therookery | 003.

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Tony Stark
RECIPIENT: All
NOTES: n/a

Listen up. Few items.

You see someone with a green glowy thing in their hand, they may be capable of more than just a sick rave party. Well documented abilities include offensive energy expulsions and flash-shields, and a couple shard-bearers able to close rifts at a time. New documented abilities include those things, but more, and the ability to close a rift on their lonesome.

And if you also notice a rifter capable of phasing through solid objects, distorting time, blasting green lightning, ask yourself: is that rifter extremely handsome, well groomed, articulate, witty, smells nice, killer biceps? If those things apply, don't freak out, it's on purpose, and not a demon.

Second thing — if you find a rift you weren't expecting, take out a little piece of paper, or write on the back of your hand, the day and time you discovered it, and the day and time it was closed. And the day and time it opened, if you catch that, but we'll settle for the license plate. Forward all notes to Wysteria Poppell.

[ Shuffle shuffle paper sounds. ]

Last thing, uh. Hey, the world is round. Like it's a giant sphere, floating in space. Okay, that's all. Bye now.

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I'm super trustworthy, well-respected, et cetera. Also there's a microscope that came in through a rift a while back, but you shouldn't be shocked to know only the nun wanted to have a peek.

Well, that's a kick in the ass for biochem.

You an Earther?

Born and raised. I take it you're the space guy.

Nah, I'm an Earther too.

[Oh, slang.]

I work in space.

What else is there? Men from Mars, women from Venus?

Other way around.

[ ಠ_ಠ ]

Huh. Then everything I knew is a lie and I defer to your expertise.

Great.

You were talking about me on here. I was a mechanic.

Welcome. When you get a sec, learn how to horse. You'll need it.

I'm in robotics, lately. You?

Thanks for the tip.

Ship's mechanic. MCRN-style Corvette-class light frigate. [...] Legitimate salvage.

So definitely not a space pirate.

Nah, that's Belter shit. Gunship for hire, that's us. Last time, it was for research.

Mkay.

[ As if considering the matter tabled, not concluded. ]

The Earth I'm from hasn't secured meaningful space travel. We've hopped onto our moon a few times, sent a robot to Mars, given it a Twitter account.

But we've been, you know. Visited. So we're probably a couple of grants away from something more substantial.

Oh, really? Shit. We been in space for centuries. Two and a half, give or take.

UN colonized Mars, then it rebelled. Lotta people hopped up the well to work on the Belt. Some other shit, but you don't care, and I don't got the patience to explain. Don't matter, anyway. We're on this dirtball, now.

[ I mean. He's not wrong. Tony kind of laughs at the energy, because: deeply relatable. ]

And how long you been here again?

I don't wanna think about it.

[Ugh.]

Something like a month.

Well you sound like you've hit the six month nihilism marker, which is probably a good thing. The scramble for escape is exhausting.

Nah, that's the other guy.

You got any work I can do, lemme know.

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I'd like to see it.

I should start charging admission.

[ Now that one (1) other person is interested. ]

Sure, why not. It's a trip.

Isn't your workshop [or whatever] here in the Gallows?

Not that kind of trip. Microscope's in the Research offices, under lock and key.

I'm letting a nun throw stuff at me and showing a land-viking how to do semi-magic tricks. I'm free for the tour after that.

I can't think what you might've done to provoke a nun into projectile warfare—unless it's Sister Sara. That's easier to imagine.

Yeah it— it's Sister Sara but to her and my credit, I asked her to. Practicing a technique.