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[unkindled_madness]

Notes: Courtesy of David, this video is posted under a variety of anonymous throwaway accounts that are nigh-impossible to track, on basically every platform you can name. WOM.bat simply has a URL where the video can be downloaded, shared in the Fantastic Sucks board.

[The camera is focused on a man people may recognize from Fantastic's June announcement about a hypnotist manipulating Starfallen into acting as villains without their knowledge: the Fixer. While he looks a little worse for wear after his time in hiding, he isn't sporting any injuries beyond a few minor bruises.

Those asking him questions are off-camera, their voices altered.

After the full interrogation, a certain narrative becomes clear:

Fantastic hired the Fixer. They intentionally targeted Starfallen, using them to carry out staged attacks for Fantastic to thwart. This enabled him to elevate his image and dethrone Atomight from the Alliance. Once he achieved this goal, Fantastic threw the Fixer under the bus (which the Fixer seems especially and genuinely bitter about).

While this may not be surprising to a lot of people, they didn't have the proof before, and it makes Fantastic's hypocrisy for claiming to be working towards the safety of Starfallen excedingly clear.]

((The throwaway accounts probably won't be responding, but folks are welcome to chat in the various comment sections!))

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[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth folds his arms around him, because that's what's important right now. He can't offer promises about anyone else. He could be wrong. It could be only them.

But that doesn't make any sense to him. Loki is the best choice he's ever made. Surely others will be able to see it, too.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki shudders for a moment, soaking it in before finally exhaling quietly, letting it go. ]

We can table it for now. What are your plans for the Fixer?

[unkindled_madness]

...we did agree to release him. But I don't intend to keep the spirit of that promise.

The others... should have some say, however.

[dothelokimotion]

Let them have their say and we can decide.

You can always kill him later. I can place a tracking spell. No one needs to know.

[unkindled_madness]

My thoughts exactly.

It's probably best it happens quietly anyway, once he's been forgotten.

[dothelokimotion]

Then we'll see to it. But for now, let us milk the outrage and lets others weigh on their vengeance.

[unkindled_madness]

[He nods.]

Hopefully, it's quite a bit of outrage.

[dothelokimotion]

It's hard to say with humans. I blew up their city and a few years later, I was visiting like nothing ever happened and no one noticed.

[unkindled_madness]

I imagine they were at least upset while you were blowing up the city?

[dothelokimotion]

Oh, yes. Certainly.

[unkindled_madness]

Then we may get at least a few days out of it.

[dothelokimotion]

Mm. While the Guilds and the Shining God still have control, there's only so much we can do.

[unkindled_madness]

That control won't last.

[dothelokimotion]

[ he smiles faintly, bemused. ]

Will you kill a God, then?

[unkindled_madness]

If that presents itself as a solution, then why not?

[dothelokimotion]

Why not, indeed.

[ loki has killed gods. drained them. and yet . . . he finds himself not enthused. he shakes his head as if to shake himself out of it. ]

I'm sure we'll uncover them soon. I have a lead with two companies.

[unkindled_madness]

Yes. I was distracted. [By the possibility of Loki making friends!] What sort of leads are they?

[dothelokimotion]

There are two companies: Helios and Mediodia that seem to have ties with the cult. We'll start with Mediodia. Form some fake personas and sneak in.

[unkindled_madness]

...is Helios not the name of one of those Greek gods?

[dothelokimotion]

The sun god. "Mediodia" translates to middle of the day. It's not subtle.

[unkindled_madness]

Not in the least. They sound like someone being uncreative with shell corporations.

[dothelokimotion]

Indeed. It shouldn't prove too difficult to infiltrate.

[unkindled_madness]

No. You shouldn't have any trouble.

[He's a bit relieved.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki chuckles. ]

Not with this.

[unkindled_madness]

Let me know what you find, then. It may even be amusing.