[JAUNT] Check-in

[howexciting]

... let us get this over with so we can return to Liminal Space. This place is unpleasant.

Leonardo da Vinci, present. Known infiltrators: Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Known missing: Genevieve Blanchard and Zed. I... cannot sense them through our Bond. They were likely sent on a Walkabout.

For anyone who does not know about radiation and is near an area expected to get to 150 rads or more - get out of there immediately. Such radiation levels might cause adverse effects on your body, unless you have the proper protection. Find a safer place. I might be able to distribute suits from the Ivory Tower to combat the radiation, but I do not know how much they would stand out. Still, it might be worth the risk so that we are not harmed in the process.

[How about that, the Ivory Tower was useful after all.]

Please list any confirmed infiltrators and any confirmed missing persons so we are more aware of our current numbers.

Comments

[chalicejoker]

Hajime here. I'm currently a big bipedal cockroach; I thought that would handle the radiation best.

[Okay, so that reasoning is sound enough, even if he's leaving the obvious "But why are you a cockroach?" questions unanswered.]

Istas is with me in her waheela form. I'm calling myself the Lord of the Bugmen, she's the Wolf-Bear of Doom, and I guess we're trying to see if someone will hire us on as muscle.

[Brilliant plan. Best plan.]

[virioncomplex]

Lord of the Bugmen my fuckin' ass! You lookin to get your teeth kicked in, kid?

[chalicejoker]

Hey, that's what they called me back home! Might as well use it.

And I can kick the ass of anything that would mess with me, I've got this.

[virioncomplex]

Only a child would call themselves 'lord of the bugmen' and actually think it's a good idea.

[darkhourdear]

Thank you.

[have the actual child being on your side, Faed- he gets the Lord of the Bugmen thing back home but seriously Hajime he doesn't think you've thought this through.]

[virioncomplex]

You're fucking welcome!

-=you can practically feel his hands being tossed up into the air. all four of them. being a bug, he takes extra offence to this!=-

[chalicejoker]

Oh, come on!

[Et tu, Phillip?]

I've bluffed my way into all sorts of places like this before, there's no reason I can't do it now!

[darkhourdear]

Hajime, you're my friend and everything, but you're kind of the worst actor ever. [mostly because your acting largely involves shouting at things and hoping no one will notice that you don't know what's going on.]

[virioncomplex]

That's because he's an idiot. Clearly.

[chalicejoker]

Watch, watch, you'll both see. Istas and I will get into somewhere important with this.

[darkhourdear]

He's not an idiot. [not... exactly, anyway. but he'll sigh exasperatedly at Hajime.] If you say so...

[virioncomplex]

Wanna bet?

[chalicejoker]

[There's sort of a psychic grumble of irritation.]

...okay, look, if this works and all I accomplish is walking around making an ass of myself, at least I am keeping attention off of the rest of you. There is that.

But this is going to work, it's worked before.

[virioncomplex]

-=heh=-

For what? What are you being a distraction for? Your plan has no point.

And I still bet you're gonna get laughed at and blown out an air lock. Or shot, if you're lucky.

[chalicejoker]

But a point may show itself, it's not like we got dumped here with an instruction manual.

And I bet I won't get blown out an air lock.

...getting shot isn't something that bothers me in this form, so that's probably a moot point to worry about anyway.

[virioncomplex]

I bet you will. Trust me. They're the favored way to get rid of someone out in space. It takes zero effort and conserves ammunition. If you're lucky the'll blow you right out rather than let you suffocate to death in the hanger first.

And you ever get shot by a disruptor? No amount of armor you got is gonna save you from one of those.

[chalicejoker]

That's assuming they get me in there in the first place. I'm kind of a handful.

...you'd be surprised at some of what I've been hit with and survived. It would probably just piss me off.

[virioncomplex]

You do realize that you make yourself sound like a super villain out of some shitty kid's show, right?

[chalicejoker]

[Just...not going to say anything about being a playing card monster who's supposed to end the world. Not even going to touch that. Nope, nope, not touching it.]

Look, I'm just really confident in my abilities in a fight, that's all.

[virioncomplex]

Whatever. Prove me wrong. Just don't get mad when I come around saying I told you so.

[chalicejoker]

Oh, I won't. Because that's not going to happen.

[virioncomplex]

Want to bet on it?

[chalicejoker]

Sure, we can bet on it. I won't lose.

[virioncomplex]

If I win, you have to go on the network after the jaunt and tell everyone in great detail how badly you failed because you wouldn't take my advice.

If you win.... I don't know.

You can fuck me.

[chalicejoker]

Sure, fine, I can do that. Because I won't lose.

[And...wait, what, no, that is not a prize he wants, nope nope noooope. Any and all confident composure he's had goes right out the window, even if it may not come through quite so well in the psychic exchange.]

That...uh...there's a fire-worm over there, gotta go fight it.