The New Boss

The New Boss
Date of Scene:	21 December 2012
Location:	The Underworld
Synopsis:	Hades gatheres the Reapers and Players up...deciding that a new management style is needed in the Reaper's game.
Cast of Characters:	Uzuki Yashiro, Sho Minamimoto, Beat, Hades

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Hades has posed:
The Underworld was a vast and lonely place...full of dead people who have probably deserved everything they got in life now.

Hades, however, has a small section, his meeting room, set asside tonight. Ambrosa was set out, while Pain and Panic run around and try to keep up with the God's demands.

"ENOUGH! Just get OVER here you IDIOTS! I need you to let me know who these people are when they get here, I can't be bothered to know each and every employee's name! Hurry up Panic!"

"It's Pain sir.."

"DID I ASK YOUR NAME!" he flares up...and calms down. "Alright, alright...keep your cool." he says, and sits down at the throne at the front of said table.

Flicking his fingers, to summon the various Reapers and Players to his table...

It was time for a meeting.

Beat has posed:
For a long time Beat explored the world shards, Erasing Heartless as he saw strange lands and new people. It had been fun while it lasted but a homecoming was long overdue, now all he had to do was figure out how to get home. He had met Shiki on his travels but they separated before he could ask for directions. Travelling through a Corridor of Darkness was definitely out the question, he'd rather stay lost then journey further into darkness.

Therefore it was quite the coincidence when Beat felt the Lord of the Dead's summons. He KNEW the way back from the Underworld... kinda. At least, he knew it better than every other path he had taken up to point.

The delinquent Reaper arrives in a puff of black smoke, drawn into being by the immense power of Hades. If he had intended to split Players and Reapers he would find that Beat would land right in the middle of the allocation, one food on either side of the proverbial line. He adjusts his beanie before looking at the assembled crowd.

"Yo," he says in greeting to Hades. Probably not respectful, but who cares? It's Hades. He is not a nice guy.

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
TO THE UNDERWORLD!

Sho is not unfamiliar with the realms beyond Shibuya. It pays to be familiar with the various other worlds when your interests include 'becoming mini-god'.

When the summons from Hades comes, Sho is, admittedly, tempted to ignore it.

But he doesn't. He may as well see what's up. He arrives in the Underworld, looking over the accoutrements and situation presented to them.

He folds his arms, looking unimpressed at the moment. Who is this asshole?

Hades has posed:
Hades stands up from his throne.

"Hey, name's Hades, lord of the dead. Nicetameetcha." he says, looking at each realer. Well, this was just a freekin' outrage...but hey, these three would have to work harder in carrying his orders around.

"Names." he looks down to Panic, "Uh...names...names..." he says, looking through a scroll... "Ah here. Lets see...That one is Sho Minamimoto...That one is Uzuki Yashiro, and the last one is Beat." he says, handing the scroll to Hades who gives it a glance.

"Ah right, three reapers. No players bothered showing up? What do I pay you people to do?!" he looks down at Panic,

"Uh...sir. You uh...don't pay us.."

"What do I allow you to /live/ for?" he says again, rolling his eyes and sitting down.

"Have a seat, make yourselves comfortable. Anyway, welcome to the Underworld, a place where dead souls go when they die. Instead of, you know, /not/ die like what's going on here with this 'Reaper's game'. I don't know what kinda racket is going on here, but I'm here now."

"So as of this moment. I am the Composer of this 'Reaper's game'. Kapeesh?"

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
Sho glances over as he sees Pinky and the New Guy. "Where the hell have you been, Pinky?" Sho says. "What does it take to get some goddamn help around here, you zero?" He frowns. "What have you been doing, running off and deriving in the corner?"

He looks back over to Hades, and narrows his eyes, leaping easily to a chaid and perching on the back of it, putting his feet on the seat portion as he affects a Thinker-esque pose. "You're cutting into my arts and crafts time... Hades." He says. "I've never heard of you. You've never been a relevant factor before... Why the hell should we listen to you now?"

Beat has posed:
Beat moves his right hand to his left shoulder to relax himself, sniffing the air once to get a feel for the place then instantly regretting it. This is the Underworld after all, was he expecting roses? Pain and Panic are given a glance, more because Beat is trying to work them out of interest in what they're saying. Weird things... kinda look like little devils? Typical.

Beat had always judged himself as more a Player than a Reaper but sees no point in splitting hairs. He can manipulate the Game, summon Reaper Wings and control Noise. Sounds like a Reaper on paper right? Let Hades be in the dark for all he cares anyway. When Sho speaks Beat looks at him sidelong, his expression changing unreadably.

