un: jaycetalis | video

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[In a rare moment of using video on purpose, there's Jayce. To those who know him, he looks the same as he always does. To those who don't- he's an early 30's man with seemingly a permanent five-o-clock shadow, bright golden eyes, and perfectly coiffed hair. The background is out of focus, but to those who know it, it's clearly a part of S.T.A.R. labs. Normally a little more jovial or at least less serious sounding, Jayce looks into the camera like he's giving a press release.]

We’ve got about forty-eight hours or less until Aurora allows that toxin into Etraya. Which means if you haven’t started taking precautions already; start now. Get easily carried food, medical supplies, whatever you think you'd need. Better to be over-prepared than under.

Considering what Aurora's told us about the "mission"... If you’re someone prone to having weapons, do us all a favor and throw them into one of our many, lovely lakes, before you wind up using it on someone else. Or, if you’re going to be touchy about it, let me know, I’ll talk with Harold about how we can get them locked up somewhere for the mission’s duration.

As a reminder to those who don’t want to think about it, and maybe new information to those who are new: if you die here, for whatever reason, you lose something. I don’t know what, you won’t know what, and you might not even know what it is you’ve lost even after you’ve lost it. Maybe it’s an eye, maybe it’s the memory of your best friend. Either way, whatever you're afraid of by not having your weapons on you isn’t worth what you’ll be making someone else lose because of your bad decisions.

If you have any special concerns, worries about any specific denizens in this upcoming mission, now's also the time to voice it.

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[”What once was a ripple will turn into a tide,” Jayce is a little shocked that someone who seems so strangely naive in some ways would say something like this. It sends another wave of guilt through Jayce that he was even so rude to this man to begin with. He really did lead with his worst foot forward on this one, didn’t he?]

It’s wholly dependent on the person, and their brain chemistry. Unless you somehow forget it happened to begin with, I don’t think there’s any shortcuts to recovery on something like this.

[But he brings up a good point. With the next mission particularly preying on people’s fears, and it seems that Sleipnir is suffering from trauma without the added problems of that fog…]

There’s things you can do to try and recenter yourself, if you feel like you’re panicking. Ways to refocus your mind. I can show you some when I meet up with you.

Hah. You’d be the first one to say that.

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[Well. Fuck.]

I would be most appreciative were you to do so. I must confess, I am not looking forward to this mission.

Surely not. Perhaps you have surrounded yourself with fools or the deaf, willfully or otherwise.

[Sleipnir genuinely believes Jaycetalis to be very intelligent, if a ~~ in his choice of allies.]

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You'd be pressed to find any of us who are, I think.

Now, that's a little unfair. I know where my strengths are, and being "wise" isn't one of them.