[PM: Deathbringer]

[taking_names]

[he was going to let this go but it just kept knocking around in his head and before he knew it he was internet stalking Siegmund to find out his identity and...]

So on a scale of one to ten, how impossible is it for a very friendly and kind person who might have once temporarily blinded you in a fit of misguided anger to make amends?

Ten means super impossible.

[...Nova has kind of a player problem]

[sent from an empty account that is just a lot of letters strung together]

Comments

[taking_names]

What!

You can't make your complicated amends to me if you hate me and want me to feel bad about being insane.

That's not how this works!

[bloodonthestones]

Yes, please tell me how Jewish repentance works.

You, who are not Jewish, and don't understand repentance.

[taking_names]

Well, it's not how I work. How can you make something right with someone you don't even like? That's like you're trying to use me to score good person points.

[bloodonthestones]

You don't need to like someone to know you wronged them.

I was angry and made something petty. I was not [wtf was that word again...] magnanimous enough not to.

I apologize, because I would like to be a better person than that.

[taking_names]

That isn't fair and shouldn't be allowed. Apology rejected!

[bloodonthestones]

[he expected that tbh, and he doesn't care.]

[he's partially doing this out of spite now...]

I apologize sincerely because I will not like it if someone ruined my effort and supplies like that.

[taking_names]

Wow, you sure do sound like a great person! Too bad YOU HATE ME AND ARE JUST TRYING TO LOOK GOOD

[bloodonthestones]

Look good to whom? It's only you and me, and I don't look good to you, obviously.

[taking_names]

To yourself, so you can be proud that you followed all your rules and aren't a terrible psychopath.

[bloodonthestones]

[wow, that...hit surprisingly hard, actually.]

[he sits back and stares at Nova's reply for a minute. maybe it's true, he's apologizing out of obligation because it's Rosh Hashanah and that's all about making things right with people so you can free yourself up to make things right with God on Yom Kippur.]

[he's not doing it so he can be proud of himself. He's doing it because he's afraid he could be a terrible psychopath if he didn't care so much about living up to God's standards. He has killed a person, not out of necessity, but because he was too cowardly to face the consequences of not doing so. Because it was easy.]

[It would be easy to be vindictive about this and walk away. But it's wrong. Just as killing Evelyn was wrong.]

Don't talk about morality like you understand anything.

[taking_names]

If you don't want me commenting on your morality, stop trying to drag me into it!

[bloodonthestones]

I am sorry about your potions.

[and that's 3.]

[taking_names]

I don't care about my stupid potions!

Why are you called deathbringer, anyway? Do you kill people and then apologize to their corpses?

[bloodonthestones]

[three apologies, three rejections. His obligation to Teshuvah is complete and he gets the same amount of spiritual cred that he would for going through the whole process. TAKE THAT, NOVA.]

[ALSO, WOW. STOP. That is an actual thing that he actually did in real life and it is very uncomfortable to have you bringing it up as a joke.]

[...but it's also something he did in the game because he was a PVP troll, and that IS where the name comes from.]

Don't be an idiot.

You can't apologize to a corpse.

[taking_names]

If you don't care whether the apology is accepted or not, then you might as well.

[bloodonthestones]

It means nothing if the person you apologize to doesn't have the choice to accept it or not.

[taking_names]

...Actually, that distinction makes sense.

But I still think apologies are stupid and yours were mean-spirited.

[bloodonthestones]

I don't care what you think of my apologies.

Deathbringer is my assassin's name. [and, if Nova's observant, he might notice that the assassin pictured in Siegmund's userpic bears a striking resemblance to one he encountered in Las Vegas...]

[taking_names]

You should. Because they're apologies and not caring what I think of them MAKES NO SENSE.

...

What! I think I "met" him...

[bloodonthestones]

I apologized three times, you refused three times. It's finished. I made Teshuvah for it.

[...so...curious...]

[why is it that everyone he's run into who's met his assassin is awful and uncooperative?!]

Where?

[taking_names]

Listen to that! You sound like you won a game. How could anyone accept an apology that's full of bad feelings, anyway?

The same place I bumped into you. He was one of the ones chasing us.

[bloodonthestones]

It's not full of bad feelings. You think that because it makes you feel better than me.

Why did he chase you?

[taking_names]

I think I'm better than you? Ha! Ha ha.

I think he was with the other guy who was trying to kill this lady who I accidentally saved from a crossbow bolt.

[bloodonthestones]

[not even going to dignify that with a response. just the fact that nova said it--ie he was trying to point out again how he thinks Siegmund is being fake to earn goodness-points--basically confirms that he's right.]

The lady the Ahura took back to the Undertow?

[because he recognized Nova when he was there, and he got the story about Greycloaks being after Lisa.]

[taking_names]

Yes, that one.