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[xangel]

Hi you've reached Vaggie, yell if something's on fire.

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[atowncalledtreffy]

My family's down there. All of them, excommunicated

If my Hell's anything like yours...god.

[xangel]

Yeah, minor technicalities sound about right. There are sinners who've been at it for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, so if they're tenacious bastards, too...

[But new souls get unlucky a lot.]

[atowncalledtreffy]

My family would band together. I'm not worried about them getting picked off.

Sucks, though.

[xangel]

That's what the hotel is for. Forcing heaven to let souls in where it's safe. Heaven sucks, but you're not getting exorcised.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Maybe heaven's not even worth getting into.

[xangel]

It's... fine? Not looking at the larger ethical picture so much as getting our people out of the line of fire.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Why can't you stay and fight, if it's your home?

[xangel]

I can fight. Your average sinner? Even a powerful overlord won't usually face exorcists directly. Angelic steel eliminates any kind of level playing field.

[atowncalledtreffy]

So your deal's to fuck up your adversaries.

[xangel]

I haven't actually settled on the details yet. I didn't really grasp what a deal could do when I first got here. But with Husk and Angel here I don't have to make the call completely on my own.

[atowncalledtreffy]

You could pull some real fucked-up shit. Holy vengeance.

[xangel]

I don't need the admiral for that. Our janitor sucker-stabbed the head of heaven's hosts in the middle of a speech about how much we suck.

[atowncalledtreffy]

No shit? That's hilarious.

[xangel]

Oh, yeah, I'm trying to get Justine to make me a tapestry. We're good at violence. It's... sustainable change that might be a problem.

[atowncalledtreffy]

And you don't know what to do for your deal.

[xangel]

I have a lot of ideas that all have pretty big implications, and my options for second opinions are a cranky old cynic and a messy bitch who needs everyone to know he's a shallow airhead.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Yeah. Welcome to 'magical wish stupidity'.

[xangel]

I'm not exactly the planner. Day to day logistics, keeping the guests from burning down the hotel, but the big dreams are Charlie's.

[atowncalledtreffy]

You're here instead of her, though. That's got to be different.

[xangel]

It's not great. Honestly, I didn't expect to be dealing with this. I figured if I got a deal I'd use it to help the hotel, but I figured that'd be on the scale of, well, getting Angel or Husk out of their contracts. Now I've seen the scale of them, and, well, what if I just ended all contracts? What then?

[atowncalledtreffy]

Might start a riot.

[xangel]

We have... several riots a day. But cutting off the power base for every overlord at once, yeah, that's gonna do... something.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Well, that sounds vague and threatening.

[xangel]

Overlords are sinners, usually old ones, who make deals for souls. They get you on a leash, you get, usually protection, sometimes something more complicated, sometimes jack shit because you got maneuvered into their debt in the first place.

[atowncalledtreffy]

Christ. As if 'being in Hell' wasn't punishment enough.