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Broadcasts
Lonely Radio
OOC Date: March 27, 2019
RADIO: Entry 12, March 31st.
RADIO: I wish you were listening.
RADIO: It's been such a long time since I felt like you were there.
RADIO: I remember the way you'd… smile.
RADIO: Just look down at me and smile.
RADIO: You and mom both just–you had a way about you. You could make anything that worried me go away.
RADIO: I remember that time, after I screwed up getting into Peridance
RADIO: You took me up onto the roof
RADIO: With that old ham radio
RADIO: And we just listened to the chatter.
RADIO: We sat up there until after it got dark. After I'd cried out all the tears I had.
RADIO: I don't know if I've ever been happy like that again.
RADIO: Everything changed.
RADIO: and now you're gone.
RADIO: Part of me hopes, somehow, somewhere… you're listening.
RADIO: Maybe this broadcast will just– it'll bounce around the universe, like the others did.
RADIO: Maybe they'll find you somewhere, when you're sad.
RADIO: Maybe you'll hear my voice, and it'll make you happy.
RADIO: I miss you, dad.
RADIO: But like you always said
RADIO: There's work to be done
RADIO: and we can rest when we're dead.
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: March 29, 2019
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: Entry 13, March 29th.
RADIO: So… I've been trying to think of something to say.
RADIO: Something… I don't know, purposeful.
RADIO: The um, I don't know. I guess… trying to figure out why I'm doing this?
RADIO: I remember when I was growing up, my mother would take me for walks in the woods. We lived out in the boonies.
RADIO: She loved nature.
RADIO: Nature didn't really love her, but… I think it's because she grew up in a city.
RADIO: She liked the change.
RADIO: I didn't know any different. The cabin we lived in was so cut off from the world. We had whatever television you could pick up with tinfoil covered rabbit ears, we had one AM radio station that came in…
RADIO: We had each other.
RADIO: So mom would take me on walks.
RADIO: She'd show me plants, have me point out birds – dad had gotten me this little handbook for identifying birds in the Pacific Northwest.
RADIO: I was good at it.
RADIO: Dad was always the reader, mom was the doer. Dad tried to take me out on a hike once…
RADIO: Only time I ever got lost.
RADIO: He didn't, uh, try again.
RADIO: We got home before dark, mom was worried. She worried a lot.
RADIO: Dad worried too… and I never– I never realized why.
RADIO: I thought everybody lived we way we did.
RADIO: Apart from everyone.
RADIO: I miss those days. Being young, small.
RADIO: When I thought the world was trees and mountains as far as the eye could see.
RADIO: When I thought birds were the only friends I'd ever have.
RADIO: I miss the smell of pine trees. Fresh rain. The way morning dew would cling to spider webs.
RADIO: Those are all here, in New York, too. I suppose you just have to look harder to see them.
RADIO: But…
RADIO: I guess I'm just afraid.
RADIO: If I look too hard to find the things I love
RADIO: I'll find the things I'm not supposed to see.
RADIO: The things that see back.
RADIO: The voice between the stars.
RADIO: The lights.
RADIO: Whatever the fuck, anyway.
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 3, 2019
Content Warning: child death
RADIO: {chirp}
RADIO: Entry 14, April 3rd.
RADIO: I watched someone die once.
RADIO: I've never said that out loud before.
RADIO: I was 23 years old.
RADIO: We'd been living without… food or electricity for a while, my father and I.
RADIO: It was a fucking nightmare.
RADIO: I'd been sick for a couple days, botulism from bad canned food. I didn't have it as bad as Kenneth did.
RADIO: Dad was trying to figure out what to do.
RADIO: We were holed up in this… I guess it used to be a ski lodge, somewhere on the border of Utah and Idaho.
RADIO: Cherry Peak.
RADIO: I couldn't really get around. Kenneth was having a worse time. He was so sick.
RADIO: I could tell dad was panicking. He didn't handle this stuff well.
RADIO: Eventually he made a tough choice, to leave me and Kenneth alone. He was going to head down the mountain into town, look for a hospital that still had medicine. Something.
RADIO: I didn't know how serious this was. The nerve damage it could cause.
RADIO: I think dad did.
RADIO: Kenneth and I were only alone for a day. We were both sick from food poisoning too, throwing up. Just bile and water. I felt like I was going to die.
RADIO: Our cots were right next to each other, so dad could keep an eye on us both.
RADIO: I held his hand, kept him comfortable. Told him stories about mom.
RADIO: About the world before it went to shit.
RADIO: Kenneth was… he was eleven.
RADIO: We'd picked him up in Boulder. Car dead on the side of the road, riddled with bullets. Dad wanted to try and get some gas from it.
RADIO: He was hiding in the back seat, under his parents' corpses.
RADIO: I remember the look on Dad's face when we found him alive.
RADIO: He just stared.
RADIO: He just stared so long.
RADIO: I don't know what he would've done if I hadn't shaken him.
RADIO: But we took Kenneth. He hated being called Ken.
RADIO: So here I was
RADIO: Holding his hand
RADIO: and dad comes home
RADIO: He's got that look in his eyes, like when we found Kenneth.
RADIO: He sets down his pack, pulls out some stuff from the clinic he raided.
RADIO: Lots of antibiotics, bandages, survival stuff.
RADIO: Dad explained that there wasn't much to go around.
RADIO: He explained what antitoxin was.
RADIO: He said he was sorry.
RADIO: And he suffocated Kenneth with his pillow.
RADIO: He only had enough for me.
RADIO: We left Cherry Mountain the next morning.
RADIO: We never talked about what happened.
RADIO: That was right before we found mom.
RADIO: And everything changed.
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 3, 2019
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: Entry 15, April 4th.
RADIO: New York is a hard place to live.
RADIO: I don't believe in ghosts, but it still feels haunted.
RADIO: You look at the Safe Zone from far enough away, and sure, it looks like progress.
RADIO: But…
RADIO: So, yesterday
RADIO: Yesterday I was walking through Jackson Heights
RADIO: Up on Broadway, past where most folks live. Where they're doing a lot of construction.
RADIO: I cut down this sidestreet between two tenement buildings.
RADIO: Came into this area, used to be a loading dock for a bodega or something.
RADIO: All brick. Nobody lived nearby.
RADIO: There were these bullet holes in the wall. Pockmarks.
RADIO: All along one wall.
RADIO: Couple of shell casings on the ground.
RADIO: Old, dirty.
RADIO: There was one shoe, a flat. Nothing else.
RADIO: It's hard not to be reminded of what happened here when you see things like that.
RADIO: That stuff is everywhere. Little vignettes of the once was and never-will-be's.
RADIO: There's a house in Park Slope I saw… plates and cups out on a dining room table. Forks and knives. Was it dinner when the war hit? Did they escape?
RADIO: I don't know where I'm going with this, I guess. It's just… how do you live somewhere that the dead refuse to leave?
RADIO: How do you live next to a charnel house like the island of Manhattan? How do you pretend it'll be ok?
RADIO: When it could just as easily happen again
RADIO: My… dad taught me to assume the worst, hope for the best.
RADIO: My mom…
RADIO: {long silence}
RADIO: Fuck.
RADIO: {breathing}
RADIO: Oh my God I miss you.
RADIO: I miss you so much.
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 5, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: Entry 16, April 6th.
RADIO: I'm a hypochondriac.
RADIO: I mean, not bad. Not debilitatingly.
RADIO: My mother was a doctor, and when the world went to shit I watched her treating a lot of people with a lot of… really horrible illnesses.
RADIO: When the world ends, hospitals and antibiotics are the first things people miss. Not shelter, not food, not water. You can find those things yourself.
RADIO: But if you get a staph infection?
RADIO: Be ready to be acquainted with worms.
RADIO: I was terrified of dying like the people in the triage centers did.
RADIO: When everything went to shit we headed west again. Wound up around Salt Lake City. The triage centers there were… it was unbelievable.
RADIO: Mom insisted that we stay, help as many people as we could, build up a healthy resistance for when we could fight back.
RADIO: Dad had fallen into a pretty bad depression.
RADIO: I think he went along with it because it made mom feel like she had a purpose.
RADIO: Most of the people she treated were sick from radiation poisoning. The plant up in Provo had melted down.
RADIO: I don't know how bad it was. How many people died. We just didn't have the supplies to take care of it.
RADIO: But it wasn't even the radiation sickness that scared me the most. It was the diseases. From eating spoiled food, colds running rampant. The first winter a lot of people died from stuff that never would've happened if we had access to a hospital.
RADIO: After the spring came, nobody wanted to stay anymore. But nobody knew where to go.
RADIO: That's… right around when Donald showed up.
RADIO: That's when we headed back east.
RADIO: That's when I got sick.
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 10, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: Entry 17, April 10th
RADIO: So I guess there's this company that wants to build a space ship that'll travel to another solar system
RADIO: Somebody at work was talking about it.
RADIO: How abilities are gonna make stuff possible. A ship families live and die on for like… hundreds of years.
RADIO: Its hard to imagine that. I mean… not living in a cramped little space forever. But like… living and dying knowing you're just on the way somewhere.
RADIO: I… guess that's life though, isn't it?
RADIO: Heh. My dad would call that "deep."
RADIO: I think I was talking about my folks last time. My mom and… yeah.
RADIO: Thinking about them makes me wish I could sign up to travel to another planet. It's hard being here, in the shadow of their lives, but without…
RADIO: I wonder what that world would be like… a few hundred years in the future. Would they make the same fucked up mistakes we did?
RADIO: Would they learn from a history of mistakes and try and start something better?
RADIO: Or would it just be same shit, different planet?
RADIO: My dad was an optimist.
RADIO: He called my mom a "realist" but I know he really meant skeptic.
RADIO: Can you imagine living in that… big spaceship
RADIO: And like
RADIO: Getting a divorce?
RADIO: Talk about the most fucking awkward thing in the world.
RADIO: Because the passenger's gotta have kids. People are gonna fall in love. And people are gonna be human.
RADIO: I can tell you… being human in confined quarters isn't humanity.
RADIO: The shit I saw.
RADIO: Would fucking boil your eyes.
RADIO: And that's not even counting the way I left. Haha, fuck.
RADIO: Ok. I… I should stop before somebody arrests me.
RADIO: Or sends me into space.
RADIO: I'm not sure what would be worse.
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 18, 2019
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: Entry 18, April 20th.
RADIO: I've been thinking a lot about history, lately.
RADIO: Reading.
RADIO: I mean, thinking too. I guess.
RADIO: There's this one book, I picked it up at the Red Hook Market
RADIO: Living in a Mythic Age, by Ilsa Larange
RADIO: There's a part in the foreword that I've been having a hard time getting out of my head
RADIO: "We like to think that the story of SLC-Expressive humans began in 2006, but the truth of the matter is that they've been here for generations ? if not even longer than that. The genetic experimentation of World War II may be the oldest documented touchstone, but stories of people with superhuman abilities permeate myth and legends…
RADIO: … How much of these are fiction and how much are fact is now thrown into question. Are the mythological figures of our past truly myths, or were they the contemporary "Evolved" of their time? With the blinders removed, are we now also living in mythic times?"
RADIO: It's bothered me for days.
RADIO: I don't really thing the author is wrong. I can't imagine that we just… that we all popped up out of nowhere in World War II. That just doesn't seem plausible.
RADIO: But if that's the case, how likely is it that people like us weren't found out? The Company only existed for… what, forty years? Maybe?
RADIO: We can maybe write off ancient stuff as literal legends. But the industrial revolution – the advent of printing presses and telephone and radio – you can't just handwave it all away. If there were as many of us now as there were then, there'd be more evidence. Even the Company couldn't keep their secret forever.
