MIRRORNET POST; info sharing on brycha + lana sudiczki (backdated to 1/28)

[shuckit]

[ due to some warnings from kate, and recent events, thomas has decided to keep all this information on the mirrornet. it's a secure network (supposedly), available to all imPorts. so if you're an imPort, assume you can see this. but the government can't. hopefully. haaaaaa. ]

i hate these storms. has anyone figured out what the hell's going on with the shuck lightning yet?

[ really, really hates them. hates them on a personal level of "violent, freak lightning killed my homies", so it's pretty amazing thomas is even posting right now. but he's put it off long enough, after getting back from the last trip with Loki and Lydia. so, this is text, and not voice or video, because thomas doesn't feel like showing everyone on the mirrornet that he's legitimately chilling out under a blanket inside of a bath tub with the kind of thundershirt you put on a dog wrapped over his shirt. and maybe missing kanaya a lot at the moment as well. thanks for the shirt, boo.

but we're not talking about lightning. we are, in fact, aggressively not talking about lightning right now. we're talking about michigan. ]

wanted to let you guys know - we got back from a couple trips up to brycha, following up on the hornet stuff, plus kitty and me finished checking out the lana sudiczki story in de chima for now. we met her granddaughters. i never want to deal with old people again.

i updated the notes i've been keeping public, with some new stuff, but mostly what we found out about lana and brycha. kate's also updated her FAQ page with more details, and the stuff from brycha. [ links are icly embedded there! ] if you're new and you're stupid to the whole thing, read kate's faq. it'll make more sense than my notes to you.

with lana, the gist is that she was onto something the government thought was too dangerous to let the public get clued into. she was studying constellations a lot, and apparently had the idea that "we aren't alone in the universe". so funny. you think? [ tmw there's like 100+ powered people from all over the multiverse here now. you might have been on to something there, lana. but then again, it seems like there was something very specific she was looking into, hence: ] there wasn't anything else on the work, but some of the star charts she made have some extra stars that we don't see here, plus, she was harping a lot on m-theory back then. in 1910. i don't know when scientific developments popped up here, but still seems kinda early?

brycha mostly felt like an bad drug trip. we found the old hornet base, and, like Kid posted about before- [ a link embedded to Kid's post ] -no one home, but they left us a puzzle, cus they're just great guys like that, i guess. still working on it. on top of that, a shuck-load of weird stuff. mutated looking wildlife, earthquakes that happened back in the 90s, but with no fault line. and a trap door at the bottom of Lake Huron that we couldn't actually get to. there's more about it in kate's page and my notes.

anyway, that's all i got. if i missed something in the notes, let me know. or if you've got something you want me to add to the notes. or if you have something you want me to add that you don't want to talk about on the phones, just... think really loud at me. or something.


btw, if someone ever asks you to taste test their yogurt, throw it in their face. no matter how old and grouchy they are.


PRIVATE TO JESSE;

hey man, can i ask a favor?

[[ ooc; for people who i plotted doing action things with while thomas is having his lightning storm freak out, feel free to action tag this post! ]]

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[hostage]

What's up?

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[shuckit]

you can boost powers, right?

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There was apparently a very odd lightning storm in Brycha in November, but I'd rather not put two and two together there because that means Matt's related warning about the Hornets isn't exactly inaccurate.

[That is, they really are far more dangerous than previously perceived.]

But then, if they really wanted to screw with us, we were right there? [So, she's noooooot entirely confident about that theory.

Not in the least.]

[shuckit]

[ no kate shh we're aggressively not talking about lightning. ]

yeah i heard about it [ he liked it better when it was there and not... everywhere. and typically, he'd be all over talking about 'what warning, what does it mean, questions question questions'

but if there is one thing that shuts thomas's brain the hell up, it's dead friends. and/or recurring flashbacks to dead/dying friends. ]

just ready for it to be gone

[munies]

[ she should say something about the storms. she should be comforting. she should be a good friend. unfortunately, she has zero clue on how to do that effectively, considering it doesn't leave her in the best state either. so naturally she'll stick to something not scary-

and also not complimenting him on his research, even if she's thinking "hey, good work". she can tell him later. maybe. ]

Did you really consider throwing yogurt in an old woman's face?

