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[propulsion]

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.

Comments

[lumelume]

A sphere!!

By space do you mean the Fade?

[propulsion]

Absolutely not.

[lumelume]

Then what do you mean?

[With the air of someone sitting cross-legged, prepared to listen attentively.]

[propulsion]

[ There is a minor pause. Count it out, and the amount is 'the time it takes to find a bottle of liquor and pour a glass, drink it, and pour another glass'. ]

You know the sky? After the sky is space. It's where the stars hang out. Stars are comparable to the sun, and extremely far away. In space, I mean, which is cold, airless, and silent. The sky protects us from space, which is cool of it.

Still with me? Any questions so far?

[lumelume]

The sun and the stars are... after the sky?

[propulsion]

[ A muffled mid-sip 'mhm'. ]

[lumelume]

[A long pause.]

I don't understand.

[Stated helplessly. He's trying, he really is.]

[propulsion]

Where'd I lose you?

[lumelume]

How many layers is the sky and space?

And you said the stars are comparable to the sun. [Let's unpack that.]

[propulsion]

Well in the sky you got the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the thermosphere and the exosphere. I assume. I haven't checked out this sky up close, but everything kind of operates the same.

And I did say that, because suns are stars. The sun is a star, but closer.

[lumelume]

Sun..s? There's more than one sun?

Where are the others?

[propulsion]

In space. We've been over this.

[lumelume]

[Uneasily, like he's missing something,]

but the sun is big? And the stars are small?

[propulsion]

Aw, champ. I am not drunk enough to explain visual perspective. You're gonna have to figure that one out on your own and get back to me.

[lumelume]

Oh. [Easily,] all right.

[propulsion]

Cool.

[ And then, gamely; ]

Bye.

[lumelume]

Bye!