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Sup peeps! Lol total noob here, so bear with me. Let me see if I've got my facts straight:

1. The streams are crossing and we're all now in some alternate-reality pseudo-America. And we can't get home. And apparently the Cold War is still on?? Yikes!
2. We're all here to... be superheroes? For some... totally unclear, not at ALL nefarious reason.
3. By default, as superheroes we're all working for the government. Because... the police/FBI/CIA/SHIELD/whatever enforcement agencies they have here weren't enough, they need a whole cadre of superheroes?? (For real??? I mean, six was enough for the Avengers and they managed to repel an entire ALIEN INVASION, guys! What do they need with a whole army??? SLIGHTLY DISTURBING.)
4. If you refuse to work for the system, you get your special privileges taken away. Wheeeeee. Also not at all disconcerting.
5. They have files on us. Like, serious files. With all our information. I don't even live here! And then they've tagged us with (totally ugly) tattoos to keep track of us like we're stray dogs?? They're probably reading this right now. I mean, I joked a lot about Big Brother back home but this is taking it to a whole new level.
6. Super powers. Like for-real super powers. We all have them now. And somehow this place isn't an anarchist wasteland yet and nobody's succeeded in over-throwing the (clearly super corrupt) system??
7. And people are okay with all of this????????????

Correct me if I'm wrong. It happens occasionally.

Anyhoo, hey I'm Skye. Contact me if you need tech support. That's about it! Peace out.

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That's the basic gist, of course.

But as always, there are some wonderful complications that come along with it. You'll find out soon enough. Something something Big Brother something something.

You got all of that right, with the exception of a couple points.

1. A whole lot of us are good, and those of us who aren't come from a similar situation to this one where trying to overthrow things would mess things up.

2. No one's really okay with it.

Oh, and a third, disconnected observation:

Only six Avengers?

Only six Avengers!

... Well that's ... annoyingly vague and unhelpful. Cool. Thanks person.

Six, yeah. Why? Are there more where you come from??

Also re: your point #1, who says you can't be good and overthrow the system at the same time? Les Mis anyone???

Six is a very small number compared to what we have, though they did start with a small number, sure.

And if I recall correctly, they weren't exactly successful in Les Mis, were they? Let's avoid Les Mis as a reference point. That doesn't speak well to our skills.

omg are you from the future

AND YES ok everyone in Les Mis dies i know i know. It was just the first thing that sprang to mind. But I'm just saying! They were the good guys!

It depends. Who are your Avengers?

As it is, I am participating in a regular "let's find flaws in the government" activity. But I'm not exactly keen on dismantling their entire system. There is a whole country here, after all.

You are not by any chance a woman from California in the 1980s, are you?

[You know, a Valley Girl. He's heard about those.]

Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the Hulk.

Ok. Cool, makes sense. I mean, I don't exactly want to dismantle the whole system either, it was just a hypothetical.

[And then after Skye conducts a quick search over the network to check out that this chick is in fact legit and not a government trap, she sends a second message-- though this time it comes under a GIANT ENCRYPTION.]

LMK if you ever want any help with that. I've got some experience when it comes to finding flaws in stuff.

Edited 2014-05-22 00:34 (UTC)