superhell pcs: scaramouche

[teufelshund]

surely i can find a good bohemian rhapsody shitpost somewhere

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[teufelshund]

Frustrating, isn't it?

[ ... ]

I discussed my suspicions on this subject with Chandra a few times. A part of me almost wonders if he didn't somehow arrange this himself in order to get more information directly from the other side, though I'd like to think he would prepare better for such a possibility and establish some communication guidelines with the rest of us ahead of time.

[ he sighs and shakes his head, looking into the fire. ]

We'll find out tomorrow, I suppose.

[nascens]

I'd think he would have the foresight to communicate extensively if it was something that he himself set up... But you're right about that.

[He also turns his attention back toward the fire, though he doesn't really seem to be looking at it.]

Frustrating, having to play by their timelines. Things getting done when they want them done, not a moment sooner.

[teufelshund]

[ there's a bit of a chuckle at that, though there's not much mirth in it. ]

That, especially. Time is supposed to be my thing.

[nascens]

[Shifting yet again, now to rest his chin on his knees as he looks over toward Mephisto and back away from the fire.]

Hm. What are you, anyway? Another god?

[WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GODS IN HELL.]

[teufelshund]

Practically speaking, we're not that far off, but most of us wouldn't usually identify ourselves as such. I'm one of the eight kings known as the Baal — the King of Time.

[nascens]

[THE REACTION HE HAS TO THIS NAME but at least it's not Beelzebul... Something about it definitely seems to ring familiar, but he keeps whatever that is to himself after a second.]

...The King of Time, huh. Hah. Every world seems to have its "eight kings".

[teufelshund]

[ he definitely notices there's a reaction, which is interesting, since that name didn't seem to mean anything to anyone else he mentioned it to... but he'll leave it alone for now. ]

Oh? Do I have a counterpart in yours?

[nascens]

[His brow furrows a little, but after a beat:]

We don't have eight kings, but we do have seven Archons. Gods who oversee each of the seven respective nations in my world.

[teufelshund]

Hm... That's interesting. We don't govern over specific regions or anything like that, just different aspects of nature. Most of the human world doesn't even know about us.

[nascens]

It sounds like it's like that in a few different worlds. I wonder if that ultimately makes things more or less complicated, though.