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Started April 27, 2020 by @trinitywilliams group

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"2-3 hours my time." He stated

Hel grumpily grabs a handful of popcorn and stuffs it into her mouth. She sticks her tongue out at Vozreal and and crosses her arms. She turns to Azgoroth.
“Yeah she is… I don’t know what her deal is…” Hel grows silent as she thinks about her sister. “… she wasn’t always like this y’know. She’d never admit it, but she used to be ‘normal.’ Like she wouldn’t kill people. Or eat them. Or assimilate them into her body…” She shivers at the last part. “It all happened so abruptly… and now she’s a monster…” She sighs low and heavy. More lines crease her face and her voice becomes more coarse. “Do you guys have siblings?”

"I do. Cer'Sherad, Vaxsh, Arilla, and Pir. Us elder gods usually keep to ourselves but Vaxsh and I often speak together".

"My brother is Lucifer. His wife, my sister-in-law, is Satan."

Hel furrows her brow and squints her eyes. "Wait what? I know only a little about human religion but I don't think- ah forget go nuts with your creative liberties." She sighs again and leans back. "Keep in touch with your siblings, guys. Cause it'll be reeeally awkward when you get a message one day that basically says, 'Hey! Your sister ate you mom and your home town and is just fuckin' up the west side of the world! So run!' That was such a fucked up day… I couldn't believe what I read." She props her chin on her right hand and uses her left hand to fish around for more popcorn. She looks at the book Azgoroth is holding. "So what's the book say, sport?"

"Go get some drinks and candy…" He sighed

"The book? The book is a small personal extension of my planning plane, I can't bring the entire plane of existence with me so I just bring this, its rudimentary but works. Currently I'm working on a strategy should I ever need to. Permanently neutralize your sister, Though the information and data that Darioth gathered was interesting and muddled I believe I have enough to work against her". Azgoroth continue running his hands over the book quickly as more runs began to take form.

As Hel gratefully takes some more popcorn, she listens carefully to Azgoroth's explanation. Mid chew, when she hears the part about "neutralizing Hex," she starts choking. She hacks and gags and nearly vomits all over her sheet-robe as bits and pieces of popcorn fly out of her mouth. "HEEEUGH. HEUGH. HAUYCK. EUGH. Uegh." Tears roll down her face and her nose dribbles out little bits of mucus. She puts her face in her arms as she clear her throat. "AHACH. AHKACK. HACK. AHCK. HM. Hm. Heh." She finally unclogs her throat and swallows deeply to reveal that the coughing fit had been caused by laughing. "Hehahaha. Az my boy, I need you to listen carefully." She looks at him with a tired sloppy grin and droopy paling purple eyes. "My sister. Is if you took a fat wad of the concept of bullshit. And stuck it inside a sentient garbage disposal that fused with a chainsaw. That only wants to kill everything and everyone. 'Neutralizing' her is, at this point in the current era we are in, is a fucking miracle abandoned inside of a dream.
She sits herself back and snickers to herself. "Killing her already happened. It just didn't stick."

"In that case" said Azgoroth waving his hands and erasing the runes "The best thing to do would be to somehow trick her into entering one on one combat with Xavo the seer. which would be practically impossible nobody can get CLOSE to Xavo without him throwing them at LEAST five miles backwards and the fact that all trans dimensional rifts around him have been sealed, maybe some form of temporary banishing? Quite an interesting conundrum, if you could give me any advice it would be greatly appreciated".

Hel nods her head and hums (how familiar!) at Azgoroth's words. She rubs the back of her neck awkwardly at the last part. "Weeell… I did have connections with a certain somethi- er someone, but that connection severed when my runes got all jacked up. I mean I just can't hear her anymore. She might still be here, but not here here. Y'know?" She sucks in a harsh breath between her teeth. "I dunno if she left or if she's trying to get in or if she's here right now and won't let herself be seen." Hel perks her head up and then stands in her feet. She cups her hands around her mouth and shouts into the room. "HEEEY!! IF YOU'RE HERE, DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING!"

Silence. The room responds with an apathetic creak at her words. She lets out a huge groan and slides herself back down. She grabs more popcorn and shovels it into her mouth. "I think she's the key to at least diluting Hex to a degree." She mumbles through mouthfuls of popcorn. "I ran some tests, and by the technicality of how our home reality functions, she should be Hex's main weakness. But that's just a possibility, a theory! Plus, her own existence is unstable and she can't manifest for too long in a plane of reality that requires flesh as an anchor. It's complicated." She puts her head in her hands and sighs. She lifts her head up steadily as a thought crosses her mind. "Y'know, I gotta ask. While you guys were hanging out with Hex, did she show any… 'good' qualities? Like did it look like she had any moral compass at all? Or that she at least cares about other people to an extent?" She sits up and looks at both Vozreal and Azgoroth with eyes filled of intense anticipation.

