sweartoyou | Ryslig

Soooooo, can I count you in on a scheme Donnie and I are doing?

If you're busy, I get it. just a question from lil ole me

Edited 2023-04-10 20:03 (UTC)

Yes.

[Of course. Of course her answer us "of course". If she's busy or there was otherwise some stumbling block, then...she'd find a way around it.]

What is it?

[He knows this is a little out of left field, but, can guess Ray wouldn't be too opposed to it.]

The plan itself is essentially, you play bait, draw out some weirdos obsessed with shades I've been keeping an eye on. Donnie and I handle the actual messy part. He's got a hunting drive that's a little crazy. So him going after them wouldn't be hard.

I'm looking to get Donnie moving up the ranks for Elias. He and I don't talk bout it much, cause there is already enough heat for the god thing.

[She's already typing that she doesn't mind taking care of it for them by herself, though she finds it a little odd and she usually tries to avoid people like that unless they get in her way, until -- ah. Aha.]

If you're aiming to keep it quiet, then this route would be a good way to get Donnie up to my level. Especially with humans like that. Recruiting is cleaner, but risky...

I'd be happy to be your bait. That said, I won't be able to help much more than that. I wouldn't mind, but it has to be proof that he's willing to go that far for Elias. For that same reason, unless you chose multiple targets to make up for it, I'm not sure how much you should be helping...

Keeping Donnie's motivations on task is important, too. For the thrill of hunting or feeding yourselves can't be the reason, and it can't be to stop people like that from harassing me, either. Is that understandable?

I know Dee wouldn't have the patience to actively recruit anyone. I know I barely have the energy to think about trying that. I don't wanna kill anyone, but if I gotta, it'll be humans who are actively being evil or creepy.

You're good tho, Ray-Bae. The company after the whole bait thing is more than fine by me. I figure two should be good? One for me, one for Dee. If he accidentally messes up, he can go after the guy I had an eye on. I'd rather he progress first. I know he can use Elias resources a lot better than I can.

Yeah, I get you. Its gotta be motivated for Elias. Is there anything else I need to know? Like, can we not eat the bodies? Does that negate the whole thing? I can get Donnie fed before hand so he doesn't pop off from being hungry.

[Speaking of which...]

Will you be okay now that you can't eat something prepared by someone else?

That should work. I know that for Miss Fog, eating them would probably be considered part of the worship... It's too bad the bodies would go to waste, but it might be best to avoid them being used for personal benefit completely.

I can take them to the morgue right away. Any of their personal information that you already have would be a big help for processing and drafting reports.

I don't know honestly. I gotta figure out the soul eating thing still. The guide is so vague I'm kind of winging it (ha) on what I'm doing. Donnie and I plan on hunting for real together to figure it out. Probably ask Bucky about it later.

You'd think Elias would be on board with us eating, but, we gotta play by his rules here.

Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on them for a little bit. Know enough to make things easier for you and the morgue.

Info.bmp

[When downloaded Ray will find a neat write up for the little group of men Leo has been following. Nothing particularly in depth, but names, rough guesses at ages, addresses, and descriptions.]

I'm pretty sure you don't eat souls. I think only shades, nephilim, and demons eat souls unless someone gets another option from Miss Fog or Miss Mana.

I don't know if he'd have any problem with it, exactly... Monsters need to eat, so he wouldn't punish you for that. He'd probably tell you that you have his sympathies, and it must be difficult. Oh, the things he'd fix without her around.
It's more caution than anything. Like you said, you don't want to kill any more than you have to. Dedicating their deaths for this alone leaves less room for interpretation.

[She scrolls through the file with a rising sense of admiration. She already knew that Leo was more on top of things than he gave the impression of, but it's so organized compared to his brain...]

This is great work, Leo. You probably won't be able to do this all the time, at least not for your whole household...but this is an amazing help. Just linking victims to specific monster types can take more work than we have resources for sometimes, especially with some humans disguising their murders as being done by monsters. Between this and being there as a witness, I'll have no trouble at all with these remains. Thanks.

[yeah, just treating them as corpses already, it's fine.]

So it's like... not souls? Energy, mana, soul drip, or something? Ugh. Do I need to become a meat eater again to avoid this :|

Yeah, sounds like him tbh. It's a can't cross any wires kind of situation. I guess I just say aloud, "I dedicate this to Elias" and we're good?

No biggie. Glad to make things a little easier for you.

This is a pretty specific kind of situation, so, I think this might be one of the few times I really dig into tracking people before I go after them. I want this to stick. Don't want Elias to try and go 'well, this doesn't count' at me.

Bucky probably could tell you about the guys he gets. He makes a habit of rounding up criminals. Dunno if he actually leaves anything behind, tho.

[Totally normal, Leo doesn't even really notice.]

