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maskormenace2014-02-15 01:11 am
dragony) wrote in maskormenace2014-02-15 01:11 am
Entry tags:
- ruka | n/a,
- † captain harlock | n/a,
- † ellie langford | n/a,
- † floyd lawton | deadshot,
- † hank pym | giant-man,
- † isaac clarke | n/a,
- † kate bishop | hawkeye,
- † lust | n/a,
- † manaka sajou | seraph,
- † maria del andallo | n/a,
- † mitchell hundred | the great machine,
- † renee montoya | n/a,
- † rikku | machina maw
1 ♡ audio (backdated to 11am, 2/14)
There's a number of new faces around here. But, in a way, we're all relatively new faces to this neighborhood. Maybe it would make more sense to say, this is a new experience for some, and an old for others. Isn't that right?
[ The voice speaking is a level, feminine voice: teenager, middling pitch, with words that are well-enunciated. While there is an accent—noticeably not American—it's caught in a threshold between others, and difficult to place.
It's hard to tell if she sounds bored, or if that's just how she naturally talks. ]
To get everyone on the same page, I thought it would be best to tell you how we came here, and what came before. It's something of a long story, though, and I'm not the best person to tell it, but better something than nothing. Right? Though, if you're not interested, you can skip the rest of this broadcast.
The "world before" this one, the one people mean when they refer to "the City," was Earth. Another Earth, similar enough to this one, and to the Earths you may have known—"the City" was their name for "New York City," if that means anything to you. At some point, a teleportation device was built, and on October 10th, 2008 by its calendar, and by this one, the "Porter" was activated, and brought the first "imPorts." At that time, it was controlled by an artificial intelligence in a suit of armor, but that being was later destroyed by the artificial intelligence of the Porter itself.
She calls herself Lachesis. Like the Fate.
For five years, she controlled our lives there. She determined who was imPorted, who was exPorted; who would return there with their memory intact, and who would not. If they would come back the same, or from some different history than the one we knew. She determined who was raised from the dead, if we died, and whose soul never came back. She could change the powers we were born with, and she could take them away. She could change our species, as it suited her. She's capricious, a fan of practical jokes and snide cruelties, and chess. Hers was the voice that welcomed us as "heroes."
Two years after it all started, she changed that world. Countries emerged, fully realized, emerged from nothing. The history of that world was rewritten; the memories of its inhabitants, too. The damage done by her enemies, erased. Those of us who were there could remember what the world was like, before she changed it, but we're the only ones who could.
After that, our shared enemy was Vulcanus. Others can tell you more about them, but they wished to take what made us powerful and use it to their own ends. Kidnapping, torture, genetic experimentation—that sort of thing. [ Though the content of the statement is serious, "torture" may as well be synonym for "toothbrush," for the easy, careless way she says it. ] But, when they could not... that is to say, "beat us," the way things were, they sought to gain power on other worlds, other dimensions. And we would follow them. Not by choice, and not with any sort of plan, but for months and months, you couldn't trust that placing one foot in front of the other would land on the same ground.
We're rather weary of traveling, I think.
In one of those worlds, we met her "sister", Clotho. But the third of them... you may have already heard. She destroyed that world, were we lived before. I don't... I'm not sure how it all happened, in the end, but in rescuing Lachesis, she saved us. Brought us here, to this world.
I can't tell you much about the state of this world, but there's two things I do know. One, large gatherings will almost always end in some chaos, so you should be prepared for that. And two, you can't trust people to act in anybody's interest but their own. The people of this world will not be kind to us for kindness alone.
[ There's pause enough that it might be mistaken for the end of the broadcast, before: ]
We should decide on names for all of these different worlds soon. This sort of thing will only get harder to explain later on without them.
[ The voice speaking is a level, feminine voice: teenager, middling pitch, with words that are well-enunciated. While there is an accent—noticeably not American—it's caught in a threshold between others, and difficult to place.
It's hard to tell if she sounds bored, or if that's just how she naturally talks. ]
To get everyone on the same page, I thought it would be best to tell you how we came here, and what came before. It's something of a long story, though, and I'm not the best person to tell it, but better something than nothing. Right? Though, if you're not interested, you can skip the rest of this broadcast.
