( 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! ))

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text: un: shuyi

[gunah]

It makes little sense on its own but maybe, if pieced together with the others:

--have not come in this sector in-- --stigation does not seem--

text; un: chihiro

[onethousen]

Thank you, Shuyi-san! This is kind of like playing a puzzle word game.

I kind of wonder... they're not talking about the mineral the Qorral are mining, are they? It doesn't seem right. Why would ALASTAIR have cared about that before?

[gunah]

Yes, but it seems we have too many missing pieves to even start.

I know too little of them to say. Are they not the kind to harvest minerals for certain uses?

[onethousen]

I think so. I need to read the stuff we were given again, but it's related to their health, I believe?

[gunah]

As they say, we can't call the lion evil for hunting the deer.

But what do you think, Chihiro?

[onethousen]

Any lion that hunts the deer until none are left is hunting its own end. Greed hurts the greedy as well as the ones being taken from.

[gunah]

Sometimes I wonder how old you are despite your stature, Chihiro.

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[construing]

So far there's:

—the core. Instability will result in— —for this reason, we have—
Our researchers have— —certain destruction if it is br—
—danger. Continued observation is recomm—
—roughly seven thousand kilometers until— —due to this distance, we see no reason—
Findings indicate a temp— —within the planet's core, that when pierced—
—have not come in this sector in— —stigation does not seem—
—date on the status of— —to lowered activity, continued monitoring is—

All in all it sounds like they found something they didn't think much of…until it proved impossible to ignore.
I'll keep the list updated as more come in. Maybe we can start fitting them in order.

UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

The core, is it?
Well, there is drilling going on.

[construing]

And the Deemers want us to go deeper.
10 hours of Inception horn.flv

[selfimage]

Whatever for, I wonder.
Time to play a little Journey to the Center of the Earth.

[construing]

Will you be heading the trip?

[selfimage]

I'm more of a tagger-alonger.

[ he's not, but you know. he does what he wants. ]

un: shuyi

[gunah]

Thank you.

I will see if there is more to find at the Boneyard Junction.

[construing]

There was one finding of a more complete fragment buried at B Junction.
Let me know if that holds true for you too.
+ mention of more around the bandit camps.
Might be worth a look.

[gunah]

Why do you suppose they are there?

[construing]

Because finding them all piled on a table for our benefit would mean we're not a cosmic chew toy.

[gunah]

They weren't scattered intentionally.

[ That would be silly of ALASTAIR, wouldn't it? ]

I am beginning to think this mission is a matter of tying up loose ends.

text; un: mccree

[flashbanging]

Ain't this interestin'. So far it just seems to confirm the concerns we already got.

That second to last little bit, though. That one's reading off to me. 'Have not come in this sector' ... an intrusion of some kind? Or. Hmm. Some kinda odd variable. Worth thinking on, I expect.

[construing]

There was a mention of someone or something. Zymandis. Zero certainty of a link, though.
Unfortunately, it's looking like we've got a whole lot of speculation right now and not much else.

un: man of still

[figureitout]

GOOD someone was smart enough to put together like a masterlist of these

so... do we have any clue how far they've drilled? that says seven thousand km to go, and that was, what, how many hundreds of years ago? because one thing we can get from this is that we don't want them to reach the core, like, EVER

[construing]

No clue, but that shouldn't be hard info to get.
Anyone made friends with the miners?

[figureitout]

well that's a definite "no" on my part

hopefully someone has, though, because this is kind of crucial information... what do you think it is? some kind of mineral in the planet's core that explodes when it gets in touch with oxygen? a gas that slowly kills everyone who breathes it in?

[construing]

Missing SyFy I take it.

[figureitout]

more like this is what our lives have turned into

taking actual serious inspiration from the most cliched sci-fi shows-and-or-movies