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𝗝𝗮𝘆𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀 ([personal profile] hexcope) wrote in [community profile] etraya2025-09-16 11:29 pm

un: jaycetalis | video

[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.
krtaps: (Like they know all about you.)

un: punkrock99 | video

[personal profile] krtaps 2025-09-17 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, quick question, does she do stuff like this a lot? Because this is seriously MESSED UP.
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audio, un:antigoneiguess

[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-09-17 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
[hi, weapon hoarder here. this is an offensive post. guards, seize that man. 1000 years dungeon and one game of league of legends punishment.

but no really:]
You talkin' from experience or somethin'? On dyin' and losing. You seen this revivify before?
will_chase_balls: (Confused)

un: Wolfman | Video

[personal profile] will_chase_balls 2025-09-17 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Does that include axes? Because that might be an issue if we need to build a fire at some point. I can chop up some meat in advance since I'll be stuck with human teeth through all of this, and I'll want to make jerky out of it in advance if I'm not going to be able to shift and hunt.

I'm not throwing my axes in a lake, though. It would be too hard to retrieve after, and I'm not doing everything without them even after this is done.
Edited 2025-09-17 11:23 (UTC)
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un: gorgug, video (private!!)

[personal profile] tinflower 2025-09-17 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow... Gorgug wonders if this approach will work. Or if this ever worked before for Jayce, in his politics time.

You know what Gorgug has to say? Well, privately, to Jayce's inbox: ]


Hey. Feeling...worried?

[ It's an opener. He's saying hi, and Gorgug can be seen with his goggles up, some smudged grease on his cheek, and looking like he just stopped in the middle of something in his workshop. ]
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[ un. SleepNear // text ]

[personal profile] quibblingfunctionary 2025-09-17 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
In regards to three things:

i. Believe you people will listen in dispensing of their weapons? That which is likely their only means of defense?

ii. This is the first I am hearing of such losses. Are you certain it is death which triggers this such a thing?

iii. The one known as Accelerator is a sadistic psychopath and is wildly dangerous. Although his powers will be taken away his nature should be noted.
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[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-09-17 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Names, Long-Term. How do I ask if I don't know?
will_chase_balls: (Explaining)

[personal profile] will_chase_balls 2025-09-17 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Technology...

[He stares blankly.]

Right. What's a flashlight?

[He's seen someone use one before since his arrival, but he had thought of it as a weird magic lantern and didn't know the term for it.]

And if you lock up all the weapons, what keeps you from unlocking them and using them yourself once the nebula hits?
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-09-17 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, missions can be like that, sometimes... [ Unfortunately, it's said with a tone of agreement... ]

Are you throwing everything in a lake?
levelshift: (wowwww you're serious)

un: Accelerator; text

[personal profile] levelshift 2025-09-17 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is such a fun subject to be knowledgeable about.]

Talis isn't fucking lying. If you die you lose something. It sucks, so don't do it.
levelshift: (yeesh)

un: Accelerator; text

[personal profile] levelshift 2025-09-17 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ugh, why is he being pinged.]

There. Having fun being responsible?
Edited 2025-09-17 15:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-09-17 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[delay for text-to-speech to happen implied for ongoing--]

Immediately? Or like, when? Is there a jar involved? Or some stupid rock? Dust?
levelshift: (ah?)

[personal profile] levelshift 2025-09-17 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Why the hell would any of those things be involved?
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[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-09-17 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like -- [she's gesturing while she talks despite this being her just. talking to automated voice in ear. whatever. whatever!!!] Necromancy junk! I dunno! They put souls in stuff! Reanimate corpses, make amalgams. I'm tryina' figure out what I'm putting up with here, okay?
Edited (in) 2025-09-17 16:03 (UTC)
levelshift: (who exactly are 'they'?)

[personal profile] levelshift 2025-09-17 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Magical shit, I get it.

[Sort of. He doesn't have much experience with necromancy, but he understands what she's getting at.]

I don't think anything like that is involved. The process is that when you die you're dead-dead for 48 hours. Then when you come back, it's like you're only waking up from a nap. I didn't even have a damn headache or scars, I checked and I'm positive I had no physical side effects. The only thing that changed was the thing that I lost.
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[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-09-17 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[48 hours... Ritual casting?

after a beat:]
Same blood and bones and hair?
levelshift: (glance 2)

[personal profile] levelshift 2025-09-17 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as I could tell, yes. I can check that kind of thing with my ability and everything felt identical.
ornithologist: (umbrella)

private | text | un: finch

[personal profile] ornithologist 2025-09-17 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for volunteering me. Not that I'll refuse to help should anyone actually take you up on it. People do seem quite attached to their weaponry.

I believe the user 'SleepNear' is referring to an incident that took place on our last mission assignment, when our sense of ethics was affected. I would not hold Accelerator fully responsible for his actions in those circumstances, whatever he might say to the contrary.
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[personal profile] rudelanguage 2025-09-17 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[some soft, unintelligible mumbling for a bit while she ruminates.]

Can your...ability be certain of age? To some exact degree? [she's thinking of chronomancy now - just...pulling a body back to a time it wasn't dead.]
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text | un: stendhal

[personal profile] maellum 2025-09-17 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
So we're preparing for the worst.

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