( 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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[predomination]

If you loved that, you'll love this other one Sasaki-san and I just found. [he holds up a second holodisc fragment and plays it]

Findings indicate a temporal crystal deep within the planet's core, that when pierced will bring about certain destruction of-- --obvious danger. Continued observation is recommended, especially with Zymandis--

[as it cuts off:] It's a slightly more complete version of the first one we found, and the first mention of any proper name. "Zymandis" sounds like a person- likely one of the members of the original team.

[pummelling]

[off-screen, gwen can you please at least keep him in the screen:]

Not necessarily. Sounds like the name from that poem, too:

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Think ALASTAIR's into sonnets?

[predomination]

[ah there's the owner of that username! hello again, white lotus-san.]

Someone clearly is, with a name like that. I haven't seen any other reference to a person in anything else so far either.

[pummelling]

A pretty grim reference, if the same meaning sticks. Nothing beside remains, and all that.

[predomination]

[honestly, it just makes him think of aizen, which is not the kind of imagery he wants invoked right now.]

If anything good happened during ALASTAIR's previous exploits here, I think they wouldn't be having so much trouble with those records.

Grim is the word for it.

[construing]

We'll just have to look for more records.

[ gwen will happily speculate when the occasion calls for it. but the image, if they can even call it such with moth holes the size of craters of things they don't know marring the tapestry, can lead anywhere right now. what they need are facts.

she's no longer looking at the magitek, instead trading looks with jin. they already dove after one piece — literally — proving somewhere along the way they work well together. if she's gonna rope anyone into hunting down more of them, jin's at the tope of the list. ]

The more complete one, [ returning her attention to urahara, ] did you find it in Boneyard Junction?

[predomination]

That's my plan, exactly. [and he won't stop either. regardless of what else happens, this takes top priority for him.]

I did. Buried in the rubble, much like the first one was in the mines. And there appear to be more in the desert around the canyons and bandit camps- keeping to the pattern of them appearing underground, probably.

[construing]

Thanks for the heads up. Guess we're going on a field trip.

[ return to boneyard junction where they're assured they might find a couple more. then detour by the camps on the way back. sounds like fun day out. ]