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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

[If Frog hadn't been from the Middle Ages and a little more tech savvy, he might've filtered this. As it stands, he has no idea a filter function even exists, much less how to take advantage of it. So, the whole network is treated to a less than happy Frog, making a broadcast directed at a certain lord of the dead.]

Hades, I wish to speak with you. These accursed ducks that have been wreaking havoc... There is more than enough evidence to suggest they are your work.

[Pause. Frog croaks and rests his hand on his sword, and looks displeased as much as, well, a frog can.]

If they are indeed your doing, our agreement is at an end. I'll not abide such dishonourable trickery unto others, whether you be mortal or immortal.

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[slippedamickey.livejournal.com]

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The ducks weren't part of the deal, were they?

[Just. Because. That would be something Oswald would stupidly trip into He'll probably want to bop Glenn for unleashing these things. If he did it.]

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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

Those vile things have naught to do with me. Should I find one, I will slay it where it stands!

[Or doesn't stand. Rubber ducks lacking legs and all that.]

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[slippedamickey.livejournal.com]

[Well, maybe they just sit? Or float or...]

Good. This Hades guy sounds like a total stinker.

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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

[Bah, semantics. The fact remains that Frog has a pointy thing and he will stab rubber ducks with it.]

Yes. It seems trusting him was a grievous error in judgement.

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[bittyrydia.livejournal.com]

...what agreement?

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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

[ croak ] You needn't concern yourself with my dealings, young one.

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[bittyrydia.livejournal.com]

[She frowns a bit, but isn't going to stop asking questions.]

Are you going to stop him?

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[ragnaroking.livejournal.com]

Hm. Offered your services to him also, eh?

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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

[Frog looks wary, at that. If she's a loyal ally of Hades, he's not inclined to trust her.]

Much to my regret.

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[ragnaroking.livejournal.com]

( loyal ally? not quite. making her own deal? very possible... )

Guess things can't always turn up roses, eh? You sure this was his doing, though?

[God filter] - Hades knows how to filter things ^^

[we-schmooze.livejournal.com]

You're going to get upset about a little thing like this? You must be forgetting that we had a deal.

[God filter] - XD at least one of them isn't a complete technofailure.

[swornoath.livejournal.com]

Then you do not deny it was your doing? [ croak ] This is no trifling matter -- your actions have inflicted suffering and distress on a great many. I will not be party to such schemes!

[God filter] - ^,^

[we-schmooze.livejournal.com]

A little prank. This whole duck thing is just a trifling matter. If I were serious would I really be using ducks? Nah! I’d get a few monsters or something!

Don’t tell me that you don’t have a sense of humor?

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[guardiaprincess.livejournal.com]

You made an agreement with Hades?!

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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

... Men are wont to make foolish decisions in times of desperation.

[Or men-who-are-frogs, in this case.]

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[guardiaprincess.livejournal.com]

Frog... [She doesn't mention anything about it. She figures she made the deal with him for one reason only: Leene. She understands.

But really, it's like making a deal with Ozzie or something. Ew.]

Maybe we can find her together.

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

Be careful. Deals with gods are subject to caution.

[There's some irony in Mercury being the one to say it; and it is Mercury on the video, transformed.]

Please tell me what you've learned and found as evidence. [Certainly, Hades' temper - and access to the ducks - were suggestive, but she wants more.]

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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

It is a lesson I have learned belatedly.

[Frog's mistake was to assume a god of the dead would be a neutral force, if not benevolent. He never realised just what Hades was like.]

I have spoken with him, and he has admitted it was his doing. It would seem he derives amusement from all this. [ croak ]

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

[Even Mercury, whose lineage ties to the trickster god of the same name, has trouble navigating her dealings with Hades.]

He probably thinks it's justified.

But it's not. He can't be allowed to do as he wishes.

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[rebornaninsect.livejournal.com]

Hades was the cause of these?

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[swornoath.livejournal.com]

[Forgive ye olde frogge if he takes a while to respond while he figures out the text function. Though he's not completely at a loss, at least, since he's seen Lucca and Robo use keyboards before.]

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[rebornaninsect.livejournal.com]

And you sought to deal with him, before this. For what cause?

[ramendate.livejournal.com]

So this is Hades' doing. Hmph.

[swornoath.livejournal.com]

Yes. The god sees fit to meddle where he ought not.

[ramendate.livejournal.com]

Kind of suspected he'd be that kind of guy. Seemed pretty obviously shady.