Alex: God Tier? The answer is no.

[18:13] <Lyra_Bel> ===== BEGIN =====
[18:13]  * Alex_ sits up
[18:13] <Alex_> "ugh..."
[18:16] <Lyra_Bel> "So hey"
[18:17]  * Alex_ snaps his head to lyra
[18:17] <Alex_> "Lyra, hey"
[18:17] <Alex_> "you waste no time"
[18:17]  * Lyra_Bel grins
[18:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Had stuff to do.  And you obviously managed"
[18:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Was it worth it?"
[18:17]  * Alex_ looks at his hands
[18:18] <Alex_> theyre probably all bloody
[18:18] <Alex_> "what have i gained"
[18:18]  * Lyra_Bel stops grinning
[18:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Whaddaya mean?"
[18:19] <Alex_> "I just beat the shit out of this guy but what now"
[18:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Now... the after"
[18:20] <Lyra_Bel> "Lil'n the others win their fight, and everyone lives happily ever after"
[18:20] <Lyra_Bel> "... Everyone who's still alive"
[18:21] <Alex_> "great"
[18:21] <Alex_> "why do we have to live here though"
[18:24] <Lyra_Bel> "What do you mean?"
[18:25] <Alex_> "I just... nevermind"
[18:25] <Alex_> "we need to get Bahamut and my corpse"
[18:25] <Lyra_Bel> "Right"
[18:25]  * Lyra_Bel nods
[18:25] <Lyra_Bel> "Um... jumpcut?"
[18:26] <Alex_> "nah, lets fly"
[18:26] <Lyra_Bel> "Sure"
[18:26] <Alex_> Alex starts hovering. he also drops his stuff, fake gauntelts, shields, and armor.
[18:26]  * Lyra_Bel begins hovering
[18:26] <Lyra_Bel> The dream equipment melts away into smoke
[18:27] <Alex_> Alex follows suit and begins hovering toward the battlefield
[18:27]  * Lyra_Bel follows alongside
[18:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Can I just say"
[18:28] <Lyra_Bel> "That fight was the coolest freaking thing"
[18:28] <Alex_> "thanks"
[18:28] <Alex_> "it was kind of traumatic passing out twice though"
[18:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Right..."
[18:28] <Lyra_Bel> "But then y'got back up.  Twice!"
[18:29] <Alex_> "ive never been knocked out like that for real before"
[18:30] <Lyra_Bel> "I-"
[18:30]  * Lyra_Bel blinks
[18:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh."
[18:30] <Alex_> "what"
[18:30] <Lyra_Bel> "That was... sorta your first real fight where you could have seriously died"
[18:30] <Alex_> "No..."
[18:31] <Alex_> "i could have died plenty of times against god npc bullshit"
[18:31] <Alex_> "but this one i had ane even chance and i alomst lost"
[18:31] <Alex_> "somehow thats worse"
[18:31] <Lyra_Bel> "But... you won"
[18:31] <Lyra_Bel> "On a totally even playing field, you still won"
[18:33] <Alex_> "yeah i guess i di"
[18:34] <Alex_> "Lets just get my body"
[18:34] <Lyra_Bel> "Right"
[18:35] <Alex_> "jump cut please"
[18:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Are you sure?  Thought you didn't like them"
[18:36] <Alex_> "better than awkard silence"
[18:36]  * Lyra_Bel mutters "Doesn't have to be awkward".  She and Alex fly on...
[18:36] <Lyra_Bel> ===== JUMPCUT =====
[18:37] <Lyra_Bel> ... and arrive at his body, surrounded by Bahamut and a dead Dersite army
[18:37] <Alex_> Once alex recovers...
[18:37] <Alex_> "I know it just would"
[18:37] <Alex_> "im not feeling amazing at the m,oment"
[18:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess that's fair"
[18:38] <Alex_> "ill feel better soon i just need some time.
[18:38] <Alex_> "
[18:39] <Alex_> Alex looks out on the dead army, and wills Bahamut to shrink
[18:39] <Lyra_Bel> The dragon does so, returning to normal size before hopping back up onto your shoulder
[18:39] <Lyra_Bel> "I, um"
[18:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess that's not something you wanna fast-forward through, eh?"
