Mask Or Menace - IC Contact Post

[helpdesk_hero]

This is David Alleyne, I'm not available at the moment.
Please leave your name, contact information, and what this is regarding after the beep.

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[tricksterofasgard]

You may not appreciate me doing that, David. You see, my gut isn't interested in having this conversation. At all. My gut would very likely rather see everyone around here dead. I loathe this. Rationally, I loathe this. Because I know - in my head - that this is wrong. That I didn't simply despise all other beings to such a degree before.

Do you see my problem?

[helpdesk_hero]

I don’t know. Perhaps I have more faith in your potential to make the right choice in the end than you are.

[tricksterofasgard]

Faith?

You are making fun of me now.

[ This was a bad decision after all, was it? ]

[helpdesk_hero]

No, Loki. I'm really not. I guess that word choice wasn't the best given the whole perception of what you were in the history of Midgard. But it's true. That's... I guess it was always my other super power. I believe in people. Sometimes when they don't deserve it. Sometimes when they do and they don't know it themselves.

I mean, you didn't kill the clown.

[tricksterofasgard]

...I would have liked to, though.

[helpdesk_hero]

I know. But the choosing not to is a step.

Listen, I'm still willing to be your friend. And your Escape Room rival. And you're still invited to dinner if you want it. Otherwise, know that you haven't offended me yet.

[tricksterofasgard]

Yet, huh?

[ David, he really doesn’t get you. For now he will have to give in. ]

.....fine. I will consider attending your gathering.

[helpdesk_hero]

[Yeah, he's known even worse people than you, Loki. Undoubtedly.]

You don't have to. The goal is... It's to be thankful that we're alive.

[tricksterofasgard]

That... May be a valid reason to be grateful. I will see whether I feel thankful or not. Until then-

[ He pauses. ]

Thank you, David.

[ Not awaiting a reaction, Loki ends the connection there. ]