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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[patchricide]

Wouldn't different species living harmoniously be a good thing...?

[why are Earth idioms so confusing]

[made_up_names]

It's - uh - you've never seen Ghostbusters, have you.

[patchricide]

Any movie with "ghost" in the name is blacklisted in our house.

[She smiles awkwardly, like she knows exactly how silly of a rule that is. It's not her phobia, she's just politely accommodating it.]

[made_up_names]

[ It is silly, but he doesn't seem too perturbed, at least. ]

Really? You're missing out, then. It's hilarious.

[patchricide]

Is it? But it sounds terrifying.

More importantly, what does it have to do with cats and dogs?

[made_up_names]

No, no, it's totally great. If it still exists here, I'll be happy to watch it with you.

And um. It's a joke from the movie? Like - he lists off all these bad things because the end of the world is happening. Except cats and dogs living together isn't bad, obviously, so it's funny.

[patchricide]

[She stares at the camera.]

[And stares at it more.]

[Like, this is just so far beyond her alien sensibilities that the fact that she hasn't dropped the matter in confusion is astounding.]

Oh... well... yes. I think I get it.

[She absolutely does not get it.]

[made_up_names]

[ Okay, he bursts out laughing. ]

Look, you really hafta watch it. I swear it makes more sense in context.

[patchricide]

I suppose I will.

It's going to be difficult, though. So far, I've watched every Earth movie with someone else, who has a certain... phobia of the incoporeal. They make him so jumpy.

I don't want to risk him feeling jealous, but I don't know how I could convince him to watch it.

And I couldn't tie him to a chair, even if I wanted to. [... has she actually considered this option??]

[made_up_names]

[ Yeah uh. He looks concerned. ]

... Do you want to tie him to a chair?