[18:40] <Alex_> "no."
[18:40] <Alex_> "not this"
[18:40] <Alex_> alex now looks down at his own body:
[18:41]  * Lyra_Bel stands around awkwardly
[18:42] <Alex_> "Should we kill him"
[18:42] <Alex_> "me"
[18:42]  * Lyra_Bel looks up, alarmed
[18:42] <Lyra_Bel> "What?"
[18:43] <Alex_> "im passed out"
[18:43] <Alex_> "seems like the best opportunity to kill me and god tier"
[18:43] <Lyra_Bel> "You don't need to God Tier"
[18:44] <Alex_> "I dont, i gu ess"
[18:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Do... do you want to?"  She ventures
[18:46] <Alex_> "I've been thinking about it a bit"
[18:47] <Alex_> "Sure i can beat literally anything in the universe"
[18:47] <Alex_> "but what if someone dies?"
[18:47] <Alex_> "for good"
[18:47] <Alex_> "If i was god tiered could i bring them back?"
[18:47] <Alex_> "I am a god, of life"
[18:47] <Alex_> "what do i do gagain? inherit it?"
[18:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Defend yourself with it"
[18:47] <Alex_> "sounds fucking good to me"
[18:48] <Alex_> "what"
[18:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Heir.  You defend yourself with your aspect"
[18:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Probably"
[18:50] <Alex_> "So i couldnt"
[18:50] <Alex_> "what culd i do then"
[18:50] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't know"
[18:51] <Lyra_Bel> "I can't see any heirs of life"
[18:51] <Alex_> "You what?"
[18:51] <Lyra_Bel> "My power"
[18:51] <Lyra_Bel> "S'how I know stuff"
[18:52] <Alex_> "see? whats with that"
[18:52] <Lyra_Bel> "With what?"
[18:52] <Alex_> "how can you see things"
[18:53] <Alex_> "what- nevermind"
[18:53] <Lyra_Bel> "It's hard to explain"
[18:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Something... transcendant.  More than real"
[18:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Like a new pair of eyes that detect a new sense that only you have"
[18:54] <Alex_> "yeah dont bother thats fgucking weird"
[18:54] <Lyra_Bel> "I know"
[18:56] <Alex_> I pick myself up.
[18:57] <Alex_> "what should we do now?"
[18:57] <Alex_> "actually i know"
[18:57] <Alex_> "lets go to  the place i would go for my death if i decide to"
[18:58]  * Lyra_Bel nods
[18:58] <Lyra_Bel> "Quest bed, on LOAAC"
[18:58] <Lyra_Bel> "Jumpcut?"
[18:58] <Alex_> "sure"
[18:58] <Lyra_Bel> They go...
[18:58] <Lyra_Bel> ===== JUMPCUT =====
[18:58] <Lyra_Bel> ... to his quest bed
[18:59] <Lyra_Bel> "Just... lie it down on this"
[18:59] <Alex_> Alex shakes the crap off and puts it on.
[18:59] <Alex_> "Damn."
[19:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Can you do me a favour?"
[19:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Quick one"
[19:00] <Alex_> "whats up?"
[19:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Remember that you don't have to do this.  You can choose not to"
[19:01] <Lyra_Bel> "Nothing's forcing you either way"
[19:02] <Alex_> "I know"
[19:02] <Alex_> "Im just thinking"
[19:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Good"
[19:02] <Lyra_Bel> "I just..."
[19:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Really don't wanna force you either way"
[19:03] <Alex_> "I know."
[19:04] <Alex_> "I wish tehre was some way my body could just stop breathing"
[19:04] <Alex_> "Come back to life better and stronger."
[19:04] <Alex_> "...but i cant do it"
[19:04] <Alex_> "and no one else may."
[19:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Good way to put it"
[19:06] <Alex_> Alex just stares... at himself.
[19:07] <Lyra_Bel> "... D'you remember one of the first conversations we had?"
[19:07] <Alex_> "where i was convinced you were god?"