RADIO: A figure I've seen tossed around is that Evolved – SLC-Expressives – account for about 1% of earth's population. That's a huge number.
RADIO: Even with lower population numbers in, say, the 1800s one percent is still one percent. Statistically we would've had a dozen Midtown explosions by now. But we haven't.
RADIO: So I've been wondering… did that percentage just… increase? Did the ratio of Expressive to Non-Expressives change at some point? Was it gradual and we eventually just hit something like the singularity, but for genetics? Or was it more sudden?
RADIO: I found a study done by a Doctor Mohinder Suresh in 2009, where he stated that after the October 2006 eclipse birth rates for "Evolved" – his word choice not mine – rose dramatically.
RADIO: But that makes like zero fucking sense.
RADIO: An eclipse has about as much effect on genetics as the moon being in Sagittarius has an effect on your dating life or however the fuck astrology works.
RADIO: But something happened. This other scientist, Jean-Martin Luis has this paper on solar activity and maximums and minimums or something. It's kind of over my head. Maybe it's radiation? Triggering something?
RADIO: But if that's the case aren't we eventually going to reach a maximum saturation point? Where the percentage of Expressives keeps climbing until…
RADIO: I mean until there no distinction?
RADIO: And what does that mean for astronauts? Is going into space something that would effect that? Literally zero people, as far as I've found, have done studies on the effects of exposure to microgravity and cosmic radiation in a space environment and SLC-Expressives. Nobody!
RADIO: China apparently has a space program with compulsory service of Evolved – Expressive – engineers. You'd think they'd wonder about that.
RADIO: I don't know.
RADIO: It probably doesn't matter. But it raises more questions than it answers.
RADIO: But the one thing I cant figure out is… and maybe this is something that got lost in the shuffle given that there was literally a guy who went nuclear, but
RADIO: How do you have people see an eclipse in Japan at the same time as Manhattan? I mean all the science I've read says the eclipse happened over Manhattan, but there's people on the literal other side of the world who claim to have seen it, even though no photographs of it exist.
RADIO: I mean maybe this has something to do with whatever the Mandela Effect is. I'm still alternatingly mad and confused after reading about that.
RADIO: I mean… I have an answer for that. But I'm pretty sure that's an outlier.
RADIO: Anyway.
RADIO: This is me being mad about statistics.
RADIO: {*pop*}
ARG-Related Broadcasts
OOC Date: June 4, 2019
RADIO: _
RADIO: lock_kernel()
RADIO: apt-get update_
RADIO: apt-get install phi-revision.tar_
RADIO: ./reroute-access-loop.sh_
RADIO: success_
RADIO: # usermod -L admin_
RADIO: # usermod -s /sbin/nologin_
RADIO: print go fuck yourself thx bai_
RADIO: praxisheavy.com updated_
RADIO: go fuck yourself thx bai
RADIO: session terminated
- This broadcast leads us to praxisheavy.com, which has been hacked.
- The last section of the "Unsafe Zone Initiative" section states "if you know where to look," where "look" leads to praxisheavy.com/executive-login.
- Selecting the entire page yields black on black text: <login_executive key="arc14free8">, the text in quotes is the password that grants access to the executive login section.
- Examination of the "Theft" section under "Nanomanufacturing" yields letters with a text effect. The letters spell out "disc22dune2" and allows access to the section labeled "email."
- An e-mail from Aaron Lisbon with the subject "Virtual Chess?" offers a username and password for the site betterthanchess.com. This login works on the site. More importantly, the password - "walking20size" - is the necessary key to gain access to the "projects" section.
- The "projects" section is currently under lock and key and is not yet (as of June 4, 2019) developed.
- The password for "archive" has yet to be determined.
OOC Date: wee hours June 6, 2019
RADIO: _
RADIO: galoget@hackem:~$ scylla hackem http-form-post -m "/scylla/auth.php:uname=^USER^&psw=^PASS^:Access Denied" -L users.txt -P pass.txt -t 10 -w 30 -o scylla-http-post-attack.txt_
RADIO: running_
RADIO: Archive access obtained_
RADIO: 1 file recovered: OCCULUS_
RADIO: galoget@hackem ~$ sudo dnf install occulus_
RADIO: file downloaded_
RADIO: logoff_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- Archives section of the Executive Login area unlocked (no more password needed), Occulus video added.
OOC Date: wee hours June 11, 2019
RADIO: _
RADIO: content=$(wget http://praxisheavy.com -q -O -)_
RADIO: retrieving_
RADIO: sudo app get scylla.exe_
RADIO: running scylla_
RADIO: ftp http://praxisheavy.com_
RADIO: put /home/solve_for_x_
RADIO: page: home updated_
RADIO: /logout_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- X's are removed from homepag, leading to "Solve for X" at praxisheavy.com/x
- Not all X's were removed, leaving 14. The password is literally: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
RADIO: galoget@hackem:~$ scylla hackem http-form-post -m_
RADIO: "/scylla/auth.php:uname=^USER^&psw=^PASS^:Access Denied" -L users.txt -P pass.txt -t 10 -w 30 -o_
RADIO: running_
RADIO: archive access obtained_
RADIO: 1 file recovered: RADAR_
RADIO: galoget@hackem ~$ sudo dnf install radar__
RADIO: file downloaded_
RADIO: logoff_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- Archive page now contains new RADAR video
OOC Date: June 12, 2019
RADIO: _
RADIO: content=$(wget http://praxisheavy.com -q -O -)__
RADIO: retrieving_
RADIO: sudo app get scylla.exe_
RADIO: running scylla_
RADIO: ftp http://praxisheavy.com_
RADIO: put /projects/heisenberg_
RADIO: page: projects updated_
RADIO: /logout_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- "Projects" now has a password protected entry for "Heisenberg."
- Per entry below, password is awakenbeanpost
RADIO: $ curl -X POST -d @revision http://www.deveauxsociety.org/post/the-darkness-in-the-web_
RADIO: posted_
RADIO: /logoff_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- There's a wealth of information in the comments section.
- The images in the comments sections are actually text conversations between Mira and Scylla. Each image title tells you how to find the password needed to decrypt the message embedded in the picture.
- titlenospaces: doctoroflaw - This is the title of the painting below the key on its frame. The stegosaurus is meant to indicate that the encryption is steganographic.
- Message from Mira: Was this too on the nose? This isn't exactly contemporary practices for information encryption, but I thought maybe going old school would be safer? Might be overlooked. I want in on this, whatever it is you're doing. How do I get involved more?
- revision: charybdis - "The key" replaces the name "Charybdis" in the passage from The Odyssey.
- Message from Scylla: Oh this is fun, I like it. Low-fi. Yeah. I'm not sure I want to share all of my findings too wide, it could hurt people. But I want you to take a look at something. I'm uploading the data I have on Heisenberg. We'll start you there and you can get back to me and let me know if you want to actually dig deeper. Because I can tell you from personal experience, this rabbit hole is dark and deep. Password to access the Heisenberg files is awakenbeanpost It's all files I scraped from their server that were deleted before I even got there. It's hardly complete, but it's a lot. What's your interest in all of this anyway? -Scylla
- substitution: secret - The word "welcome" replaces "secret" in the poem by James Clare.
- Message from Mira: Holy shit. What the fuck is even going on here?? Is this real? Is that FUCKING REAL? I need some time. I need to take some time. I don't know if I'm ready for this. Why aren't you going to the government with this?? My interest is justice. I want these people punished, secrets dragged out into the light. Why play games?
- replacement: trust - The word "hope" replaces the word "trust" in the passage from The Odyssey.
- Message from Scylla: I told you. The rabbit hole is dark and deep. I don't trust easily. If people aren't smart enough to figure out what I'm doing, how can I trust that they'll be smart enough to keep their fucking mouth shut or not get their ass shot off? Lives are on the line here, Sadowsky. As for the government? I don't trust any institution that only just got over the habit of murdering its own people in camps. Like I said, I don't trust easy. I'm gonna give you a week to cool down and think. We'll talk again soon.
OOC Date: June 14, 2019
RADIO: _
RADIO: galoget@hackem:~$ scylla hackem http-form-post -m "/scylla/auth.php:uname=^USER^&psw=^PASS^:Access Denied" -L users.txt -P pass.txt -t 10 -w 30 -o scylla-http-post-attack.txt_
RADIO: running_
RADIO: Archive access obtained_
RADIO: 1 file recovered: EVERYTHING ENDS_
RADIO: galoget@hackem ~$ sudo dnf install everything ends_
RADIO: file downloaded_
RADIO: logoff_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- Video ends with a shot of Fort Hero.
OOC Date: June 17, 2019
RADIO: _
RADIO: content=$(wget http://praxisheavy.com -q -O -)_
RADIO: retrieving_
RADIO: sudo app get scylla.exe_
RADIO: running scylla_
RADIO: ftp http://praxisheavy.com_
RADIO: put /projects/hydra_
RADIO: page: projects updated_
RADIO: /logout_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
RADIO: $ curl -X POST -d @revision http://www.deveauxsociety.org/post/the-darkness-in-the-web_
RADIO: posted_
RADIO: /logout_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- A new picture in the comments. The quote is from Epictetus. In the picture, 'Adversity' replaces 'Challenges'.
- This provides the password for Hydra: iwarnedyou
- Message from Scylla: You still there? If you've got the stomach for it, I'm unlocking project HYDRA. If this doesn't twist your stomach and get you to bail, I guess nothing will. I'm warning you, it's not for the squeamish. But given that other people are sniffing around, this will be the last plain-text password you get. iwarnedyou
OOC Date: June 17, 2019
RADIO: _
RADIO: content=$(wget http://praxisheavy.com -q -O -)_
RADIO: retrieving_
RADIO: sudo app get scylla.exe_
RADIO: running scylla_
RADIO: ftp http://praxisheavy.com_
RADIO: put /projects/eclipse_
RADIO: put /projects/obelisk_
RADIO: page: projects updated_
RADIO: $ curl -X POST -d @revision http://www.deveauxsociety.org/post/the-darkness-in-the-web_
RADIO: posted_
RADIO: /logout_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- New picture in the comments. The quote this time comes from Paradise Lost. In the picture, "Glow" replaces "Eclipse."
- Spoilers> Red Maple> Richard says, “Eclipse's password: zerodegrees”
- Spoilers> Red Maple> Richard says, “Obelisk's password: indianajones”
OOC Date: February 1, 2020
RADIO: _
RADIO: _
RADIO: login @scylla ************_
RADIO: login successful_
RADIO: last login date:7/17/19_
RADIO: you have 177 uncompleted tasks_
RADIO: rm tasklistreminder_
RADIO: tasklistreminder deleted_
RADIO: content=$(wget http://praxisheavy.com -q -O -)__
RADIO: retrieving_
RADIO: sudo app get scylla.exe_
RADIO: running scylla_
RADIO: ftp http://praxisheavy.com_
RADIO: put /projects/umbra_
RADIO: page: projects updated_
RADIO: $ curl -X POST -d @revision http://www.deveauxsociety.org/post/the-darkness-in-the-web_
RADIO: posted_
RADIO: /logout_
RADIO: k thx bai asshole_
- New picture in the comments. The quote translates to "the devil is in the genes" where "genes" replaces "details," therefore the correct word to crack the code is "dettagli."
- Umbra's password is fortherich
Other Broadcasts
OOC Date: April 3, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: Female Voice: -aybe two or three hundred? It's hard to get an accurate count. Families, mostly. Homesteaders. Amish.
RADIO: Male Voice: Defenses?
