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youngtimer) wrote2020-09-01 12:09 am
youngtimer) wrote2020-09-01 12:09 am
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<WhiteWizard>
I know this sounds awful, but...Atem's really creative and makes up a compelling game. The only shame is that people generally don't realize their shortcomings in time to win.
I wouldn't want to be on the other side of a penalty game though. If you're interested I can tell you the one I was party to though.
<NeverAcorned>
[he really does like it when he can prove he's intellectually superior to people, and idiots who don't know what the shape of the world is get what's coming to them. it's kind of what he subsisted on to make it through his time at the Commission.]
<WhiteWizard>
I couldn't be trusted with moral decisions so he took charge of the hunt, and we went after a cameraman who was trying to extort his coworker with compromising footage. It was convenient, I suppose.
[Eugh. He hated saying that.]
Anyway. I'm not even sure how Atem pulled this one off, I should ask him sometime, but he had two vials with him. One with sedative and the other with soda water. He offered the guy full access to whatever he wanted to record us doing, on request.
If he picked the right vial. But if he picked wrong then he'd just fall asleep and we'd both feed off of him. And Atem told the woman who was being extorted which vial was the spiked one, so that she could tell her coworker.
I'm sure you can figure out how it turned out?
<NeverAcorned>
Either way, though, that's a good con. Relying on other people's natures to get them to take the path that would benefit you the most... I get the feeling he would have been right up there with me in the ranks if he'd been at the Temps Commission. ... What did you do with the woman? Just let her go?
<WhiteWizard> O L D yikes...I'm super sorry Dx
Ah...we let the woman go, after giving her the footage. Atem wouldn't hurt an innocent, and I doubt that she could, or would have wanted to, do anything that might hurt us. She seemed like a good person caught in a bad situation. If I had been able to at the time, I would have felt terribly sorry for her.
Sometimes...Bavan reminds me of Domino City. There's some pretty terrible people there too, who take advantage of the weak.
hard same, no worries <3
[this is where he usually ramps up into talking about Her, about the Fog, but he knows Ryou isn't a fan of that talk, so he dials back, realizing he has a convenient segue]
But yeah, the Temps Commission - they're the ones I worked with for a while back home, that pulled me out of the apocalypse. They really liked people who knew how to assess and manipulate a situation, because a lot of the time, that was the way they made time do what they figured it should. Make sure certain key events still happened. Either you manipulated people into playing their role in history, or you killed someone who might have kept them from it.
I was usually the one they'd send in with the sniper rifle.