[19:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Bit after that"
[19:08] <Lyra_Bel> "About us being dead"
[19:08] <Alex_> "No, i dont"
[19:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Best way to die is carbon monoxide"
[19:09] <Lyra_Bel> "Painless sleep"
[19:09] <Alex_> "so what you want me to just flood this..."
[19:09] <Alex_> "wherever we are"
[19:09] <Alex_> "with CO2?"
[19:09] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't want you to do anything"
[19:10] <Lyra_Bel> "M'just... keeping your options open"
[19:10] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't know"
[19:11] <Alex_> "thanks"
[19:12] <Alex_> "i dont know what to do"
[19:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Pros and cons.  Talk out loud"
[19:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Get a list of ideas, so you aren't constantly overwhelmed"
[19:14] <Alex_> "there isnt much to discuss"
[19:14] <Alex_> "tehres nothing but benefits'
[19:14] <Alex_> "the question is am i strong enough to kill myself?"
[19:15] <Lyra_Bel> "Um... keeping in mind that it's still your choice"
[19:15] <Lyra_Bel> "I read something like that, once"
[19:16] <Lyra_Bel> "F'y'wanna maybe talk about it"
[19:17] <Alex_> "Read somethnig like what"
[19:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Well"
[19:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Like whether being "better" than before is really any better"
[19:18] <Alex_> "What the fuck does that mean"
[19:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Well"
[19:19] <Lyra_Bel> "How hard is it to act brave when you're invincible?"
[19:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Not really so crazy much, right?"
[19:21] <Alex_> "So youre sayign i should be brave now since i could die"
[19:21] <Lyra_Bel> "Well, no"
[19:21] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean"
[19:21]  * Lyra_Bel shakes her head
[19:22] <Lyra_Bel> "What I mean is that people who don't have anything to be afraid of aren't necessarily *better* than people who do"
[19:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Superman saves cities on a daily basis.  But a random cop who saves one person from a potential drive-by is a hero too, right?"
[19:23] <Alex_> "id rather save cities than one person"
[19:24] <Lyra_Bel> "Why?"
[19:24] <Alex_> "more good done"
[19:24] <Alex_> "No question"
[19:25] <Lyra_Bel> "So you'd just let that one person get shot?"
[19:26] <Alex_> "better than the entire city being gone"
[19:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay"
[19:27] <Lyra_Bel> "So that "more good" thing, then"
[19:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Is that in your eyes, or theirs?"
[19:27] <Lyra_Bel> "So you can feel like you've done good, or so that they'll know you have?"
[19:28] <Alex_> "Shit what the hell kind of question is that"
[19:28] <Alex_> "im tryign to make the world less shitty"
[19:29] <Lyra_Bel> "Then why is it even in question?"
[19:30] <Alex_> "Fuckin hell im not understanding this conversation"
[19:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Never mind, then"
[19:31] <Lyra_Bel> "F'it's not helping you then there's no point"
[19:31] <Alex_> Alex doesnt say anything fora  bit
[19:31] <Alex_> "Lyra summon me a gun"
[19:32]  * Lyra_Bel wordlessly does so
[19:32] <Alex_> Alex captchalogues it
[19:32] <Alex_> "thanks"
[19:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah"
[19:35] <Alex_> alex continues to stare at himself wordlessly.
[19:36]  * Lyra_Bel opens her mouth to speak, then closes it.  She tries again twice more before finally managing to say anything
[19:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Y'know what I hate?"
[19:36] <Alex_> "what"
[19:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Whichever choice you make, right here, you're going to regret in one way or another"
[19:37] <Lyra_Bel> "Zugzwang"
[19:37] <Alex_> "what"
[19:38] <Lyra_Bel> "S'what it's called.  When the act of having to choose is what hurts you"
[19:38] <Lyra_Bel> "You'd be fine either way if it was forced.  But like this..."
[19:38] <Alex_> "zugzwang"
[19:38] <Alex_> alex laugh
[19:38] <Alex_> s
[19:38] <Alex_> "fucking zugzwang"
[19:39]  * Lyra_Bel nods
[19:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Fricking zugzwang"
[19:40] <Alex_> "heheh oh right you dont like swearing"
[19:40] <Alex_> "sorry i wasnt in my best mentality"
[19:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Unlike certain people in the room, I was raised right"
[19:40] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[19:41] <Alex_> "sure"
[19:41] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't mind.  Don't need to watch your tongue, I'm... *well* beyond the point of caring"
[19:42] <Alex_> "alright"
[19:44] <Alex_> Alex still doesnt get anywhere.