RADIO: Female Voice: Don't know. They've marked off where the landmines are, and our scouts got tangled up in some old razor wire last week, but they said it looked old. Probably repurposed from the war, assuming they did anything new to it at all.
RADIO: Male Voice: Neat.
RADIO: Male Voice: Any Expressives we should be worried about?
RADIO: Female Voice: What? You mean like precogs?
RADIO: Male Voice: Sure. Precogs, negators, telepaths– you know. The funny shit. I wanna know what our people are walking into.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Well.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Well?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: One of them said they thought they saw Eve Mas.
RADIO: Man's Voice: No shit.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I don't think it's a risk.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Anybody else with her?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: No. Horse tracks. Somebody's patrolling the area, but it's not Mas. I checked with the boys and they don't belong to ours either. That's the risk.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Don't start with this shit again.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I just want us to–
RADIO: Man's Voice: Bogeymen, that's all. Ain't real. No more than Bigfoot, anyway. Danko's dead. Saw it with my own eyes.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I'm not talking about Danko. I'm talking about the others we heard about. That woman? Prince?
RADIO: Man's Voice: If she's real. If any of them are real, they're all the way on the other side of the fucking country.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Let me look into it before we make a decision. That's all I'm asking.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Fine.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: We can take them. If they're real, I mean. I think they are.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I know. You ever hear back about those idiots that went after Ep–
RADIO: {static}
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OOC Date: April 7, 2019
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RADIO: Woman's Voice: -ink they're equipped with some sort of tracking device.
RADIO: Man's Voice: That's nothing new.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: But this tech is. These aren't like anything we've seen before. They're bigger, more complex–
RADIO: Man's Voice: The bigger they are, the harder they–
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Stop. We tested it.
RADIO: Man's Voice: … tested it?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: They're attracted to people with the marker. One or two can slip by, maybe. But when you gather three or more together… it's like a shark sniffing out blood in the water.
RADIO: Man's Voice: How do you test that?
RADIO: Man's Voice: You fuckin' answer me. How do you test that?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Don't worry about it. Switch out the patrols.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Right. Nobody with an ability.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: It'll be like it was during the war.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Never had problems with them then. Guess now we know why.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Times change, huh? Didn't think we'd ever be working alongside– I don't know. I'm still having a hard time… trusting.
RADIO: Man's Voice: We stick the rules. No telepathy. No persuasion. The big two.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I don't like that we let any of them in. Doesn't matter what they can do. Or can't do.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I know. But times change. Gotta change with them.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: We should make our move in the next few weeks. Early May. Maybe we get lucky and these– things pick them off for us.
RADIO: Man's Voice: And if we don't?
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OOC Date: April 10, 2019
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: –ate-of-the-art technology that will be on display at the 2019 World's Fair in the New York Safe Zone.
RADIO: We are busy rebuilding America, and we wanted to show you what the future can hold. At the 2019 World's Fair our innovations will be on display for the entire world to see. Come to see our developments in
RADIO: cybernetics
RADIO: robotics
RADIO: telecommunications
RADIO: and the future of the California Safe Zone
RADIO: Guests to the 2019 World's Fair will be able to test the cutting edge PHI-Matrix.
RADIO: Our first foray into consumer phone technology designed for the needs of the Safe Zone's residents.
RADIO: The PHI Matrix is a state-of-the-art phone featuring a foldable display less than a centimeter thick with stunning 4K resolution and a built-in keyboard that transforms your mobile device into a portable computer, allowing you to work on the go and meet the demands of today's fast-paced world.
RADIO: All that and more can be yours at the 2019 World's Fair.
RADIO: Visit us at www.praxisheavy.com for more information
RADIO: And we'll see you
RADIO: in the future.
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OOC Date: April 17, 2019
RADIO: {static}
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RADIO: "–nd that was Believe You Me by Killing Time, and it's fantastic to hear some new all American music on our show–"
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: "–coming up, but first, a message from our sponsors–"
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: "–First Lady interviewed by my colleagues over in Kansas City."
RADIO: "But she emphasized something interesting about the way we talk about one another – and by one another she was of course referring to this binary between those with superpowers and those without."
RADIO: "I'd like to drill down into this myself, because there's been a trend – even before the war – that I think the majority find problematic."
RADIO: "Maybe even offensive."
RADIO: "It's the idea of lack. Those without superpowers, who lack SLC-Expression. Those carrying a card in the Safe Zone that says non next to their name. We don't have a constructive way of talking about the vast majority of people in this world, and I've heard attempts, sure – uh, 'mundane', is one."
RADIO: "Which, listeners, I don't think is particularly flattering."
RADIO: "In my opinion, the only reason we fall into this language of negation is because we're afraid of being honest about what we are – and what we are is normal."
RADIO: "We are normal people, and those with the ability to read minds and fly and kill people with a wave of their hand? They're abnormal. What they can do is not natural – it's a perversion of nature. I know I'm not saying anything new."
RADIO: "And I get it, I understand the politics, the recent history, and just like everyone else, I have no desire to see a repeat of the kind discriminations that Evos faced prior to the war, that led to provocative, dangerous actions on both sides. And it's exactly my desire to break this cycle that motivates me towards honest rhetoric–"
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: "–away from this nullifying discourse being pushed into our political and bureaucratic language by people like Carol Praeger and the current administration–"
RADIO: {hiss-pop}
RADIO: "–Medina recently announced his candidacy for the 2020 Presidential elections, a surprising turn of events after an embittered congressional campaign that did not work out in his favour. I think we can all agree that the American population have proven resistant to political newcomers, but candidates willing to campaign against our current war hero President know they have a hard road ahead of them."
RADIO: "But newcomers have new questions to ask, and Medina is asking what we should all be asking: what is our new normal? What do we have to do, as a country, to bring back stability?"
RADIO: "I don't happen to believe that compensating for the abnormal is gonna do it."
RADIO: "This is Oscar Nyström, you're listening to WVMA, telling it like it is."
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OOC Date: April 18, 2019
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RADIO: Listener says, "–der what this administration, what our council is doing in welcoming these people to our country?"
RADIO: Oscar says, "Wow, I mean. What, specifically, do you mean by 'these people'?"
RADIO: Listener says, "Mega corporations from countries with archaic SLC-Expressive policies. Praxis wants to sell us phones while China puts superpowered children through compulsary military training until they're 25. They don't even get a life of their own. Crito has headquarters in the United Kingdom, where SLC-Es aren't even allowed to have children without written permission. They still have settlements, constant surveillance, penalties that– "
RADIO: Oscar says, "But let's be clear – these are private corporations, showcasing products, in a show of international soldarity, and nothing on the program demonstrates any kind of anti-Evo agenda. I'd say that historically, the greatest minds in science tend to be progressive."
RADIO: Listener says, "Unless they're weaponised by corrupt government officials, and corrupt business practices."
RADIO: Oscar says, "So this protest being organised at the World's Fair, it's against corruption?"
RADIO: Listener says, "I suppose that's correct, yes. Outside influences from countries with the kind of laws that destroyed our country, especially financial influence, infrastructural influence, is poison we don't need."
RADIO: Oscar says, "So we close off the borders, sow discontent, isolate ourselves while the world spins on."
RADIO: Listener says, "I've listened to your show a few times, now, and we hold very different political views, but I would have thought this is the kind of thing you're agree with us on. You've been hyper critical of Yamagato, it's influence in New York City, its alleged preference towards SLC-E hiring. Aren't these just more heads of the same hydra?"
RADIO: Oscar says, "I just think we need to be taken seriously as a country on the global stage again, and meet them on our own terms. And that's unfortunately all we have time for today–"
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OOC Date: April 30, 2019
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RADIO: {buzzing} {–coming to you live from New York City!}
RADIO: {The New York City Safe Zone, is what.}
RADIO: {That's right, of course. Can you hear us, back home?}
RADIO: {I think it's just us, love. What d'you want to talk about?}
RADIO: {I think we're on the air, Mr Lode.}
RADIO: {Oh fuck.}
RADIO: {Haha, language, Wes. Now, you're no stranger to New York, isn't that right?}
RADIO: {An old acquaintance. It's a bittersweet reunion.}
RADIO: {Well as you can see, everyone, finishing touches of the World's Fair are coming together right behind us – it certainly is an exciting time to be a New Yorker! What are you hoping to bring to our American friends, Wes?}
RADIO: {Just the usual, Suzie. Charisma, uniqueness, nerve– }
RADIO: {Oh come on, you have to give us a hint.}
RADIO: {We're throwing a party, let's put it that way. I've been working on the Virtual Gala with my good friends at Crito for a good year now, and I reckon it'll be fu– flippin' amazing. We love the United States, we really do, you know, and it's absolutely tragic, the things they've been through. I have the unique opportunity to bring a little fucking flare, that's all, and I intend to do it. It's gonna be a grand old time.}
RADIO: {Is there anything else you can tell us? What should we expect?}
RADIO: {Bring your sunglasses, the future's bright, or whateverrr. And no, it's not on the Internet, stop @-ing me.}
RADIO: {Well thank you so much for dropping by, Wes. This is Suzie McMichaels, with BBC Breakfast. Back to you, Allan.}
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OOC Date: May 17, 2019
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RADIO: "— the obligation that Evos have to society."
RADIO: "We're well past the point of superheroes, don't get me wrong. I'm absolutely against the idea of a private citizen wielding any kind of power that compromises or usurps law enforcement or anything like that. But we need to consider the implications of inaction."
RADIO: "Take First Lady Carol Praeger, for example."
RADIO: "The world owes her a great debt for almost single-handedly bring an end to the H5N10 thanks to the superpower gifted by her own genetics, but what have we seen from her since that time? Some soup kitchens, an expensive science fair, but I'm personally waiting on the news that we live on a disease-free earth. Doesn't she, by virtue of what she she can do, have a responsibility? A mandate, even."
RADIO: "I guess we can guarantee a healthy President, haha."
RADIO: "Or perhaps, a wealthy investor with a sick daughter, a rival political peer with a terminal illness, or perhaps she could choose not to do that, depending on the outcome of an off the record meeting. You see what I'm getting at."
RADIO: "As long as we live in a world of superpowers, unchecked and unregulated, even the act of not using them can be destructive, corrupt, and unnatural. Even powers that aren't used are powerful by virtue of existing."
RADIO: "What's the solution, folks?"
RADIO: "And that's just the reality we have to face, sooner or later."
RADIO: "This is Oscar Nystrom, you're listening to WVMA — telling it like it is."
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OOC Date: June 11, 2019
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RADIO: {crackle} – ink what we're really looking at here is a clear-cut piece of evidence on the danger that Evolved– SLC-Expressives– whatever can pose to the larger world. It doesn't have to be nuclear. They can hold our financial institutions hostage.
RADIO: (Host): Sure, sure. But we've had to live through digital terror threats since before the war. Chinese hackers were–
RADIO: (Guest): Chinese hackers were backed by an entire sovereign nation, Phil.
RADIO: (Guest): This hacker? They're a single individual. One person taking down a multinational corporation.
RADIO: (Host): That's stretching. We don't know if this is a lone-wolf situation and defacing a website isn't really–
RADIO: (Guest): Defacing?
RADIO: (Guest): If we're to believe everything this hacker's done they've stolen data from company servers and posted it publically. What if this was our bank accounts?
RADIO: (Host): But… it isn't. I mean, if you look at what's being posted – if it's real – that looks like whistle blowing to me. This implicates Praxis in crimes against hum–
RADIO: (Guest): If. If. If.
RADIO: (Guest): The big picture here is a multi-trillion dollar company was just smacked flat on the ass by a single person. This is an extant threat, one that we need to develop countermeasures for.
RADIO: (Host): Like tighter Registration?
RADIO: (Guest): No.
