whining again [locked to Refugees]

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Well, she's been keeping quiet the last few days, as far as I'm aware. Aside from her meeting with Mabry, that is, and I could hardly complain when it was exactly the sort of thing I would have done myself.

I can't even find her when I dive. I don't know why she's hiding from me, but it's rather tiresome.

Oh. Koios told me about someone named Jagannatha, who is allied with Morgan. Unless Koios is lying, he's the First Darkness.
I have no idea what to do about this unless Jagannatha himself approaches us. It was so much easier when the villains were up-front and (relatively) honest.

Does anyone else feel like we're trying to do one of those puzzles where all the pieces are the same shape and you're supposed to put them together upside-down? I never so the point in those. Shear luck and guesswork just don't cut it for something so complicated.

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[hyperpsyche.livejournal.com]

Maybe she's ashamed of the fact that she's a living cliche of a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan character? "Hi! I'm the personification of your dark side! I may or may not have a body of my own--it's kind of complicated. But I do get nifty shadow powers! Here, let me demonstrate them on your friends."

I kid, I kid.

And... yikes. Okay, so we finally have a name to go with our Big Bad, but yeah, I have no idea where we're supposed to go from here, either.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Haha. I didn't even think of Yu-Gi-Oh. Darkness Incarnate is such a theme for us already.
Every single one of our final bosses, for example. >_

[hyperpsyche.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. (And if a girl named Judi with tendencies toward pyromania ever shows up, grab a straitjacket, a priest, and something to whack me upside the head with for coming up with her back in my early days in the fandom. ;) )

I know, right? Just once, I'd like to only have to deal with a garden variety megalomaniac sorcerer and be able to call it a day. Is that really so much to ask?

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

So, we have a name. Jagannatha.

... Who comes up with these things? It doesn't really sound like any name I've heard before, but it still seems ominous. Even money says that this is an alias. Normal people go out and name their kids things like 'John', 'Rachel', 'Ren', 'Juan', 'Hikaru', 'Lee', or one of many other nice relatively normal thing. But, no.

Mr. First Darkness, has to go out and be all ominous. Why no just call yourself Bob? Bob doesn't like a menacing devourer of worlds. He sounds like he eats cheetos.

It's like ham flows in these people's veins instead of blood. So much so, they'd bleed bacon if they weren't composed of whatever the hell 'Darkness' is.

... Ahem. It's been an annoying day. The Colonel's been having fun on Capitol Hill, and sent me a report. Basically, they've acknowledged Atlantica is gone, and are now preparing research teams to go and see if the miasma spread anywhere, along with a few 'Ready Reaction' teems.

Basically, it's a CRW combined with a Ravens team and some Marines, coupled with a gummi ship to get them off world.

And now, while I have a name to feed them, thank you Song, they've been wanting a lot more. The stuff that happened in Atlantica? There's a lot of people, verrrry eager to either get their hands on Morgan, or whoever her boss is, which seems to be Jagannatha. They want Maleficent too, but the people back home that have the stars on their shoulders, and happen to sign my paycheck, have decided that getting a cap on this Miasma is a higher priority.

Yeah, maybe too little, too late, but still.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Jagannatha is "a Transcendental non-Anthropotheistic deity worshiped by Hindus all over the world, but primarily by the people of Odisha," according to Wikipedia.

So the Big Bad stole a god's name.

[belegwen.livejournal.com]

((BTW, how the Rainbow's End shields work: Medrau should not be able to come to the for WITH the intention of causing physical harm . . . so the same as what would allow her to cross the shields physically.))