untraceable audio

[maskormods]

[Without warning, a transmission appears on the imPort network. It has no ID or other identifier.]

—nyone there? Can anyone hear this? Shouldn't be here have to try but I'm dead if they find out, I'm dead anyway because it's all gone wrong—

[Several panicked breaths, and then several longer ones, forced.]

She's coming. The organization wanted power because why should you all be the only ones who have it, we wanted to break through to other worlds and this was they way—if Atropos was summoned here, she'd shatter the barriers, walls would become doors, but that's not happening, everything's just falling apart.

I've tried to call it off, this experiment's a failure, we'll do something else but the others won't listen. They've glimpsed something beyond and it did things to them...or maybe they're just that committed. Maybe I'm the weak one. I don't know.

Listen. LISTEN. She's going to come, the process has already begun. Can't be stopped. Calculations say she'll arrive on the full moon and if she's alone, god help us all. But if you can summon her sisters, they'll bring her here with them, and there'll be balance. Vulnerability. No guarantee.

Don't know how. Don't know if it's possible. But you're heroes right? Do something. PLE—

[The transmission cuts off abruptly. The speaker will not make any replies, although imPorts can speak to each other.]

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[nightmarist]

[ Ronan smiles grimly and raises his flask in toast. ]

Yee fuckin' haw.

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[pillz]

do u think maybe the nerds up in this planet colud use some fancy tech 2 help em figure out how to ostp this planet from colapsing under atropos fat ass before im done playin wit your boys

i got games to win

[nightmarist]

1) this seems more like a magic thing

2) i don't want to help these assholes

[pillz]

1) it always a magic thing. but you got to get there 1st

2) why did u give me such a hard time teh other week if u want to die in a fireball, jesus

[nightmarist]

consider: we don't need to save them in order to save ourselves

[pillz]

really now
what happened to > thats not enough



oh right. now that u got your tall goth queer fo preference, & mini mi, it could b enough

[kavinsky can't even bring himself to feel offended these days, really.]

[nightmarist]

the last time i got close to atropos i almost broke this universe by my damn self

what do you even think we could do for these people

[pillz]

tehy gotta find rituals, places, twin babies.
tech can porbably help wit taht.
data 2 mine, privacy to invade
dont expect ur baby gaywaren ass 2 go anywhere near atropos

[nightmarist]

[ GOD, KAVINSKY. THIS IS actually a good plan. ]

some computer shit

[ It doesn't sound like it'll take too much energy. ]

we'd have to get started right the fuck now if it's gonna be any use at all

cw offensive humor

[pillz]

yeah, probably
i got pillz.
or u can give birth naturaly, up to you. its ur vagina

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[dragony]

I am so tired of this rodeo.

[nightmarist]

Don't worry. Sounds like it's over soon.

[dragony]

That's what I expected last time, but here we are now. We might just go down her throat again, and get dropped off on some other, shittier Earth. Round and round for the rest of our lives.

[nightmarist]

Is this world really shittier than the last one?

[dragony]

... Kinda?

I mean, the other place sucked too, sometimes, but we weren't branded and monitored like we are here. No nanites, no swearing allegiance to an unknown government. A lot fewer weirdo fan clubs.

[nightmarist]

[ Hold the fucking phone!!! ]

...How did everyone survive without nanites?

[dragony]

Didn't need them. Our bodies didn't need to be stabilized, or whatever else they say it's for here. She did all that work herself.

[nightmarist]

How?

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[deadthing]

[Only Noah's frantically flapping hands are in frame.

He's missing some (most, really) key info to put this in context, but dead and shatter the barriers and all that sound pretty bad on their own, so he doesn't really need it to start freaking out.]

What are we going to do?

[nightmarist]

What are you freaking out about? You're already dead.

[deadthing]

[wOW RONAN]

Yeah, and it sucks. I don't want to do it again. And I don't want you or- or everybody else to die either!

[nightmarist]

It's gonna be okay, man. Or it won't, but we'll all go out together.

[deadthing]

That makes it sound like you don't care which. Can we try for the first one? Please.

[nightmarist]

If it means that much to you.

[deadthing]

[Noah just heaves a sigh and disconnects. He'll hold Ronan to that as best he can, but he doesn't want to go in circles about it over the network.]