"Not really…" He said, remembering

"Not as far as I can remember" Replied Azgoroth "She was as you say, a never ending hunger".

Hel looks at them as the hope slowly dies in her eyes and they crest at the sound of their words. "So… she never showed any redeemable qualities?" Her eyes go wide any she sucks in her breath. "Don't tell me she tried to eat you guys!?"

"Not really…"

"She said she would have if she had not been bound by a contract, If she had attempted to eat me I believe I simply would have frozen time temporarily and escaped, she keeps her word to contracts I suppose? if that makes you feel any better".

Hel lets her head fall in dismay and her hands rub all over her head, messing up her hair and twisting it into an array of blackness. She let's her head up and shows herself facing away from the two towards her left, staring at nothing. There is a faint shimmer in her eyes as she looks past the nothingness into her thoughts. "I don't understand… I… She was my sister… why…? why…" Her shoulders fall slightly and her gaze casts down. She stares at the floor a little longer, allowing the luxury of expired memories to flood her. Laughing. Playing. Falling. Whispering. Holding. Sleeping… Gone. It's all gone. And it will never come back.

She sucks in a huge breath through her nose and stands up again. Her balled up fists were shaking and her eyes were shut tightly while her mouth bares her teeth in a shrewd frown. She turns around and starts screaming into the room.
"HEY!!! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE!! STOP HIDING AND COME OUT!!!!!! WE NEED YOU!!! I NEED YOU!!!! PLEASE!!!"
An uncharacteristic desperation claims her throat as she screeches wildly at nothing. She frantically begins to shout louder and louder, hoping whatever she's calling to can hear her voice.
Nothing but creaking.

"Sometimes the ones we love turn into something that isn't them. We just have to move on and hope they change." He had switched teams. He was on Hel's side now.

Hel turns back with her head bowed down. Her fists are still shaking, but her eyes are open. They stare at the floor intensely and she takes a deep breath again. "Thank you… I just.." She holds her arms together and sits back down on the ground. "I just have to think of something. I don't know when she'll come back, but it's probably sooner than later." She puts a finger to her mouth and thinks intently about how she'd gonna worm her way outta this one. "Okay, do any of you guys know rune restoration magic? If I can just repair those manifestation sigils, maybe I can either restart communication with my buddy or get enough power back to fold Hex like a lawn chair!" She slaps her hands together with a renewed vigor as her spirit comes back steadily. "I would do it myself, but the source of my power's been cut off from me. That's the tricky thing about dimension hopping. You never know when you need to leave the door open, or bring a key. And sometimes, you either lose that key or it gets ripped out of you by some dead prick with a stick."

Azgoroth watches Hel's desperation in grim silence. "Darioth" he says

"Yes my lord?" said the wisp.

"Retrieve some Xorvlogothian wine, I don't care what type just make sure it's old. She looks like she could use it".

"right away my lord" said the small wisp before disappearing for a moment. Azgoroth stretches out his hand and a bottle of a dark wine appears in his hand "Hel, you need to calm yourself. Whatever this being is it must be somewhere within this plane, or near it. There are far too many threads in order for it simply to be us, drink some of this it should calm you down, if you react the same way as other races that is".

"I can stop time long enough to help you restore the runes…" He stated, wanting to help

Yes, that's gonna be useful.. I'll keep that in mind Voz." Hel wags her finger at Vozreal while deep in thought. The she lifts her head up from her thoughts at the bottle Azgoroth was holding out to her. It's dark liquid looks vaguely like blood. She takes the bottle carefully and uncorks it with her thumb claw. She sniffs it and winces lightly at the strong scent. Then she tentatively takes a drink from the bottle and almost spits out the wine before swallowing it down with a gasp. "Dude! What the hell is that!? It tastes like angry grape juice!" She looks at the bottle again before taking another bigger swig.

"Its Xorvlogothian wine, what's special about that is the fact that it has grapes grown on the literal inside of a volcano used in its making, gives it a rather interesting flavor. Very expensive, thankfully being a god I have a steady supply".

Hel's eyes do a little flutter squint at the word Azgoroth just said. "Zor- Xorval- ZXZXX- WHO!?" Her eyes pop wide open, her purple irises flaring in surprise. She looks at the bottle and tries to read the label only to see two bottles in her sight. "Dude… you just gave me dupli- duplicashshs- double see powers. Holy shit." She sways back and forth steadily, like she were hearing a tune in her head. She then takes another swig of the bottle. "EUUGH, IT TASTES LIKE PISSED OFF JELLY!" She swigs it some more.

"Stop drinking it then!" Vozreal shouted