Edited 2023-04-12 01:38 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, for you it's energy... I was able to eat energy for a while, though I mostly used it to help Reira get to sleep when the network was too overwhelming for her inside her head. Draining another monster, especially one as strong as her, meant I didn't really have to worry about going overboard and killing her by accident. Of course, I was still eating meat at the time, so it was more like snacking for me.

Without a person's soul, the body remains, alive but unresponsive. If a body is drained completely of energy, it dies. The soul can't survive separated from the body.

If you practice, you might be able to feed without killing eventually. Then you wouldn't have to worry about taking the hunt away from Donnie or him killing before you have a chance to eat.

That would probably work.

[And now...she's half on autopilot because this sure has been a proposal she's had to structure for Some Time Now...]

There are always parts that don't get eaten. Most of the time they get disposed of or donated to the soup kitchen, where they have a chance to serve a purpose. However, it's unlikely that someone with Mr. Bucky's skills would leave something behind as long as it could serve a purpose. It's far more likely that he would salvage what he can, then get rid of any trace he could.

Right now we're trying to work in cooperation with the soup kitchen to recover those parts that can't be used, but by the time it reaches them...the odds of identification are practically nonexistent. Whether he donates portions to the kitchen or not, please tell him that it would be useful if whatever isn't suitable for consumption could be turned over along with any of the victim's personal information and belongings he doesn't wish to take for himself. I'd be happy to collect them from him myself, if that's easiest.

Criminals or not, chances are they have importance to someone. It would be nice to offer those they leave behind some kind of resolution. Any remains at all is better than nothing.

If you could let others know about this sort of thing, as well as encourage interest in helping us at the morgue move away from La Forteresse, I'd appreciate it. If it comes up, I mean.

smh, can't believe you drank gamer straight from the source....

I'll test it out a little where I can. I know Donnie likes hunting, even if we're mutually pretending I'm unaware at the moment. So, balancing out me feeding and him being able to hunt is going to take a bit of practice.

I'll see what I can do. Knowing Bucky, he's kinda gotten rid of everything really efficiently. I assume it's a whole assassin thing. He hunts a lot.

What?
Oh, because she's Gamer Girl? I still don't really know what that means though.

Yeah. This would be going forward. We're not interested in getting anyone in trouble, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?
Plus...unless he's doing it for personal reasons, he should be hunting less now.

eh, its just a joke tbh. You drank her energy, drank gamer straight from the source, that's about it.

I think it should be okay. He's just... very dad and keeps us out of it. I also just kind of don't do great at hunting, so now Donnie and Bucky are both being overly protective.

Tbh, Bucky and Donnie have high hunting drive far as I can tell. Both of them being in the same house means its a lot of collateral.

Is drinking gamer a thing?

There's something called laser tag that might be good for them. I don't really know if there's something like that here though. The Cube would definitely be able to make it, but...

It is now. She's now g-fuel flavored.

We could try laser tag, but no idea if it'll actually scratch that itch.

Yeaaaah, cube is out until Donnie can be a little less prone to obsessiveness.

Every time I think I know what you're talking about, you prove me wrong.

It's really too bad. I've never been able to think of more uses for it than when someone important couldn't go in.

You love it ;)

Maybe when he adjusts, you guys could hang out in there? I'm not sure what I think about it. I don't want to pretend to be home and make how I feel worse.

Sometimes.

I never really liked it much...but it's a place where you can (mostly) safely do any activity you want, or access materials to practice building, even if it isn't real. I got to see what Sonic and Donnie look like, and even feel how soft Sonic is when he's in his own body. Except for that, though...I personally don't have a use for it.

Allll the time, obvs ;))!

So, it's like monster minecraft. Fair enough. Gotta practice building and pretending in a safe space. I might show Bucky it one day if there is anything I really wanna show him, but, idk.

Was sonic really soft? Gimme a rating here.

Nope.
But I love you all the time.

He was! Even if I had to be really careful of his quills. It could have been really bad if I hurt myself. Though a lot of his hair was shorter, so I guess more fuzzy in some parts? But his chest was really really soft. It's kind of like how puppies are softer than dogs, comparing that and the hair around his quills.
10/10 experience, would pet and hug again.

<3 I'll take it! Love you all the time too, Ray-Bae

Now you're making me regret I never petted him in Felfri. Though he probably wouldn't have been down. We're bros, but we haven't gotten that close yet. I wouldn't wanna weird out a same voice bro, you know?

Is it that weird to want to pet someone? I think about it all the time, with certain monsters... Besides, Sonic really likes making friends. He probably would have been happy to.

It can be, unless everyone is on board for it. I mean, he and I are bros, so, he probably wouldn't be 100% down.

[??????]

But I'm friends with him and Donnie and I got to pet both of them?

Ray.

You're a girl. Its kind of different that way.

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