RADIO: (Guest): I'm talking anti-technopathic weapons. Technology designed to protect us against Expressive abilities. There's a european company working on non-chemical negation, did you know that?
RADIO: (Host): I didn't. I–
RADIO: (Guest): We need to level the playing field. Praxis is one of three major companies leading the way in the fields of cybernetics and biotech augmentations. What if this is a targeted attack against a means by which ordinary people can rise to the level of the extraordinary?
RADIO: (Host): Now didn't you just shout if at me a lot there?
RADIO: (Guest): I'm just trying to be realistic, Phil.
RADIO: (Host): And that's all the time we have for today. Our guest tonight was Hal Dearborne, CEO of Cyberpath Securities. Tomorrow on the show we'll have Amelia Karlslund talking with us about Norway's small but vocal Pro-Expressive movement. I'm Phil Whitley, and this has been Phil You In on NPR.
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RADIO: (Announcer): You've been listening to Phil You in on New York Public Radio. Our show is sponsored in part by the Goodchild Foundation, seeking to reunite war orphans with their family members and The Tallest Tree Foundation, helping to identify the remains of those lost during the civil war, and the Deveaux Society, a philanthropic organization at the forefront of SLC-Expressive rights. You can catch Phil Me In weekdays at 2:30 pm and an encore broadcast weeknights at 9:45 pm.
RADIO: (Announcer): This is NPR.
RADIO: {static}
OOC Date: June 25, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackling}
RADIO: Woman's Voice: We have to be careful about how all of this goes down.
RADIO: Man's Voice: That's not exactly simple, given my predicament.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Are you sure this line is secure?
RADIO: Man's Voice: No. DHS is likely already at my house.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Does your wife–
RADIO: Man's Voice: She doesn't know anything.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: What about Cassandra?
RADIO: Man's Voice: No.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Though…
RADIO: Man's Voice: Given everything that happened, it's likely she was how they found me out.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Nnn.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Do you have a line inside DHS?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I do.
RADIO: Man's Voice: If they get Pierce, if his entire fucking head doesn't explode, they'll find me.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I need Damian.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I… don't know where Damian is. He's been missing since Natazhat.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Ah.
RADIO: Man's Voice: That's… unfortunate.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I'll do what I can to obstruct, but you understand I can't do much.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Yes. I know. I understand.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Lest the others find out.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: You won't be left to languish in prison forever, Alphonse.
RADIO: Man's Voice: No.
RADIO: Man's Voice: They'll likely hang me.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Long before then.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: You've been loyal all these years.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Your loyalty– and Caspar's– won't be forgotten.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I suppose that's ironic.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Yes. I… I suppose it is.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Yes. Do be safe, Alphonse. Remember your training, remember the cause, remember the future.
RADIO: Alphonse Voice: Dark is the hour before the sun rises.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Dark is the hour before the sun rises.
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: Man's Voice: Wei?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I can see eye to eye.
RADIO: Man's Voice: …
RADIO: Man's Voice: …one moment.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: Adam: Good morning, dear.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Have you read the paper today?
RADIO: Adam: I'm old but I'm not a fossil.
RADIO: Adam: But I saw.
RADIO: Adam: I liked Al.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Regrettable losses. DHS is distracted by the Fort Irwin situation.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I believe Wolfhound will be too.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: This is a good window, yes?
RADIO: Adam: I was thinking the same thing. Clever on you, my dear.
RADIO: Adam: Have you been following this business Raytech's been up to?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Excuse me?
RADIO: Adam: The Looking Glass.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Ah… no it… slipped past me. Is this something I should devote resources to?
RADIO: Adam: I honestly don't know. I won't for certain until I get the last penny back from the Nakamura vault.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Ah, yes. How… is that progressing?
RADIO: Adam: Slowly.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Well, I will await your further instructions on the matter once you are fully yourself again.
RADIO: Adam: You know, that's the thing someone says when it's exactly what they don't want to do. You do realize that, yeah?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I merely–
RADIO: Adam: You merely nothing.
RADIO: Adam: You will wait until I give you orders.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Of course.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I wouldn't–
RADIO: Adam: Even be alive if it weren't for me.
RADIO: Adam: You'd be in that ditch with your parents.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: …
RADIO: Adam: Leave Alphonse. If he gets the noose, so be it. He took work with Humanis First, no matter the cause, and he can swing in the wind for all I care.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Yes. I… I understand.
RADIO: Adam: Good.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: Kam: This is Nisatta.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I can see eye to eye.
RADIO: Kam: …
RADIO: Kam: Private Mode.
RADIO: Kam: We have 35 seconds.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Adam doesn't know.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: We may proceed as planned.
RADIO: Kam: How will I best serve?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Raytech is opening the door.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Whatever aid you can ensure they receive, without being caught.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Do it.
RADIO: Kam: …I… I understand.
RADIO: Kam: Fifteen seconds.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Stay strong, God will need a vessel upon its return.
RADIO: Kam: …Yes.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Do not fear, Nisatta.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Fear is for mortals.
RADIO: Kam: {silence}
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Dark is the hour before the sun rises.
RADIO: Kam: I– have to terminate the call.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: Man's Voice: Hellllo?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Tabun Khara Obo Crater. We need telemetry.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Oh, is… it time already?
RADIO: Man's Voice: I'll need to press a good shirt.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: How soon can you be in Mongolia?
RADIO: Man's Voice: Thirteen hours? Not counting time zones.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Hurry. We cannot risk the dish not being finished.
RADIO: Man's Voice: You can count on me.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: For your sake, Mr. Kellar, I certainly hope so.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static} – ust listened to Back on Black by Shard. Before that was 2Pac featuring Doctor Dre with California Love. That closes out our hour of classic rap and hip-hop here at WSZR…
RADIO: DJ Lancelot will be coming in shortly with Industrial Cleaner, an hour block of the finest synth, darkwave, and industrial music from the 80s and 90s.
RADIO: I've been your host for the night, Jolene, and to close us out I'm going to play a new single from Gary Numan to ease you into DJ Lancelot.
RADIO: This is My name is Ruin on WSZR, Safe Zone Radio.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: When they called me broken, I knew
RADIO: When they called me evil, I knew
RADIO: When they called me ruin, I knew
RADIO: I would always find my way to you
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: When I beg forgiveness, they knew
RADIO: When I beg for mercy, they knew
RADIO: When I beg for nothing, they knew
RADIO: I would always find my way to you
RADIO: {Kore wa daredesu ka?}
RADIO: My name is ruin, my name is vengeance
RADIO: My name is no one, no one is calling
RADIO: My name is ruin, my name is heartbreak
RADIO: My name is loving, but sorrows and darkness
RADIO: My name is ruin, my name is evil
RADIO: My name's a war song, I sing you a new one
RADIO: My name is ruin, my name is broken
RADIO: My name is shameless, I'll tear you wide open
RADIO: {Ms. Namakura, I'm sorry to call you at such a late hour where you are. My name is Alice Shaw, I'm the Public Relations director for SESA.)
RADIO: When I called you poison, you knew
RADIO: When I called you shameful, you knew
RADIO: When I called you a liar, you knew
RADIO: I would always find my way to you
RADIO: {It's… three in the morning, Miss Shaw. What is this about?}
RADIO: I'll show you ruin, I'll show you vengeance
RADIO: I'll show you no one, and no one is calling
RADIO: I'll show you ruin, I'll show you heartbreak
RADIO: I'll show you loving, and sorrow and darkness
RADIO: {I thought it might be in your interests to know, we believe that Adam Monroe may be in league with… well… the best description we can give is an entity of unknown origin, dwelling– and please I know this will sound outrageous– outside of time.}
RADIO: I'll show you ruin, I'll show you evil
RADIO: I'll sing you a war song, I'll sing you a new one
RADIO: I'll show you ruin, I'll show you broken
RADIO: I'll show you shameless
RADIO: {…tell me more.}
RADIO: I'll tear you wide open.
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {pop}
- This broadcast is (clearly) set in Volume 1. However, it has just been revealed now.
OOC Date: July 24, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {hissing}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {clicking}
RADIO: {stutter}
RADIO: {static} –meone take these dreams away
RADIO: That point me to another day
RADIO: A dual personality
RADIO: A strange but true reality
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: Man's Voice: Hallo?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Ek is jammer om hierdie uur te bel.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Ah. Yes, you. Please. English will do. Your Afrikaans is as bad as my Mandarin.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: My apologies. It's been slow going.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: The Director wanted to inform you that the Minister of Justice returned home from his trip to Taiwan.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Did he.
RADIO: Man's Voice: When did his plane land?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: 16:35 JST.
RADIO: Man's Voice: You're prompt.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Thank you, sir.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I'll make sure he's invited to the festivities.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I'd like you to be there as well.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: …Why is that?
RADIO: Man's Voice: I feel like we've never had an opportunity to… get to know one-another.
RADIO: {They keep calling me}
RADIO: {Keep on calling me}
RADIO: {They keep calling me}
RADIO: Man's Voice: Consider it a polite request. It would do you good to see how the other half lives.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I'll– consider it.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: The Director–
RADIO: Man's Voice: Doesn't own you.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Please remember that.
RADIO: {Figures from the past stand tall}
RADIO: {And mocking voices ring above}
RADIO: {Imperialistic house of prayer}
RADIO: {Conquistadors who took their share}
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Wo hui jin wo de quanli.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I know you will.
RADIO: Man's Voice: You're dutiful to the end, Lanhua.
RADIO: Lanhua: Thank you for saying as much.
RADIO: Lanhua: I… will perhaps see you in Tokyo, Mr. Naidu.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: I look forward to learning your truth.
RADIO: {they keep calling me}
RADIO: {keep on calling me}
RADIO: {they keep calling me}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: Man's Voice: Omatase shite moshiwake gozaimase.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Konnichiwa, Komura-san.
RADIO: Komura: Nnn.
RADIO: Komura: Koko ni… denwa shinaide kudasai.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Jikandesu, Komura-san.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Jikandesu.
RADIO: Komura: Hh–
RADIO: Komura: I-Ima?
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Hai.
RADIO: Komura: Nnn…
RADIO: Komura: Kanojo wa… wa anzendesu ka?
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Imanotokoro.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Shikashi…
RADIO: Komura: Moshi sonara…
RADIO: Komura: Watashi wa… Asi o okurimasu.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Call me when she is on the way.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Otherwise…
RADIO: Komura: I understand. Please, just… Kanojo o kizutsukenaide kudasai. Don't hurt her.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: Anata no musume wa utsukushidesu. What kind of person do you take me for, Komura. I wouldn't hurt a child.
RADIO: Komura: H-Hai.
RADIO: Komura: T-Toki ga… kitara denwa shimasu.
RADIO: Mr. Naidu: See that you do.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: Tired Man's Voice: M-Mmmoshi m'shi?
RADIO: Komura: Genki.
RADIO: Genki: {sounds of phone dropping to floor}
RADIO: Genki: {muffled cursing in Japanese}
RADIO: Genki: H-Hai! Komura-sama.
RADIO: Genki: Nan–
RADIO: Komura: Damatte kiite kudasai.
RADIO: Genki: H-Hai.
RADIO: Komura: Kore wa juyo.
RADIO: Komura: Anata no tasuke ga hitsuyodesu.
RADIO: Genki: Nani demo.
RADIO: Komura: Pen o te ni ire nasai.
