Fuck yeah, I have powers now!

Sweet powers too! I can summon fucking demons! Or something like it!

Setup a ritual, a few circles on the ground, and trapped an ugly fuck in a chain. Can have it come out once a day to fuck shit up. It can throw flaming spikes. It’s pretty cool. 

Not quite enough to make a big change yet, but it’s getting there. I can get more, I can summon more. I just need more power, and I can start getting some big fucking weapons. Make deals with some powerful forces, and then burn the evil fucks of the world to the ground.

Did some other preparations for the revolution. Got some firearm training, so I can actually use the shotgun I keep in the revolution closet. Got a few more things to add to that.

Also spent a bit of time rounding out my other skills. Letters aren’t gonna do shit any more, I need to be training myself for war, and making friends. 

Speaking of friends, I’m gonna learn ASL. Seems useful.

I think this anger that I've have is worrying. I found it listed on my status in Maikendo. I am angry, but I never felt it unjust. And I think it is not unjust. 

Nearly everyone is monstrous, and will let a monstrous status quo persist. I am sure that a large number of the contractors I meet shall be individuals worthy of my distain. But they will also be useful individuals, with great power. I must learn to put my anger aside, and use those I need to use.

I've made some progress on that. Two of the contractors I've met in the latest contract have been very useful. We've made a group of source, around the studying of the occult. It took some flying, and a lot of talking, but we have a good number of individuals under our thumb, and interested in the resources which Day has.

Also managed to find some rare books. Will need to trade for them likely. Need some leather from a Mastadon. Going to see if me and Edith can get it done, along with one of her friends.

1. 

   "I turn 22 in August!" 
2. 

   There is a 2 minute pause before Edith responds again, does Liv say anything in the mean time?
3. 

   "You don't need to worry about getting me a present or anything, I'm not big on birthday parties"
4. 

   "That is, not what concerns me. Liv I am a decade older than you."
5. 

   "Yeah."

   "and?"
6. 

   "Wait was that obvious to you??"

    
7. 

   You get a ... then it goes away, then a ...
8. then it goes away

   "I mean, you don't look /super/ old, but like, I was thinking late 20's to mid 30s?"
9. 

   "Okay that is understandable. I was surprised because I really didn't think you'd be flirting with someone when there's that much of an age gap." (edited)
10. 

    "I mean. Not the biggest age gap I've flirted over"
11. 

    "okay now I need to know"

     
12. 

    "unless you're like 45?"

     
13. 

    "No I am squarely 31."
14. 

    "There was this really nice lady I met when I was homless. Managed to get some free sandwhichs."
15. "I think she was like ... 40 ish? she had 2 kids, 11 and 6"
16. 

    "I... could not imagine flirting with anyone over 5 years older than me when I was your age."
17. "But that's the point! I think I'm a little too old for you, friend."
18. 

    Liv sends a shrugging emoji

     
19. "eh. People are people, they don't change that much fundamentally. But if you're against it, I'll respect it." There is a bit of a pause. "Maybe I'll try again when we're both past 40? . Age gaps seem to matter less over time."

     
20. Another pause "Although, we're sure to be full of magic powers or dead by then, so we might look the same. Is it an appearance thing, or like something else?" 
21. 

    "Ha, no it's not an appearance thing. I don't think I'd be giving you new information to say that you're stunning. It's a life experience thing, and just generally me feeling gross thing. Screwing around with a 21 year old would make me feel like one of those gross professors who flirt with all their female students.
    
    
    And you don't need to wait till forty, maybe in a few years we could give it a shot but time will tell if we're still kicking. Either way I still got your back if you got mine, benefits or no.
    
    (Oh and I mean no offence when I say life experience, you seem pretty knowledgeable. I more just mean I remember where I was when 9/11 happened but you don't and that sits with me wrong.)"
22. (The text is formatted like that, by the way. Edith is putting paragraph breaks in her msgs)
23. 

    "hmmmm. That would be an interesting roleplay . " Then a moment later "oop forgot, not flirting. But yeah, I'll hit you up if I'm alive and 25 maybe, and still got your back." "Probably the world will look a lot different by then"
24. 

