The Awesome Power of Pay Toilet Wealth

[badassfreakingoverlord]

All right, Netherworld Academy -- listen up! I'm sure all of you expect me to throw my hat into the Student Council elections. After all, who's more suited to be student councilor than me? Awesome mana power, rugged good looks, game protagonist, strongest in the cosmos -- you can't deny I've got it all.

Except I don't have a hat. I think I'll go the Slytherin route here and throw the awesome weight of my mana and vast financial resources behind whichever candidate makes me the best bribe, kickback offer, or shameless reciprocation of services. You want the might of Zetta, come and start the bidding!

[What financial resources is he talking about? Well, funny thing... the Dark Assembly sort of handed Zetta a weapon almighty in the course of deliberately screwing over his bill. At first upset, Zetta had what is for him an unprecendented stroke of genius. With the help of a hot mad genius girlfriend and his own surprisingly-high TEC score, Zetta has rigged the bathroom to be a pay toilet.]

[From the inside. You get inside, you do your business, and you're charged a modest fee to be allowed out again. Or you get to sit in there till the Prinnies let you out and shake you down for some valuables... which they usually wait to do until the person has been inside for long enough to consider being shaken down by Prinnies well worth their freedom.]

[Oh, on slow days he Invites it in crowded areas just to make people run for it. Or sends a minion around to bonk people with it, thereby inflicting its status effect on people. ]

[As for Zetta, these days he's simply claimed an unused classroom for his room (not that any of them are used, but nevertheless), moved in some comfortable furniture, and has sprawled out in relative luxury. He may not be a genius, but he has a certain amount of cunning.]

Comments

[notjustinthemirror]

The lord over what? This place?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

I have my own Netherworld. Just like any Overlord.

[notjustinthemirror]

A Netherworld inside the Netherworld? That's interesting.

How do I get one?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

It isn't HERE! This is a Netherworld I don't control. Yet. MY Netherworld is elsewhere.

[notjustinthemirror]

You lost your Netherworld? And why should I listen to a guy who can't keep his own netherworld?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

I didn't LOSE it! It's just not HERE! It got destroyed at one point but that was as part of a cosmos-wide catastrophe!

[notjustinthemirror]

That's worse. You didn't lose it, but it got blown up. Maybe you should take better care of your Netherworlds.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Hey, Overlords who DON'T have bad stuff happen to them don't get to star in games, so it worked out for the best.

[notjustinthemirror]

Bad stuff and get your own game, or good stuff and you get to rule however you want without game stuff interfering.

Doesn't sound like a hard choice to me.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Oh yeah? Name an Overlord that didn't appear in a game, or get referenced in one.

[notjustinthemirror]

Wait, is this a thing I'm supposed to know? Because I haven't gone to any classes.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Of course you wouldn't know it. No one cares about Overlords who aren't in games, because they aren't in games!

[notjustinthemirror]

[A pause while he considers if it's even worth asking the obvious question. Eh, what the hell.]

What games?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

The video games we're all from.

Didn't you ever wonder about the extremely blatant status screens?

[notjustinthemirror]

...

The what now?

What status screens?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Uh, the status screens that appear when you look at someone and check their status screen.

[notjustinthemirror]

...........

I can do that?

[Someone didn't read the manual upon arrival.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Yep. Give it a try.

[notjustinthemirror]

By doing what?

Just looking at people?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

People or interactive objects. Random background stuff doesn't have information.

[notjustinthemirror]

How do I know if an object is ---

[And that's the sound of him looking at something while walking and running smack into a giant screen telling him the rarity of that table he just passed.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

[Zetta gets a cheap laugh out of that. Don't think he doesn't.]

You know how in cartoons the stuff drawn on the cel is a different shade and stands out from the stuff in the background? It's kind of like that. You learn to pick up on it.

[notjustinthemirror]

Yeah yeah. Laugh it up.

[ He would have done the same had that happened to someone else. He rubs his head and glares at the offending table which now proudly declares it's toughness and durability.]

Do I look like I've watched cartoons? And how do I turn this shit off?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Stop looking at stuff with the intent to bring it up. You always get some basic information, but the detailed stuff takes some effort to look through.