Conversation Space: The Ultimate

[powersthatbe]

You feel as if you've stepped through a door.

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[callmemeibe]

Riddick has enough of a good memory, then, that he might be able to recognize some of the voices.

"-rules violation-" A calm, but stern, androgynous voice begins.
"-outside parameters-" The Emperor answers, a tinge of concern in his otherwise authoritative tone.
"-showing our hand-" A raspy male voice interrupts.
"-altering the channels of power now might-" Death argues, his voice almost pleading.

"... I altered the channels of power, as I had set out to do. And it cost me a great deal of personal power to do so. So yes, Angels, Matthew, Riddick - I am weakened. This victory has given some power back, but not all."

[comebewe]

"You broke the rules?" Matthew says, his snapping back to Death in surprise. "You pulled the plug on the jaunt?" He looks back at Riddick, looking...still quite a bit lost, honestly. He's still missing too much information; still missing the context that would let all of this make sense. "Why?"

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[powersthatare]

"The consequences of not doing so were worse than the consequences of the break," he answers, coolly. "If I had played strictly according to the rules, the full force of events would have fallen on another."

[itsananimalthing]

"Who?" Riddick asks simply. He's sure it's one of the other Arcana, but it'd be interesting to know which one that Jaunt had been related to, and whether Death cares about that one in particular or just didn't want to lose anyone else after Star.

[powersthatare]

He considers before answering for several seconds, then nods, deciding upon something to himself.

"Durga."

[comebewe]

They pause for a bit, trying to remember which Arcana was Durga again.

"...Strength?" he says finally. "Is she a friend of yours?"

[powersthatare]

"An ally," he says, with an air of cool consideration. "We are very different."

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[itsananimalthing]

"So you saved Strength from her Jaunt failing, at the expense of your own power and at the protest of the other Trumps," Riddick surmises. "Because she's an ally. Either your allies are in really short supply, or there's more to it than that." Since Death specifically didn't say she was a friend.

[powersthatare]

"More than it is possible to express in limited media such as time and language," he answers, dryly. "It served no-one's interests I wished to serve, letting her perish. And I am... more accustomed to sacrifice than some others."

[itsananimalthing]

"Yeah, I get that." Now he does, anyway. Now that he's hard to kill, he's happy to take risks for other people. Riddick frowns thoughtfully. "Whose interests did it serve, if you let her die? Another one of you? Or somebody outside of you?"

[powersthatare]

"Anyone who could turn that loss to their own ends," he says. "The list is longer than you might imagine. And I am not permitted to discuss many of its specifics."

[itsananimalthing]

"Yeah, okay. You sure do have a lot of fuckin' limits on what you can say for a guy as powerful as you are," Riddick has to point out. "What happens if you break the rules and tell us shit you aren't supposed to?"