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Interdimensional Cable
Today in the forum, someone has set up a techno-pile of video gadgetry. At the heart of it is a television, and an old one at that. The screen is large enough, but it sits in a retro wooden fixture that gives it the appearance more of furniture than of an entertainment system. All the better for it to hold the weight of a number of video-playing devices from across the ages and dimensions.
On either side of the pile of plastic boxes and tangled wires stacked on top are a set of outdoor lounge chairs. One, sat up like a chair, is empty. The other, fully reclined, is full of a whole lotta dead dude. It’s Harrowheart, who can’t possibly understand the vast majority of what he’s lying next to, a lit cigarette between his lips and his arms dangling off the chair and onto the grass. His floating hands are hard at work twisting knobs and pounding on the top of the television. Now and then the screen flickers with a hint of a signal.
Without spending the energy to lift his head, Harrow calls out to any passers-by, “Hey! What’s your favorite movie? People keep tellin’ me about ‘em, but I ain't ever seen one. I wanna find a good one and invite everyone over to watch it. Help me pick one out, will ya? And if y’ain’t ever seen a movie either… I dunno, weigh in on someone else’s recommendation?”
(( OOC Info: I want to stream a movie in-character! I love streaming movies, usually it’s a really good time for everyone involved. I’ve never done one IC, but I think this is a great opportunity to start. I’ll take any and all IC movie recommendations (real movies only!) and by next Wednesday I’ll try to decide which one we watch. The better your character talks it up, the better its chance! I’m shooting for next Saturday the 21st at around 8 or 9pm Eastern for a start time, but I’m going to be flexible if people know they can’t make it. I want as many people to be able to enjoy this as possible! If you’re interested in the idea or have any questions shoot me a PM and I’ll PM you back with answers and details and remember to get back to you when the movie and time are decided. ))
On either side of the pile of plastic boxes and tangled wires stacked on top are a set of outdoor lounge chairs. One, sat up like a chair, is empty. The other, fully reclined, is full of a whole lotta dead dude. It’s Harrowheart, who can’t possibly understand the vast majority of what he’s lying next to, a lit cigarette between his lips and his arms dangling off the chair and onto the grass. His floating hands are hard at work twisting knobs and pounding on the top of the television. Now and then the screen flickers with a hint of a signal.
Without spending the energy to lift his head, Harrow calls out to any passers-by, “Hey! What’s your favorite movie? People keep tellin’ me about ‘em, but I ain't ever seen one. I wanna find a good one and invite everyone over to watch it. Help me pick one out, will ya? And if y’ain’t ever seen a movie either… I dunno, weigh in on someone else’s recommendation?”
(( OOC Info: I want to stream a movie in-character! I love streaming movies, usually it’s a really good time for everyone involved. I’ve never done one IC, but I think this is a great opportunity to start. I’ll take any and all IC movie recommendations (real movies only!) and by next Wednesday I’ll try to decide which one we watch. The better your character talks it up, the better its chance! I’m shooting for next Saturday the 21st at around 8 or 9pm Eastern for a start time, but I’m going to be flexible if people know they can’t make it. I want as many people to be able to enjoy this as possible! If you’re interested in the idea or have any questions shoot me a PM and I’ll PM you back with answers and details and remember to get back to you when the movie and time are decided. ))
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He leans in to see what Verity has to show him on the phone. He's ready to see some Earth.
The comment in which I save us from this going on for weeks.
"I won't tell Steve," she agrees, but she's pulling a face. "Please don't scare him like that. He has asthma. His lungs don't work right. It might actually kill him."
She has so very many pictures of her beloved home. Most are from the summer or early fall, from the look of things. That's about all they have in common. There's pictures of tall buildings, of street scenes, of people doing all sorts of things; there's even some looking down at the city from on top of those tall buildings. She can describe each one, remembering when she took it and why, and explaining what they're looking at. There is so much love in her voice when she talks about her homeland, and the occasional tremble. It's a good thing she brought tissues.
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timeskippinghaving fun. He doesn't interrupt except to express his occasional excitement and wonder. This is Verity's world, so he lets it be her moment.When it's through he says, "If I get a phone, I'll send you a message so you and Steve and I can all meet up to learn magic." He pulls a piece of rolling paper and a stumpy pencil from his pocket and offers them to Verity. "Write down your phone's radio signal so mine knows where to send it. You can escape after that, if you want? I feel like I've had you here forever. Folks're gonna start thinkin' I'm the evil double-monster who kidnapped the innocent damsel."
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If everything's a story, they need to be very careful with their vocabulary.
"If you like, I can help you get a phone. It seems a fair exchange for the lessons."
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It's something people have to think about where she's from. Aliens, lab accidents, magic, mutation... it's not what your powers are or how you got them, it's what you do with them.
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"What can I say, Verity? I told you that the price of magic would be spendin' time with me."
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+1 Friend. Brief Interlude. -1 Friend.
"I like the Nexus," he says, and with it a thoughtful nod. "It's not like my world. The anti-violence field, it works out real good for me. I get to be a different person here. Nobody knows the implication when I say 'I'm a death knight.' You said it yourself, all magic's got a cost. The cost of conjurin' snowflakes is tradin' me a fancy lightbox. Maybe the cost of learnin' illusions is bein' a wizard's servant for life. But what do you think the cost of comin' back from the dead is, Verity?" He doesn't want to hear her answer. "It means that on my world? By your definition? I'm very much a monster."
He snorts, forces a tired laugh, and with great reluctance turns his attention back to Verity. "Who better to teach Steve to fight bad guys than a bad guy?"
Oh, ye of little faith.
