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[hardpity]

WHO: Peony and UNSUSPECTING LILIES
WHERE: Peony's EVIL LAIR
WHEN: EEEVIL night 76


[ the hot anime lord of the underworld has lured innocent lilies into his LAIR for a sleepover ]

Comments

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

...Sorry. This is supposed to be a fun sleepover and stories night, right? No monster talk is probably part of that.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

I don't really mind monster talk honestly. But personally I'm not on a high enough level to think about 1v1ing the Wolf King unless I had a massive territory bonus and I don't have that so it's kinda like, 'have fun combatants, I'll be here building a cool machine'.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

First of all, that's also really important.

Second of all, honestly? I'm not either, here. Kevin and I have noticed our powers aren't what they used to be.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

Yeah, there's something about being here that sort of flattens the high end of the power scale.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

Flattering to be there, but it's really annoying.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

Sometimes it works out for us by making a super powerful Weed nerfed as well, but... yeah.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

What's with the Weed rep, anyway? Most of the ones I've met have been pretty chill.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

It takes all kinds, but the first one to show up set a twelve year-old on fire, ran a ritual where my arm got chopped off with glass shards, then burned a section of the fence, letting a bunch of mist wolves in to attack us. Then of the first batch... well, Lethe was one, and he was fine. But after he changed to being a Lily the rest of that batch of weeds basically went out of their way to harass and bully us whenever they possibly could.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

[ well, he knew about lethe being an ex-weed but ]

Seriously? Ugh.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

I put up Lily's security system in the first place because they were making constant threats against him and us. Since then, MOST of that first batch have left and the crazy level has overall gone down, but the first impression is hard to get over.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

That's why we have the security? I had no idea.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

Yeah... things were pretty harrowing...

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

Is that why you set up the Peony one, too?

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

The Peony one was just for fun.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

That's why glitter.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

That's why glitter. And I made Lily's pretty fast so it was more simple... so I wanted to see if I could do a more elegant design...

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

[ the unsettling realization this extremely chthonic guy is super hephaestus-coded ]

Could you?

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

[ he likes to Build ]

Yeah! The overall function is the same but a lot of the features are more user-friendly. For example, to whitelist someone with Lily's you need at least a drop of their blood, since blood-based magic is some of the most bang-for-your-buck magic you can do, right? But it's a little archaic at the same time. So I made some changes and Peony's just needs a fingerprint to be whitelisted.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

That is an upgrade.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

I could probably rehaul Lily's to be a little more modern too... I have some concepts I never got to integrate...

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

Like the fingerprint thing?

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

Yeah, or an auto-eject that doesn't require actual harm to come to a member of Lily to happen.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

That might be more power than we should be trusted with.

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[hardpity]

Maybe it would be like... 'if it senses hostility or malice from a non-lily, or a certain level of fear or anger from a lily'...

Re: [ PEONY RITE: STORYTELLING + MAYBE LILY THERAPY IF WE FIND IT THERAPUTIC ]

[audacity]

[ opens mouth closes mouth ]

Maybe not the second one.