[19:44]  * Lyra_Bel too thanks
[19:45] <Alex_> Alex lays down and goes to sleep
[19:45] <Alex_> ...and wakes up on the slab.
[19:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Good sleep?"
[19:46] <Alex_> he then puts his other body on the slab.
[19:46] <Alex_> "yeah i killed a king"
[19:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Sounds exciting"
[19:46] <Alex_> Alex pulls out the gun and aims it at his own head.
[19:46] <Alex_> On the slab
[19:47]  * Lyra_Bel averts her eyes
[19:47] <Alex_> "fuck... i dont know if i can do this"
[19:48] <Lyra_Bel> "You don't need to"
[19:48]  * Lyra_Bel keeps staring at nothing in particular
[19:48] <Lyra_Bel> "I know I keep saying it and it sounds like a trap choice"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Like how the heroes don't really *need* to help fight the final villain, nobody will blame them if they run away, stuff like that"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "But it really will be okay if you stay mortal"
[19:49] <Alex_> "so then the villian murders everyone else"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "This isn't one of those times"
[19:51] <Alex_> Alex lowers the gun
[19:53] <Alex_> "damn."
[19:53] <Alex_> "cant do it"
[19:53] <Alex_> "Not now"
[19:54]  * Lyra_Bel looks back at him
[19:54] <Lyra_Bel> "... You're sure?"
[19:55] <Alex_> "yeah"
[19:56] <Lyra_Bel> "Not gonna kick yourself about it later?"
[19:56] <Alex_> "Im sure i will."
[19:56] <Alex_> "so..."
[19:56] <Alex_> "can you summon... a big camping backpack, a coffin, and a bunch  of bungee cords?"
[19:57]  * Lyra_Bel obliges
[19:57] <Lyra_Bel> "... S'gonna be weird when you swap and find yourself tied up"
[19:57] <Alex_> "that is"
[19:58] <Alex_> I put myself in the coffin, bungee myself to the coffin so i'll stay upright, close it, then fasten the coffin to the backpack, getting out any supplies i need form lyra
[19:58] <Alex_> I now have a coffinpack.
[19:59] <Alex_> Like gaara's sand thnig im just gonna carry it around
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay"
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> "So"
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess we're ready to keep going"
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> "To... somewhere"
[20:01] <Alex_> :guess so"
[20:02] <Lyra_Bel> "... Other session is fighting their kings now, too"
[20:03] <Alex_> "And we'll be ther eto help[ right?"
[20:03] <Alex_> "i can kill kings"
[20:03] <Alex_> "I can hepl them"
[20:04] <Lyra_Bel> "Not sure anymore"
[20:04] <Lyra_Bel> "All so hard to tell"
[20:04] <Alex_> "so ask 12 about it"
[20:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Twelve... isn't my best friend right this second"
[20:05] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't think he's gonna be willing to help much more"
[20:05] <Alex_> "so how do we get there?'
[20:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Well..."
[20:06]  * Lyra_Bel grins
[20:06] <Lyra_Bel> "You have no idea how tempting it is right now to see if I can use my power to do a textbook fade to black right now"
[20:07] <Alex_> "Can you?"
[20:07] <Alex_> "we've looted and pillaged, we're done with everything here"
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah"
[20:08] <Alex_> "i dont have anythnig else to do"
[20:08] <Alex_> "might as well"
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "I've been talking to Lily about making something work"
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Tryna figure out how to cobble things together ourselves"
[20:09] <Lyra_Bel> "Hammer our way through with blunt force, y'know?"
[20:09] <Alex_> "not... really?"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Well"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Somewhat immortal and omnipotent overdeity wants us to stay here"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "So what if we cheat and sneak through anyway?"
[20:11] <Alex_> "Sounds good to me"
[20:11] <Alex_> "amd i can fight it if it wants
[20:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Technically true"
[20:12] <Lyra_Bel> "If he's not a layer... up..."
