( 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]

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]

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

[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.

[onethousen]

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

[gunah]

Not if you deserve it.

[onethousen]

When will I know the difference? Between when I deserve it and when I don't?

[gunah]

A voice inside you will say so. Only listen carefully.

[onethousen]

I'll try. Mostly I just hear myself thinking, though.