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un: tarnation

[cowman]

I was speaking to Lucifer and he mentioned your being half-God. Half-angel. To him it was a foregone conclusion. He says he knows everything about us. Do you think this Lucifer is omniscient?

[stupetballs]

If he was truly omniscient, I think the Veiled Order would have a much harder time.

[And that doesn't seem to be the case.]

But I wouldn't be surprised if he knows a lot about all of us. He wouldn't be able to mess with us so well if he didn't.

[cowman]

Why do you think that is?

[stupetballs]

That he knows about us, or that he's not truly omniscient?

[Either or both are acceptable answers.]

[cowman]

Why he is able to mess with us. It is perceived that God himself has given Lucifer the power.

[stupetballs]

That's kind of the point of Hell, isn't it?

[She can't say one hundred percent for sure, but Lucifer torturing the damned is not one of the parts of Hell she tends to question.]

The Devil and demons torturing us for our weaknesses?

[cowman]

If not tempting us. Either working away are sins or adding to them.

[stupetballs]

Free will in action, I guess.

[cowman]

Or, the illusion of. What do you think the Veiled Order's part of this is?

[stupetballs]

Well, current working theory is the Veiled Order was us, once upon a time. They were the first group Lucifer ever tortured. So ... I don't know. I think they have a right to be angry with him as from what we know, he essentially abandoned them when they weren't useful to him anymore.

[She would be pissed too, to be quite honest.]

But they want us to pick sides.

[cowman]

I wonder what it was they could not perform or do to make them so useless.

[stupetballs]

The impression I got was more that Lucifer was fickle than them doing anything wrong necessarily. But I was getting all of it second hand anyway.

[cowman]

How there can be a wrong or right to God's fallen son.

[stupetballs]

I think everyone has a wrong or right. It's just a matter of perspective whether it matches up with yours.

[cowman]

Or, with Lucifer's. I dislike him greatly.

[stupetballs]

You and me both. Unfortunately, he's a little necessary for survival at the moment.

[cowman]

He was standing between us and God.

[stupetballs]

Yeah. And it's possible that that might be a good thing at the moment.

[Say what Lucifer is thinking is true, say that God really is not who he's supposed to be. Then perhaps it is better to keep God out of the equation for as long as possible.

And, then again, say what Fitz is saying is true. Say that he can find them a way home. Is that worth the risk?]

[cowman]

We will see. Perhaps there is something that can be done while he is off.

[stupetballs]

Maybe. I've got a whole bulletin board of options to choose from.

[cowman]

Are we moving the board back into the bar?

[stupetballs]

Yep! Now that the lockdown is over, that is the plan.

[cowman]

You have my assistance should you need it.

[stupetballs]

I appreciate it. I'm sure there will be options from hauling boxes to being a sounding board.

[But every little bit helps.]