LIAR HELL OR BUST

[iamverybadass]

Who: More Idols
Where: Liar Hell
When: Tuesday Morning

[ What's everyone up to this morning? Still stuck in Hell? Busy doing crimes? Maybe, like some people, you hopped on a train from Vengeance Hell to get over here! Hope you didn't have to give up anything too precious for that.

In any case, however you've ended up here there's still plenty to do. Shopping, restaurants, movie theaters, maybe you can even find a tour bus to make the rounds of some of the other shows being filmed here! ]

Comments

[iamverybadass]

Good. I think you'd enjoy it.

[shutthefoxup]

[Hums in agreement]

So...how DID you get out anyways?

[iamverybadass]

[ His mood drops like a switch was flipped, and he glances away out the window ]

...I called Azzy.

[shutthefoxup]

...

[iamverybadass]

[ Glances over just long enough to see his face and then away again ]

It was the logical choice. Azzy was behind the mission. He would have a stake in making sure we got out before anyone realized who we really were. And the other options were to call home from Hell which would have just made you look suspicious, or hope one of the idiotic plans the band of useless clowns I was stuck with was going to work.

[shutthefoxup]

Were you guys aware you were in this level? Or did you think you were in Heaven?

[iamverybadass]

I suspected it was a Hell, but I only confirmed it after speaking with Azzy.

[shutthefoxup]

Then what happened? Or do you want to tell me how things happened from the start?

[iamverybadass]

I can summarize what happened before I called him.

We stepped through the portal, and half of us came to in jail. And everyone immediately began to...to do whatever ridiculous thought came into their head first. Making demands. Trying to steal keys off a guard. Trying to break the bars. Using their powers on the guards! Ineffectively!

No one was making so much as an attempt at disguising their efforts! So I requested my call before they revoked them for all of us, made it, and learned that tricking them was going to be the best option. I took an invisibility potion so I could return unnoticed and planned to have a member of Zrael use their power to convince the guards a Producer was demanding our release, but they were both gone when I returned.

Additionally, some absolute moron had stabbed one of the guards while I was gone. We were fucked, so I resorted to brute force and frog materia. Less than ideal, but it got us out.

[shutthefoxup]

I’m...did they all just forget that they’re not going to want to re cast that many idols?

[iamverybadass]

I do not know what they were thinking, and I do not care. None of them should have been involved if that is the level they operate at.

[shutthefoxup]

Mm, a lot of that group is hot headed or unpredictable or probably hasn't bothered reading the notes that are available to everyone.

[iamverybadass]

Intensity should have prepared them better.

[shutthefoxup]

Would half of them have listened though?

[iamverybadass]

If they would refuse to listen, they should never have been there.

[shutthefoxup]

[Pokes Talon's forehead]

Maybe them refusing to listen is why they "should have" been there though. Depending on who you ask. Isn't it a little suspicious you guys were the only ones that wound up in jail? While the guy leading this thing didn't?

[iamverybadass]

[ grumbles and rubs the spot he poked ]

Aradia said it was because we lacked faith in the ritual for the portal. I did suspect it would be a trap, or that we were being lied to about where we were sent...

[shutthefoxup]

You guys were probably used as a distraction. I seriously doubt faith had anything to do with it.

[iamverybadass]

[ Opens his mouth to say something, but snaps it shut before he can get anything out, taking a few moments for that to sink in. ]

... To keep them from noticing... But they didn't— There were only two guards watching us. That can't have been enough of a distraction to take all of Hell's attention off of Heaven.

[shutthefoxup]

After talking with some people though, it seems like one of the people in the group that didn't get jailed was probably trying to stay in the same level as Hell as you guys. To go after Exael. It would be a great distraction for them. I could be wrong though.

[iamverybadass]

Is that it... It does not make sense when you consider what actually happened.

If someone intended to go after Exael, then how incompetent do they have to be to succeed in sending so many of us to her level of Hell but fail to make it there themselves?

[shutthefoxup]

It was Absinthe doing the ritual, but he wasn't the one going afte Exael. What I'm saying is there were maybe two groups in hell. Like I said though, I could be wrong. But from talking to people there's a good chance this one guy was going after Exael as his own mission.

[iamverybadass]

Maybe. I can find out if you're right or not later.

[shutthefoxup]

Nn, I've got it handled. So, you were saying before?

[iamverybadass]

[ Takes a deep breath ]

... Azzy requested that I call him once we escaped. I thought it would be unwise to slight him, so...

[ Shrugs stiffly ]

Double Moon—Gold's weird temmates—and I got a ride with him to the hotel in his domain. Before he dropped us off, he and I talked about proper risk assessment and planning, and I...told him to select his men better next time. To avoid another such debacle.

I... You are going to be angry with me.