( 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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[selfimage]

[ there's a puff and he regards her again, annoyed. ]

Think DOS. An annoying, painfully basic little program that oversimplified our mission goals.

[ a pause, and he clucks. ]

Didn't you wonder what the criteria was for a pass or fail?

[construing]

Those seemed obvious at first. Pass, we all live. Fail, boom. [ she spreads her fingers in representation of an explosion. ] Pretty standard criteria, actually.

[ despite the apparent levity of the words, the tone itself borders on a bitter black humor. the eyes of her mask narrow. ]

Are we really taking orders from Siri's highly specialized cousin?

[ though that does clarify why someone was asking about siri… ]

[selfimage]

Less boom and more of a whisper, really.

[ at least the way ALASTAIR had put it. while Loki generally doesn't take faith in people's ambitions (nonetheless one like ALASTAIR), the group that had dedicated themselves to saving the timeline were too basic to have a conniving goal.

though there was still the mystery of who (or what, for that matter) had built the Mechanical Room, and thus unleashed timeline.exe upon them. ]

Though it seems that no one really has a clue by whom it was programmed. A compelling mystery, isn't it?

[construing]

Compelling's not the word I'd choose. But sure, let's stick with compelling for now.

[selfimage]

I'll take that rather than the alternative. Someone with foresight, to the least.