"Or incite the New Gods against them again," Tezcatlipoca said lazily. Finally, someone was bringing up something useful. And trickery was much more his style.
"Did you notice the ruckus back in October, when the New Gods stole the angel and the Horseman? There was shouting about it all over the place. The New Gods would be crazy if they didn't expect retaliation, and we could quite easily provide it. Dull our own auras of power, keep the target blinded for the duration -- an eye for an eye, as the Christians like to say," he said, smirking a little. Give them a taste of their own medicine. "Say just enough for the New God to put two and two together, then have them oh-so-conveniently escape, or set them free, because the angel and the Horseman weren't killed, and the Christians have their so-called sense of justice."