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Manolo Luis Sanchez Rivera ([personal profile] matadorable) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2015-10-25 12:32 am

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[It's hard to type with little stone fingers, so he's trying to use the voice function for the first time.

Too bad he accidentally activates the video option instead. And also makes this public. Oops.

The communicator shakes, and though the image isn't entirely clear, anyone watching can see couple of dark sockets with glowing pupils and what appears to be a skull with ornate carvings and distinctive hair. Sunlight spills through what seem to be leaves in the background, and it's obvious the person on the screen is crouched down somewhere, trying to hide. He's not looking directly into the camera.]


Hey. Joaquin. It's me, Manolo. So, uhhh...[How do you even put this.]

Funny story! You know how I said my powers were music-based? That's actually half of what I can do. I can also do something else. I think it keeps me from dying, which as far as powers go? Not a bad one, if I do say so myself! [Because he's already dead in this form, but like hell he's going to say that, hah hah hahhh.....

Maybe if he sounds upbeat enough he can bullshit his way through this.]


The only downside is that people shouldn't see me. Don't ask why, it's just...a power thing, you know? So maybe you could come down here with, like, a...sheet? Just toss it in my general direction, and we'll be good to go. Everyone will think I am dressed as a ghost. Perfect disguise, yes?

[He is grinning really hard and hoping all this optimism and false confidence will be enough. But then he notices something and now he's looking at the communicator like it just ran him through with a sword.]

Oh no...

[Oh yes. And now everyone can see exactly what this power actually is. Good job, Manny!]
glowsferatu: sad, thought (Ready To Be Heartbroken)

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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-08 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a hell of a thing, four and a half years. The sort of thing you can never really prepare yourself for, only look back on once it's done. But getting that far is only a thing to dread. ]

You won't see her mentioned in the pamphlet, the government has no official stance on her, aside from that our current situation began when she synchronized with the Porter here, when we escaped from the world before.

She is the Porter, the god in the machine. There were a couple of kids last week saying that they met something else who claimed to be the Porter's resident, but I'm not really confident in their information, myself.
glowsferatu: smile (Default)

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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-10 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ In their defense, they have no actual experience dealing with her. It's all imPort-generated hearsay. ]

Theoretically. But it's unlikely that she'll answer.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-10 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Not shy, per se. It's simply that none of us have anything to say that she would conceivably give enough of a shit to listen.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-10 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That isn't a trait I've observed in any god I've known. Besides, a wager would require having something she wants.

I doubt there's anything we could offer her that she couldn't just as easily take without permission.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-11 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Boundaries aren't something that keep her, so much as give her something to overcome. Only one thing has ever succeeded in routing her, and that was only a more powerful god.

Obviously, that won't apply to any she brings.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-12 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Her older sister. Atropos, the End of All Things.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-14 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
As well it should. We came here because there wasn't a there any longer.
glowsferatu: sad, rude (And All My Hope Is Gone)

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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-16 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Poor Manolo, she doesn't have the heart to tell him that it wasn't even the first time that had happened to her. ]

That's why we had to escape, to find a new world to settle. At least, as many of us as made it.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-18 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It was less than fifty, all imPorts. Most of those have gone home since.

And even if they hadn't, seven billion people native to that Earth still died with it.
glowsferatu: rude (Well When Exactly Do You Mean)

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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-19 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say they've been forgotten. Not all of them, at least.

[ Oops, touched a nerve there. ]
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-28 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ She deflates, easing off when she realizes how on edge she'd gotten. ]

Some time, perhaps. When I'm better prepared for it.

[ She wrote every name she could think of it a notebook once, shortly after arriving in Heropa. It isn't the details, but it's enough of a focus for her to try to focus on the details.

The imPorts she memorialized, because others might recognize them, but for the natives couldn't take that for granted.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2015-11-29 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ She expects a grin from a skeleton, but this is better, friendlier. Thank goodness for whatever sort of lips he has, that smiles can still keep their nuance. ]

Another time, then. Until then, I suppose I should let you go. But any questions you may have as an imPort, don't hesitate to call.

Obviously, I have rather a lot of experience in that field.

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