"You've never heard of Hades?" he asks, mildly surpised. "Jeez. An' people call me dumb..." He's got nothing but contempt for these guys and no reason not to create rifts anyway, so continues. "Alright, you're the Composer. I take it you got some big plans for the Game?"

Let it hang for I care, he thinks.

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
Sno looks over at Beat irritably. "Shut up, you zetta son of a digit." Sho snaps. "I mean Hades has never been in the organization. Why should we just let him up and take charge out of nowhere?"

Besides, he put all this work into trying to kill Joshua. Seriously, wasted effort?!

Uzuki Yashiro has posed:
Uzuki Yashiro was also tempted to ignore the summons. In fact, she did ignore it until she got a rather annoying phone call on her Reaper phone. She was being -ordered- to go for whatever reason. Maybe they told her, but Pinky was so angry over everything that she simply descended into the Underworld in a rage. This was a quite literal action since she did make good use of those black wings of hers.

And so, the Pink haired Reaper arrives to see newblood and THAT GUY here. Ugh. Couldn't have Koki or atleast Yodai have shown up instead? Yodai would have been having a field day with so many food-related puns to make right now.

On second thought, maybe it was for the best that Yodai wasn't here.

Uzuki Yashiro has posed:
Uzuki stands up and flexes a claw-like hand towards Sho, her Reaper wings moving weightlessly through the air as she does so. Unsurprisingly, she looks quite angry at Sho's comments. "It's the Emergency Call. I'm been busy hunting Players and taking care of taboo noise." Not that Sho would anything to do with that. "In fact, I just finished chasing that little girl Player the other day." The raging Reaper then offers a wicked smile. "I even reintroduced her to her dear friend, who was quite hungry to see her."

Hades' big reveal that he wants to be a composer and New Guy's acceptance of this causes Pinky to once again look just a tad perturbed. "What? No! You can't just -be- the Composer. You have to work your way up to it!" Like Uzuki is diligently doing even though she is nearly at the bottom of the Reaper power structure with her being juuuuust a little bit above New Guy and the Support Reapers.

Hades has posed:
"First..." Hades says, with a slightly calm matter, "I am /GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD/." he says, flaming up to a red tone, before it dies back down. He sits back, taking a goblet of Ambrosa, and takes a swig. "Good stuff, this. Right from Mount Olympus." he says, accentuating his point. "Two, Because I am master and ruler over everything that has to deal with death." he lets /that/ one sink in a bit, "Three, because working with me is better than against me." he says, looking each each of them. "After all, aren't you tired of the players new friends causing you trouble?" he asks, relaxed once more, "Making it SO HARD to do anything...interfearing with your work, which is obviously important. So. I offer you this.."

He waves a hand, and a bunch of Ghost heartless appear, "Howabout some /real/ power. Not this pathetic noise you toss around...real honest to god heartless. Things that your old system didn't allow...because, well, lets be honest here. I don't /like/ winners in this game. Dead people SHOULD stay dead...and if I like you enough, you get to play as a reaper."

"So you play by my rules...you scratch my back...and I scratch yours. I'll let you do whateeeeeeever you want. Make more players SURE...just as long as they lose."

"And the heartless are just the SMALLEST of the power I can offer you, as lord of the dead."

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
"Really, Pinky? How many did you actually manage?" Sho asks offhandedly. "Reporting's kind of broken down though. Support's running wild." Sho arches an eyebrow, grinning. "It's good for a laugh."

Hades makes his case... and Sho actually looks contemplative about it. "The Composer's been gone since Shibuya blew up." Sho muses. "If you're able to do better, this might be interesting." He smiles. "It's a nice little tangent. What are you planning to do with the Reaper organization?"

Beat has posed:
Beat sighs, idly cracking some of the bones in his neck while facing Hades and listening to the pair talk. He can't believe it but Sho's actually right, Supports have been doing what they want after a fashion. Few stick to their commitments with the Composer missing. It's not a bad thing really, kinda funny if you think about it, but Beat can't fault old Pi-Face there. Just look at today's attendance, most other Reapers are either out of touch or probably off sunning themselves elsewhere.

Gaining more powers isn't something Beat's interested in. He's sworn off darkness and is on the long road of penance. He can't deny that this is valuable intel, though, so stays quiet to avoid the risk of raising suspicious too highly.

Hades has posed:
There is a shark like grin on Hades' lips.

