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maskormenace2017-09-04 03:16 pm
dreadinquisitor) wrote in maskormenace2017-09-04 03:16 pm
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[He wanted time to familiarize himself with this place. He needed to know if anyone else from the Inquisition had been brought across as well, and then to find them if they had. But first, he'd looked through the information they'd given him - the neat print on the strange white paper - and now, suddenly, Maxwell had a much more immediate, personal worry.
The video opens on his face; his expression a mixture of incredulity and concern.]
Hello. [It feels awkward, addressing nothing, but he pushes on.] My name is Maxwell and I have a question, and there doesn't seem to be anyone else to ask.
[The camera turns and fixes on a portion of the pages he'd been given. He points to a section, chases a sentence with his fingertip as he reads it aloud.] 'Bears will always find him.' [Then the feed swings back to him.]
Why would anyone want this? How many bears do you even have in this place, to hope to make this useful? And do they just-- roam about?[He glances away, as if one might have suddenly sneaked up on him, then back.] Are these abilities negotiable in any way?
The video opens on his face; his expression a mixture of incredulity and concern.]
Hello. [It feels awkward, addressing nothing, but he pushes on.] My name is Maxwell and I have a question, and there doesn't seem to be anyone else to ask.
[The camera turns and fixes on a portion of the pages he'd been given. He points to a section, chases a sentence with his fingertip as he reads it aloud.] 'Bears will always find him.' [Then the feed swings back to him.]
Why would anyone want this? How many bears do you even have in this place, to hope to make this useful? And do they just-- roam about?[He glances away, as if one might have suddenly sneaked up on him, then back.] Are these abilities negotiable in any way?
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It does, a bit. Somehow. Weirdness and all.
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Yeah. Took me a while to find that one out, so, consider that a gift on the house. [He offers a warm smile.]
So where are you from?
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[He doesn't really expect any reaction, any familiarity, but it's mostly habit. The formal introduction.]
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[Poe just shook his head with an apologetic look.]
Sorry, bud. Haven't heard of it. What's it like?
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One step at a time.]
We don't have these there. He taps the screen lightly with a finger-tip. [There's a small glimpse of something green. There and gone.] Nor anything like them. If you wish to talk to someone, you do so in person, or have a raven carry a message.
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You send messages by bird? I think I can go ahead and assume that space travel is right out, then.
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We don't know what's beyond the sea, much less the stars.
[Not that wasn't enough to keep them occupied where they were, Archdemons and blights and crazed would-be-gods turning up with increasingly disturbing regularity. But comparatively... it was a thing.]
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Huh. I can barely imagine. It's weird enough being stuck on a planet that I can't even look at from orbit.
These guys don't have space travel either, really. Just some low orbit stuff, and apparently they've been to the moon a few times. I could do that when I was six years old, in an afternoon with my mom.
So we're both from strange worlds. [He offered the last with a grin.]
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[Funny, the ties that bind.]
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But if it means anything, I hope you find your friends.
Don't give up hope if they aren't here, yet. People seem to ebb and flow from this place like the tide. And even if they leave, they often come back.
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It does.
Thank you, Poe. For your assistance.
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