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.]

Comments

[adamantlyardent]

Still a god, probably? Predating and preceding mortals?
I see what you're getting at, Darin, and I've heard your rousing words, but I won't be blamed for having such doubt, thank you.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

whose blaming you?

You think Im not scared?

[adamantlyardent]

Of course you're scared. But you're also brave and noble, and I suppose if anyone will have succeeded in anything, it may as well be you by simple merit.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

except I cant stop this on my own

What even makes you think I can?

[adamantlyardent]

I doubt you could, but you'd make quite the show of it.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

why do you sound like youre mad at me or something

[adamantlyardent]

Because you must assume the worst of me, I suppose?

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Actually I was thinking of coming to you for help

[adamantlyardent]

What on earth could I possibly do in the context of this to be of aid? I am NOT going to get struck by lightning again.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

you have experience in this sort of thing

[adamantlyardent]

In nearly dying at the hands of overwhelmingly powerful adversaries? Yes. Surviving them has hardly been my doing at all, but being mercifully borne by the hands of others -- some of them actual angels.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

you cant see me but Im gesturing at all of this as something that should be old hat for you

[adamantlyardent]

What is your point?