mingle + apolopoints

[idolpro]

Who: You!
Where: Lobby/near the hotel
When: Day 147

[ You receive a text sometime today: ]

The following is a message from the administrative team.

As an apology to all of our idols affected by the maintenance, we would like to offer the following:

2,000 points have been distributed to your personal banks. You may check it on your cell phone.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Thank you for your understanding.

[ And sure enough, you've received 2k points for maintenance. Wowee… that's a lot of points! ]

Comments

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

[ ... ? ]

The one who owns the Game Tower?

Re: Text to all of HSS

[foolmetwice]

Yeah. That one.

[there is logic behind his suggestion, really]

Bel's not only the one who owns the game tower, but apparently his people deal in technology. The same technology that can transfer idols from one hell to another. Be they transferred idols-- like I was-- or those buses that took you to Fake God's domain during maintenance.

At least, that's the assumption based on what Intensity, Kohime and I learned.

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

[ ... Okay, hold on. He flips to a new page in his notebook and starts jotting things down. ]

Has anyone ever actually spoken to him before?

Re: Text to all of HSS

[foolmetwice]

[WHAT LUCK Mars just asked this question of Intensity in a thread earlier in the timeline than this one]

According to Intensity, no. Unlike Fake God and Asshole-- [Asmodeus and Pythia, respectively] -- Bel isn't that fond of humans.

Re: Text to all of HSS

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah. Uh.

Pretty sure Bel's a no go. The Manager in the tower, too.

[Sorry he overheard you guys talking and he figured he should. Maybe. Say a thing.]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[foolmetwice]

[ah?]

Why's that?

Re: Text to all of HSS

[crossmyheartandhope]

...I kinda tried last night?

And, uh. No answer. So.

Re: Text to all of HSS

[foolmetwice]

[ZERO COMMENT ON THE ATTEMPTED SUMMONING OF A DEMON BY ONESELF, WITHOUT NOTIFYING THE UNIT]

Doesn't surprise me. Intensity said that Bel wasn't fond of humans.

Doesn't mean that they're completely out of the question, though. It just means we need something to get them to negotiate with us.

Re: Text to all of HSS

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean... I had something I was planning to offer? They didn't even show to get the bartering started, though.

Could be I messed up on the ritual or something, though.

It was, uh. Kinda involved.

[Please hold while he digs in his super hero belt pouch for some notebook pages he has folded up in there. He unfolds them, and offers them to Mars.]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[foolmetwice]

[reaches out to take the notebook pages, eyes skimming the words written on them. what do they say!!]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[420blazeit]

[ stares at him from across the room. hurricane. ]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[crossmyheartandhope]

[What? Nothing even happened. He couldn't even pull it off. It's fine.]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[420blazeit]

[ she's not sure it's fine. ] How come him?

Re: Text to all of HSS

[inspiteful]

[ Eclipse isn't saying anything, but he is taking note of that... ]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Sounds about right. He's eavesdropping on Eclipse's conversation, tto, so.]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

[ .... ?? ]

Do you know something?

Re: Text to all of HSS

[crossmyheartandhope]

...I, uh. I maybe kinda tried last night?

No dice.

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

[ ............ Mentally takes a sip from his imaginary hip flask.

Fortunately this does not make its way into his expression. ]

He ignored you?

Re: Text to all of HSS

[crossmyheartandhope]

The Manager, too. No answer.

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

I see.

What were you going to say if they did answer?

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

[ WELL IT LOOKS LIKE HURRICANE HAS INSIDER INFO ON THIS ONE............. ]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[foolmetwice]

[mars looks into the camera like he's on the office while smoking a cigarette. . . . . . .]

[SORT OF REFUSING TO BELIEVE THAT BEL IS COMPLETELY OFF THE TABLE, THO]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

[ It's time to think about that whole deal uhhhh NOT RIGHT NOW.

He's still making notes in his journal. ]

I wonder if we couldn't reach him through a proxy...

Re: Text to all of HSS

[foolmetwice]

That was my suggestion. If Bel doesn't get along with humans, we might have to go through a minion first.

[but if Hurricane didn't even get a minion when he tried summoning. . . well. they're going to have to work to find something they can bring to the table for negotiations]

Re: Text to all of HSS

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Yeah... yeah...

DEEP SIGH ]

So.

We return to needing to make some demon friends.