The Top 100 Things I'd Do
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord

Um, no.

I'm not ending the thread here at sixty-five?? That's not your call to make! 

Even Sword Art Online made it past Floor 70!

The two of you need to get back in here and figure this out.

Let's just pretend this never happened and move on. What's sixty-five?

Do you mind if I heal my hand?

We never established that I even have geas yet.

Maybe your hand is fine.

I'll take that as permission to turn on my fast healing.

"Sixty-five: If I must have computers with..."?

You know, it kind of really hurt when you forced me break my own fingers.

I'm sure that seems like an incredible insight when INT is your dumpstat but the idea that broken fingers cause pain isn't exactly news to the rest of us.

I'm an HP tank - getting injured is my day job. The first time I had to save against Death From Massive Damage for losing 50+ points in one hit, I was level 3.

Broken bones, I can bear with.

What hurt, this time, is I was trying to be your friend.

What do you want from me, an apology? 

I mean, I wouldn't turn my nose up at one.

I want to talk about what happened, so I know what I did wrong and can make sure not to do it again. 

Why don't you just not press me for answers that I don't want to give?

That would have solved everything. 

You didn't seem to mind as much on, say, number four. And it seemed like you found it useful? After, you took pains to reassure me that you valued my advice.

I was lying.

No you weren't. 

Are you calling me a - uh. 

Ileosa was going to say "liar," there, but. Well.

Choryon would laugh but doesn't know how Ileosa would take it.

Ileosa has at least +14 on Sense Motive - more, the higher a level she is in this thread - and is perfectly capable of being offended at Choryon's thoughts. 

...She isn't, though. Or - or maybe she is! She's sick and ashamed of herself but that doesn't mean that she isn't offended by Choryon's plaintive fucking smug superiority.

If Choryon is angry, but not... hateful and terrified, like you'd expect someone to be, that's an opportunity; there's an obvious play and the only reason for Ileosa not to do it is sheer self-destructive foolishness. Just apologize. Is Ileosa an idiot? 'I've terribly abused our friendship, can you ever forgive me?' Kiss and make up. Done.

But why should Ileosa have to be one who apologizes?

She was willing to let the matter rest. Why can't they just both move on, and both preserve face?

Well, there is a second-best play. 

Talk Choryon into thinking she was the party in the wrong.

This will admittedly take some doing. There's probably a circumstance penalty for having just made Choryon break her own fingers.

(If that even happened. Maybe it didn't! Ileosa probably doesn't have geas yet. It's Choryon who insists on saying that this actually happened in the thread's continuity. Choryon who doesn't want to just sweep it under the rug. How fucking sanctimonious.)

But talking people into absurd things is Ileosa's mastery. 

Ileosa does need to calm down, though. It won't work if she keeps trying to force her version of events down the samurai's throat.

Ileosa will take a breath and: consciously shift her emotional state to wounded sadness, unconsciously slump her shoulders, curl her legs in where she's sitting and hug her knees, and say in a soft and quiet voice, "I do value your advice. It's just that I'm... I'm so afraid. I've lost so much today already, or, I've realized that so much was already lost. I don't want to lose what's left, or... looks to be. There's so very little of it left that I can see."