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<plaidypus> A Black Rooster what I'm imagining is is Abdul deciding to have a chat with Anselm, figuring out who he is, and just
12:12 AM showing up in his office
12:13 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham Ooo
12:13 AM I like that
12:13 AM The chair swivel and "Hello, Mr. Bond"
12:14 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster in a chair in the corner, fingers steepled, and when Anselm walks in he just says "Hello, Mr. Anselm. Do you smoke?" (edited)
12:14 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Smoke what?"
12:14 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Cubans."
12:16 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Unless you talkin some Maria Januos, I'm good, thanks"
12:20 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "I prefer the other hispanic herb." He lights a cigarillo and gestures at Anselm's desk. "I'll be having a chat with you, Mr. Anselm. Sit." (edited)
12:21 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham Anselm pulls out a Juul and takes a puff, "Sure, we can talk. For about three minutes before security gets here. Go."
12:24 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Security's in America, Ten. This is Lebanon." He takes a drag. "I'm curious. How do you plan to make this messiah of yours?"
12:25 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham Anselm stops, chuckles a bit, and approaches the desk, half-sitting on it, and grabs a pen to twirl between his fingers
12:25 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "And please, cut the shit. I'm not one of your Facebook friends."
12:26 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "No, you're clearly not. So go ahead and explain to me what you are."
12:28 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "I am what you want to make." A smile stretches across his face, "A godhead."
12:29 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Really? Cuz to me you just look like another asshole."
12:30 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He takes the aviators off. He has no eyes, just a pair of swirling pyroclastic flows.
12:30 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "What the fu-"
12:33 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He acts like nothing happened, and tucks the glasses into his robe. "I believe I asked my friend a question?"
12:33 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham He shakes his head again, harder this time, as if he's trying to shake the image out of his head
12:34 AM "Right. Friend. How do you know about her?"
12:36 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He leans in. "Because I know many things. For example, I know that if you don't answer me now, you'll get to meet what's in my eyes."
12:38 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Alright, Ghost Rider, calm down. You just gotta have faith. Just like I need them to have."
12:40 AM He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone, sliding it across the desk. It's open to a TikTok video
12:41 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster What is it?
12:42 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham It's a young girl, probably early 20s, leaving her parent's house, them sobbing in the background.
12:42 AM "Faith is power, friend. You know that as well as I do. And the kind of faith that can make someone do *that*? That's just…..goddamn that shit's potent." (edited)
12:44 AM "We've all heard that religion is the opiate of the masses. But opium's out of style. My religion is the #vapenashe of the masses."
12:46 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He grins. "You do not need to lecture me on the power of faith. You say you're nicotine? I call myself the tobacco company."
12:46 AM "I think we can be of assistance to each other."
12:47 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Before we go any further, friend, I have to ask. Forgive me if this is a shamefully American thing to ask, but you're a Muslim, right?"
12:48 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Once."
12:48 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham He grins.
12:48 AM "I'm listening."
12:49 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Have you read Nietzsche?"
12:49 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Once. Didn't much care for it. Poor bastard was clearly depressed, but I guess I can't blame him."
12:50 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Well, his thesis was correct, though it's taken too literally by most." (edited)
12:50 AM "God is dead because we have no further need of Him."
12:51 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "I've never needed him. If he was ever alive he was an evil sonofabitch anyway. If there ever was one, good fuckin riddance."
12:52 AM "My grandfather, you know, he was a preacher. Well, an ex-preacher."
12:52 AM "I watched him throw my grandmother down the stairs and tell me that if God thought I was worthy, I would have been able to save her."
12:53 AM "So with all due respect - aka none - God can get fucked, dead or alive.":
12:53 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He cuts him off in the middle of that. "You're missing what's essential here."
12:53 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Which is?"
12:54 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "If God is dead, what happened to His corpse?"
12:54 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Well I'm assuming you have an answer to that."
12:56 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He smiles. "All the power He held, it's still there. Still accessible to anyone who knows how." He taps next to his eye. "This is a fruit of it." (edited)
12:57 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "An eye for an eye. So whose eyes did you get when you gave up yours?"
12:57 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "They're not eyes."
12:59 AM "But I'm not here to explain that." He leans back in the chair.
1:00 AM "Have you figured out why I'm here?"
1:01 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "To brag about your power? To intimidate me? To score some sweet ganj? I've got a live stream in ten minutes, can we just get to the point?"
1:03 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "You Americans, you do love your capitalism. Let me put this in its terms; our products, our demographics, they are strikingly similar."
