@callisto.diamandis

[myfavoritemurder]

Back on my own world, I raised armies of men to follow me. I killed the ones who were too weak or who refused to obey a woman, and provided the rest with armor, weapons, and ample food and supplies from the villages we raided. In return, they helped me be seen the way I wanted to be seen. But none of that will work here.

[That's not as big an admission as it might sound; both the armies and the raiding had been nothing but a means to an end, something that was useful at the time but that could easily be left behind if circumstances changed.]

The powers here have given me the gift of literacy, and I've read your guide for the newcomers, even though it clearly wasn't written for someone like me. You take it for granted that everybody coming here will already know about things like buses and guns and galaxies.

But I have decided that there is nothing for me here, I will fight for the cause to return to where we came from. If this is your cause as well, we will be allies.

[A word to the wise: Callisto is not always kind even to her allies.]

But if we end up in a position to make demands, then I want to go back to the land of the living, not to Tartarus. My work there isn't done.

Comments

@bellamy.blake

[jettisons]

Do you have an actual plan?

[myfavoritemurder]

No. That's why I'm not trying to be your leader.

@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

When you say fight, you mean taking up arms and such?

( not a bad plan, really. )

There's not always a need for that kind of fighting.

@kylo.ren

[warfares]

Where were you from, before?

[myfavoritemurder]

If there is, I'll be ready to, if I can learn more about the weapons used here. If there isn't, I'll fight in other ways.

[myfavoritemurder]

Greece.

@nathan.drake

[nonscriptum]

you sound like you're really fun at parties.

[heliophilous]

I've been here awhile and still trying to learn about the weapons here. Not really my thing back home.

( because he had his hands and that was enough. )

Other ways? Like undermining from the inside or something like that?

[myfavoritemurder]

If they're raiding parties, I'm lots of fun.

[ :) ]

[warfares]

I don't know it.

[myfavoritemurder]

Espionage isn't really MY thing, but yes. I'm sure there are other options too, but you can't expect me to know them all right from the start.

@ellie.miller

[notathreat]

Raiding parties, huh?

[Just so we're not... glossing that one over?]

[myfavoritemurder]

Maybe you're from a different world entirely, then.

Or maybe my society and culture were long dead and gone by the time your people were born.

[myfavoritemurder]

Are you asking what that means?

[nonscriptum]

so you're a warlord.

[ An old-fashioned sort of warlord, based on the very specific references, but a warlord nonetheless. Even in Nate's day that particular "profession" was more about exploiting existing powder kegs than starting something from scratch. ]

@nathan.drake [private]

[nonscriptum]

based on the language she's using i think she's from a really, really long time ago

not to excuse it, but it definitely makes more sense

@ellie.miller [private]

[notathreat]

Yeah, ancient Greece. But they are definitely still a thing.

[notathreat]

I know what it meant in my world. Not sure if everyone else does.

[heliophilous]

I don't expect that, no. I don't know all them either. I'm just throwing out things that pop into my head.

It's good to see someone being proactive though. How good a fighter are you?

[myfavoritemurder]

I am. Or I was, before I died.

[nonscriptum]

where and when are you from that raiding parties are still a thing?

[myfavoritemurder]

They'd have to be very sheltered or come from very peaceful places not to.

[notathreat]

I don't think any natives from this world know shit about what happens during a raiding party.

[notathreat]

25+ years out from a zombie apocalypse, if it was a plant-based infection instead of undead.

My "village" used to get raided. A lot.

[myfavoritemurder]

They know war.