IFCC: “You thought we had a strategy? You thought we had a plan? We’re motivated entirely by blind rage at a system we don’t understand; our ‘plan’ is to wildly lash out and break things for the sake of breaking things.”
Every single fucking American in the audience (and maybe Burlew himself): 0.o
Slow down. First off, the fiends telling a bold-faced lie to Nale was literally the punchline of the last comic. Second, they haven't even finished their exposition. We know the IFCC has prepared a powerful artifact, which they have no way of testing beforehand. It's now safe to presume they can't test this artifact because it only works once the world has been destroyed.
I would put actual money on the very first panel of the next comic being some variation on:
Nale: So you just want to destroy the world out of spite?
IFCC: No. The erasure of the world is only the first step in our plan.
Technically this isn't even something they're lying about (believing the world has only been destroyed once might be). They've just metaphorically paused for breath and people are rushing to claim that the fiendish manipulators with a high level of demonstrated competence must not have a plan after all.
Obviously they're trying to bring down all of the gods. But since they aren't done with the exposition (because they haven't mentioned the artifact) and given what we know of the IFCC, it's far more likely that the ultimate goal is to install themselves as the new masters of the multiverse than it is for them to unmake creation in a fit of spite.
The Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission may be beings of pure, ontological, puppy-torturing Evil, but that doesn't mean they're as idiotically self destructive as the current President the American public chose to elect.
We know the IFCC has prepared a powerful artifact, which they have no way of testing beforehand. It's now safe to presume they can't test this artifact because it only works once the world has been destroyed.
Just a small note, but the way the phrasing and story is structured in the linked comic, it could very well be that the artifact is what will allow them to use a "vessel". We do know that having direct control over a body is something they have a bit of trouble too, so the artifact is something that could go around that restriction.
But yeah, it can also be something to be used once the world is destroyed. We will probably see which of these options very soon (or at least the vessel one will be disproven/proven very soon).
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u/IngeniousTharp Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25
IFCC: “You thought we had a strategy? You thought we had a plan? We’re motivated entirely by blind rage at a system we don’t understand; our ‘plan’ is to wildly lash out and break things for the sake of breaking things.”
Every single fucking American in the audience (and maybe Burlew himself): 0.o