"It's easy. First step, we get this game in Line. I need someone...a POINT man if you will that knows the inside and outs of the game so I can leave it in their capable hands...once we get this game organized...then we use it to recruit more reapers and souls. A sort of...expansion if you will. The game has changed, with what the heartless and the world of ruin and all that jazz."

"I got another project in the works. One That'll even change this. What we need is STAR power to make this better. A media so that everyone out there can see this game...and because I know people, they'll DIE to get into the Reaper's game...everyone wants to be famous."

Uzuki Yashiro has posed:
Uzuki is still reeling from Sho's insults. The haughty Reapette had turned her back towards him in a super mature display that only a hot-headed teenager could muster. Atleast she was not sticking her tongue out at him or throwing stuff yet. There was still plenty of food on the table afterall.

All this talk about blah, blah this. Blah, blah, blah that causes Uzuki to slowly turn back around. What?! Both Beat and Sho are seriously considering this? But, isn't this like....super-treason? Couldn't the other Reaper officers just erase Uzuki for disobeying them? Questions upon questions plague and Uzuki and she can only nearly pull her hair out as she plops down into one of the chair. "Oooh, where is Kariya when I need him?" He would be able to help her think this out...and get her a ramen bowl aftewards which was always good.

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
Sho was ranked as one of the best of the Reapers. Top tier in everything... except for cooperation. Uzuki is just getting a taste of it. "He's probably off sleeping or eating. Lazy punk."

Hades is playing off the whole 'make a deal with me' thing pretty hard. Sho hasn't moved from his position yet. "Who are you thinking of putting in charge of... this thing?" Sho, being the current Game Master, is keenly interested in this.

Beat has posed:
Beat's eyes light up... or was that a menacing flash? "Yo, wait, you sayin' you want somebody to lead the Reapers Game?" He steps forward, both figuratively and literally. "If that's right then I volunteer to be Game Master. Current clearly sucks, right?" Then there's a grin. Oh, what a grin.

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
"I'm going to disassemble you, you little yoctogram." Sho says, suddenly snarling. "Don't even think of trying to take my job. You haven't even Erased anyone!"

Hades has posed:
Hades looks up, looking around for a moment.

"That guy." he says pointing at Beat. "Congratulations, you're the new subconductor." he says, Appearing next to Beat, shaking his hand, and then back at his throne without a second guess.

Sitting down, Hades watches...oh this was going to get good.

He looks to Pinky, "Why the long face? Don't you want the power to deal with those pesky players...those little things that get in your way. Everything gets in your way right? I can see it though, you got potential kid. I like it. I wana see you GET what you deserve."

Beat has posed:
Beat blinks, taking a step back as Hades flashes in front of him. Before he knows it his hand is shook, leaving him just to stare at his bare palm for a moment. "Huh?" he says, a little taken aback. "Just like that?"

Hades has posed:
"Yes just like that. This is buisness. I am a god, this is how this works. When I say something happens, it happens."

Uzuki Yashiro has posed:
Uzuki is doing her best to keep that temper in check. She really is...honest!

But then Sho insults Koki. One clawed fist is slammed down. Grrrr. The nerve of this guy. And then Beat steps forward and volunteers. A second fist gets slammed down on the table. There is a flash of red in the Reaper's eyes as she refuses to be the only one angry right now. "Just where do you...." And then what Hades says goes into one ear, rattles around a bit, and then finally makes it way up int Uzuki's brain.

An accusing finger is pointed towards Beat as Hades disappears and then reappears right next to him. Uzuki's head whips around towards the pair. "He is going to be a subconductor and he just BECAME A REAPER!?!"

What Hades has to say to Uzuki nearly puts the Reapette into overload. "I'am already plenty...." Potential??? Wait what? No one has ever said that about her before. The rage subsides for now and she crosses her arms against herself before adopting a curious smile. "Go on~" She implores in a sing-song voice.

Hades has posed:
Hades watches the conflict between Sho and Beat unfold. This will be good.

He looks to Uzuki, "Of course. What I need in my network are people WILLING to do what needs to be done...people who want to win. People who...want power." he says, giving her a shark grin.

"Some of these reapers? They are punks, babies who are too afraid of death...but you? I can see it, you didn't become a reaper because you're afraid...no, you looked at death and said to yourself 'I ain't a sucker, I am not going to go down like one'."

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
For a moment, Sho pauses as Hades announces the nre guy in charge.

It's not him. Sho grits his teeth, and leaps from the chair, stalking towards Beat. "Well, /congratulations/." He says, simply... And looks to Hades. "So, Hades. How long did you say that he gets the position for?"

