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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

[innerharbor]

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.

[propulsion]

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

And how long you been here again?

[innerharbor]

I don't wanna think about it.

[Ugh.]

Something like a month.

[propulsion]

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

[innerharbor]

Nah, that's the other guy.

You got any work I can do, lemme know.

[propulsion]

Practiced with the fundamentals? It's about as fundamental as it gets out here.

[ Except for the magitech nonsense, but they're not There Yet. ]

[innerharbor]

I'm making a pachinko machine to keep from dying of fucking boredom. Call me if you got anything better.

[propulsion]

[ Loud, suddenly; ] What?

[ Why didn't he think of that. ]

Okay but I want in.

[innerharbor]

Get me some fucking glass.

Shit's expensive in this dump.

[propulsion]

I'll write it off as a project expense.

[innerharbor]

Thanks loads, Sarge.