[posted just before lunch started]

[toxicspiderman]

B E E R

Got your attention? Good. I, Sangamon Taylor, hereby invite all and sundry, etc.

Saturday night -- that's the night after tonight, for anyone unfamiliar with how we count the revolutions of this planet.

If I owe you one, you know who you are. Otherwise, bring something to trade -- information or matériel.

Room M90, doors open when they feel like it.

-- S.T.

[See OOC note]

Comments

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh, I compensate him. With my fist.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Sounds like he's actually pretty good entertainment, then.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Occasionally. Otherwise he's damn irritating.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

I know the type. Trust me.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Can't live with them, can't kill them without a damn good reason. Kind of miss them when they aren't around.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

No. I don't. And the only reason I can't kill him is because he's an illusion.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh. Then disbelieve.

Is he an illusion created by someone else or by you?

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Not that class of illusion.

I've done some pretty bad things, but I'd never inflict that asshole on the world.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

What other kind of illusion could it be? Illusions are just tricks of the mind, sometimes backed by magic.

He sounds charming. Does he know how to knit? If so, I know someone he should be inflicted upon. If not, I still know someone he should be inflicted upon.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

False projections are called illusions even if they have some substance, so long as they are a temporary distortion of a reality that will reassert itself when the magic has faded.

I have no idea if the bastard knows how to knit.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

It has to have a point of origin, a source. Eliminate the source if he bothers you this much.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

[penmark] I can't.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Is whatever made this illusion to torment you that powerful? Everything, everything can be overcome. You just have to want it bad enough. And maybe try something you doubt will work. You never know.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Only the strong have the privilege of telling themselves that lie. Don't mistake your talents for perseverance, child.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

It's not a lie, it's belief. I've seen what was once thought impossible become possible.

Maybe you're just afraid to try.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Just because you can't tell what is or isn't possible doesn't mean I can't. Calling it a belief just makes it a well-cherished lie, girl.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

You have no hope. That's sad.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Cheeky brat, aren't we? There are things I hope for, I'm just not such a fool as to think that the intensity of my hope is what determines whether they happen or not.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Who the hell are you calling a brat, you little

Even the strongest can be defeated by someone with more drive than they do.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Overeager weaklings are easy to deal with. Talk like yours just gets them killed.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

And you would know? Evil defeats itself, in case you forgot.

Being stronger doesn't automatically make everyone else a weakling. It's doubt and hesitation that gets them killed, not drive. Drive has to be combined with intelligence and control.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Stop qualifying. Most people will never have the slightest chance of defeating someone like me, no matter how badly they want it.

Be honest. You've killed people who were weaker than you before, haven't you? I'm sure some of your opponents knew they were outmatched and were desperate to live, much more than you were to kill them, but died anyway.

[strikethrough totally blacked out]

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

[heavy inkblot] Yes, I have killed people weaker than me. Innocents

I have no desire to kill, though. I always prefer surrender and kill only when my hand is forced by their own decisions. If they were desperate to live, then should have laid down their arms instead of coming at me with the intent to take my life or the life of someone I care about, choosing their pride over their life.

I do not like to kill. I am not evil.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

See? Before your strength even a drive as strong and primeval as the desire to preserve one's own life is meaningless. Only in submission, by abandoning one's will and purpose, is there hope for survival.

Evil is a part of you and what you do; the world is corrupt and corrupts us. You'll make a fine little hero if you learn to accept that.

[writing messier than normal]

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

[a few false starts]

It is not meaningless! I do not revel in any of the deaths I have caused. I have never killed when the other has chosen to walk away or stand aside.

Darkness is part of me, yes, but that is not evil. Stop it.