten hours lefttttttt

[interdimensionalburnout]

AAAAAAAAA HOLY FUCK SHE'S FAST HAHA WOO

don't want it over THAT quickly.

[mercswercs]

There must be a way ta' bring them lives back. People die in big numbers on Wayouddy every day.

But this is somethin' else entirely.

[interdimensionalburnout]

You don't have anything worth bartering over, sadly! The rules of the Ledger are weird, but strict, as is the cost of being able to manipulate reality on a metanarrative level.

[mercswercs]

No aye? What if I beat you over yer head with that feckin ledger an' make you bring the land AN' the people back.

[interdimensionalburnout]

HAHAHA oh man, if I kill you, several people will kill me.

But I'll humor your audacity by sending a doorway to my Battlestone Arena-Park. You have twenty four hours from the moment you step through the door to land a hit on me.

If you can manage it, I'll bend the rules this once and restore the lost souls to their restored land.

[mercswercs]

There must be a way ta' bring them lives back. People die in big numbers on Wayouddy every day.

But this is somethin' else entirely.

[interdimensionalburnout]

You don't have anything worth bartering over, sadly! The rules of the Ledger are weird, but strict, as is the cost of being able to manipulate reality on a metanarrative level.

[interdimensionalburnout]

IT TAKES A FUCKING MINUTE ALRIGHT WE CONTAINED THE FUCKER AT LEAST.

[interdimensionalburnout]

The Ledger can't be closed without being balanced.

I can undo ALL this damage. AND the ecological contamination that wasn't contained, but... You need to choose which to restore, and which to sacrifice in return: I can revive the land, or the people.

Correcting a Consequence Costs Collateral.

[saintworks]

The land. Two million people live downwind of the main airstream that would carry the chemical and radioactive fallout.

I'm compiling a list of the names.

[interdimensionalburnout]

No need, I have your names already. The ledger records it all, you know.

[interdimensionalburnout]

The Ledger can't be closed without being balanced.

I can undo ALL this damage. AND the ecological contamination that wasn't contained, but... You need to choose which to restore, and which to sacrifice in return: I can revive the land, or the people.

Correcting a Consequence Costs Collateral.

[cloakedgoatmerchant]

I called Berri to come and help. The temporary barriers Hermes has raised will not hold the worst of the radiation from making it onto the wind. Not with an impact zone of this size.

[boardwalkwizard]

Goddamit FINE.

The three of us are all gonna transmute the radiation when she gets here.

[interdimensionalburnout]

I'll do you one better- fish the survivor out of the wreck and I'll break out my Ledger. I owe Hermes a big one, after all.

[interdimensionalburnout]

i need to get mobile again.

i feel my own nature calling to me.

[interdimensionalburnout]

I'm having a bender problem.

[saintworks]

Still can't track what universe OR multiverse cluster our guest came from. Possibly from across the Long Deep Dark, the massive void between our local multiverse cluster and anything else in this direction.

Real pain in the ass, too, this kind of scanning equipment hates running on human power sources.

[interdimensionalburnout]

Let me look.

[interdimensionalburnout]

No no no no you cannot shit where i leave my stuff

[technomagichanical]

So... what? How'd you manage it? Did you steal this one from far enough away from... I dunno, your stupid apotheosis?

[interdimensionalburnout]

Can't it be enough? A second chance that won't hurt anyone?

[technomagichanical]

you hurt EVERYONE eventually, Berri, even me. A second chance for you is NO guarantee that a new you will do it right, even unmoored from your burdens and chaos and resume.

[boardwalkwizard]

You said it yourself Berri, your history is "written across this multiverse in bloody characters." A "fresh start" still includes the common denominator, the author of EVERY character:

YOU, BITCH

[technomagichanical]

Seriously consider what you're doing before you drain that pod. Consider your impulses and desires, and how your instincts have always been.

It's too big of an unknown and violates your OWN portfolio as a goddess of "Consequences and Collateral."

[interdimensionalburnout]