[20:12]  * Lyra_Bel trails off
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Alex, you magnificent genius"
[20:13] <Alex_> "what"
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> "You can fight *anything*"
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Any *thing*"
[20:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Which means if your opponent becomes something like Twelve is..."
[20:14] <Alex_> "What i can punch a god"
[20:14] <Alex_> ((i need to find michael and punch him))
[20:14] <Alex_> ((ALEXANDER PYRITE BABY))
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> ((This is what we in the business call "stupid"))
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup"
[20:16] <Alex_> "awsome"
[20:16] <Alex_> "but also scary"
[20:16] <Lyra_Bel> "Everything's scary.  S'what makes it worth doing"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "So"
[20:18] <Alex_> "So"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "That puts our team at you, me, and Silver"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Against Twelve"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "... We might be able to work with this"
[20:22] <Lyra_Bel> "... Can I just say how freaking great it is to actually have people to trust as allies?"
[20:22] <Alex_> "who is silver"
[20:22] <Alex_> "And also yes you may"
[20:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Lily, one layer of reality upwards"
[20:23] <Lyra_Bel> "And it's so freaking great to actually have people to trust as allies"
[20:27] <Alex_> "one layer of- what the heck does that mena"
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "It means her soul"
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "You've got one too, but you're strong enough to not need one, I don't think"
[20:28] <Alex_> "that doesnt explaina nythnig man"
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "I know.  Any I'm sorry"
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Took me like eight months to work it all out myself"
[20:29] <Alex_> "great"
[20:29] <Alex_> "why dont i need one?"
[20:29] <Alex_> "i'm "strong""
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "You're kind of omnipotent, dude"
[20:30] <Alex_> "So omnipotent i dont need a soul?"
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Well, you do"
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[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "To like move around and stuff"
[20:31] <Lyra_Bel> "But not to act outside of bounds"
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[20:31] <Alex_> "act out of bounds?"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah.  Y'know, 'heroic resolve' your way out of dying and stuff.  Like in your fight"
[20:33] <yzabtech> ((ok what))
[20:33] <Alex_> "What? Wait..."
[20:33] <Alex_> "did i... cheat?"
[20:34]  * Lyra_Bel grins
[20:34] <Lyra_Bel> "More like punching the rules in the face to prove that you're better than they are"
[20:35] <Alex_> "fun"
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "S'pretty awesome, yeah"

[19:47] <Alex_> "i just..."
[19:48] <Alex_> "it is pretty awesome
[19:48] <Alex_> "but isnt a soul helpful?"
[19:48]  * Lyra_Bel blinks
[19:48] <Lyra_Bel> "What do you mean?"
[19:48] <Alex_> "dunno man"
[19:48] <Lyra_Bel> "Like, you still *have* one"
[19:48] <Alex_> "in basically every other fucking tv sho-" o
[19:48] <Alex_> "oh what'
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "S'why you and I can talk instead of you just being one of Carl's puppets or something"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "You're a person"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "It's just... y'know.  There's stuff you can do without needing to rely on the soul to do it for you"
[19:50] <Alex_> "oh"
[19:50] <Alex_> "like getting back up right"
[19:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah"
[19:50] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm like 90% sure a normal person woulda died there"
[19:51] <Alex_> "are ny of us normal though"
[19:51] <Lyra_Bel> "Not even a little bit"
[19:52] <Alex_> "could you have survived?"
[19:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Hmm"
[19:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Hard to say.  I don't really... interact with the world the same way anymore"
[19:52] <Lyra_Bel> "For me, I think survival might have just consisted of saying "Lyra gets back up"
[19:53] <Lyra_Bel> "
[19:53] <Alex_> "oh..."
[19:53] <Lyra_Bel> "I think"
[19:54] <Lyra_Bel> "S'also possible I'd be too dead to say that"
[19:55] <Alex_> "thats true
[19:56]  * Lyra_Bel shrugs
[19:56] <Lyra_Bel> "Different brands of omnipotence, different rules"
[19:57] <Alex_> "i guess so..."