RADIO: {*pop*}
OOC Date: October 17, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {buzz}
RADIO: Somewhere
RADIO: beyond the sea
RADIO: {crashing waves}
RADIO: somewhere
RADIO: waiting for me
RADIO: {distant, muffled screams}
RADIO: my lover stands on golden sands
RADIO: and watches the ships
RADIO: {gunfire}
RADIO: that go sailin'
RADIO: Somewhere
RADIO: {Ben.}
RADIO: beyond the sea
RADIO: {I'm so sorry}
RADIO: she's there
RADIO: watching for me
RADIO: {I'm so sorry I never got to say}
RADIO: if I could fly like birds on high
RADIO: {how much}
RADIO: then straight to her arms
RADIO: {I loved you}
RADIO: I'd go
RADIO: {or}
RADIO: sailing
RADIO: {goodbye}
RADIO: It's far
RADIO: beyond the stars
RADIO: {gunfire}
RADIO: it's near beyond the moon
RADIO: {shouting}
RADIO: i know beyond a doubt
RADIO: {screaming}
RADIO: my heart will lead me there
RADIO: {Every Evolved, up against the wall!}
RADIO: soon
RADIO: We'll meet
RADIO: beyond the shore
RADIO: {gunfire}
RADIO: We'll kiss
RADIO: {shouting}
RADIO: just as before
RADIO: {This area's clear}
RADIO: happy we'll be beyond the sea
RADIO: {moving on to the library}
RADIO: and never again I'll go
RADIO: sailing
OOC Date: November 26, 2019
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RADIO: {static} – ven years on and the incremental progress in returning America to anything other than a divided nation feels superficial. Yes, we have Safe Zones, but what does that even mean? How is that America? What are we doing about the vast gulf of ruined lives in between? How–
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RADIO: {static} – uestions no one is asking. What caused the global auroral phenomenon and the visions from last year? What made them end? You ask ten people you're going to get ten different answers. You have people like the Aspirant Seekers who believe that it was literally a message from God, one intended to be dec –
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RADIO: See the animal
RADIO: in his cage that you built
RADIO: Are you sure what side you're on?
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RADIO: Woman's Voice: It's extremely late.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I'm sorry, Director. We're just… we're there. Ahead of schedule.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: {muffled sounds} Okay.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Okay.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Report.
RADIO: See the safety of the life you have built
RADIO: Everything where it belongs
RADIO: Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
RADIO: And it's all right where it belongs
RADIO: Man's Voice: I've been trying to figure out how to describe it for a little bit. So, I'm just– can you take video?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Send it over.
RADIO: Man's Voice: I'm… there you go. Here, let me–
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I don't ss– oh my God.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Jesus Christ.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: What is that?
RADIO: What if everything around you
RADIO: Isn't quite as it seems?
RADIO: What if all the world you think you know
RADIO: Is an elaborate dream?
RADIO: Man's Voice: I don't know.
RADIO: Man's Voice: No one knows.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Springdale Utah, I guess.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: That's not funny.
RADIO: Man's Voice: It used to be. I don't even know what to describe it as now.
RADIO: Man's Voice: It's like…
RADIO: Woman's Voice: …it's folded?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: On itself?
RADIO: And if you look at your reflection
RADIO: Is it all you want it to be?
RADIO: What if you could look right through the cracks
RADIO: Would you find yourself find yourself afraid to see?
RADIO: Man's Voice: This one's lasted longer than the others.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: How long?
RADIO: Man's Voice: We've been here four hours.
RADIO: Man's Voice: The others lasted less than two.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Is it showing signs of instability?
RADIO: Man's Voice: I'd… say yes.
RADIO: What if all the world's inside of your head?
RADIO: Just creations of your own
RADIO: Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead
RADIO: And you really oughta know
RADIO: Man's Voice: Estimates are it'll last for another hour, tops. Then it'll be like the others.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Was anyone living there? Settlers?
RADIO: Man's Voice: There's no way to tell. Nothing could've survived that.
RADIO: Man's Voice: There are… some concerns though.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: You don't say.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Recognizable geography.
RADIO: You can live in this illusion
RADIO: You can choose to believe
RADIO: You keep looking but you can't find the ones
RADIO: Are you hiding in the trees?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: I don't follow.
RADIO: Man's Voice: It's too dark to pick up on the video feed, but out past the town center there's a building. I recognized it.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: From?
RADIO: Man's Voice: Second hand. The reports, from when the Refugees came through.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: …excuse me?
RADIO: What if everything around you
RADIO: Isn't quite as it seems?
RADIO: What if all the world you used to know
RADIO: Is an elaborate dream?
RADIO: Man's Voice: Staten Island.
RADIO: And if you look at your reflection
RADIO: Man's Voice: The uh… what was it called
RADIO: Is it all you want it to be?
RADIO: Man's Voice: The Outer District.
RADIO: What if you could look right through the cracks
RADIO: Man's Voice: The factory.
RADIO: Would you find yourself
RADIO: Man's Voice: The one Harrison destroyed.
RADIO: find yourself…
RADIO: Man's Voice: But it's here.
RADIO: …afraid to see.
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RADIO: Rough Voice: …is this secure?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Briefly.
RADIO: Rough Voice: I'm listening.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Have you heard of Shedda Dinu operating in the American Southwest?
RADIO: Rough Voice: …No. Not at all. Why?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Nothing, I just– had a terrible thought. I needed someone to prove me wrong.
RADIO: Rough Voice: Are you alright, Madeline?
RADIO: Choi: I'll be fine. I just… there's a lot happening right now.
RADIO: Rough Voice: You're telling me.
RADIO: Choi: I should let you go. I'm sorry. I just… I needed to talk to someone I trust.
RADIO: Rough Voice: Mnhmm. Best be careful who you say that around.
RADIO: Rough Voice: I didn't do all of this for nothing.
RADIO: Choi: I know, Donald.
RADIO: Choi: I know.
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OOC Date: December 1, 2019
{In my eyes}Legs kicking and fingers curled into her blankets, Niki Zimmerman awakens with hastened breathing and sweat slicking her brow. The room around her is dark, the world quiet outside her closed window save for the distant howl of wind. Her heart is pounding in her chest, prickling sensations tingling her fingertips. In the bedroom window, she sees her own silhouette. Eyes of gold, fading slowly.
{Indisposed}
White eyes watch Kaylee as she speaks, pupils shifting away when she begins to talk about the voice. Squeaks' words are truer than Huruma would like to admit, as are Eve's, as far as it goes. Her eyes go back to Kaylee, silently projecting and hoping that the telepath picks it up without effort.
{In disguises no one knows}
“This was my father’s,” Kimiko says quietly, “a book of names and addresses, mostly belonging to the dead now. This is from his time with the Company in the 1980s,” she says, pivoting the book so the text is aligned with Elaine’s perspective. “I want you to keep it, and… when you're ready for an answer for what you're about to see, to take it to Richard Ray at Raytech. He will be better able to explain it to you than I.”
{Hides the face}
“They exist outside of time, outside of space. What is time, to them?” Kam raises one brow, spreading her hands and carrying the snake with one. “Not a line, surely. More… a web.” Looking to the armor of Adam Monroe’s past life, Kam looks momentarily wistful, then settles back on Kaylee.
{Lies the snake}
Staring Kaylee down, Kam’s voice is heard at the telepath’s back. “You know you can’t run!” But she tries anyway, scrambling back through the museum displays, past glass cases containing diorama of her mother’s apartment in Cambridge, past a mannequin dressed in a sweater vest and khaki pants with a pair of wire-framed glasses perched on its nose, holding a ball of red thread in one hand, past a painting of Hokuto Ichihara in her yellow-eyed dreaming state, holding a black serpent in porcelain pale hands.
{And the sun in my disgrace}
"You tried to kill the world." Peter says through his teeth, bringing the rock down only to have Adam grab his wrist at the last minute. The two struggle in the sand, until Adam pulls back a leg and kicks Peter off of him, launching the younger man back into the shallows. Adam, gasping for breath, slowly pulls himself up to his feet as Peter moves to do the same. The eclipse is reflected in the water around Peter, and Adam spits blood into the sand.
{Boiling heat}
Over the treetops stripped of some leaves by the shockwave rises a black plume of smoke ringed with gray ashes that resembles not a mushroom cloud or a plume of fire. It is not a thermonuclear explosion but something otherworldly and unreal. A five fingered hand of smoke and ash and flames grasping up toward the sky with fingers curling inward toward its palm. By the time Nicole is coming up behind Ryans to see what he sees, it is already too late. The hand has closed into a fist and the black cloud looks like little more than a mushroom cloud from a tremendous explosion. It makes Ryans wonder if his eyes were playing tricks on him, if—
{Summer stench}
The soft crunch of footfalls over a dirt and gravel road accompanies Richard and Voss as they make their way through a flattened stretch of forest, trees stripped of bark and gray. Ashes cling to the ground like the site of a massive pyre, kicked up into the air like they were walking on the surface of the moon. Up ahead, the greenish-blue glow in the clouds has grown stronger. Nearer, floodlights are set up by where three SUVs are parked across the road. Figures in drab military uniforms, clearly members of the military police, stand guard — armed — against intrusion.
{'Neath the black the sky looks dead}
Oh, look, it's Uluru the Invincible. Because of course it is.
{Call my name through the cream}
"Eve…" Lene murmurs, green eyes flicking from drawing to prophet. "…what have you done?"
{And I'll hear you scream again}
"I don't absorb the electricity, the… umbrales just seem to… need them to form. I don't really know how that part works. I can't sense electricity, or anything," Mateo explains, thinking back on the times when, much like this, he tried to learn to control his ability. It was one day, years ago, that he discovered he could open two of them at once. And that it stopped drawing everything in.
{Black hole sun}“We’re still here,” Ruiz whispers from where he holds onto his wife, weak from the draining electricity, weak from the overload that he can feel in his bones. He had felt it all unravel at the end, everything. And then… then they were somewhere, everywhere, all at once. Together. The small cut on his cheek burns, a small amount of blood dripping down from the relative scratch. “Do you think they made it?” he asks his wife, not quite seeing any of the infinite around them. All the lines lining up in a knot, tangled and mashed together insensibly.
{Won't you come}
So, naturally, Sibyl does… in secret, and on days she knows she’d otherwise waste in the cool, dark safety of the attic, which has been more of a home to her than Saint Margaret’s ever was. It isn’t that she doesn’t enjoy sitting at the piano and practicing her scales, or curling into the downy softness of her goosefeather comforter to listen to the rhythm of the summer rain drumming against her window. She simply likes the feeling of it on her face more than she does watching it carve patterns in the glass.
{And wash away the rain}
All Mateo can hear isn't the sonic emitter, isn't the voices, it's the noise in the back of his mind. It's El Umbral, clearer now more so than ever.
{Black hole sun}
It’s the same voice that answers him, though even more hoarse, like he’d been screaming for a while, or like someone who has had nothing to drink forever. “Some made it. Your daughter did, with Liz.” He knew there should have been more, but— he also knew that was the one answer they’d want the most. The one answer he’d want the most.
{Won't you come}
They were mirrors, the two Mateo Ruiz’s. With flaws here and there. One drenched in blood from his nose, still standing, grasping tight to a hand against his chest. Everything should hurt, in a way it did, but everything felt… light all at the same time. He could see the world around them, as he stood tall, watching the oddities lined up over oddities. He glanced up at the sky— this wasn’t the Garden he was used to, the small part he had been confined to for so long twisting around in endless circles.
{Won't you come}
Maybe this was what had been beyond the hedges.
{Stuttering}
"It's all connected." Waving her hand in the air to indicate this goddess and the children of the Lighthouse, Brian.. she.. Isis.. all of them. "I kept looking where I shouldn't, sticking my face under the River to listen how the echoes directed me." Eve sounds mournful, she's mourning a piece of herself lost to the ether, "Mother and Father sees it all, they know us. Us their Children of the Eclipse," using the term that Squeaks had learned from Zhao. There's a moment of pause and then Eve is leaning forward unexpectedly and looking into Isis' goldish eyes with her crimson ones.