[shuckit]

[ ............he might have ]

she gave me food poisoning

[ she deserves yogurt in her face, okay? also, she's a dick. (spoilers: he wouldn't have done it. that doesn't mean he can't pretend he would.)]

permatext »

[verification]

[ Browsing the information available on Brycha leaves her curious, although she responds with the easiest route initially. It's hard to forget what she's been doing for the past week or so, as much as Verity would like to. ]

i was struck by the lightning on the 22nd, it pulled a 180 on my entire personality and gave me a new identity.

[ Mostly, anyway. She's been that angry with guys before, eerily enough, but none of them were princes that did her aquatic realm wrong, not by a long shot. All in all, the whole affair has left an unpleasant taste in her mouth. ]

[shuckit]

[ he shouldn't have mentioned lightning, because now he's having to talk about lightning, and it's putting him more on edge. he's relieved that all the lightning is doing is giving new identities. the natives aren't that lucky, and thomas can't take the two seconds to think about that without feeling like he needs to throw up, remembering what charred skin on desert air smells like, from the scorch. ]

at least it didn't blow you limb from limb

[ it's typed out and sent before he really stops to think about it. that's thomas's problem, he's bad about keeping his mouth shut. or... hands? whatever. he hurries to send another message, though. ]

you're okay now?

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[powerkicks]

As far as I can tell, the lightning makes no sense whatsoever.

[ sorry thomas they're talking about lightning..... ]

...what's yogurt got to do with anything?

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[shuckit]

[ why did he mention lightning at all, this is the worst. he's just going to be... so clipped about it. ]

seems like it.

[ you can practically see his text groaning at this. ] i had to test yogurt to get answers and buy time.

it was expired.

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[rathercommon]

How's your stomach?

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[shuckit]

still boycotting food. i don't blame it.

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[humanistic]

[usually skimming but mostly skipping over this kind of stuff is the norm and the lightning stuff is concerning yeah but

yoghurt]

Why were you asked to taste test yoghurt

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[shuckit]

[ unfun as the yogurt part had been, it's still a better topic than lightning right now, so he'll take it ]

lana's granddaughter wanted us to do a few million chores before she'd give us any answers. one of them was taste testing her yogurt for poison. because she's a nut.

text - ID reads "Kid Flash"

[runningstart]

WAY too early for M-theory

also "taste test their yogurt" sounds dirty dude just sayin
did she touch you do i need to get a doll

[shuckit]

[ ........wally no ]

dude, she was ancient. dinosaur ancient. no.

[selfimage]

How DID that turn out, anyway? You did tell her it was good, I hope.

[ Loki you were there. ]

[shuckit]

i told her i think i just ate mold

[ look he was pissed but that's not enough to poison a batty old lady for. even if she's a super asshole ]

action.

[gluestick]

[It's impossible not to notice Thomas hiding in the bathtub fully clothed after walking past it multiple times. Newt figured he'd eventually get out but when he doesn't seem to be moving, he decides to barge in and flop down on the tiled floor next to him.

He eyes him warily, brow arched, before turning his gaze down to his device. He scans through the posts, eventually commenting.]

You can't stay in here forever, ya know. Eventually someone's gonna need to take a piss.

[He says it in a light tone, and it's clear he's not asking him to get out. It's also pretty clear that Newt doesn't plan on leaving him alone any time soon. He knows about the lightning storm, knows that this shit going on outside hits way too close to what his friends have experienced, and he won't leave them alone to it.]

action.

[shuckit]

[ he knows it's a weird looking scene, and the only person here likely to get it, probably more so that thomas himself, is minho. minho's already been better at swallowing this kind of stuff down that thomas is, though. he also knows that kanaya already noticed his aversion to a specific kind of weather, hence the compression vest he's strapped on. it works well, he thinks, but he also thinks that what's going on right now was specifically designed to drive him shucking nuts. so, good effort, vest, but you were outmatched.

he doesn't miss the looks he gets from newt when he passes by either, yet he appreciates the lack of commentary on it. tugging the blanket up over his head is partly an excuse not to watch him pass by anymore, but his friend comes to plop down nearby. ]

There's a shower curtain. [ he murmurs, not looking up from his phone. really, though, as much as he doesn't want to acknowledge that this is Weird and he is having Issues, it is... better... to have newt in the room with him. maybe feels a little less like he's going nuts. ] And another bathroom upstairs.

text; green lantern

[aviate]

if you have the star charts I can go and check out what happened.

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[selfimage]

[ this has his interest. ]

How much do you know of the stars?

[shuckit]

Go? [ is there a planetarium he missed? ]

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[aggressiveapathy]

how old are you

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[shuckit]

16? [ i think???? ]