[agodr] A bone to pick with the proctors

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Broen had gotten a new Regalis after Althea fucked off. But that didn't mean he wasn't fuckin' mad still. And Jude had given him the address of the bookstore where some of the proctors of this fucked up game worked. So he was going to take a strip off of these assholes and get something for being paired with a total psychopath.

Finding the shop was easy enough. It's not like it was hidden. He stepped in through the front door, pulling his hood down off of his head. "Hey," he called out as he took stock of the room and put his hands in his hoodie pockets. Feeling the loose change he was keeping in there. Insurance and good for his powers.

"Anybody home? I'm in the divine right thing. Hello?"

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OC: I was planning on him meeting Aslan. If you're alright with doing a thread still.
 

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Aslan Solak

From where he was straightening the books, Aslan looked towards the source of the voice. It was yet another person from the tournament, which wasn't a surprise. However, it was getting annoying that so many people now knew where they, the proctors, frequented. Soon enough, there would be visitors pouring out of the air ducts.

Nearby, Claudius gave him a helpless, spooked expression that Aslan despised. Scoffing a little, he waved the man away, a dismissal that Claudius took with all possible haste. Useless coworker thus disposed of, Aslan made his way to their visitor.

"Can I help you?" he asked bluntly.
 

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Broen sized Aslan up as he approached, rolling his shoulders back to appear more relaxed than he felt. "Yeah. Sup. You one of the proctors? I'm Broen... I joined the tournament back at the beginning."

He chewed his lip, considering the other man. Some kind of JRPG looking motherfucker. "I'm not gonna mince fuckin words. Your boy Cornelius paired me with a straight psycho. She tried to get me killed. Punched me in the fuckin face when I told her I was done getting dragged around by my balls. So I guess I'm here to lodge a formal complaint. And to ask... what the fuck?"
 

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Aslan Solak

Aslan eyed the young man for a moment before shrugging. "Some Regalia are peaceful, some are violent. Others are tranquil, even more are volatile. That's kind of the point of the entire tournament," he said indifferently. "The different types of personalities are meant to force you to reconcile all of them. If you can't do it, just get rid of one like you did."

"Besides, it sounds like you didn't get on her level well enough," Aslan evaluated. "There's a right way and a wrong way to interact with Regalia and it sounds like you went the wrong way. That's just tough luck."
 

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Broen sucked air in through his teeth and narrowed his eyes at Aslan. "No see. I was told from the beginning that this tournament wasn't dangerous. I fully admit I fucked up with her, but maybe you should vet the Regalia you let in on this so you don't get someone killed and ruin your good names."
 

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Aslan Solak

He raised an umimpressed eyebrow. "You just admitted that you messed up with your Regalia," Aslan pointed out. "It sounds rather like a personal problem rather than one for the proctors." Because he had no real way of simply saying how about you just don't mess up next time?, he settled for saying, "Go and see if another one suits you better. There's still plenty more out there."
 

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"You don't seem like you're grokking what I'm saying. I fucked up and was a dick. That doesn't give this fuckin cunt the right to try and murder me."

He stepped closer, his shoulders tensing up. "This whole tournament is ass so far and the rules are shitty and arbitrary. I shouldn't have expected shit from you motherfuckers. But I'm here now and you're gonna hear me out."

"If there's plenty of Regalia out there still, why don't you do me a solid and point me to one who can actually deal with me? Because as it fuckin stands, every other one I've met has been some idealistic idiot or a weepy coward."
 

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Aslan Solak

"If you don't like the rules so much, then just drop out," Aslan said impatiently. "Nobody is forcing you to participate. In fact, we are bribing you to. Just because it was a shitty bribe does not mean you are entitled to a better one."

Honestly, Aslan felt unbothered by the entire thing. Humans were always getting worked up by the little things. For example, it was only a single attempt of murder. And he heard nothing of it being messy or long, even. That was just life.
 

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"No see. You don't get to try and bribe someone and then tell them to fuck off when the bribe tries to get them killed several fucking times." Broen was getting worked up, his emotions were still kind of out of whack. So he took a step back and he cracked his neck.

"I get it. You think you're so fuckin above us. You think you're some kinds of gods or some bullshit. But you live here, you play by our fuckin rules. Mutual fucking respect. So if you can't be assed to be civil and actually proctor your own fuckin game..."

He let a small, vicious smirk crawl across his lips, his eyebrows lifting a little less tense. Aslan had seemed royally annoyed from the moment he had walked in the building. And if Jude was passing out their address to people... "I can come back as many times as I need to. And I can bring friends. You might not give a shit, but I'm sure plenty of other people do. All those complaints, all times of the day..."
 

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Aslan Solak

He leveled a hard stare at the young man. "I've heard worse threats," Aslan said, even thought the idea of so many people crowding the shop made him bristle. "I've lived through even worse threats being actually carried out."

"Frankly, I don't care," he continued honestly. "I don't even want to be here. I'm just doing this as a favor because people more important than you came and volunteered me into doing it. What I want is for everything to end already so I can go back to my boringly normal life among the boringly normal books. I don't even have the power to do anything about your situation really. Sure, we'll punish your original Regalia; they are definitely not supposed to be murderous to their partners regardless of how much of a bastard they are. But really, what else are you expecting from us?"