[144.98750] RINGMASTER'S FOURTH ADDRESS (D58)

[lordofthering]

[Bright and early on Day 58, the morning after the final carnival performances, your radios will light up with a very enthusiastic broadcast from the Ringmaster. Someone's having a good day, apparently.]

Hello, all you beautiful people of mine! Guess what? I'm back to normal! As powerful and gracious as I ever was - and I want to express my appreciation for all the kind words and offers of help you have given during my time of 'weakness.' Your loyalty and support is most flattering!

Even better, with your help I have won my bet! [And she is positively thrilled.] Please know that your combined efforts and my natural cunning have awarded us something very valuable for absolutely zero charge, and it will be of great benefit to our carnival in coming weeks.

I won't bore you with the details, but the carnival is back in action, and we will be leaving Atlantis in three hours! Please finish up any last minute business you may have, and we will be on our way!


[Well! That explains almost nothing.]

Comments

[lordofthering]

Yes. I bet that none of you would kill me if I was without them! And you didn't, so we all win!

[atouts]

That none of us would kill you? Was there even ever a danger of that? With this group?

[lordofthering]

Obviously I didn't think so, or I wouldn't have taken the bet!

However, you see, if I was among my own kind I would have perished within the first day of it. She made the mistake of assuming humans were like the fae - that my strength was the only thing preventing my destruction!

[atouts]

She? [ No doubt whoever else she took her business to. ] A poor mistake to make on her part, then. There aren't that many of us who wake up thinking to kill someone on any given day.

[lordofthering]

Not even when they think of themselves as having been enslaved?

[atouts]

Depends. It hasn't been that long since you've begun adding new people to your carnival, has it? Give it a few more months and then you may want to be wary of another bet like that.

[lordofthering]

Why do you say that?

[She sounds genuinely curious.]

[atouts]

[ Because the majority of the people here are probably too incompetent to kill someone but he's not saying that in those exact words, not where everyone can hear him. So, instead, let's just go with, ]

The more people, the higher the chance you get someone who is willing to be violent. Right now, you only have people willing to be upset and that's about it.

[lordofthering]

Ah! Probability. I see.

That much is inevitable, I suppose. Thankfully, I doubt this will come up again.

[atouts]

Do you? Not too keen on being mortal again, Ringmaster?