Voice; UN: Oracle

[codeoracle]

[Oracle is on your airwaves, using a voice distortion to make a call on all imPorts.]

Seeing the posts here, we have all received some form of message. A cipher. I want to decode it. We need to.

What message have you received?

[OOC EDIT: Per the recent OOC Mod Post, and a response to my question to them on plurk, the thread that previously held the solution and discussion about it has been deleted. I apologize to those that had commented in these threads, but this post's aim is to begin the IC discussion process. I look forward to future posts that will reflect the solution in game!]

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[privatepurchases]

[he stares at the phone for a good five seconds before.]

I am an angel. One of the big ones. The kind that ends up in churches and gets painted by Renaissance masters. The kind that gets named in the bible. I'm in Christmas plays and kids play me and I

I am not a nice being. I've killed people. A lot of humans. I threw my own family out of heaven at the word of our ...at the word of God. She is merciful and loving. I do not like a lot about humanity. Once I would have told you I did not like anything about humanity. I was required to however.

For a long time she has not been the most...forthcoming with what we're supposed to be doing. I don't think human beings understand that I - well. I thought I didn't get a choice. And it was arrogant but I thought that I was - an extension of her. That what I had done was her will and not mine.

I arrive here and I find myself significantly depowered and lost and one of the people from my world says "I have free will". angels don't. Your ancestors, -

The humans in my world. Their ancestors. Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden for free will. Except now I believe that the beings from my world are correct. I have free will as well.

I have been angry with her over this. She is our mother, all of our mothers so the only way I can describe it is to say that I have been very angry with my mother because if she had taught us that we had free will I would have at least considered my actions. Angels are not nice beings. We're not the cute creatures that humans painted on walls but to speak against her is to be thrown out of heaven.

Except she says I have free will and if this is how humans use it - you have provided a means for me to ...not understand her, but to...heal how I feel about it. At least a piece of it. and for that i am grateful.

I owe you a gift for this.

[hatestrashcans]

I'm not nice either. You can be a good person without being nice. I know you probably know that, but I wanted to say it anyway. And you don't have to like humanity, either. There are lots of parts about us that suck: We're violent and short-sighted, for one. Also we invented pizza and then ruined it by putting pineapple on it.

[ Look, humor is Marco's coping mechanism, so he interjects it at random moments. Also it gives him some more time to consider what he's being told. ]

Your situation sucks, and I'm not even going to pretend to understand the magnitude of it. But I am glad I could help. And if she's your mother, and she's a good one, then she loves you no matter how angry you are and while she'd like it if you weren't, she wouldn't want you to pretend not to be. If that makes sense. It's like how being good doesn't require being nice. Loving someone doesn't mean never being angry at them. I guess.

[ Thank God (lol) Marco is one of the people here with a good relationship with his mother! ]

[privatepurchases]

[After everything. After everything. The apocanot. Crowley. Aziraphale. The two of them standing for that stupid little insignificant planet...

Had they been right? Was there something worth saving? It hand't been about saving, it was business, but the human project they were just - there to prep the groundwork for the final fight-

His chest hurts like something is trying to get out of it. This being is lying. This boy. he's just a human. sitting alone in his room with his jackalope by his side he thinks about Anathema and how she had lived under a clock her whole life and this boy who apparently ruined pizza (whatever that was.) telling him...

Being. Kind. first things first.]

I do not know what pizza is but rest assured you did not ruin it in any capacity unless you mean to humans personally. In my world she was very insistent that humans be allowed to consume what they want however they want. I can only assume it must be the same for yours and if it is not, then you should...do it anyway because that is very wrong. Food, plants, all of that were made to sustain human beings and we worked really hard on them and it would be rude if you did not use them.

Unless pineapple on pizza is somehow awful in which case just say Satan did it and if anybody asks-

Well. Fuck um. That's one of your better inventions. I like that word. I won't issue damnation orders but Fuck is a great word.

[The rest of it. all those things. His fingers tangle in the jackalope's fur.]

...Loving someone doesn't mean never being angry at them. I like that. It's easier then just blindly overlooking people's faults. Otherwise how would anybody survive?

thank you.

[hatestrashcans]

Pineapple on pizza is awful, but I'm always for blaming that on someone else, so Satan's fault it is. Also, if you can eat and taste, you should try pizza.

[ And Marco is being good. He's not asking about the things that kill you or that make you hallucinate, as much fun as it would be to say 'oooh so the drugs were on purpose?' ]

Fuck is an amazing word. You can use it in almost any context. Or you can make almost a whole sentence out of variations of the word 'fuck': Those fucking fuckers fucked it up, the fucking fucks! Etc.

You're welcome.

Good luck.