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[ The moment the clock strikes 12 midnight to usher in Christmas Day, a hoard of delivery drones will be activated throughout the base. They enter each Outsider's room or finds them where they might be and drops a gift off into their hands. Some Outsiders who have been gifted a paid subscription or virtual gift will receive this gift in their oculars instead.

Each gift was individually chosen. Please refer to this table to see what your character will receive! (If we have missed anyone, please contact us on the mod contact page.)

There's a brief note from Captain Yamakawa. ]

My Angels of LILITH,

I know we haven't made it easy on you during your stay here, but please know that we truly, genuinely appreciate your service and what you have done to protect our world from the impending threats. Please take this gift as a token of LILITH's appreciation.

Happy Holidays to you all. Let's hope for a peaceful and fruitful new year.

Sincerely,
Jun Yamakawa

[ Feel free to use this network post to chat about the gifts your characters received. Happy Holidays everyone!! ]

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[ you know what? good for him, it makes men like silco look better in comparison (no) ]

The queen? [ On the one hand, Silco can understand something about his father, just from what he's described.

He has a fight. He has some bone to pick. He understands this, because who is he, if not someone who has fully trashed and ruined his own people for it. But Silco fought the fight alongside them all. He sold his soul, instead of his daughter's (he would say, as if he didn't project everything onto Jinx as it was) to kill the god he'd so hated a world away. He'd even arranged for her safety.

To be fair, Silco would burn everyone else, for her. ]

Perhaps he should have been more clear then, hm? Or perhaps he should have learned to become the god-slayer himself. Why couldn't he do it?

[Ironic then that so far Yato's opinion of Silco is mostly good? Don't judge a book by its cover, etc.]

Well, not an actual queen, but the highest goddess in Heaven. The ruler to which all other gods pledge their allegiance. [The one you don't want to make an enemy of, truthfully, as Yato found out on accident.

As someone who has a two people he'd protect and value above all else, Yato knows what it's like to go against his own kind for them. He nearly became a raging calamity on their behalf several times when their lives were threatened. It's the kind of feeling he believes most people can understand.

Just not his father. Whatever compassion the man had is long gone, leaving only resentment and hatred in its wake.]

Heh, you'd think! But he's only mortal, despite his sneaky way of staying alive. Not that he hasn't killed plenty of gods himself over the years.

But I think he fell prey to statistics. Gods are born from the wishes of humans, and so the more faith people have, the more gods there are. Asking me to raze village after village only caused those who survived to turn towards believing in gods even more. Ironic, really.

Hah.

So he was a fool, then.

[ He says it blithely, despite the fact that he was clearly... immortal...ish? Able to supersede the ravages of time, at least. That's not something Silco has mastered, as is obvious. ]

Prosperity should have been his goal, it sounds like. Take away the need for gods, and they would fade with time, yes? When the people have nothing that makes them struggle, what good will praying to a god do?

[ Silco understood this. People needed something to look toward only when they had nothing. After all, that's what his people were like. It is why Shimmer was able to thrive in the undercity. ]

That I can't argue with. His goal was never to make people happy, but to have his revenge, I think. He's a bitter, angry man who thrives on hurting people. I don't know that he could even contemplate such a plan.

[Having mastered some kind of trick to remaining immortal doesn't make one smart, per se. Just clever. Yato would rather deal with someone like Silco who at least puts some thought behind his actions rather than just the end goal.]

In a way, I hope that perhaps someday there will be no need for gods. That humans will reach a level of understanding and compassion that renders us obsolete.

[Even if it means he'd fade away. But that's not likely to happen. People will always be human, and there's always natural disasters, health troubles, and the like that ravage their lives, providing a purpose for gods.]

[ silco over here like: 🧍‍♂️ ]

No? Being bent on revenge does not make one... blind to reality. That's foolishness.

[ Or maybe there's a reason why Silco thinks that. Hm! ]

Hm, well, there are some realities where it is not required, for gods to be obsolete. After all, my world cannot be seen as compassionate, and yet we have nothing that could be considered gods. Perhaps it is the way of some worlds, and the ways of others.

Perhaps your father would have been happier in my world, hm?

[ Or maybe he'd find something else to be angry about...? ]

At this point I would argue that he's a fool, but...

[He shrugs. It's just his opinion. Since his father does seem pretty willfully ignoring the reality of the situation.]

Yeah, I've heard of several people here who come from worlds without any discernible gods. I truly believe that the old man would've been more content in a place like that. Maybe then he would've been able to let go of whatever hatred he has and could have lived a normal life. In a way, I pity him holding onto those feelings for over a millennia. It must be tiring...

[Hell, he gets exhausted just being on the receiving end of them.]

It could be, but I hardly know him far enough to judge.

[ Silco, unfortunately, does not have the self-awareness to say: 'huh, maybe being hellbent on revenge hurts people.' So it's probably good he doesn't... ]

Perhaps it is tiring, but I know what it is to have a... goal, and never want to let go of it. Though I do not think my life will last quite as long as his. Perhaps I, too, would be tired after a millennia of failure instead of most of my life.

Honestly, I can't say I know him well enough, either.

[Which is sad, but the man never really opened up to his "children" so much as used them for his own means.]

It's good to have a goal, but not when it becomes all-consuming, I think. ....what's your goal, if you don't mind me asking?

[ Look up all-consuming in the dictionary, and it is Silco... ]

Ah. Freedom and liberation for my people, of course.

[ He makes it sound so noble. ]

To remove us from the boot on our necks, and to end our lives of profit in service of our supposed betters. Everything I've done is in service to that.

[Everybody's got to have a hobby...]

