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it’s not therapy, it’s science ([personal profile] pyms) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2014-03-24 09:17 am

001 | VIDEO

[ Timestamp: 4:22 AM.

When the video turns on, it's the face of a blond man, artificial light and the odd backdrop of two awkward looking trees, dirt and one giant worker ant, who took a moment to tilt its head curiously at the man before moving on. ]


I know we're all busy with our own lives so I'll try to make this short.

When we were brought into this world, some of us were given new sets of powers. Others may have had powers that they had from their own world, powers that they were already used to. I was one of the latter case. My powers involve size changing, from the 25 feet tall to being small enough to be able to interact with subatomic particles. It's a power that I've come to know, inside out. It wasn't an easy progress, I had a myriad of molecular instability that affected my life in a very personal way.

So I can understand what some of you who are dealing with these new powers are going through. You don't know the limits to what you can do, and we don't know either. That makes for a potentially dangerous situation, to both yourself and everyone else.

What I'm proposing is a training centre. I know we have government facilities here that are equally suitable for that but there are those of us who are uncomfortable with the idea of any government involvement. This will be a facility that's imPort funded, established and operated, so that we have a building of our own, outside of the government's eye. It won't matter if you're registered or not, the main priority of this is to make this place available to all imPorts.

I don't exactly have any concrete plans right now, a few blueprints and ideas off the top of my head. I'd like to hear what everyone's input on this before anything is done about it, especially those with new powers and those outside the law, so to speak. But all input is welcomed.

Thank you all for your time.

[ A quick smile and the camera turns off. ]
shutterbugged: (spidey: over the wall)

[personal profile] shutterbugged 2014-04-23 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Figures. I join up and they go all Coke Zero. So what happened, did someone take time off? [Spidey should really know better than to ask these kinds of questions by now, but he's curious.]
shutterbugged: (spidey: facepalm)

[personal profile] shutterbugged 2014-04-24 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Equally nonchalant:] Oh, yeah, Valeria did tell me about that. I guess it just slipped my mind with all the stuff going on here.

[He laughs.] What do you think it says about our lives that I forgot about all that?
shutterbugged: (spidey: what)

[personal profile] shutterbugged 2014-04-29 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you've already gotten all the backstory from the others. But this neighborhood, yeah, it's downright amicable. There's a kid and a cornfield here somewhere, I just know it.
shutterbugged: (spidey: uh hey)

[personal profile] shutterbugged 2014-05-02 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hah! You're a real kidder, Dr. Pym.

[Dot dot dot.]

Never make that joke again.
shutterbugged: (spidey: eureka!)

[personal profile] shutterbugged 2014-05-11 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, not everyone's cut out to be a comedian. There's no shame in it.
smarterthandad: (04)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-05-02 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
What does a cornfield have to do with anything, Dr. Pym? Florida's climate is badly-suited to that sort of agriculture.

[Val is as pop culture-challenged as her father...and has a program running that alerts her when someone on the network uses certain keywords. This conversation pegged the metaphorical needle.]
smarterthandad: (nope)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-05-05 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
I don't like horror movies. People in them are dumb.

[Yes, clearly that's what's objectionable about horror films.]
smarterthandad: (35)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-05-05 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
When I was two I hacked Dad's parental controls on the TV to see what was so bad about all those shows and movies and it turned out to just be blood and people cursing.

[She sees that IRL pretty much weekly, come on.]

...And sometimes sex scenes with creative camera angles to cover the fact nothing was actually happening.

[Val understands sex and is almost entirely indifferent to it, despite the squirming of grown-ups when she mentions the topic.]
smarterthandad: (you basic bitch)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-05-05 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Dr. Pym, just as an example, during the Skrull invasion, the residential floors of the Baxter Building were blown into the Negative Zone with Franklin and me in them. TV's got nothing on my real life.

[She's got a point, you realize.]
smarterthandad: (10)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-05-05 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Jeez, it's not like I watch any of that stuff. It's boring. I just wanted to see what they thought they had to hide.

[Putting up a "keep out" sign pretty much guarantees Val will break in.]
smarterthandad: (68)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-05-05 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Ain't buyin' it. She's done way worse and what happened was she got grounded.]

"Violates a trust?"

[Seriously are you for real.]
smarterthandad: (how 'bout no)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2014-05-05 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know what it means, but that's a bit much. There's difference in magnitude between watching some bad TV on the sly and actually breaching a trust.

[Val would know because she has actually breached a trust or six in her short life.]