{cold and damp}
It must be a memory. “Small. Dark eyes, hair. Still dark. Still.” She swallows hard. Focus is impossible under the influence of negation drugs, but she’s trying anyway. “You wanted to help him. Samson. Samson, the cage. Let her out. Please.”
{Steal the warm wind}
The sounds of El Umbral, always present to Mateo in one form or another, comes through clearly, blocking out the sounds of those around him, riding along the sounds of heartbeats in his head, rushing like water flowing down from a waterfall and crashing on the ground below, like the ocean, like the hum of electricity, like an avalanche on a mountain peak, like roaring fire that leaves the air shimmering. It’s only the hand against his and the hand on his shoulder that he really can notice. His wife and his sister. That is enough to cause him to reach out with his free hand, making a gesture, spreading fingers, like flicking something open.
{tired friend}
Joy’s eyes widen and she looks at Jac with new eyes. “I know,” is her breathy response. But it still doesn’t answer one thing. “Why did you tell me to come here?” She asks with a slow shake of her head. Adam exhales a tired sigh, then looks over to Jac and back.
{Times are gone for honest men}
Benjamin Ryans brought his family into his private world once, and it cost his son his life. As Nicole turns to see Ryans at the top of the stairs, he prevents that future from coming to pass. She can feel it in her heart a second before the metal bulkhead door slams shut. Her protesting cries echoing up from within the basement, the pleading cries of Pippa for her father. They won't understand now. But if he's right, they may live long enough to forgive him.
{And sometimes far too long for snakes}
Kravid’s eyes slowly widen as she takes in the pallid frame of the figure laying in the case. Gray skin and white hair, sunken eyes look cadaverous, but stare up nonetheless with unseeing blue. Adam sniffs the air, sour-sweet, and aims the barrel of his handgun down at the figure’s head. He hesitates and in that moment Kravid slowly edges closer.
{In my shoes}
A child stands atop a grassy hill below the sun, no more than two years old and as naked as the day they were born, cast in a shroud of innocence in ways only children can be. The child raises a tanned arm over their head, fingers splayed, and the wind changes to swirl their dark hair about. They stare up into the eclipse, tears streaming down their cheeks.
{a walking sleep}
Hands claw at the air, and Eve plummets from the roof, body twisting and an involuntary scream rising up from the back of her throat. She impacts the pavement, back and shoulder breaking from the impact, skill fracturing, vision blurring. She didn't slip, Barbara Zimmerman is standing where she was on the roof. She was pushed.
{And my youth I pray to keep}
“You’re an opportunist.” Adam hisses, training the pistol down on Erica. “You’re the mole. I traced the communications to Nakamura, you’ve been feeding her intelligence for how long?” Erica’s expression becomes one of stone, her jaw tight in spite of the searing pain and the growing fear from the lack of feeling in her legs. Kravid’s gaze stays locked on Adam’s.
{Heaven sent hell away}
"It's over." Charles commands, his eyes focused on Simon Broome's form, his eyes burning with the light of the sun. "Karin!" Charles shouts into the darkness, "Karin we need Mateo!"
{No one sings like you anymore}
"La mer," Eve sings softly, running a hand through her midnight black hair. She closes her eyes and sways, tapping her thigh as she sings, "Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs." The song that has haunted Eve's dreams… the first song she ever heard Else sing.
{Black hole sun}
The swirling vortex kicks up a howling wind that blows loose papers around the ground floor of the observatory. Flashes of electricity snap brightly around the infinitely black disc of the vortex, from which nothing escapes. A sheaf of paper blown into its orbit is shredded and set on fire, then collapses down into the inky blackness to nothing.
{Won't you come}
Every breath hurt. His chest felt tight. He just wanted to lay down, forever. “My mom died, didn’t she?” he asks after a moment, this time to Lynette. There’s tears in his eyes. He had only known her moments, but it had felt like so much more than that.
{And wash away the rain}
Summer thunderstorms are her favourite. The air is warm and fragrant with the smell of wildflowers that grow in old parking lots converted to open seas of tall weeds and foxtails, surrounded by drooping chain-link fences. Like many of the children who reside in New York Safe Zone, her memories of how the city used to look are like a half-remembered dream. People used to drive cars; these days the streets are a river of moving bodies hurrying to get from one place to the other, interrupted by the occasional sputter and pop of a motorbike weaving its way through the crowd.
{Black hole sun}
Unable to hear anything beyond the call of El Umbral, Mateo can feel a disturbance in the vortex. The sonic emitter is warping it, making it easy for it to open but harder to keep stable. The portal is not safe, not for anyone or anything to enter. But yet he can feel something on the other side, feel a connection like sympathetic ends of a magnet coming closer to one another, but there's something missing. Something is out of alignment.
{Won't you come}
And yet he knew he would give almost anything for a minute more. Maybe down one of those cracks in time, he had those moments, he couldn’t help but look out toward the fading edges.
{Won't you come}
"She did," Lynette says, putting a hand on Mateo's arm, "but she saved everyone. Their daughter." She looks across from her, at her own double. It's a stranger feeling than she was expecting when they started trying to save the other otter. She's aware that compared to the Traveler, she's the more flawed. More scarred. Physically and not. She never believed there was a version of her who was good, only those who tried it on like an ill-fitting coat.
{Black hole sun}
As Lynette feeds power into El Umbral, she feels something that she's felt the last time on the rooftop of the Deveaux Building. She feels a hunger in the void, a yawning neediness. Not entirely unlike an empty stomach, in spite of all of the power she's flooding into the portal, it hungers for more, needs more fuel to make that last push. It wants everything she has. And perhaps most frighteningly, more.
{Won't you come}
"Where are we," she opts to ask, instead of voicing her more existential questions.
{Won't you come}
Reaching a hand up, Lynette wipes the blood and tears from her face. Her struggle to open the portal still weighs on her, as if she were still holding it open. "We were always coming here," she says, turning to Ruiz. "El Umbral picked where we landed, not me. But," she looks up at the kaleidoscope of cities around them, turning in place as if she might be able to find her home among them. Her words are lost, but obvious. Because they landed everywhere and nowhere.
{Black hole sun}
Then it starts.
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“Caspar was hiding something from me,” is how Adam chooses to start his explanation. “He handled the redactions, held our physical memories, but he took something to the grave with him. More than just guilt over what he’d done or anything… like that. I’d sent two people he had no way of recognizing out to bring him in and he still went and shot himself. Like he was trying to protect someone.” Certainly not the monster he was keeping in the shipping container, a monster Adam hasn’t so much as bothered to bring up.
Adam closes his eyes, struggling to find a suitable answer. “The real answer is that knowledge is power,” is the tired old phrase he trots out, but puts a new spin on, “and the enemy we fought used our own knowledge against us.” Running both hands through his short hair, Adam seems at his wits end. “The explosion,” he explains, “that was a who, not a what. A lot like what happened to the Petrelli boy, except intentional this time. A being, the one you’ve probably been remembering pieces of…”
Adam looks up at Ben with something in his eyes that Ryans has never seen before. Fear.
“It’s name is{pop}
OOC Date: February 11, 2020
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RADIO: …which brings us to our next guest tonight. He's the author of "Responsibilities of the Impossible Age" and host of the CFRB talk show Impossible Hours, George Lineham. George, thank you for being here tonight.
RADIO: It's my pleasure. My pleasure. Great show so far.
RADIO: So, George, for the listeners at home can you tell us a little bit about your new book and what your show is about?
RADIO: Sure, sure, yeah. So, most people know that I was a Host from 2008 to 2013 in Toronto
RADIO: And for the viewers— can you define Host?
RADIO: Oh right, right. Yeah. So I was on the Canadian end of the Ferrymen's delivery system, when they were moving people out of the US before and during the war.
RADIO: So, in essence, you hosted refugees.
RADIO: Yes, secretly of course. Well, an open secret.
RADIO: Thank you, now— sorry— your book?
RADIO: Right, right. Yeah so, one of the reasons I wrote Responsibilities of an Impossible Age— which I didn't expect to take off the way it did— was because of my own internal struggle. I knew I was different— Expressive— since 2002. An empath. Emotion-sensing.
RADIO: That must have been hard as a Host.
RADIO: Oh yeah, I didn't know how to turn it off back then. I was really depressed.
RADIO: So, how did this inspire your book?
RADIO: Well, after the war ended I really had to do a hard look back on why I became a Host. How I got wrapped up in the Ferrymen— and that's all covered in the book— but… I felt it was a responsibility. Not because it was like, obviously, a moral imperative. But because of who I am.
RADIO: Your ability?
RADIO: Yeah, exactly.
RADIO: Talk me through that.
RADIO: So, people like myself— Expressives— we've been given this… you know, this gift. These powers. I realized that, you know 1% of all humans on Earth are like me, but that's such a small subsection.
RADIO: Vanishingly small.
RADIO: Right! So, I thought— and this is one of those things philosophers will debate— but it feels like we owe it to the rest of humanity to use our abilities to better society.
RADIO: And that's what your book is about.
RADIO: Absolutely. I lived my entire life outside of the American system, in relative safety, in Canada. That's a level of privilege that just— it resonated with me. With my ability. I had to help because I have a… you know— it's essential.
RADIO: Now, George, there's people who've read your book and ask the question "How do people know what's best for society?" Where do Expressives draw the line between helping and interventionalism, and when does it become—
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RADIO: "Don't look, don't look."
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RADIO: the shadows breathe
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RADIO: Whispering me away from you
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RADIO: "Don't wake at night to watch her sleep
RADIO: {Good morning Mr. Naidu}
RADIO: You know that you will always lose
RADIO: {I would like a status report.}
RADIO: This trembling
RADIO: {Confirmed death, Nathalie LeRoux.}
RADIO: Adored
RADIO: {And Mr. Cardinal?}
RADIO: Tousled bird mad girl"
RADIO: {He is now the host.}
RADIO: But every night I burn
RADIO: {Amazing, isn't it?}
RADIO: But every night I call your name
RADIO: {Sir?}
RADIO: Every night I burn
RADIO: {It's all happening.}
RADIO: Every night I fall again
RADIO: "Oh don't talk of love"
RADIO: {Just as we were told, yes.}
RADIO: the shadows purr
RADIO: {The Resurrection is at hand.}
RADIO: Murmuring me away from you
RADIO: {It won't be long now.}
RADIO: "Don't talk of worlds that never were
RADIO: {What of the final component?}
RADIO: The end is all that's ever true
RADIO: {A team is preparing for retrieval as we speak, Sir.}
RADIO: There's nothing you can ever say
RADIO: {Then we just need to bring them together.}
RADIO: Nothing you can ever do"
RADIO: {They are conditioned to care for one-another.}
RADIO: Still every night I burn
RADIO: {Everything has led to this moment.}
RADIO: Every night I scream your name
RADIO: {Mr. Cardinal, the black and white conduits… not in the configuration we expected, but the signs were all there.}
RADIO: Every night I burn
RADIO: {They almost undid everything, though. All those years ago}
RADIO: Every night the dream's the same
RADIO: {Arthur Petrelli had to be removed from the equation.}
RADIO: Every night I burn
RADIO: {But we're finally back on track, aren't we?}
RADIO: Waiting for my only friend
RADIO: {As soon as Mr. Cardinal returns to the States.}
RADIO: Every night I burn
RADIO: {He'll go to save her.}
RADIO: Waiting for the world to end
RADIO: {He is predictable.}
RADIO: "Just paint your face"
RADIO: {Like any chess piece, he moves in patterns.}
RADIO: the shadows smile
RADIO: {Straight to her.}
RADIO: Slipping me away from you
RADIO: {Claire Bennet}
RADIO: Oh it doesn't…
RADIO: {*pop*}
OOC Date: May 23, 2020
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RADIO: Here's Aquarius with, Let the Sunshine In
RADIO: When the moon is in the Seventh House
RADIO: And Jupiter aligns with Mars
RADIO: Then peace will guide the planets
RADIO: And love will steer the stars
RADIO: This is the dawning of the age of– {static}
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RADIO: You're listening to NPR.
