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Hello, Etraya. My name is Lois Lane, and for anyone who met a younger me before, yes, still a reporter, and no, that wasn't past me.

( A pause. People get alternate worlds here, right? )

I'm interested in talking with people about the most recent mission before our next one hits, especially in regards to the anomaly itself and any resolution or lack there-of there was. I want to write-up what we as Etrayans believe happened and get it out there for everyone since there's no real mission debriefing process.

If there are other missions you'd like to go over from your perspective, I'd be glad to do the same. If you're concerned about being named, tell me and you'll remain anonymous.

( Another pause. She sighs, very, very quietly. )

I'll be spending a good part of the later mornings over at the unnamed Diner. If anyone has anything else they'd like to comment on about Etraya and see distributed, you can reach out to me by text or call or stop by. If you're all going to end up asking for gossip columns or restaurant reviews, I'm drafting help.

( ooc: "Interview" Questions here as a form to fill out OOCly; happy to also thread anything out, just is easier if I have info to work with sooner for writing up. And no I have no idea what I'm doing we're living in Wild Times. )

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( He's regular and he has a companionable relationship with the bot. Lois notes this to herself, nodding amicably to Gorgug once he's seated. She flashes him a small, easy smile, leaning back so she's granting him a sense of greater space. This table in the corner does have the most relative space, but he's also taller than Clark, by more than a head. )

Hey, Gorgug. Thanks for making time to come out here and talk with me. Is there... anything in particular on your mind today?

( She's mentioned the mission most recent, because it's the one she has any idea about herself without it purely being based on what's on network history. Lois remains relaxed, a touch serious, but still largely affable. He doesn't need intense Lois. She has a feeling that'll be counterproductive at this moment; she can re-evaluate as they go. )

N-- no? [ It comes slowly, unsure, his brows fixing together as he's hit with the unexpected thought that he might have gotten her network post message wrong, or he missed something about it? But she could also be referring to that, Gorgug realises, and so he tries to get back on focus. ] --You made the post about the mission, or talking about other missions. Uh, I-- I didn't really see the guy who had the anomaly, but, I... I guess I wanted to help.

[ He pauses, then makes clear: ] The anomaly was in someone. But their friends are probably going to keep quiet because- you know.

[ Does Lois know? You know. ]

You're right, I did.

( Still leaning back, still relaxed. This is... more than she had... laid out explicitly before, but. It's also all "he said, she said." Proof is going to be very thin without enough first hand narratives to start sussing out a larger picture. )

Of course. People have good reasons to want to protect their friends. How was it determined that the anomaly had taken to hosting itself in an Etrayan?

[ ...This is tricky. She surely is a reporter, getting the tough questions out there, and Gorgug looks more straining as he tries to think in the face of her questions. ]

Well-- [ Well, he says, in a tone that's going nowhere helpful, ] I don't know that part. I guess it has something to do with their powers, but I-- if I tell you who told me, they're going to get annoying inside my head! They're gonna know I told you!

[ Lois, Lois! You don't get the position he's in! It's hard! ]

She was trying to get me to ask my friends to help, but she wanted to run a background check on everyone while calling me a freak? Because she wanted to protect her friend.

[ Lois.

Are you following. ]

( Slowly... lifting... her eyebrows. )

So someone with telekinetic powers got involved at some point, and wanted to help her friend while keeping them protected. Was she the one who sensed the anomaly wasn't just around, but had hidden itself within her friend?

( She's sure following something here. )

And she needed help with handling whatever that looked like, but couldn't easily trust that your friends would help in a way that wouldn't put her friend in danger.

( But she... looks at him for a beat longer. )

Heard a rumor someone got handled anyway. Think she knows anything about that?

[ For Gorgug's part, he's nodding as Lois says back what he's trying to put down. Yes, yes. They got involved, wanted to protect their friend, and she needed help handling what was going down.

It's only as Lois asks her actual question that Gorgug makes a face. Another on top of the one he was already making; a grimace, at the idea of what she would know about. ]

Yeah. She goes inside your head whenever she wants. [ Doubtful it would be secret. Then again, they're both brain people... ] She was bossy, and she screwed around inside my head one time, so I didn't want to help her. But I didn't want to kill her friend. I just wanted to stop people from getting messed around with.

