APOCALYPSE HOW: IC INBOX

[cacophonish]

"...is this thing on?" un: freakscene voice | video | text | action | everything

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[cacophonish]

[ Strange is right. Information, that's what they need, not abstinence. ]

ive never been great at research. but if youve got their names i can try to help look into what happened

what's lehrer like?

[sorser]

[It’s a step towards the right path — the question is what that right path is, which will only be revealed through information and research. Stephen would rather not risk trial and error, since their margin for error is slim at best.]

A young man named Alan who manipulated fire and torched the apartments. A woman named Alina who commanded the weather, who summoned tornados and caused power outages. And Deepthi, an architect who manipulates the earth and other objects associated with construction. Apparently, she’s still around. She closed off sections of sewer pipes with people in them, and left them to die.

[So you know. An excellent crowd, one that they totally would like to be associated with someday, right? Absolutely not.]

As for Lehrer herself, she’s what you’d expect from upper-tier administration. No nonsense, rules are rules. But she doesn’t sound unreasonable, and she was willing to listen to me, knowing that I couldn’t have been happy with the magic situation in this world.

If you want to talk to her sometime, just to get another perspective on all of this, I don’t think it’d be a bad idea. Just don’t go in expecting more leeway than what she’s already shown.

[cacophonish]

[ It's fucked up, but he takes some comfort in what he's just learned. Even if he lost all control and went dark side, he wouldn't be able to cause damage at that scale. It's not that bad. He's not that bad. He couldn't be that bad even if he wanted.

....that's probably the wrong message to take from this. Especially when he considers what Deepthi apparently did to her victims. What a horrible fucking way to die. ]

so she skipped town and the other 2 are dead?

i dont know if talking to her will be

you know

"productive"

she probably responds better to someone like you then to someone like me

[ Strange, at least, can command some sense of authority. Jeff's just a fuckup bard no one takes seriously. ]

[sorser]

Yes. ADI took care of the other two.

[Which also does not bode well for how they may or may not be treated if they find themselves too far in the deep end. Though the latitudes they should be given once they’ve crossed that line, if any at all, is another conversation altogether.]

And why do you think that?

[cacophonish]

[ Oh. Yikes. ]

shit

[ Maybe that's just what he needed to learn to start taking this just a little more seriously-- or, at least, to tread a little more carefully where the ADI's concerned. ]

well i mean your a doctor. im just a dropout who plays guitar on street corners :)

[ Which, hey, he's not ashamed of. But he knows he's not exactly the kind of person who presents himself as any kind of... peer? To someone in authority. ]

[sorser]

[That’s about the right sentiment, yeah.]

I don’t think that matters. I could have been the President of the United States, or some random guy off the street, and it wouldn’t have changed anything. We’re all strangers to her. But there’s value in Lehrer understanding where we stand on the issue, and why. I’m not going to pretend to speak for all of us.

[cacophonish]

she's never gonna understand us. they never do

[sorser]

[Someone’s already made his mind up on the matter. That might be a problem.]

Don’t you at least want to say that you tried?

[cacophonish]

[ It's true, he's got something of an attitude where nonmagical people are concerned. Sure, he likes them well enough, but he doesn't see how they can ever truly understand what it's like to be connected to something like the Gift. His few attempts at reaching that understanding haven't left him feeling much hope on the matter.

But. But-- ]

yeah. i guess i do. i just dont see it going any other way then her telling me to just quit being what i am

i mean smarter people than me have tried. right?

[sorser]

[Worth the try, he thinks. Lehrer wasn’t unreasonable or unsympathietic, she was only certain that magic didn’t lead to anything good — he thinks it might be beneficial to see that sympathy first-hand.]

Everyone’s experience is different. I’m sure you as an individual could have something to add to the conversation that no one else can.