[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]

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.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

I said evil, and I meant it. You're proud of your skills and your successes, are you not? Even though they mean harm or death to others?

Darkness, after all, is the fear of the inhuman. That includes our own inhumanity.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

I am also ashamed of my failures, that meant harm and death to others. But [heavy inkblot] You are right.

[heavy inkblot] What are you? How do you know the true essence of darkness like you do? I've never come across anyone as intimate with that as I am.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

I am of the darkness to begin with, and the mage who contemplated it most deeply and first grasped the true dark magic.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

I am the first in four thousand years with the power to control the embodiment of darkness. It infuses my very being along with the other seven.

How did you gain the ability to control it?

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

I don't have the same power as you, girl. I came to understand the essential nature of darkness on my own, and the application followed from that knowledge.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Of course you don't have the same power I do. I'm not an idiot. I'm just curious how you managed it. It's so [inkblot] interesting.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

If you're looking for a biography, you won't get one, and outside that the answer is pretty boring: I did a lot of research.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

Why would I care about your life story? It can't be anywhere as interesting as your magic. Will you tell me about your research sometime?

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

Really?

Well, why not. Not like I have anything better to do around here.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

You're evil; I don't care how you became evil and I really don't want to know at the moment what kind of evil stuff you've done. The magic. The darkness. That's what I want to know about.

I'm busy tonight, but tell me tomorrow night? Research isn't a light topic.

[bullygeneraleva.livejournal.com]

If nothing else comes up.

[mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com]

I hope nothing does.

Ok. Let me know. I'm Sheena, by the way, but you probably already knew that.