RADIO: If you've been paying attention to the news lately, be it through newspapers, the radio, of those of you who have television here in the States, you've likely had one thing on your mind over the last few weeks: November 8th.
RADIO: November 8th, 2018 will be just five short years since General Timothy Moritz authorized a nuclear strike against the United States. This unfathomable act resulted in the destruction of the American way of life as we know it, the creation of the Dead Zone, and in many ways signaled the beginning of the end of the Second American Civil War.
RADIO: We're five years gone from the end of the darkest hour in American history, but it's hard for the anniversary of the war's ostensible beginning to come around without looking back on how we got there. How our nation was divided along lines not only genetic, but also moral. How arguably good people allowed themselves to be manipulated by the government into carrying out atrocities in our own back yard, and how we as a people can prevent that from happening again.
RADIO: We're going to start the program trying to bring some understanding to the very emotional and divisive events of the last seven years. In a few minutes, we'll speak with two individuals who've given a lot of thought to how the country gets beyond the tribalism that precipitated the Second American Civil War.
RADIO: But first, to understand the pressure behind those lines, we have to look back at the centerpiece of this conflict and understand how we came to this point: ordinary people, with extraordinary abilities. Joining us in the studio to discuss that topic is Ilsa Larange, author of "Living in a Mythic Age."
RADIO: Ilsa, thank you for coming on the show today.
RADIO: Ilsa: Thank you for having me, Michael.
RADIO: NPR: In your book, you talk at length about how SLC-Expressives have been a part of modern society since, at least, World War II. Your exhaustive research into the records made public during the Albany Trials has expanded our understanding of the topic considerably, but for those at home who may not be familiar with your work, why don't you break it down for them?
RADIO: Ilsa: Yes, absolutely. It's– Evolved– SLC-Expressives. What came to light during the Albany Trials, through public record of Company documents, is a history of mistreatment and experimentation on SLC-Expressive humans ostensibly started by the Nazi party in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and carried forward by the American government following the conclusion of World War II. A global conspiracy to keep people – people with gifts – a secret from the world at large. This secret, Project Icarus, is the core of all our problems.
RADIO: NPR: And could you elaborate on that? How is a seventy year old program at fault for the November 8th riots? For the Civil War?
RADIO: Ilsa: When you look back – when you trace the events of the last seventy years out – you see everything pointing back to Icarus. Lyuba Kolosova writes about how Kazimir Volken was involved in these experiments in the 1940s in her book Wolves of Valhalla. Furthermore, the United States' continuance of Icarus in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in the formation of what would become the Company at the Coyote Sands relocation center.
RADIO: NPR: Mnhm.
RADIO: Ilsa: The secrecy around this, the uh… the willful conspiracy to defraud the people of not only America but the world at large, it's staggering. If we didn't find out about SLC-Expressive from the bomb, from the lies and conspiracy woven by the Company and the Petrelli family, would we have had such a violent reaction to their existence? If Kazimir Volken hadn't been brought over to America in the 1950s, would we have the Vanguard? I posit in my book that if Project Icarus never started? The world would be a wholly different place.
RADIO: NPR: Fascinating. So how does this tie in to the current political climate, where the United States has done an about-face on its policy regarding SLC-Expressive people, where the rights of people with abilities are dramatically improved?
RADIO: Ilsa: It's a cautionary tale. It's literally the parable of Icarus. People sought to control what they didn't understand, and they flew too high. They flew straight into the sun, melted their wings, and they crashed to Earth. Except the impact of that crash was like an atomic bomb, and we're still feeling the effects today.
RADIO: NPR: So, Ilsa, how far back do you think this all goes? SLC-Expressives, have they been here all along walking beside us? Or was there – somewhere down the line – a point where there weren't any. Where somewhere, someone woke up and said… I'm different.
RADIO: Ilsa: I wonder about this myself, if we can look back far enough to find the Adam or Eve of SLC-Expressives. If we look to mythology as a road map to the supernatural, we see examples of Expressives all throughout history. It's differentiating real people from fictional accounts that's the real struggle, and the topic of my upcoming book, The First.
RADIO: NPR: Before we go on to our other guests, Ilsa, if there was a first… what do you think they were like?
RADIO: Ilsa: I think they weren't all that different from us. They were an ordinary person who woke up one day and discovered the world had become a much more magical place…
RADIO: Ilsa: …and then were persecuted.
RADIO: NPR: Ilsa, thank you for coming on the show today.
RADIO: Ilsa: My pleasure, Michael.
RADIO: NPR: Up next, we will be discussing the divisions in America that led up to the Second American Civil War and the global attitudes that mirror those fires of war. Joining me after the commercial break will be Secretary of State Catherine Chesterfield, and SESA Spokesperson Alice Shaw, next on, All Things Considered.
RADIO: You've been listening to a broadcast of All Things Considered from November 7th, 2018. We'll continue with this classic broadcast after th– {static}
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RADIO: From the HIGH DESERT in the GREAT AMERICAN SOUTHWEST!
RADIO: I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones.
RADIO: Each and every one, covered like a blanket.
RADIO: By this program, Coast to Coast AM.
RADIO: The largest program of it's type… in the world.
RADIO: I'm Art Bell, and it's great to be here.
RADIO: …and I am privileged to be escorting you… through the weekend.
RADIO: So I'm going to just… take a little dip into the news here. What news is, anyway.
RADIO: …and wouldn't you know it. Just wouldn't you know it.
RADIO: New York's in the news.
RADIO: The Biiiig Apple.
RADIO: Well, we all know somebody named Sylar took a bite out of that.
RADIO: But people are still kicking.
RADIO: Kicking indeed.
RADIO: In Brooklyn, we have a report of the murder of a respected NYPD detective. Seems like that is just always a high-danger position.
RADIO: Detective Richard Myron, fifty-two years old, murdered in the attempt to arrest known Evolved fugitive Tyler Case.
RADIO: Can you imagine that? Retirement age, going out in the line of duty.
RADIO: Now, the Department of Homeland Insecurity…
RADIO: …they're tying this to the group we've talked about on these airwaves quite a bit recently.
RADIO: That's right, Phoenix.
RADIO: Now, apparently there was some graffiti near the murder scene.
RADIO: And the feds think that's a smoking gun.
RADIO: Now, I'm no stranger to a tall tale or a stretch
RADIO: But that one, for me, that feels like a bit of a reach.
RADIO: But… in their infinite wisdom, the NYPD is offering a reward of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for information that leads to the arrests of Phoenix members wanted in connection to Myron's murder.
RADIO: Now if we go a few pages in this newspaper.
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RADIO: Back here in the weather…
RADIO: {crinkling}
RADIO: Snow on Staten Island!
RADIO: …and nowhere else.
RADIO: Now I've had some people calling in, saying that the government's got the HAARP back up and running.
RADIO: But as weird as it sounds, listeners, we somehow live in simpler times now.
RADIO: A twitch of the nose, a flick of the wrist, and I Dream of Genie brings the snow.
RADIO: No Darrens needed.
RADIO: So, okay. Enough news. Right?
RADIO: I have a guest tonight, he's paranormal investigator and we've had him on the show before.
RADIO: Everyone, all of you out there across the cosmos, put your hands together for Terrence Frady.
RADIO: Terrence: Thanks Art.
RADIO: Terrence: It's always good to be on here. Always good to be here. Always.
RADIO: Art: Now, Terrence. Last time you were on the program, we had a very animated conversation about terrestrial radio signals and ancient alien broadcasts.
RADIO: Art: Things got a little heated.
RADIO: Terrence: They sure did.
RADIO: Art: But, before we get on all that, Terrence, why don't you introduce yourself for our new listeners who might not have heard your other appearances.
RADIO: Terrence: Of course, of course.
RADIO: Terrence: Well.
RADIO: Terrence: I'm Terrence Frady, I'm an electrician from Queens. Fifty-six years old, retired Army Corps of Engineers.
RADIO: Terrence: Short-wave radio enthusiast.
RADIO: Terrence: You can find me on the airwaves under the monicker Ironsiding.
RADIO: Art: He's very punch when you get him on the short-wave, folks.
RADIO: Terrence: It's true. It's true.
RADIO: Art: Sorry Terrence, continue.
RADIO: Terrence: So, no that's. That's enough I think, right?
RADIO: Art: Okay, so. Terrence. You told me you have something today, something you've wanted to go over.
RADIO: Art: Something exciting.
RADIO: Terrence: Well, I do. I do. So I think I've mentioned my father Howard, before. He was a signals specialist during World War II. Purple Heart and Silver Star.
RADIO: Art: Howard, wherever you are, we thank you for your service. Sorry, go on Terrence.
RADIO: Terrence: Right. So, most of my father's things… they're in the attic. His old radio equipment, recordings he made in his studio. It's taken me years to go through it all since he passed.
RADIO: Art: My condolences, Terrence.
RADIO: Terrence: Thanks, Art.
RADIO: Terrence: So, I found a recording in my father's things, reel-to-reel. It was in an ammo box.
RADIO: Art: Fascinating. Go on.
RADIO: Terrence: Would it be alright if I played it for you?
RADIO: Art: Is there any profanity? {laughing}
RADIO: Terrence: No, no. It's clean.
RADIO: Art: Then by all means, Terrence. Wow us!
RADIO: Terrence: Okay, let me…
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {whirring}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: Man's Voice: It's… repeating.
RADIO: Man's Voice: Three times now.
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: German?
RADIO: Man's Voice: No, well, I'm not sure.
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: You're not sure if it's German?
RADIO: Man's Voice: I think it's Morse.
RADIO: Man's Voice: But it's gibberish.
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: Let me listen.
RADIO: {shuffling}
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: Turn the volume up. Five o'clock.
RADIO: {shuffling}
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: No the beeps are interference, there's a wave pattern.
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: I'm going to switch it to the recorder so we can print it.
RADIO: {screeching}
RADIO: Man's Voice: What is it?
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: I'm not sure. It started when the lights did?
RADIO: Man's Voice: Yes, sir.
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: Stop the recording.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: Art: That sure was something, Terrence. But I'm not entirely sure what that something was.
RADIO: Terrence: {awkward laughter}
RADIO: Terrence: Well, I'm not sure if my father or his superior officer were equipped to recognize what it was in 1945.
RADIO: Terrence: But it is a wave form.
RADIO: Art: Meaning?
RADIO: Terrence: It was an audio expression of binary code.
RADIO: Terrence: A radio broadcast on an ultra-high frequency. They barely had the technology to pick that out of the air back then, let alone broadcast on that frequency. They thought it was a secret, encoded German transmission.
RADIO: Art: You have my attention, and the world's attention, Terrence. What did it say?
RADIO: Terrence: It begins
RADIO: Terrence: this is a message from the year 2011 stop
RADIO: Art: Well now, two years down our road.
RADIO: Terrence: message intended for adam monroe stop
RADIO: Terrence: you must stop project icarus at all costs stop
RADIO: Terrence: you must destroy all evidence of its research stop
RADIO: Terrence: proof in three days there will be an earthquake in new zeland stop
RADIO: Terrence: aftershocks ten days after stop
RADIO: Terrence: i know about the dragon stop
RADIO: Terrence: destroy project icarus stop
RADIO: Art: Terrence, I have my thoughts. But I get to talk all the time. What do you think about this?