1:04 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Capitalism is bullshit and I'm gonna tear it all the fuck down. But for now, I play within the rules and use them to my advantage when I can. So you're, what, remaking Islam?"
1:05 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Islam failed."
1:05 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "And water is fuckin wet."
1:06 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Now you're getting it! So gut it. Take what it had and build something better."
1:07 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Alright. Now, now you're speaking my language. Fuck the old ways, fuck the old gods, fuck the old world, right? Look where the hell following their rules got us."
1:08 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Yes. Like cooking and eating a dead pig."
1:08 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Char it to the bones and pick the bacon from the ashes."
1:09 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "So how do you plan to start the fire?"
1:10 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Well, one of my persona heroes Billy Joel used to say that we didn't start the fire. That's what we're doing here. This whole society - this whole planet - it's been on fire for over two millennia. But instead of fighting it - sorry Billy - we're gonna fan the flames until they burn in the heat of their own hypocrisy."
1:10 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He has a look like he's just leading up to his final point.
1:11 AM "Oh, but a fire must be directed to do anything useful."
1:11 AM "Are you familiar with Hamas?"
1:11 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Nope."
1:12 AM (He might be, I'm not lmao)
1:12 AM Oh
1:12 AM wait
1:12 AM nevermind
1:12 AM "The uh, well the only thing they ever called it over here was a terrorist cell."
1:17 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Oh, they are definitely that. But to people like us, fanatics are our currency, and mujahideen are the cream of the crop. I have influence within Hamas. I can do with them whatever I'd like, direct them so Mr. Joel's fire will be pushed to allow the old ways to burn themselves."
1:19 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "You know it will never stop fascinating me how people from two different worlds can wind up with the same goal. You have your Hamas, I have my followers. All we need is to decide where and when we fan the first inferno."
1:22 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He cackles. "Exactly. I direct Hamas and several other assets to create a ruckus. It allows you stoke the flames of your followers. Fanaticize them. My followers too, burning until we can tear the Veil and bring our followers into one horde of ascended mankind."
1:23 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "That's just….perfect. Maybe we'd have been brothers in another life. But I still gotta know. Who….or *what*….are you?"
1:24 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "My name hasn't been important for a while. Call me Abdul. As for what —" He takes another long drag on the cigarillo.
1:27 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "You know what? I think it's good that we both have our secrets. For now."
1:28 AM He holds out his hand
1:28 AM "Abdul and Anselm. I think I see a fruitful partnership here. Friend."
1:28 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster Before he can say that bc i type slow, Abdul says "I am, right now, a mere godhead. The font I access is deepening. In time I will be able to take this girl of yours, make her the messiah we need. A herald to the apotheosis of all." (edited)
1:29 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham Alright scratch my responses then
1:30 AM "A New Goddess to shepherd in the New World, built on the ruins of the one that failed us all. And I think I know just where to start."
1:30 AM He taps the Foundation security badge on his chest
1:31 AM "Some pieces are still moving. But they'll be in place soon. And you'll know when the time is right."
1:32 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He laughs again. "Yes, that's good. My pieces are still moving as well."
1:33 AM "You like references, don't you?"
1:33 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "What gave it away," he asks, pointing to the various tattoos of cultural references he has
1:34 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster He extends a hand. "Let's go light a fire, baby. Let's go make a mess."
1:35 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham He shakes it, firmly, but Abdul can feel the hint of a tremor in his hand.
1:35 AM "Flame on."
1:36 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "No, it's Mick Flannery." (edited)
1:38 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham "Whatever man, I'm just enjoying the fire jokes. But for real, I *do* have a stream I gotta get to. New Fall Guys update just dropped and my followers are fuckin hype to play with me."
1:39 AM "Just uh….well, keep an eye on the news. Some people are gonna learn pretty soon that the dark they fear is even worse than their nightmares. But we'll be there to guide them out with our radiance."
1:40 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster "Yes, we will. And I prefer Among Us, personally." With that, he stands up and walks out the door, letting in a blast of hot desert air and sand as he leaves. (edited)
1:40 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham God that was good lol
1:41 AM I want those two to play among us together so badly
1:41 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster YES
1:41 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham One is always the killer but the other always has their back
1:41 AM <plaidypus> A Black Rooster also, you should listen to mick flannery sometime
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1:41 AM <DrCryptidham> Doctor Fullham Also as soon as Abdul leaves, Anselm starts rolling a J, his hands still kinda shaking