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[constellationprize]

Who: Aradia and YOU!!
Where: In your dorm!!
When: Day 57, early morning

[ on this lovely morning, at approximately ass o'clock, there is a knocking at your dorm room door! yes. all of them, except zrael's.

because it's a zrael. specifically, it's aradia, holding a bottle of wine in both hands, looking as cheerful as... ever? if you have met her? ]

Good morning! Can I come in?

[ you can also just like ignore her and she will leave after like

five minutes of continuous knocking

that's allowed. ]

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looking up from his drafting/note taking when she steps into the main room]

Back again? To what do we owe this honor?

[constellationprize]

Intensity! I missed you.

1/2

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Of course you di---

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Wait. What...?]

[constellationprize]

That's true.

[ like, yeah. of course she did. ]

It's about the Live idea we discussed! I finished writing a monologue about the demonology in The Magus, so I came to see if anyone in your unit wanted to host a counter-Live. Then we could all get more points.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm sure that won't be a problem. We have academic debate.

[Which can be abused to get in an argument over pretty much every damn thing]

Find anything useful, or should I wait for your Live?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Anything about Asmodeus or the conflict between Heaven and Hell would be useful.

The book was found in his fucking summer home.

[constellationprize]

Well, there isn't very much like that... Barrett didn't have very much to say about Asmodeus. He's associated with lust in Binsfeld's classification of demons, but Barrett thinks of him as a "revenger of evil," that judges others. Then...

Demons aren't created to be evil, but were made evil after falling from heaven. There's more about that in other stories.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

... What the fuck does revenger of evil mean? Is that like a backwards vigilante?

[constellationprize]

Usually it's a regular vigilante, but it's a little odd in this context, isn't it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Very.

Do you know how he fell from Heaven?

[constellationprize]

Not him specifically - well, not off the top of my head, but I think one telling is that they all decided to leave and rule Hell instead of being subordinate to God in Heaven, so they were cast out?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Makes sense. God seems to throw a shitfit every time He doesn't get his way.

Still doesn't make sense why Asmodeus would be a vigilante unless he was hunting angels...

[constellationprize]

Well - in the context of the other descriptions, maybe it's more akin to... influencing humans towards mistaken judgments?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That seems more on point than him being some avenging angel of the fucking night.

. . .

Another question. Have you ever heard of a demon named Lilith and what her classification might be?

[constellationprize]

Mm -

There are some tellings where she was the first human woman, I think - but she didn't want to be subordinate to her husband, so she was cast out of the Garden of Eden and turned into a demon.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Anyone tell you that she runs the Casino of the Dead?

[constellationprize]

I don't know what that is!

[ so

no ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

If you choose to die and remove yourself from the stage, there is another layer of Hell controlled by Lilith. Where other demons gamble for pieces of the fallen idols in some grand casino.

Not to be directly affiliated with the Hell faction fighting the Heaven faction.

[constellationprize]

Oh, okay...

... When did you find that out?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Did you participate in Exael's last game - the Last Supper?

[constellationprize]

[ looks sort of

vaguely uncomfortable? ]

I was my unit's heart.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Oh.

Let's move past that uncomfortable subject since he knows who killed you]

Two of the other hearts chose to kill themselves rather than to be killed by the game's mechanics. That's how we found out about the Dead's Casino.

[constellationprize]

[ she is ok with the part where she died! just not, the part where she could not stop other people from dying,

so most of the parts. ]

I guess that would explain why I didn't know... Do you want me to do research on Lilith too?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's best that we know as much as we can about the named players. Even if the mythology doesn't match up with the reality.