"People can change. I've seen gods change, despite the weight of millennia. You don't like doing it, you do what you think you have to because of what someone else chose. And now you're here, and you get to make new choices."
She has a remarkable well of faith in people, given she kind of hates everyone.
The classic "I just met you, let me tell you everything" maneuver.
"I don't like hurtin' people," he starts, and the pause is just long enough for that to feel like a lie to. "...Until I get to doin' it. Then I like it a lot. And then it's over, and I start feelin' guilty. I'd give it up, but I can't. A knight's price for free will is that we have to hurt other people, or the urge to do it drives us wild. Some freedom, huh?"
He scrubs at his face with his hands. Muffledly he groans, "I got to talkin' with Shade-seeker and some old man on a bench, and they all started sayin' stuff about evil folks turnin' their life around no matter what they did, and I started believin' it, and... I don't know why I'm sayin' any of this. I guess as much as I wanna change, some part of me kinda wants you all to be wrong."
His hands lower just enough that he can look at Verity again. "Please don't tell Steve this stuff? He's always talkin' about how he hates violence, how he can't stand bullies. I don't think he'd take it too good to find out his buddy's an axe murderer."
The Nexus: We Know Oversharing
"I won't tell anyone. It's not my story to tell." Don't tell Loki she said that, he might never forgive her. "Changing is scary, and it's painful, and sometimes it seems easier not to. Whether you do or not is up to you, but there are people who will help you if it's what you want."
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I mean Harrowheart. Sorry, this thing doesn't always like to wrote correctly.
I mean wrote. WRITE!!!
Steve's tiny fingers should be perfect for the iPhone keyboard
"It's Steve!" He says, but not a second passes before his shoulders go slack and he's hiding his face in his hands once again. "Oh, no! He heard us! He hates me." The evidence is all over that text. Typos? Coincidence? Unlikely.
Is there such a thing as perfect for the iPhone keyboard?
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"L-listen, Verity. We should just forget any of this came up! You'll go on home today and in a few days I'll get a hold of you two. We'll all hang out and learn magic, and I'll make a pumpkin pie for Steve, just like he wanted. It'll be good, safe fun, and none of us will secretly be evil in our spare time!" There's no impending 'or else' tacked onto the end of that. For someone who claims to be a bad guy Harrow's pretty, well. Bad.
That video. I will be using the hell out of that.
The axe-murdering thing is pretty specific, but she's guessing it has something to do with his hands. "How about we be grown-ups about it, accept that neither of us is without our faults, and talk about it? You don't like doing some things, so let's try to find a way to make it better for you."
"Magic and pie, too. I like those parts of your plan."
She's met much scarier people than Harrowheart. He's no Doctor Doom, and he's going to have to work a lot harder to get rid of her now.
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"Don't really think there's any way to make it better, though. Things're all right here in the Nexus, but I can't stay here forever. Azeroth might be a hell hole, but there's people there worth goin' home for. The reality's always gonna be that no matter how good a pal I might be to folks like you and Steve, I still dice people up in my free time. Maybe... Maybe I oughta just be more honest about that? Let people choose if that's okay with them?"
"Or maybe it don't matter at all. I'll keep it to myself and just be good and nobody'll ever know. It won't be any trouble so long as the anti-violence field don't ever go down. ... Which it doesn't, right?"
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"I'm a fan of honesty, for the obvious reasons. It's easier to find out someone can't accept you before you start liking them too much."
She wishes she could tell him he'd always be safe here. "It... does. It did once that I know of. But I suppose we would have pointed you at the invading demons, and that would have been a win-win." It's not so much optimism as pragmatism. When you've got a rabid werewolf zombie needing to kill someone, make sure he's killing the other guys.
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The previous topic may be important, but demons are pretty damn important too. He's not going to let a second opportunity to find out about them pass him by.
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"Someone who comes here sometimes, Katsuya Suou, he comes from a world full of demons that... are trying to eat everybody and end the world I think. They found a way to open his portal and followed him here. People killed most of them, most of the leader ones anyway, and then someone fixed the portal so demons can't get through. If you want more details you'd have to ask Katsuya."
I like the meta of tagging on my phone. Harrow, if only you knew you live in a phone.
A few seconds pass until he sits up straight and gasps. "If I get a phone, I can talk to Katsuya! Shoot, Verity, talk about openin' up a demonic portal... I'm never gonna put my phone down once I get one. I hope that's normal."
Does he live in the phone... or do we?
"Very normal," she agrees with a laugh. "Back home sometimes people would be called zombies because they'd never look up from their phones. Not even on a date. I'll ask Katsuya and Schön if it's okay for me to give you their numbers, if you'd like?"
I absolutely live in the phone.
"Speakin' of, have you ever met Jesse? I was thinkin' of hostin' that movie night at his place. He's open to it. Even if you don't care for movies none I figure I oughta invite you over there. He's from an Earth too! He said it was a place called Spoken. It's across the continent from New York."
Spokane, you dingus.
It's cozy and warm and much more fun.
"Jesse? I've met him once. It's nice of him to offer to host." This is a careful avoidance of having to accept, and normally she'd leave it there, but she does not want to have to deal with Harrowheart wibbling at her. "I'll try to come. I've never been to Spokane."
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Verity should have gone to the ball as Poison Ivy. I mean come on.
She's got no cultural reference for that. But yes, that would be perfect.
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Chao in a bunch of bad knockoff shirts like http://tinyurl.com/AVeryGoodShirt
Aww. That would be cute. :)
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Is everybody creeping that thread now?
I blame Del 150%
Del makes things 150% more awesome, so that's fair.
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