[ So he did his own thing independent of her. Tried to find the guy out of spite, but it didn't make much of a difference. ]

( To be fair, telepathy isn't fair, and not to the telepaths either. As far as Lois can determine it strips away certain defenses for the person with that talent as well, and it sounds like both a nightmare and a little bit like that craving to get to truth that can't actually be met. People lie to themselves all the time. )

Which is a fair thing to want, both from your perspective, and from hers. We don't want to see the people we care about hurt, especially not killed. And that's not justice, killing someone in return for their hurting other people, regardless of how in control of their own decisions they were or weren't.

( Lois gently lifts her eyebrows again. )

Sounds like the anomaly really founds something to like about her friend. It'd been on the planet for a while before the Etrayan group arrived, hadn't it? Any idea from her about why it found her friend such an attractive individual?

We didn't talk about it much, [ Gorgug admits; he never got to that point of asking personal details. Would he have? Not really. ] They reached out to me because I kicked her out of my head before. She wanted me to teach other people to do that, but it's not really something... I just get mad.

[ He gestures to his own head. ]

I get so mad my head gets full, and it's fucked up-- not good, being in there, [ he hurries to say, after that correction of his swear. H-he's in front of an adult!

And at this time, the companion bot comes over to their table to set down a cup of hot cocoa with marshmallows and whipped cream, and a blueberry muffin. 'There you go, Gorgug',, it says pleasantly, and Gorgug nods and gives a 'Thanks' that's respectable back.

Does Lois have any requests before it wanders off back to its waiting spot? ]

( Lois smiles and waves off the companion bot, attention still on Gorgug. Not that she stares at him, but she does shift one of her notebooks to tap her uncapped pen against. )

Yeah, your head gets loud, there's no room for anyone else in there. Maybe not even yourself sometimes?

( She remembers being a teenager, but before then, Lois has always had a loud head. Wants to know why. Needs to understand. Not believing that easy answers are the pat-happy standard of the world around her. It can get exhausting, but it's also simple enough to stare down and fight her way through, as any sensible person would when baseline suspicious of the world as a whole. )

[ Gorgug nods, eyes darting aside as his expression turns sheepish, even with a face that mostly looks the same, otherwise. ]

It was like that, but I got used to... I figured how to focus on things, even when it's like that. When you know why you're angry, or want to be angry, and what your focus is-- it's not, [ he starts, stops, and then considers where he wants to take this. Knowing the place anger and rage has in the world, how people view it, understandably, and yet: ]

I know how to use it. I've been trained to use it, and it's not... It's something I'm good at, [ he eventually says, settles on. ] I'm pretty good at being mad.

[ How ever that sounds to another person. ]

( In another franchise she'd know anything about the Hulk to share, with being large and green and good at angry, but as it is... she does not have that franchise in her back pocket, she's got DCU. )

As long as it's working for you, and the anger isn't working you.

( She lifts her shoulders in a small shrug. )

Different people have to use what's innate to them differently.

( Clark could never use rage in the same way. It's too dangerous, without fine control, when he's fully capable of holding up collapsing buildings for long enough to allow people to escape. Or to carry a whole Thing that's been killed by the Justice Gang in one of the central parks of the city. )

[ Gorgug nods, an affirmative that he's listening. And he's glad that she seems okay with it enough; some people get weird about it, and not in a way that he can't relate. He's had it used against him here, and he didn't want to let himself be angry for a long time.

But that's neither here nor there. This isn't about him. So Gorgug takes a drink of his hot cocoa finally, a good gulp, and starts unpeeling the wrapper of his muffin. ]

Anyway, I've-- you wanted to know about other missions too? I've been here for most of them. I think I missed-- two? My friends took part in a mission I wasn't in, so I know, there was one before I showed up. On a ship.

[ Ah, wait: ] A spaceship.

( Lois nods, taking in the ending detail of a spaceship without blinking. No, she wasn't previously aware, but also no, this cannot be surprising at this point. Where her meter for surprising is settling is currently unknown. )

I do, yes. Anything from the ones you know, or the ones your friends know, would be valuable.

( These missions don't seem to have a logical thread from what she's seen backreading the network, at least. )

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pretend i said telepathic as i intended before i got distracted by my fav, telekinesis /weeps

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