In Which The Overlord Is Moody [Open, Post-Council Meeting]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He'd said a lot of things at the Council meeting, of course. A lot of talk and enough action implied that he hoped he'd accomplished something, anything. It wasn't like Overlording, nowhere near as fun or as rewarding, but it had to be done.

She would have appreciated it.

The Overlord stood in the middle of the Hub, staring upwards at the countless tubes and signs up above with an air of bitter expectation. Mana swirled around him chaotically, reflecting the irritation that boiled beneath the exterior badass surface. Even the windless billowing of his cape and hair seemed slightly off -- more frenetic, less composed. And for anyone who could sense his mana power... it had decreased. Noticeably, though not so low as to dethrone him from his status as strongest in the cosmos, of course,

"Damn it, Salome," he said to the tube that lead to the Clothing Room, and thus indirectly to the Pod Caverns. "Where the hell ARE you? You've got no damn excuse for keeping me waiting."

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[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta was not exactly the sort of guy who would help make that line more distinct. "You have a point, but it's probably better to stay alive in the long run. It makes getting things done a bit easier, and you'd be pissed if new advanced in explosives came out like two days after you died."

[thewunderkind]

She shook her head.

"Nah, think about it! Stacy explodes all over and I die surfing dead bodies! They could come up with the most amazing explosives and it still wouldn't be half as awesome as that. Besides, if anyone is going to invent the next technology in demolition, it's going to be me."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You could die surfing dead bodies atop a great white shark with a laser beam forehead while playing a guitar that causes explosions," Zetta countered.

[thewunderkind]

"I..suppose that could be a better way to die. But only of the shark is a robot." Wait, what were they talking about before again?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

If you expect Zetta to be the one with the memory here, you have problems. "What about a cyborg? Best of both worlds."

[thewunderkind]

They were doomed. "A cyborg shark. Sure, that sounds like a lot of fun! Maybe I could build the laser directly into its eyes, then!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"That would lose some of the ominousness, though," Zetta said. "I mean, when you see a shark with an attached laser, you know you're screwed."

[thewunderkind]

"Yeaaah I guess so. Hey! Maybe if we combined it with an octopus at the end? If you have a shark with an attached laser and can move on land thanks to octopus legs, then you're really, really screwed, tee hee hee!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"That's hideous and alarming, I approve." Zetta grinned -- then paused. "Uh, wait, aren't you surfing it on corpses in space? Does it need to move on land?

[thewunderkind]

"Because even the mutant shark octopi need traction when they're surfing on top of dead bodies." This made perfect sense in her mind. "Besides, it just looks waaaaay cooler!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"...I'm gonna tell everyone you think tentacles are cool, Lash," he said with a wicked grin.

[thewunderkind]

"Hey hey hey, I said if they are attached to a giant shark, not by themselves!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I know that, and you know that, but that doesn't mean I have to mention THAT part to other people," Zetta said, still all wicked glee. Demons are... petty. They really are.

[thewunderkind]

"Then I'll just make up some things about you then. Like maybe you like wearing pretty pink little dresses when no one is looking."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I think mine is a little more believable," Zetta pointed out. "You're already kind of a freaky girl."

[thewunderkind]

"I'll find a way to make them think you do!" With a gun. And their faces. You know, the best way.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Yeah, he knows that way. Demons kind of liked it. "Then I'll tell everyone YOU like wearing a pink skirt when no one is looking. And you, unlike me, have the legs for it, so that makes it possible."

[thewunderkind]

Oh you did not threaten dresses on her. "Somehow I think less people would believe that I'd wear a dress than you."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"...Actually, I think people would get a laugh at both our expenses," Zetta grumbled, in a brief fit of rationality. "Whether or not they actually believed it."

[thewunderkind]

"You know the saying. If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me, tee hee hee!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Oh, so we'll both go down, huh?" Yeah, he might want to feel worse about that kind of shameless remark towards her. He'll get right on that. "But that'd probably spoil both our plans, so let's not."

[thewunderkind]

Zetta you were so full of double entrees it was kind of a shame that Lash only understood maybe twenty percent of them.

"Right." She looked over at the robots again forgotten many tags ago. "There's still these things that need a few upgrades."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He folded his arms as he turned back to his own area of concern, the tube that Salome really should be coming out of this freaking second. She still didn't, though, and Zetta could only glower, good mood rapidly fading.

"You getting along okay with the... everything?"

[thewunderkind]

[[Woops that was supposed to be she thought of the robots and not looking at them as if they were there down in the tubes. Anyway.]]

Mood killer. "Urgh. I know I should go out and apologize to certain people but...part of me really doesn't want to do it. Actually most of me. It just feels fundamentally wrong that I'd have to apologize for anything. 'Sides, kicking Ron in the nuts was rather therapeutic." You'd know all about Lash and kicking people in the nuts, Zetta.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"There's a trick to that," Zetta said. Never having felt the need to apologize to anyone for anything, he'd discovered this just recently -- to wit, on the ship. "Just act like nothing ever happened. Then everyone assumes you're sorry and just too embarrassed or evil to actually say so."