[19:57] <Lyra_Bel> "What's wrong?"
[19:58] <Lyra_Bel> "You're kinda trailing off on me here"
[19:58] <Alex_> "lyra do you ever feel like you wish you werent omnipotent?"
[19:58] <Lyra_Bel> "Um... not really.  It's kind of a lot nicer than getting tortured"
[19:58] <Lyra_Bel> "... Do you?"
[19:59] <Alex_> "... what do you know about comics?"
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> "There's a guy called Thanos in one of them"
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[19:59] <Alex_> "great"
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> "That's all I got"
[19:59] <Alex_> "well, theres this guy cyborg"
[20:00] <Alex_> "and in a knock off animated tv show from like early 2000's, he liked working out"
[20:00] <Alex_> "but, he was part robot becuase some douche mostly killed him"
[20:01] <Alex_> "And at some point, he peaked"
[20:01] <Alex_> "becuase he couldnt work out anymore because he was robotic"
[20:02] <Alex_> "i kind of feel like that"
[20:02] <Alex_> "like what im doing isnt me""
[20:02] <Alex_> "its some god giving me power, and not e ven because i did anytbhnig"
[20:02] <Alex_> "just because you died"
[20:03] <Lyra_Bel> "Well, wait a sec"
[20:03] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah, you got stronger, but it wasn't like you were just given a dead black king"
[20:03] <Lyra_Bel> "You still earned that win"
[20:04] <Alex_> "how though"
[20:04] <Alex_> "without ankles the death god thers no way i coud have done it"
[20:04] <Alex_> "i'dve been squashed with the first spear"
[20:05] <Lyra_Bel> "And without Spencer the history geek, I'd never have been able to take down the queen"
[20:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Heck, without my freaking server I'd have died in the meteors"
[20:05] <Lyra_Bel> "That doesn't mean everything I do is thanks to them, does it?"
[20:05] <Alex_> "No..."
[20:05] <Alex_> "but theyre resources"
[20:05] <Alex_> "like my gauntlets"
[20:06] <Lyra_Bel> "As opposed to what?"
[20:07] <Alex_> "someone literally just giving me all the power i need"
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "There's a term for that, I think"
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Like"
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Being strong doesn't matter if you can't work out how to use it"
[20:09] <Alex_> "thats about right"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "But you *were* able to work it out"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "And beat up the king.  In the crazy awesomest way possible"
[20:11] <Alex_> "by getting beaten once and almost dgetting beat again?"
[20:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Meant with the dropping him on his own army and then tackling him from orbit"
[20:12] <Lyra_Bel> "And then being tough enough to go *beyond* the wish's limits, and get back up even after getting beaten, then take a win"
[20:14] <Alex_> "do i know it was me though"
[20:14] <Alex_> "what if it was the wish that gave me the strength"
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "Do you want me to check?"
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "I can"
[20:15] <Alex_> "fucking what"
[20:15] <Alex_> "how?"
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "Power stupidity, mostly"
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "It might even work"
[20:16] <Alex_> "Fine go"
[20:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Yep, there we go"
[20:17] <Lyra_Bel> "All it did was make you bigger, hit harder and faster, and be better at blocking attacks"
[20:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Nothing about being able to get up again after"
[20:17] <Lyra_Bel> "That part was you"
[20:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Without the wish"
[20:18] <Alex_> "great"
[20:19] <Alex_> "i guess thats comforting"
[20:19] <Lyra_Bel> "You're better than y'think"
[20:20] <Alex_> "thanks i guess"
[20:23] <Lyra_Bel> "... I'll tell you what"
[20:23]  * Lyra_Bel grins
[20:23] <Alex_> "what"
[20:23] <Alex_> "what does that grin mean"
[20:23] <Lyra_Bel> "Means I have an idea"
[20:24] <Lyra_Bel> "Which is probably gonna go horribly wrong"
[20:24] <Lyra_Bel> "But it's still an idea"
[20:24] <Alex_> "have at it i guess"
[20:24] <Lyra_Bel> "You wanna prove you aren't being handed the win, right?"
[20:26] <Alex_> "I dont like this"
[20:26]  * Lyra_Bel 's grin widens
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Fight me."
