well, she did apologize, as in the end all she intended to do was a little shove. as far as blaming the victim goes, well, ICARUS anger levels were at maximum, and Bethany, even if that was not her intention, did kinda mock her. it's like proding a tiger with a stick. a very angry tiger. you just don't do that and think nothing will happen, do you?
You say that like Bethany should have expected ICARUS to explode due to minor prodding at the idea of her having a crush on Kyle. And when the tiger has sentience and free will and such, it's still guilty of assault.
I mean, for a moment imagine ICARUS was just an ordinary girl, and was for some reason so angry that she proceeds to smash half a million worth of laboratory equipment, then stomps away furiously. You'd tell her to calm down, ask her what the fuck or simply get out of her way - you won't go and mock her lovelife. in such a situation, you are just begging to get slapped.
"Mock"? Her comment was more of an "inquire" thing.
as far as threating her like a toddler goes, it's more appropriate to treat her like a teenager. going through a very pronounced rebellion phase.
And if I had a rebellious teenager complaining about being treated like a child I would say much the same to him/her. It all works out.
sometimes I really gotta wonder how IRIS gets anything done
Why?
* Sentient Bowtie deactivates his joke module.
And there was much rejoicing.
And some ridicule. Mostly just the ridicule.
((The Angel Investor may have just been transmuting air into food using its philosopher's stone.))
Wait, it can turn anything into anything? Will is in the market for that...
Sen blinks for a moment before pulling out a second bag and starts counting out money. It takes a while but eventually she counts out to the desired amount. Working as a demon Lawyer has really paid off. It is also a good thing the money wasn't in her room when it was destroyed by the angels...
Sen hands the second bag to the Angel Investor, "Count it if you want."
Oh goddamn it.
It checks the value of the money and if it finds that it is indeed worth the specified quantity, it hands over the stone. It's rather heavy for its size.
Materials of incredibly high value for their times, locked away within a stone-like shell. They possess Wall Street enchantments that allow them to transmute materials which result in the materials gaining or losing mass equal to the difference of the input and output. Their contents themselves are transmuted over time as the values of materials change, so whilst they may have been something hard to obtain such as diamond or aluminum in bygone eras, their internal material now consists of magically contained antihydrogen or black dwarf crystals. These stones will cease to exist should their mass be deplete, though this will take quite a while as their internal mass is always of the most expensive materials of an era.
They actually have little to do with human alchemy and more to do with Wall Street as they may be considered as replacements to alchemy rather than power amplifiers.
They can only transmute to and from objects with an actual value in some sort of market. In order to transmute someone else's asset, permission must be given.
What counts as permission?
And goddamn it, Will could have come up with some excellent ideas for this...
Anyway, I never said that the spear of heat had to hit them, only the building they were in.))
Cue the castle being destroyed by repeated karma rolls.