Wheaton College held its first dance 143 years after it opened

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[Crowley is sitting in the Deathmatch, his journal open beside him. As he dictates, he occasionally picks up a bar pretzel, idly throwing it into the air and making it vanish from existence, before repeating the process]

Are you lot really going to start worrying every time you see fog now? Oh no, look out everyone, it’s weather.

I’d better keep an eye out for any rainbows. They might kill us all.

Comments

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For what? Humans or victims of the plague?

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Honestly? I doubt that thing was either.

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Oh, you mean the bird man. They wore bird-like masks, you know. Back in [a pause] ...1665, was it? They thought it would trap the bad air or something.

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Hunh. Well, that wasn't a mask, but I guess it could've been attempting a disguise. Goddamn timestream.

Before it grew two stories and decided it was hungry, anyway.

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Paradisa is well known for taking things we recognise and twisting them into something horrifying.

I didn't hear anything about it wanting to eat anyone.

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Well, it could've dropped me down its maw just for the taste test, but nobody was really that keen on finding out. Least of all our mystery benefactor.

Speaking of mysteries, what's got you so interested?

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Too bad for you. Seems you've survived the experience.

I'm just naturally curious, I suppose.

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Yeah, I'm sure you're as heartbroken as you sound.

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It's not in my nature to be sympathetic.

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Do you blame all your character failings on how you were born?

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Who said I was born?

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Created. Lab-ratted. Grown. You're really hung up on the division between humans and everyone else, aren't you?

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Well, yeah. I'm a demon, it's sort of my job.

...Well, part of my job.

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So that's a yes, then. No free will, you were just made to be a jackass.

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Pretty much. Free will's a tricky thing, you can fake it surprisingly well if you try hard enough.

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And never hold any responsibility. Must be nice.

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I it, actually. I quite enjoy it.