Hades has posed:
"Until he fails at something, I get tired of him...or he has a mysterious accident." Hades says, looking at his nails.

Beat has posed:
Beat quirks an eyebrow at Hades's reasoning. "Cool," he says simply and with a shrug. No point dwelling on it. So he's the new sub now? Nifty. Beat offers Sho a helpful thumbs up. "Thanks dude," he says, taking the words at face value. He stands his ground when Sho approaches... why wouldn't he, after all? Then Beat's face suddenly goes blank again. "Wait, an accident?"

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
"Is that so?" Sho says, and he leans in, smiling to Beat like a shark. "You have a good time, Beans." He says, and claps Beat on the back a little /too/ hard. "Just... watch out for the stairs."

He warned you, dog.

Uzuki Yashiro has posed:
Uzuki would be all for Sho and Beat killing each other. She could honestly care less either way as either an usurper or a class A-jerk would be erased as a result. So the Reapette can only smile to herself as they bicker back and forth.

Hades' charismatic words causes Uzuki to get distracted and look his way. This all sounds very nice, but waitasecond! He's just buttering her up. Uzuki frowns slightly as she plays through her options in her head. "What would I get to do? I am already having the time of my life thanks to the Emergency call."

Hades has posed:
Hades grins a bit at Uzuki, "How successful have you been lately? Hmm? Any new Players? Any Errased players?" he asks, not mocking, "Don't get me wrong...I know about THEM. Heroes, am I right? They just BAND together like bad puns. Buuuut..." he says, looking back at her. "What you need is a power they're too afraid of. The heartless are but a small step...but..."

"What about other powers of darkness I have yet to show. You could be the most powerful, and all you'd have to do is a few task for me now and again...simple things, things that you'd be doing anyway...things you LIKE doing. Errasing people...players or not, it doesn't matter to me."

"And, doing it on a way garenteed to make the humans...the people out there LEAP at you to be players? You'd have all the fun you want."

He looks back at Beat, "Cold feet already? Come on now, you haven't even had the job long. Anyway, First order of buisness, get the other reapers on the level here. Let them know where they can come to get some leadership here. Also.." he throws them each a scroll, "Go recruit some dumbass people as players with this scroll. All they have to do is sign, and BAM, they are a player. Then reap them and you're golden. Tell them it's for some gameshow. I'll send Pain and Panic to record it. It'll be a real laugh."

Beat has posed:
Beat's slapped on the back, his expression suddenly different to the smile he had on earlier. All the emotion vanishes from his voice, too. "Thanks," he repeats, but more blankly this time. He catches the scroll and glances at it, head spinning. "Okay?" he says. He's going to need some time to figure out how to spin this one around...

Sho Minamimoto has posed:
Sho looks up, turning around amd folding his arms. "I'll help you out, Hades. Why not? This looks like something I could work with." For his own reasons. "Just... keep the sea warm." He walks away, leaning on a stalagmite and watching the proceedings between Uzuki and Hades. "STOP BEING A WUSS, PINKY." Sho yells from the side. "YOU WANT TO BE IN CHARGE? GO EARN IT! It's not like factoring Megumi is around to tell you what to go, god."

Uzuki Yashiro has posed:
Uzuki Yashiro is conflicted.

Hades offers a compelling arguement. But Sho is a jerk.

The internal debate is settled when she gets yelled at by Sho. "I will!" She shouts right back. "With you joining -HIM-, that means I'll never have to work for the LAMEST GAMEMASTER ever again!" Uzuki continues to shout with a fist shaken violently at Sho. And without anything else to say, the angry Reapette huffs and extends her black wings. It looks like Pinky is about to blow this popsicle stand.

Hades has posed:
Hades looks a bit...interested. Hate, that's somethine he can work with, "Oh, it's too bad." he says, idly as Uzuki starts to lose, "Then I guess all this power I have to offer will go to Sho, and he'll use it to restructure the reapers..."

"Come on, Uzuki-babe. Think about this...I am giving you the chance to be on the cutting floor. A chance to be recongized...not just discarded for all your hard work."

Uzuki Yashiro has posed:
Uzuki expected Sho to say something smart right about there. But when he doesn't, the Reaper turns back towards the persistant Hades. She doesn't appear to be currently raging, but her anger hasn't fully subsided quite yet. "I'll think about it." Over Ramen. With Koki. Away from Sho. And without further adieu, Uzuki departs on those black, tattoo like wings of hers.

Hades has posed:
"Welp. I'll be here." But was it a limited time offer?

Who knows with Hades?