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dtf ([personal profile] dramaking) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-02-07 04:15 pm

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[Shatterstar has been to a lot of strange places, and seen a lot of strange things, but this device is new to him. He's been told that the similar devices back from the version of earth he's from are called "smartphones" (he assumes this is ironic, as they don't even have the barest A.I. capability), but the ones he's seen before don't have functions like this.

What ends up being broadcast is: first a recording of what seems to be several seconds of silence followed by the muffled sound of something like the snapping of fingers. Then there's a video, footage of a few seconds of what looks like a deserted alleyway. He's testing out its functions; he's not dumb enough to let himself get recorded while he does it. At least not until he knows the nature of his enemy.

Then, finally, there's text.]


This is Shatterstar. If my teammates are out there and can respond, do so. I'll find you.

To the villains behind this farce, know this. If you think you can control me, you are laughably mistaken. I have bested far more capable than you. Your "government" does not intimidate a warrior born.


[Okay, that last bit he just threw in for fun. Let them come after him. He could use a workout, if they even proved to be that skilled.]
ursawhiner: I live in him. (America's treasure Scott Bakula!)

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[personal profile] ursawhiner 2016-02-08 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
The government here is only kind of sketchy. Promise.

Also are you a gladiator?????
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infomodder: tmw will graham feels sorry for how delusional you are. just die. just give up and die. (wat)

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[personal profile] infomodder 2016-02-08 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Not letting himself get recorded in a deserted alleyway because he totally killed a people back there, didn't he.]

This isn't the best place to attempt addressing them.
mousquetaire: (l i n e)

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[personal profile] mousquetaire 2016-02-08 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well. He's nothing if not confident. ]

They won't answer. They don't consider themselves your enemy, and believe me, they have enough real enemies of their own to worry about.

Not that I don't admire the sentiment. I felt exactly the same way at first. I'm d'Artagnan, of the King's Musketeers. An import, like you.
ursawhiner: inside John Goodman. (You could really make a life for youself)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2016-02-08 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they haven't really been that upfront with us. Especially with the whole Soviet thing. But it's not like you can punch an entire government.
newwaver: (sᴀʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ'ʟʟ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ)

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[personal profile] newwaver 2016-02-08 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
sadly they've got us shafted whether you're intimidated or not.
infomodder: however did that happen how mysterious and unfortunate (oh no did you kill him oh dear)

[personal profile] infomodder 2016-02-08 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[whoa calm down there gladiator bae]

Right.
We mostly just talk to each other here. On this particular
[site??? twitter???? feed??? forum??? myspace??? fuck his life what's the proper terminology here does a warrior born know what a network is] thing.

[u tried]
ursawhiner: when people were trying to figure out if marshmallows were witches. (S'mores were invented)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2016-02-08 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
WOW OKAY

Please don't??? I don't know if you're serious or not but superpowers should be used for good, not evil!
fistofthejoestar: (and they stand there)

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[personal profile] fistofthejoestar 2016-02-08 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid the situation isn't quite as simple as all that. But you are correct in that there's no one here who can control us more than we allow.
fistofthejoestar: (in demon days it's cold inside)

[personal profile] fistofthejoestar 2016-02-08 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
They don't have any control over the machine which orchestrated our abduction, for one. And for another aligning with the government isn't required - although to be fair I can't say that will always be the case.
ursawhiner: Tiny people inside me make me make these poor decisions! (I've got a lot of mini-mouths to feed!)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2016-02-08 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
There are supervillains you could punch, probably? And the Russians. Definitely could punch some Russians.
fistofthejoestar: (Default)

[personal profile] fistofthejoestar 2016-02-08 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[thankfully he has the patience of a saint and an unfortunate amount of experience with huge dramatic shitlords.]

I wouldn't say they utilize it so much as they try to make the best of a situation they can't alter. There's no way to turn it off, and so it simply continues bringing people into this world.
fistofthejoestar: (one mile over we'll be there)

[personal profile] fistofthejoestar 2016-02-08 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
LACHESIS is self-aware, apparently; it returns people on occasion, but we all have as much control over that as our arriving here. There's not much use in blaming her - or the government.
ursawhiner: Have we got the wands for you! (Wizard's aren't upsetting enough?)

[personal profile] ursawhiner 2016-02-08 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Not all of them! Just the government? Specifically, the ones who kidnapped us?




Please don't punch anyone.
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mousquetaire: (p e p i n)

[personal profile] mousquetaire 2016-02-08 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
They can't. They don't know how, or at the very least, they'd sent home the criminals who make trouble for them.

The Porter does all of that on its own. It's a machine, but one with a mind of its own, if you can credit that. It's what you have to blame for bringing you here, not the soldiers who maintain it.

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