ROUND 6 - INTRO

[foundationmods]

[After so long a trip, you're all finally here. Taken through a hidden passage inside of the very mountain itself, you find yourself standing in front of a field of flowers, growing well due to the open roof above it. If you look up, you can just make out the shimmering colors off of the barrier - looking almost like the shine off of a soap bubble.

Try not to trample on the flowers as you approach the open, purple gate, where it looks as if someone is waiting for all of you just inside. And remember to wear your masks, now that you're here!

...Still, the sight of the yellow flowers waving in the wind....such a cheery sight fills you with determination for what's to come.

Welcome to the Underground.

You have the universe to save.]

Comments

[lovecolored]

[ laughs ]

[soupervillain]

I hope you're laughing with my SOUL and not at it.

[lovecolored]

Was it never weird to ya that your brand was centered around soup? Of all things? A power's a power, I know, you're stuck with it once you've got it, but it's stamped onto your actual soul, dude, holy shit.

[ this is the funniest thing she's seen since she left for the mission ]

[soupervillain]

Of course it's not weird! It's my epithet! It's supposed to be stamped on my soul! People with epithets are called "inscribed" for a reason, you know!

[lovecolored]

Wait, really? It's supposed to be like that?

[ she thought it was just the universe's way of telling him to ease up on the soup-based villainy ]

Man, picture this, a shinigami comes for you and grasps your soul in her hands to guide you to the afterlife...but she takes one look at your disembodied butt and all she thinks about on her way to the pearly gates is her lunch. "I have to go get some oden after this!"

[soupervillain]

Well, I dunno what a shinigami is, but if I can inspire people to think about soup, I've done a good deed for the day! And they should be grateful for that, because I don't usually do good deeds!

...'Cause I'm evil.

[lovecolored]

Grim reapers. They take souls to wherever they go--Heaven, Hell, the Netherworld, other places.

Although, if you're actually evil, maybe she'll be sendin' you to have a nice chat with Eiki before she goes to have her bowl of oden.

[ Marisa gets up and starts uh. Trying to menacingly float around him while waving her arms I'm so sorry they're wasting space in Math Hut, Moriarty ]

Potage-san, I have given my ruling! Thou hast not spent enough time being a good man to your fellow humans, and put too much time into being walking product placement! I sentence you to an eternity in Hell, where you must spend your afterlife in a kitchen that possesses inadequate supplies for making soup, and your powers do not work! The water is murky, the stove burns out all the time, there's never the kind of spices you want, and the noodles you want to put into the pot are too long and you can't seem to cut them....!

[soupervillain]

[ Giovanni listens, wide-eyed, face growing paler with every addition to his punishment. ]

No! Please! I beg you! I'm literally nothing without the ability to make a decent soup! It's in my name!!

[lovecolored]

[ She is trying so, so hard not to laugh right now.

Continuing in her best Eiki voice: ]

I may grant you leniency...!

For the price of a bowl of oden, because now I have the taste for some.

[soupervillain]

I should be able to do that! Oden counts as a kind of soup, right? It's at least a stew! So please send me to a slightly nicer part of Hell, Ms. Grim Reaper, sir!!

[lovecolored]

A stew is just the half-brother to a soup! It should definitely count!

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[.....]

Pardon?

[GIO....HONEY....]

You're Evil?

[lovecolored]

[ whispering ]

I don't buy it.

[soupervillain]

I don't care if you buy it or not!! I'm a Captain of the Banzai Blasters, the most feared criminal organization in Sweet Jazz City and surrounding municipalities! Of course I'm evil!!

[ Though... come to think about it, when was the last time he actually did any crimes? When he wasn't under the influence of miasma, anyway? ]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Hm...]

...You are aware that just because your employer is evil, it does not make you automatically Evil yourself?

[soupervillain]

But I do crimes! Evil crimes! Tons of them! I...

...I stole a necklace?

[ Okay, he's aware he could sound more impressive right now. ]

[lovecolored]

What kinda necklace? Are we talkin' Hope Diamond level, here?

[soupervillain]

I dunno what that is, but it's probably even higher level! 'Cause it's magic! You wanna see?

[ He draws out a golden pendant from around his neck. It glitters. ]

[lovecolored]

It's a super famous diamond necklace that's supposed to be cursed. Buncha people that owned it died while they...had it...

[ oh

oh that looks interesting

and is small enough to fit in her pocket

Marisa will remember this. ]

[soupervillain]

Oof. Glad I didn't steal that one.

[ tucking it back safely under his shirt where it's a good thing absolutely no one can get at it!! ]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Well, he was in the back during this, but -]

Again, theft hardly makes one evil. Even good men may steal, when the situation calls for it.

[BASICALLY it's time to get philosophical.]

[soupervillain]

I mean, yeah, but I'm not talking about stealing a loaf of bread or whatever! I stole an artifact from a museum so I could turn it in to my bosses and get promoted! In my organization! My evil organization! Is this not getting through to you?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Hmmm...He'll have to try a different tack.]

Let me ask you this, then - You personally see yourself as Evil. But, then, what on that path are you willing to do? Would you be able to command one of your 'minions' to a mission that you knew they would most likely be captured or die on? Could you brush them aside without worry, even arrange their deaths to protect yourself and the rest of the organization without a second thought?

[soupervillain]

Oh - oh geez, no! Why would you even make me think about that?! I'd never put any of my minions in danger!

[ Giovanni sounds genuinely troubled by the idea. ]

Nothing's worth risking my minions' lives for! Nothing! I'd quit the Banzai Blasters before I ever did something like that!