    "Wait are you talking about 9/11 or Student/Teacher thing"

     
25. 

    "I was thinking the student/teacher thing, but now that you mention it, a little terrorism between friends might also be exciting"
26. 

    "I'm not going to do a 9/11 with you, sorry."
27. "Besides, I pretty sure that backfired really poorly."
28. 

    " "
29. "lol, jk"
30. 

    You see a "..." that quickly get deleted before she responds with: "Thanks for the understanding, and you don't have to quit the flirting as long as your fine with me not throwing it back ever. Honestly, I never really got the whole relationships thing, like they're all just fwb at the start anyway so why angst about not being able to get together?"
31. (Edith speaks fluent "what the hell is an aromantic spectrum")
32. 

    "Right? I mean the inital rush is fun, but not something to get upset about missing. You're just friends who can have sex after the first week."
33. "BTW you poly? I'm poly RA, have maybe 2 or 3 folks that you'd classify as partners, or lovers or whatever, but I don't really think about my relationships that way"
34. 

    "Oh yeah definitely. I don't agree with how the Greeks saw age in relationships but they had the right idea with number of partners."
35. "I think back in college I had 3 girlfriends? We stopped talking after we broke up though, never really got why."
36. 

    You don't see this , but Liv takes a break from feeding chickens to do a fist pump
37. 

    Based as hell
38. 

    "oh you a gold star? I got Ted who I live with, and Vivian. Have had a bunch of others off and on over the years, but you know people. Sometimes they're not compatible, and sometimes just they just turn out to be shit. " Liv types "Ted's actually the guy I talked to about your hunting first. He got me into more animal rights stuff, and is a bit brainier than me with philosophy and stuff" Thinks for a moment and deletes it "Anyway, I gotta go I'm helping some friends with a project, I'll let you know about Mastodon timing"
39. 

    "Understood and, blegh no. I've seen too many terfs use gold star. I'm just a lesbian."
40. 

    "Woo! yeah, sorry, meant it as flirty teasing. Let's go trans right woo!"

     
41. 

    Edith sends a "Fuck yeah trans rights"

I needed some way to control people. Last contract proved they are a liability on the job, and life experience shows they are mostly not worthy of trust outside of the job.

I need power, I have a gift, time to make some deals.

This is my first major one, and it could have gone better.

Got the name and summoning instructions from whatever it is our gifts come from. This was an old demon, but a charming one. Smooth skinned and beautiful unlike the ones I can keep tied to my artifacts. Should have done more research before hand. I wanted to bind people in deals the way I could bind demons, but that costs more than one gift.

Had to trade away a finger and most of my trust to get this power. Worth it, as far as I’m concerned , but not expected. Maybe one day I’ll bargain my finger back.

My summons are much better now. Got them to store a bit more extra energy in their artifact, and summoned demons a bit smarter and skilled in stealth. Now to make myself better.

My power will eventually take care of doing the dirty work. Fighting, finding, getting hurt. If I do get hurt, it doesn’t stick to me anymore. What I need to be good at is people.

So I’ve been practicing that. Going to meetings, managing my Liberators, talking to people on the street to practice my politics. I gotta make some progress. I know I’ll be able to do more soon, but I’m already so much more capable than I was before this.

I’ve also been practicing my power . Little bindings on the people in my house, using my summoners voice to convincing random people to give me a discount tell me their secrets, etc. Small steps, as part of a pretty long journey to a world without the oppression and torture of the majority of individuals.

I've been looking into ways to improve the forms that my servants take. Right now they are... useful, but very limited.

Basically, only useful as cannon fodder, and not very good cannon fodder at that.

I need them to be better. So, in-between letters sent to politicians, and organizing, and feeding my lovely chickens, I study.

Books that I just happen to find with strange rituals to read, and a cost paid in blood, or worse. 

But of course, my neighbors create more evil every night at their dinner table.

In a world full of evil, the taste of my own blood in my mouth is the most human thing it could have in it.

I'm sure that one day I'll be able to get these trinkets, and the servants I store within them to be of a truly great status. Then, with them I shall go and take what I need to make this world a less awful one.