Pretty impressive, in that case.

[It does indeed sound noble, though Yato knows full well that oftentimes noble goals can have unsavory means used towards them. That's the only reason he doesn't feel entirely comfortable with what the man says.]

An admirable thing to strive for, I gotta say. Nobody should be mistreated or used by others, even - or especially - by gods. Or are they just collateral in your fight?

The god was a different fight entirely. [ A smile, then. It isn't pleasant. ] I was in a world before this one, and we were at war, for the very fate of our worlds. She was opposed to me, and had just... assisted in a deadly attack.

I retaliated. She underestimated me.

[ Had he been planning to kill her for months? Had he signed on with a demon to do it? Was the very side he was on the one of destruction? Yes to all. Don't worry about it. ]

There are no gods in my world, only people. There, it is only the force of our grit and mettle that finds our goals achieved. ]

Ah, I gotcha. [Mostly. He was somewhere else too, before this place, but it was a much more peaceful world. Sounds like Silco wasn't so lucky.] You gotta do what you gotta do to survive, especially if we're talking about the lives of millions or billions of people.

[Nodding, he hums thoughtfully. That's one reason he plans on killing his own father - because he wants to stop his old man from hurting more people. If only he knew Silco was more the destructive type...]

If that's the case, then I wish you the best of luck so you and your people can end up free. And while you may not have gods to help you back home, here you're always welcome to rely on me.

Hm.

[ There's a look on his face, the narrowed eye. The instinct of suspicion. ]

Where I come from, one does not offer something without demanding something in return. We do not rely on others, we forge our own paths. [ It's a... bleak worldview, but even at its kindest, Zaun was still a city of criminals with little to go around. ]

You'll have to let me know about payment.

[Understandable, given everything Silco's said. His is a world where give and take is a matter of principle, offering something for free means whoever's doing the offering either expects to gain something or has some other ulterior motive.]

Not the type of sunshine and rainbows sort that thrives on the power of friendship, huh? [Rhetorical question.]

Alright, then. Depending on what you need, my price starts at five kryptos. Standard shrine offering.

[ His bitter little scoff is almost amused. ] No. Friendship is something one can never rely on.

[ Thanks, Silco. Maybe not everyone had shitty friends. ]

Five kryptos.

Hm.

Do you know what we say about cheap work where I am from?

You get what you pay for. I'll assume that gets very little, hm? I'll make sure if I need you, to actually pay you. I've heard my offered rates are decent.

I'm sorry to hear that's been the case for you. I've found my friends to be irreplaceable.

[He sounds genuinely full of regret for him, which is probably the last thing Silco wants, but there it is.]

Ah-- That's... a fair point.

My business model has always been affordable so those in need can hire me, but I see where you're coming from. Admittedly, I can't do as much as some other gods here, since I'm more a war god than anything else, but hey, if you have something that needs slaying, I can likely help.

[ It isn't, and there's a scoff. ] I don't want your pity. Most friendships end up the opposite. It is the way of things.

[ That's... that's very rude of him to say, but to be fair... well. He has his reasons. ]

Hah, a war god? You make yourself sound useless. I've found war gods to be anything but. After all, I'm quite close to the others. Set, and Tezcatlipoca?

[ Silco: i hate gods
Also Silco: set and tezca are my persona little guys ]

Noted. I won't claim otherwise, since everybody's experiences are different.

[Perhaps in Silco's world, friendships really don't hold much weight. Who is he to say? No insistent heroic Power of Friendship speeches here.]

A war god that doesn't like to kill is rather useless, wouldn't you say? [He smiles wryly. nodding.] I've met Tez, but not Set yet. Found it rather funny that Tez got himself locked out of the base in the snow.

[See? He's not the only silly god around!
But yeah, HYPOCRITE!! Not that Yato's going to say anything about it - he is one, too.]

[

Literally it's just Silco because they made mistakes, but he'll never admit it ]

Oh, you caught him getting locked out?

[ A laugh, like he and Tez hadn't been locked out together earlier and had to wait on Set to finally let them in. Ugh. ]

Sometimes, even gods have bad luck, hm? I wouldn't hold it against him.

[That's the joy of it - you don't have to fess up to everything.]

Sure did, heh. It was pretty damn funny.

[If only because he finds the fact Tez can't teleport to be amusing. Yato may be lacking in the interesting powers department, but he can do THAT.]

So it seems. Hopefully he's learned to be more careful, though. It'd suck to find out one of my fellow gods got done in by the weather because he couldn't get back in, pffft.

Oh, I can only imagine it was amusing.

[ Tezca better not look at this. ]

I think he's a bit more of a survivalist to perish from such a ridiculous fate, though. Perhaps I am biased, but Tezcatlipoca seems a touch more competent than to pass on so easily.

[Sorry, Tez, they're dragging your ass.]

I should hope so! It's be hella embarrassing to croak from getting your ass locked out in a snowstorm cuz you wanted a smoke. Especially if you're a damn god.

I keep telling to just smoke inside, but there's always this —

[ A wave of his hand. ] Whole thing about smoking indoors.

Who's the one who got locked out, hm?

[ BOTH OF YOU DID, SILCO... ]

You'd probably set off the fire alarms or something silly like that. That's always how it goes in the movies.

[Life's not popular fiction, Yato...]

Still finding that hilarious as hell. I mean-- you think he'd at least stick something in the door to jam it. But hey, at least this is always fun blackmail material.

[He kids, he kids. Teasing material, on the other hand...]

Oh, well, perhaps he learned his lesson, hm?

[ He did not. Silco got up there too. ]

And well, if the alarms go off, they go off. What are they going to do to us? Fire us?

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