( video | un: white_lotus )

[construing]

[ the video opens on the white masked face and large pink eyes of one spider-woman ( secretly gwendolyn stacy. ) nothing else about the video seems odd…except perhaps for the way her pink-and-blue web-lined hood hangs around her head almost as if she were actually upside down ( she is. )

nothing else is weird. at all. ]

Greetings, Audentes. For those who don't know me, I'm your resident Spider-Woman. That's first name "Spider," last name "Woman," middle initial "hyphen." With that out of the way, I interrupt your daily routine to bring you this.

[ gwen flips her hand, seemingly pulling a scratched piece of holodisc out of midair. ( yes, she practiced that move. ) it vanishes from view as she holds it near the magitek. but the garbled audio is captured without problem. ]

--the core. Instability will result in-- --for this reason, we have--

[ gwen waits a few seconds so the message stands alone before proceeding. ]

Now, I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like the opposite of good. And considering all the holes and earthquakes and the earth generally being like nah to being stepped on around here, I'm guessing this planet thinks the same thing.

I also know my friend and I weren't the only ones who ran out to find more of these. [ the exaggerated friendliness with which she usually speaks tapers off into something more solemn. even the eyes of the mask narrow slightly. because masks do this. ] This planet was abandoned a thousand years ago for a reason. It's looking like we're going to discover that reason on our own. I prefer to do my research first so if anyone's found more of these messages, time to share with the class.

(( ooc: feel free to use this post to threadjack to your heart's content! ))

Comments

[onethousen]

Oh, you definitely would. :P

I don't think so. I think I'm learning, and that I can't believe I know the most or the best in things. So I need to listen to what others have to say, and stuff like that. And follow my own way, not thinking others are gonna make a way for me.

[selfimage]

The latter wth a little more Michael Bay thrown in.
We haven't reached doomsday levels yet.
You need a catalyst for that.

[ speaking as a catalyst. ]

[gunah]

That is wiser than most --and I do not tease!

To know oneself. That is how you begin.

[onethousen]

You're probably right! Or it feels like what you're saying's right. Do you like talking in these ways often?

[gutpunching]

Such as?

[A highly situational (and, it seems, potentially personal) sort of question, but color him curious on the details.]

[selfimage]

Me.
But I don't do that kind of thing anymore.

[figureitout]

yeah it was pretty wild... nalawi was definitely something, that's for sure

whether it was good or bad something that's up for debate

but at least i learned the bomb-craft so that's something... but yeah, story time when you're back, that's a deal

[construing]

No backing out, Stilinski.

[construing]

[ unsure whether this is cute or a sad indictment of sarcasm-less educations around the multiverse.

both? both. ]

I appreciate the effort. Less convinced about the philosophy, but that can wait until we're not on Earthquake: The Interactive Ride.

[construing]

Don't worry. If he's ever here, you'll be among the first to know. …Mostly because Ham can't shut up, but you know.

[ to anyone reading this: please app spider-ham thank you xoxo ]

[gunah]

Then it will wait. But I will not let you escape!

[gunah]

In "these ways"? Do you mean in circles?

[construing]

Oh, boy, everything's coming up Milhouse.

[gutpunching]

[Figures.]

Much obliged.

I don't suppose you had a monopoly running on cataclysms.

[selfimage]

Only a slight investment.
This isn't really a Ragnarok, nor is it even a "oh no, I see Galactus" situation.
We've no giant beasts, no divine intervention.
Not yet, anyway.

Just forces that can be stopped.

[onethousen]

Kind of, yeah! It's familiar though, like I need to have an answer to my own question, because I'm getting a question as an answer to my question. It's very thinky. I mean, it makes me think!

[gunah]

Who is this Milhouse?

[ Maybe she will regret asking . . . ]

[gunah]

Only because you hold better answers to your own question than I can hope to have.

[construing]

[ she's going to cry. ]

It's a reference to The Simpsons.
Used when everything's going so swell.

[onethousen]

Thank you?

[ as in she's not sure what to say that, but she thinks.. thank you is okay? ]

[gunah]

[ Thank you works, but-- ]

You have yourself to thank.

[gunah]

[ SORRY BRO. ]

You must show me this Simpsons while I teach you philosophy.

[construing]

Deal.

[ she's getting the boxed sets. ]

[gunah]

[ It's a daaaate. ]

[onethousen]

... thanking myself kind of sounds prideful, though?