sort-of voice-test for a sort-of oc.

[scryinghope]

Please don't.

Yes, I know that won't stop you. I don't even need to be in your head to know that. I also happen to know that a little bit of pleading will at least make you feel guilty while you put me through all the things you're planning.

You see? It worked. At least now I can suffer with the petty vindictiveness of knowing that a fictional character made you feel bad. I'm like that on occasion.

Comments

[skeletonenigma]

Yes.

[scryinghope]

... I'm starting to question what sort of influence Gabe has been on you.

[skeletonenigma]

Well, for one thing, I've seen the creative ingenuity of angels who are grappling with newly acquired free will. I'm willing to trust their ideas.

[scryinghope]

Ideas such as sticking a prophet in the belly of a whale for three days? Remind me to introduce you to Jonah.

[skeletonenigma]

Grappling with newly acquired free will, Descry. I've talked to Gabe about the whale incident. He's decently ashamed of it.

[scryinghope]

I'm sure that's of great comfort to the man who was stuck inside a whale.

[skeletonenigma]

It would be of great comfort to me. Why not him?

[scryinghope]

You realise there was no such thing as psychological help for angel-caused trauma back then, yes?

[skeletonenigma]

I can only consider that a blessing.

[scryinghope]

Jonah would say otherwise.

[skeletonenigma]

Jonah's a prophet. By definition, he wouldn't get psychological help even if it was available. Heaven is remarkably disorganised like that.

[scryinghope]

It's a fun disorganised, though. It's the sort of disorganised where people don't mind stalling whatever they're working on in order to have peanut wars.

[skeletonenigma]

Don't mind stalling, or are continuously forced to stall because of Rover's insistence?

[scryinghope]

Direct quote from Uriel: 'If you can't beat them, join them. ... That is how the saying goes, right?'

[skeletonenigma]

Rover can play all the pranks he wants, and all the overseers do is join in? He really is in Heaven, isn't he?

[scryinghope]

The only thing he has to worry about is how badly they prank him back.

[skeletonenigma]

Has anyone managed to outprank him yet?

[scryinghope]

Lazarus. Apparently he managed to hustle three thousand years' worth of favours out of Raphael while playing dice. Naturally, Rover needed to test his mettle.

[skeletonenigma]

And what was the result?

[scryinghope]

It took Rover four years to dig his way out from being buried in a cumulonimbus.

[skeletonenigma]

Better than two thousand years of favours, at least.

[scryinghope]

Actually it's four thousand. He should have known better than to hustle a hustler, especially a hustler who's spent the last two thousand years hustling angels.

[skeletonenigma]

Should I ask why you didn't try to stop him?

[scryinghope]

Well, I couldn't just sit around and watch you lot all day, every day, for the next six hundred years, could I?

[skeletonenigma]

Why not? I'm a fascinating study.