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[metaphorbia]

[ David has used mobiles before, but posting to a public network? It's been ages. So he ends up staring kind of hard at his comm with the feed on, debating what to say. He hopes it makes him look pensive and thoughtful; mostly he looks like a dumbass. ]

So - okay. One question. A lot of questions, but let’s just go with one for now. Is it really true that people cope okay with their powers? And every ImPort gets them?

[ He shifts a little in his chair. Very awkward, a little uncomfortable. He knows he’s asking basic questions, but he just has to. At least he looks friendly enough, though his ragged, patched clothes give him away. Kid’s from a post-apocalyptic world and it shows. ]

Where I’m from, absolute power corrupting absolutely is really, really literal. So getting to keep the superpowers without the psychopathy just seems kind of nuts to me. Awesome nuts. Like - nuts with pop rocks in them. Pop rocks exist here, right? I haven’t had those in ages.

[ Focus, David. He needs to focus. ]

What kinds of powers does everyone have? And do you have trouble with it at all? I mean, if you don’t wanna tell me, that’s fine. I’m just a little bit jealous.

[ And excited, too. Even in this situation, David can’t help but be the world’s biggest superpower nerd. ]

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[metaphorbia]

[ That's. Not comforting. not at all. But - ]

Good thing I don't have any powers from home then.

[pummelgranite]

[ WELCOME TO HELL maybe ]

Uh huh. Good thing.

[metaphorbia]

Not you tho?

[pummelgranite]

I from the Pantheon. You can look us up.
Oh and your first question: everyone gets something, as far as I know.

[metaphorbia]

Pantheon, huh ...

[ He's going to start doing just that. Scrolling back to find at least the most recent stuff. ]

Well if I've got something and it doesn't follow the rules from back home, I'll be pretty excited. ngl.

[pummelgranite]

We are loved, we are hated, we are brilliant. Etc Etc Etc

[ Well, one of them just printed a bunch more of them, and fucked up Maurtia Falls. Again. The six original members are to a one associated with huge public disasters, and this latest stunt left several dead, not to mention millions in property damage.

Laura remembers when she very first arrived, still mortal and beyond herself to have the party tricks the Porter gave her, before kindly letting her go home and experiencing everything going to shit. Will this kid have any better a time? ]

Good luck I guess.

[metaphorbia]

[ Joke's on him, he doesn't even have to go home to have the party start. He already brought something terrible with him.

But - he doesn't know that yet. Instead, he's reading up on the Pantheon. And getting more and more worried the more he sees.

It'll take a while to respond. ]

You've killed people. Your group has.

[pummelgranite]

[ IN FACT it is almost exactly a year since one of the Pantheon went on a mutilation spree, which ended when present company splattered them. ]

Uh huh.

[metaphorbia]

... But it doesn't happen all the time. Periodically, yeah, but not - constantly. Is there something driving it?

[pummelgranite]

Sometimes. We're not meant to hang around indefinitely. More than two years and things can get fucked up.

Sometimes one of us is just fucking asshole.

[metaphorbia]

Two year cycles. Are you sane until then? Does it just get worse as you go along?

[pummelgranite]

It's more complicated than that, and this place complicates it even more.

Why, what happens in your world?

[metaphorbia]

People go crazy right away. Getting them makes you kill people, and then using them makes you kill more people.

[pummelgranite]

That sounds like some garbage. Why do you put up with it?

[metaphorbia]

We don't have a choice.

[pummelgranite]

So it just Happens?

[metaphorbia]

Basically? Yeah? I'm trying to figure out why. It's a lot less universal than I thought.

[pummelgranite]

Less universal?

[metaphorbia]

Not every single Epic goes bad. I've met three who haven't.

[pummelgranite]

Yet.

Also lmao @ Epics

[metaphorbia]

... Yet. They're working on it. I think it's working.

[metaphorbia]

wait what's so funny about Epics

[pummelgranite]

Bully for them then. Epic makes it sound nerdy.

[ and then, after a moment: ] Hope it does work though.

[metaphorbia]

I didn't make up the term okay. it's better than saying "super powered people" all the time.

[ The serious comment takes a few extra moments to write out. ]

You said it takes two years for the Pantheon, right? ... How long's it been for you?

[pummelgranite]

[ typing . . . deleting . . . typing . . . typing . . . typing . . . typing . . . deleting . . . typing . . . ]

Cassandra's going to like you. Don't worry, the Pantheon takes care of our own.