The "world before" this one, the one people mean when they refer to "the City," was Earth. Another Earth, similar enough to this one, and to the Earths you may have known—"the City" was their name for "New York City," if that means anything to you. At some point, a teleportation device was built, and on October 10th, 2008 by its calendar, and by this one, the "Porter" was activated, and brought the first "imPorts." At that time, it was controlled by an artificial intelligence in a suit of armor, but that being was later destroyed by the artificial intelligence of the Porter itself.
She calls herself Lachesis. Like the Fate.
For five years, she controlled our lives there. She determined who was imPorted, who was exPorted; who would return there with their memory intact, and who would not. If they would come back the same, or from some different history than the one we knew. She determined who was raised from the dead, if we died, and whose soul never came back. She could change the powers we were born with, and she could take them away. She could change our species, as it suited her. She's capricious, a fan of practical jokes and snide cruelties, and chess. Hers was the voice that welcomed us as "heroes."
Two years after it all started, she changed that world. Countries emerged, fully realized, emerged from nothing. The history of that world was rewritten; the memories of its inhabitants, too. The damage done by her enemies, erased. Those of us who were there could remember what the world was like, before she changed it, but we're the only ones who could.
After that, our shared enemy was Vulcanus. Others can tell you more about them, but they wished to take what made us powerful and use it to their own ends. Kidnapping, torture, genetic experimentation—that sort of thing. [ Though the content of the statement is serious, "torture" may as well be synonym for "toothbrush," for the easy, careless way she says it. ] But, when they could not... that is to say, "beat us," the way things were, they sought to gain power on other worlds, other dimensions. And we would follow them. Not by choice, and not with any sort of plan, but for months and months, you couldn't trust that placing one foot in front of the other would land on the same ground.
We're rather weary of traveling, I think.
In one of those worlds, we met her "sister", Clotho. But the third of them... you may have already heard. She destroyed that world, were we lived before. I don't... I'm not sure how it all happened, in the end, but in rescuing Lachesis, she saved us. Brought us here, to this world.
I can't tell you much about the state of this world, but there's two things I do know. One, large gatherings will almost always end in some chaos, so you should be prepared for that. And two, you can't trust people to act in anybody's interest but their own. The people of this world will not be kind to us for kindness alone.
[ There's pause enough that it might be mistaken for the end of the broadcast, before: ]
We should decide on names for all of these different worlds soon. This sort of thing will only get harder to explain later on without them.
Re: c:
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[ t-o-u-c-h-y ]
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kid'syoung person's saying is right. Made no goddamn sense, but it...then again, a lot of true things didn't.] What do I call you, then?no subject
And I don't smoke.
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Then,] Miss, then. You said 'heroes' that got ported in an' out sometimes didn't get to keep their memory intact. You ever found out how that worked? [Like a mind-wipe?]
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Mmm... [ Thinking of where to start... ] When someone imPorts, they leave their world at a specific moment, right? The last thing you remember, that's the "moment" in time you left. When you exPort, you go back to that "moment," without any memory of this--that is, that place. If that "you" comes back, from a later "moment," then often when you arrive, you "regain" your memory of these worlds. Because it's still in your "past." Time is still linear.
Does that make sense so far?
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Oh God. Flashbacks to watching Back to the Future.] What if--someone from a "moment" gets ported in, then ported out. But then, they get ported in again from a point earlier than that "moment". Maybe they get ported here. Would they still "regain" their memory from the other place?
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As far as I know, it's happened only once. That someone remembered their future self's life, lived in these worlds. But it was a... a special case. The power he was given by the Porter was a perfect memory. Both times.
He couldn't forget a moment of his life in that world, even if he wanted to.
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--are you?]
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...did it really matter?
Probably not. So, Floyd chooses to drop it.] Alright. Miss. [A pause.] Do I gotta compensate you for this info?
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[ The first answer is immediate, but there's a pause that follows. Then, a bit annoyed: ]
Sheesh, maybe I should have been charging money for this. [ She's so broke. ]
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