video/action: Bloodsport OTA

[bb_wolf]

Who: Bigby and anyone listening
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Bloodsport
When: Now

[Having been unconscious for two weeks, when Bigby woke up he had promptly decided to take a couple of days to sleep it off. It's only now, after a shower and some food that he bothers to take to the comm.

He's in the shuttle bay, where his massive bulk fits best.]

I was thinking about starting some kind of immortals evening. Get together. Bitch about how things have changed over the last couple of centuries. Commiserate with others who get the whole 'living for fucking ages' thing, if that's what floats your boat.

Just finding it weird, being surrounded by so many mortals. Fables keep themselves to themselves. No point making friends with mortals for us. Anyone interested?

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[namisan]

[She blinks at that, then grins.] I'd hope so. I'm a pretty resilient girl and it's been a couple months.

That does lead a little into what I wanted to ask you about, though.

[bb_wolf]

I have literally no idea how mortals heal. I've ended fights with other Fables by putting axes into their head and then gone drinking two days later with them.

[He sips from the drink, looking casual still, but there's something in his eyes that's just shuttered off slightly, wary.]

Yeah? This 'bout Sascha?

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[namisan]

[Yeah well there's this brief pause as Nami imagines going drinking with people who have axes sticking out of their heads

It's a bizarre picture, man]

[namisan]

No, actually. We've already talked. I wanna talk about what set him off-- same as what set Winter off, and probably the dragon I keep hearing about.

[She taps a finger to the side of her neck.]

[bb_wolf]

Ah.

Yeah. Atroma and those things.

[namisan]

Seems to be a bunch of glitches happening lately. I mean-- if I suddenly got younger, or glitched to my worst, nothing much would change. But for some of us, it might be a different story.

[bb_wolf]

Yeah.

I could be a serious danger at a younger point. I got lucky. Kept my mind and was too young to be a danger.

What are you thinking?

[namisan]

I'm thinking the Atroma love screwing with us, and we should probably have contingency plans in case of worst case scenarios. In a way that has the least amount of fallout.

[Honestly, Bigby? You're her worst case scenario. If you get changed to that younger point. She doesn't want anyone to die, and she doesn't want anyone to pin blame where it's not warranted.]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby is sort of most people's worst case scenario. It's what he is, inherently.]

I can get behind that. If I'm not the problem, I can probably take most things. If I am the problem...

[He doesn't actually know how to stop him.]

Hm. Well, I can be slowed down, force me to regenerate. But I really don't want the information of how to do that getting into some hands. There's a guy just itching for an excuse to 'put down' us 'monsters'.

[namisan]

[She wonders if he means Sam. She could put him straight on that if that were the case, but... probably whatever she says won't mean anything. And she can think of a couple other gung ho people around the place.]

I can understand that. If you were the problem, I guess it all depends on where you became the problem. Like-- if it were on this ship, we could probably just take off and leave you to the place until the glitch wore out its welcome.

Iskaulit's a different story, though. I guess I'm just hoping to stave off the inevitable slaughter that might end up taking place with the wrong kinds of glitches and the wrong kind of guy looking for a fight at the same time.

[bb_wolf]

[Sam has said some very unfortunate things to Bigby about killing monsters who hurt humans.]

I can see why you'd want to stop that sort of thing. I'm just not sure what can be done. We'd need... a Fleet wide response plan, basically.

[He lights up, leaning back into the chair.]

And that would mean getting a lot of people to agree to a unified response. We couldn't manage it in Fabletown most of the time and this is more diverse than even that.

[namisan]

[Wait til you meet his brother. Kinda makes Sam look like a pacifist hippy in comparison.]

Ugh. [Yeah, she already knows that's doomed to fail.] Too many people, and too many kooks with their own vendettas. And the roster's always changing.

I'll start smaller. Let's keep people on this ship safe.

[bb_wolf]

[If he's just as self righteous about how precious human life is... yeah, that'll be explosive.]

Hm.

well... we haven't done too bad a job. Sheol didn't do any permanent damage to anyone?

[namisan]

Maybe some psychological. Sascha's manageable, though. If all we have to deal with from him is a few bites and apologies, I'm not too worried about keeping us safe from him.

Though I think we should be thinking in a general sense. Who knows. The next person to get shuffled onto our ship might be a raging psychopath with god powers.

And there's you, yeah. [She gives him a blank look.] How bad could you get?

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby is quiet for a moment, sipping his drink and then taking a slow drag.

How bad could he get?]

When the Adversary decided to take the forest I lived in, I waged war against his troops. They were so scared that the merest hint of a howl on the winds would have some of them pissing themselves. He sent an army in with torches to burn me out. By the morning, the forest still stood, the army was spread around the woods as a warning and I was sleeping comfortably in my den, while the nearby city and castle fell to half the number of troops.

[There's no real brag to it. He's too old and powerful to feel the need to brag. It simply is what it is. He's ancient and powerful and he's exceptionally good at waging campaigns of terror and death. Even as a pup, he had worked out the importance of deception in fighting.

It could get bad.]

Once, I let one in a hundred escape, to take the stories back to the others. When the Fables community was trying to build itself, they came to me and asked me to be their Sheriff, because I was the one thing that every last one of them feared.

It could be bad. But I've never done anything like that without having a reason. And I don't know how Atroma could twist things to make me wage that campaign against the Fleet.

[namisan]

[Nami lets out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding. Bigby's powerful. But not mindless, not at his worst.]

Sounds like the best thing to do is just leave you alone to do your own thing.

[bb_wolf]

[Never mindless.]

Yeah. If I went bad... I'd probably stake out a territory and hold it. Anything coming in would be fair game, but I'm a wolf. So long as I had my own space and food, I can't imagine I'd care about much else.

If something else went bad... I could probably at least take the blows without much trouble.

[namisan]

I'll keep that in mind. A territorial giant wolf is easy enough to warn against, and anyone who decides to go poke you after that because they're assholes or idiots are...

[Well, she stops short of asking for it, but only a complete moron goes and sticks his head in a tetchy carnivore's mouth.]

[bb_wolf]

Going to get what's coming to them.

[Because seriously, anyone who goes and pokes a giant wolf after being told not to deserves it.]

There anyone you're particularly worried about, aside from me?

[namisan]

Not that I know about. But knowing our luck that might change. I'll keep you posted.

[bb_wolf]

Best to. I'm not really... social, but I'm good at stopping trouble dead on the spot.