[20:28] <Alex_> "oh hell no"
[20:28] <Alex_> "arent you just like"
[20:29] <Lyra_Bel> "C'mon it'll be great!"
[20:29] <Alex_> "bullshit the game"
[20:29] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah!  But if your thing equalizes us..."
[20:29] <Alex_> "thats gonna break the world"
[20:29] <Lyra_Bel> "And it'll be *awesome*"
[20:30] <Alex_> "Lyra i dont think i could"
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Are y'sure?  Not even a friendly spar?"
[20:30] <Alex_> "I dont know..."
[20:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Aww, c'mon"
[20:31] <Lyra_Bel> "You know it'd be cool to actually have a fair fight"
[20:31] <Alex_> "maybe"
[20:32] <Alex_> "im worried abut the laws of physics though"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Then we can drop the power stuff"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Here, I might even be able to shut it off"
[20:33] <Lyra_Bel> "Just become a normal, proper fight"
[20:34] <Alex_> "I'd agree to that"
[20:34] <Alex_> "but lyra im like"
[20:34] <Lyra_Bel> "Stronger than me?"
[20:34] <Alex_> "half a foot taller and way stronger"
[20:34] <Alex_> "yeah"
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "True"
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "... Sure is a good thing you always fight on an even level, eh?"
[20:35] <Alex_> "wait this thing wont bring me down will it?"
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "I have no idea"
[20:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Hopefully not, since that really isn't much of a fair fight at all"
[20:37] <Alex_> "isnt that by definition fair"
[20:37] <Lyra_Bel> "Even, maybe.  But not fair, I don't think"
[20:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Since I'm fighting at peak capacity, but you've gotta get used to not being yourself anymore, s'far as being strong goes"
[20:41] <Lyra_Bel> "... So whaddaya think?"
[20:41] <Alex_> "that amkes sense i guess"
[20:41] <Alex_> "i still dont know if i want to do it"
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess that's fair"
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> "No need to prove that I could kick your butt, after all"
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[20:42] <Alex_> "true"
[20:42] <Alex_> "very true"
[20:44] <Lyra_Bel> "... That was a joke, Alex"
[20:45] <Alex_> "please"
[20:45] <Alex_> "couldnt you like"
[20:46] <Alex_> "write me out of existence"
[20:46] <Lyra_Bel> "I meant without my power"
[20:46] <Lyra_Bel> "And no.  Can't do that while you still have a soul"
[20:46]  * Lyra_Bel smiles.  "S'part of why I'm glad you do"
[20:47] <Alex_> "you like that i could beat you?"
[20:47] <Lyra_Bel> "That you could *try*"
[20:47] <Lyra_Bel> "C'mon.  Where's the fun if it's guaranteed either way?"
[20:50] <Alex_> "i guess"
[20:50] <Alex_> "i did just give a big monologue about absolute power"
[20:50] <Lyra_Bel> "True"
[20:51] <Lyra_Bel> "But physical strength doesn't have to mean everything"
[20:51] <Alex_> "its all ive got though"
[20:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah.  So maybe I can make up for it by, I dunno, being really frigging stab-happy or something"
[20:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Boom, even match"
[20:53] <Lyra_Bel> "... But only if y'wanna.  Not going to force you"
[20:53] <Alex_> "I'd rather not"
[20:54] <Alex_> "im not a huge fan of fighting just randomly"
[20:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Alright then"
[20:54] <Lyra_Bel> "To each their own"
[20:55] <Lyra_Bel> "We'll just have to find another way to prove you don't need Ankles' help to be good at stuff"
[20:56] <Alex_> "i guess so"
[20:56] <Alex_> "maybe a way to turn it off at will"
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[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> "Makes sense"
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> "Does it not already do that?"
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> "Or like"
[20:57] <Alex_> "I dont know"
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> "Huh"
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "Weird"
[20:58] <Alex_> "that was the fist real challenge ivefaced"
[20:59] <Lyra_Bel> "Well, if you're interested in fighting a challenge..."  A grin starts creeping across her face again.
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[20:59] <Alex_>  "i'll give you a call"
[21:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Deal"