My bunny slippers just ran for cover

[will_you_still]

Morgan doesn't strictly need to sleep. Even if she didn't want to put up with the annoyance of constantly having a caffeine buzz and having to ask for coffee on almost every summon, there are naps. Naps can keep a daeva going for quite a long time.

But there's something unutterably pleasant about curling up in a proper bed in pajamas and just sleeping. And then waking up and getting breakfast in those pajamas. So she does that, because immortality's a long unpleasant time if you don't enjoy the little things every now and then. Like adorable bunny slippers and soft pajamas and sleeping in.

She's midway through a fruity salad thing that counts as the standard fairy breakfast when she feels the summon. Showing up to a summon in pajamas? Eh. If they're proper summoners she bets they've seen worse, and she doesn't particularly care if they think she's unprofessional.

She puts her spoon down and accepts the summon.

Comments

[peterxy]

Well, the fact that her power relies on her pet shadow creature eating people may partially answer that question.

[will_you_still]

It answers it well enough for her liking.

Let's have a grand entrance, then. Are there any bounties open on Moord Nag?

[peterxy]

Not that many. She is after all limited to Namibia, and honestly who cares about Namibia?

(Not the rich people who do not live there and have no reason to care or even know that Africa is not in fact a country.)

[will_you_still]

Well, not ideal, but that's okay. She cares about Namibia. For example: what are the major languages spoken there?

[peterxy]

Quite a few of them, actually! English is the official language, but less than 1% of the population speaks it as their native, though secondary education is in English. 60% of the white population speaks Afrikaans, and it's the closest to a lingua franca there, spoken by most people. As a household language, Oshiwambo dialects are the most commonly spoken, comprising 48.9% of the households, followed by Nama/Damara (11.3%) and Afrikaans (10.4%).

[will_you_still]

She does actually already speak Afrikaans, but not understanding all languages of a place that she's planning to be in charge of - bugs her. She makes a list of the major Oshiwambo dialects and looks for a place she can learn Nama/Damara.

Now, what's the government of Namibia like? She expects it to be in complete shambles, but if there's something of it left maybe she can try to salvage it.

[peterxy]

If she speaks Afrikaans, she probably knows Moord Nag means 'murder night' and also recognizes her shadow pet's name Aasdier as 'scavenger.' And the current government of Namibia is Moord Nag. She expects tribute in people, and doesn't care about much else otherwise.

[will_you_still]

Yep, she recognized those things. She's not going to be sad about spacing/killing her at all.

Is there any trace of the previous government left? Or some kind of organization for who gets to be eaten?

[peterxy]

Other than people who created organizations themselves to avoid having Moord Nag just walk around their villages eating random people, nope.

[will_you_still]

Charming. She'll see if she can work with that, but - this seems like a good blank slate. Everyone's going to be completely terrified of her at first, but she thinks 'not literally eating people' is a pretty solid improvement over the last person in charge.

She calls the Protectorate, and asks if they have any information on Moord Nag they'd like to share with her.

[peterxy]

If she put her mind to it she'd probably be able to deal Triumvirate-levels of damage. That's about as much as they know.

[will_you_still]

Right. Nobody cares about Namibia. Ugh.

Do they think she's too dangerous for the Birdcage and should summarily be shipped off to space, or should she try to haul her back to prison? (She'd much prefer to kill her, but she's trying to make nice with the Protectorate.)

[peterxy]

The Protectorate would not be super happy with her in the Birdcage, no, since she would probably kill everyone there and possibly use the power obtained to escape.

[will_you_still]

Yeah, fair enough.

Well! Instead, Moord Nag gets to die. Morgan's pretty okay with this.

But before she goes and does it: does she have enough funds leftover for a series of satellite phones to hand out to villages to get a slightly shoddy but technically functional warning network set up for managing her territory?

[peterxy]

...no, not really.

[will_you_still]

Yeah, she kind of figured.

Right then. Major bounties besides the Slaughterhouse Nine that could get her some money?

[peterxy]

The Blasphemies are pretty major.

[will_you_still]

Let's research them, then! Can she potentially space them all?

[peterxy]

...potentially. Their powers aren't all that well understood. There's something about manipulation of dead matter, and illusions, and a pocket dimension, and apparently if one's alive so are the other two.

[will_you_still]

Hmm.

The pocket dimension and illusions are worrying.

Does the Protectorate want to, say, help her go space them?

[peterxy]

Nnnot on such short notice, no. If she'd like to wait to strategize with them, potentially. But given that the Blasphemies are mostly Europe's problem, that might take a while.

[will_you_still]

She can wait to strategize with them. Much as she dislikes waiting to go kill Moord Nag, she wants her takeover to be neater much more. If she can smoothly take over without causing many ripples or causing her neighbors to think it's a good idea to go take her on, she can devote more attention to digging wells and creating a stable country, which will ultimately save more lives in the long run. Sorry, people that get eaten by Moord Nag.

Though it does depend on how long they'll take for it. Are they going to take too long?

[peterxy]

Yes.

[will_you_still]

Ugh.

Screw this, she despises red tape.

She shows up at the Houston PHQ.

[peterxy]

"Can I help you?" the receptionist asks.