RADIO: Terrence: Well, I think it's proof of time travel, Art. What we have here is an advanced communication, sent from the year 2001, quite possibly to other time travelers with equally advanced equipment in the past.
RADIO: Terrence: Why else would they broadcast on a frequency too high for most contemporary technology to receive?
RADIO: Art: And do you know what the US Military did with this information?
RADIO: Terrence: No, I know his superior officer had the original of the tape confiscated. He'd told me the story a few times. I didn't know – maybe he didn't remember – that there was a backup reel.
RADIO: Art: And do we know the name of your father's superior officer? Maybe there's a listener out there who can connect the dots.
RADIO: Terrence: Raith.
RADIO: Terrence: Marcus Raith.
RADIO: Art: Well, listeners, if any of you out there are related to this Marcus Raith, we've got the lines open. Your father, or grandfather might have been involved in covering up a time-travel conspiracy.
RADIO: Art: We
RADIO: {dead air}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static} – is a secure channel?
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: No.
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Purgatory call, then.
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: Affirmative.
RADIO: Older Man's Voice: Call-sign confirmation?
RADIO: Woman's Voice: Queen of Cups.
RADIO: Man's Voice: The queen's market is tidy.
RADIO: Queen of Cups: Call-sign confirmation?
RADIO: Man's Voice: King of Swords
RADIO: Queen of Cups: Proceed
RADIO: King of Swords: Project Watchful Father in operation.
RADIO: Queen of Cups: Number?
RADIO: King of Swords: Three.
RADIO: Queen of Cups: Verify?
RADIO: King of Swords: Confirmed.
RADIO: Queen of Cups: Source?
RADIO: King of Swords: Unknown, source trace lost.
RADIO: Queen of Cups: Approximation?
RADIO: King of Swords: Estimate 61.642504, -143.471773
RADIO: Queen of Cups: Confirmed. Hawks in flight.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {beep}
RADIO: {beep}
RADIO: {beep}
RADIO: Tired Man: It's 3am.
RADIO: King of Swords: Kershner is on to you. The tests.
RADIO: Tired Man: {deep sigh}
RADIO: Tired Man: It's almost time, what's she going to do sick her fucking attack dog on me?
RADIO: King of Swords: Pardon, sir?
RADIO: Tired Man: Nothing.
RADIO: Tired Man: Nothing that matters.
RADIO: Tired Man: {sigh}
RADIO: Tired Man: Get me Damian.
RADIO: King of Swords: Now?
RADIO: Tired Man: I mean, you know, whenever you've got a minute. When you're not calling me at three in the fucking morn–
RADIO: King of Swords: I get it.
RADIO: Tired Man: Des.
RADIO: Desmond: Yeah?
RADIO: Tired Man: Get your mother somewhere safe.
RADIO: Desmond: Where… is that?
RADIO: Tired Man: {tired laugh}
RADIO: Tired Man: I guess that's a good fucking question.
RADIO: Tired Man: Isn't it?
RADIO: {silence}
RADIO: Tired Man: Away. From the cities. Uh.
RADIO: Tired Man: The Renautas house.
RADIO: Tired Man: It's remote.
RADIO: Desmond: For how long?
RADIO: Tired Man: An instant?
RADIO: Tired Man: Or forever.
RADIO: Tired Man: Somewhere between there.
RADIO: Desmond: …yes, sir.
RADIO: Tired Man: And Des?
RADIO: Desmond: Mmn?
RADIO: Tired Man: I'm sorry.
RADIO: Desmond: For what?
RADIO: Tired Man: Pick something.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: La mer
RADIO: Qu'on voit danser
RADIO: Le long des golfes clairs
RADIO: A des reflets d'argent
RADIO: {I don't even know anymore…}
RADIO: {I don't understand what the Company found here.}
RADIO: {What they'd go through such lengths to hide.}
RADIO: {I sent the hardware to the Arcology, Kravid’s team can take it apart.}
RADIO: {What was my mother doing?}
RADIO: {What did she find that scared them so much?}
RADIO: {I've wasted a month here. For nothing.}
RADIO: {I'm just running out the clock, it feels like.}
RADIO: {Less than a year to go now.}
RADIO: {Once we hit that threshold…}
RADIO: {The day prophecy dies…}
RADIO: {I can't keep doing this.}
RADIO: {I'm so tired.}
RADIO: La mer
RADIO: Des reflets changeants
RADIO: Sous la pluie
RADIO: {Three days left.}
RADIO: {Everything is lined up.}
RADIO: {It all looks the fucking same.}
RADIO: {I am the cause of my own misfortune.}
RADIO: {I'm going to stand there.}
RADIO: {Say my lines.}
RADIO: {Like a fucking script.}
RADIO: {Then roll the dice.}
RADIO: {Again.}
RADIO: {Hoping for a better turn.}
RADIO: La mer
RADIO: Au ciel d'ete
RADIO: Confond, ses blancs moutons
RADIO: Avec les anges si purs
RADIO: {November 7th.}
RADIO: {Coin's in the air.}
RADIO: {Kravid's come up empty.}
RADIO: {They weren't able to rebuild it after the accident.}
RADIO: {Mateo doesn't know anything useful.}
RADIO: {Time isn't a river.}
RADIO: {It's a fucking grave.}
RADIO: {And I just keep digging.}
RADIO: La mer
RADIO: Bergère d'azur
RADIO: Infinie… Oh, oui, eh!
RADIO: {Christmas Day in the orphanage used to be like this.}
RADIO: {Anticipation.}
RADIO: {Disappointment.}
RADIO: {Everyone here is so confident.}
RADIO: {But I just…}
RADIO: {I…}
RADIO: {Wait.}
RADIO: Voyez
RADIO: Près des étangs
RADIO: Ces grands roseaux mouillés.
RADIO: Voyez ces oiseaux blancs
RADIO: {Time isn't a river.}
RADIO: {Time isn't a line.}
RADIO: {It's a fucking circle.}
RADIO: {The black.}
RADIO: {It's a recursive loop.}
RADIO: {An ouroboros.}
RADIO: {It's…}
RADIO: {Oh my God.}
RADIO: {Charles.}
RADIO: {How.}
RADIO: Et ces…
RADIO: *pop*
OOC Date: May 23, 2020
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {static} – e world was on fire and no one could save me
RADIO: But you
RADIO: {I need to ask you something.}
RADIO: It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
RADIO: {What?}
RADIO: I'd never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
RADIO: {After I was… Taken. Where were you?}
RADIO: And I'd never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you
RADIO: {I… what do you mean?}
RADIO: No, I don't want to fall in love
RADIO: {When it took my mind. Where were you?}
RADIO: No, I don't want to fall in love
RADIO: {I… I ran.}
RADIO: With you
RADIO: {Why?}
RADIO: With you
RADIO: {I don't know.}
RADIO: What a wicked game you played to make me feel this way
RADIO: {I don't believe you.}
RADIO: What a wicked thing to do to let me dream of you
RADIO: {I was scared. I couldn't–wouldn't–be that thing's slave again. Ever.}
RADIO: What a wicked thing to say you never felt this way
RADIO: {You could have helped.}
RADIO: What a wicked thing to do to make me dream of you
RADIO: {I– I couldn't. I can't. I tried, and I failed.}
RADIO: And I don't want to fall in love
RADIO: {What does that mean?}
RADIO: No, I don't want to fall in love
RADIO: {It means I was fucking scared, Adam.}
RADIO: With you
RADIO: The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
RADIO: {You don't think I was scared? A prisoner in my own mind? Killing my friends?}
RADIO: It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
RADIO: {Adam. I wasn't just– scared of it.}
RADIO: I'd never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
RADIO: {I was! I was bloody terrified! It made me try to kill a child!}
RADIO: And I'd never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you
RADIO: {I was terrified of Claudia, Adam!}
RADIO: No, I don't want to fall in love
RADIO: {What the fuck are you on about? Claudia wasn't pos–}
RADIO: No, I don't want to fall in love
RADIO: {You had a family!}
RADIO: With you
RADIO: {You had three daughters! You were married! You were in love!}
RADIO: {Yaeko…}
RADIO: With you
RADIO: {Don't, Adam.}
RADIO: No, I
RADIO: {Just don't.}
RADIO: Nobody loves no one
RADIO: *pop*
OOC Date: May 24, 2020
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {humming}
RADIO: {where are you}
RADIO: {i am so alone here}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {who am i}
RADIO: {in this emptiness of memory}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {maybe if i}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {listen}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {are you}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: here?
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: Green to this.
RADIO: {Hey, kid. Mm, still a bit bright for me.}
- Getting to Know the Neighbors Redux from the Endgame String Theory spinoff.
RADIO: Where's a manual when you need one?
RADIO: {Hey, what's up?}
RADIO: The back of your hand, no good to you now.
RADIO: {Just the sky, tonight. Fortunately. Sorry. Habit, I need to watch the skies these days. Drone technology's gotten scary… not that I need to tell you that.}
RADIO: Right angles,
RADIO: {Yeah. It'll be worse in Perth. Sidney.}
RADIO: It's all shaped wrong when it should be rolling.
RADIO: {So what's your motivation, kid? What drives you?}
RADIO: You're pining every trick this box hasn't got.
RADIO: {Keeping the innocents out of the fight. Basically. Fighting for those who can't, who aren't able.}
RADIO: It's alright…
RADIO: {A noble enough goal, So, given the power… how would you do that? What's "your" ideal endgame situation for all this?}
RADIO: Didn't I tell you so?
RADIO: {Noble enough. Rather do what I can to keep people from ending up like me or anyone else. I'm not a precog, just a boy with a gun. But I don't know if the war'll ever end. My dream? Would be… acceptance that some of us are born able to do extraordinary things. Without all the bad.}
RADIO: It's alright.
RADIO: {That'd be nice, wouldn't it? It'd be nice. But it's human nature to envy what you don't have. And when you can't have it, no matter what? That turns to fear. To hate. We're not a socially evolved enough species to deal with it.}
RADIO: It's all in the process.
RADIO: {Which is why it's a dream, and the war isn't going to end. But I'm in it until my time's done and I've helped train up the next group of soldiers. Who're hopefully adults and not kids. What I said before, about the big picture… Just came out wrong. I'm sorry.}
RADIO: It's alright.
RADIO: {Most soldiers start as kids. It's one of the things that people don't like to realize about war. That when they send off a force… half of them can't even fucking legally drink yet. But if we don't do this, there won't be any more kids. Not for us, anyway.}
RADIO: You're all set to go.
RADIO: {Which is one reason why I'm staying in. I didn't choose to be here, it just… happened. And I remember clearly where I was and what was happening when I decided where I stand. There's still going to be kids for our kind. That place that the future kids came back from isn't going to exist.}
RADIO: So don't give me that look…
RADIO: {It already doesn't. That timeline's gone. Just a bunch of strings on the floor, now, they made sure of that the second they came back… the whole timeline was my fault anyway. Well. Not me. The other me.}
RADIO: 'Cause I know you're up to it.
RADIO: {Doesn't matter now. So what's the plan? What's the first move that gets the group out of hiatus and back into action without lighting up the grid?}
RADIO: My favorite thing
RADIO: {No idea. Waiting to see what sort of intel Liz has for me. I don't make decisions without enough information.}
RADIO: To walk out on the bridge and look back on Manhattan
RADIO: {Mom's got a lot of intel. We should be getting more in a couple of days, stuff that might even be less than second or third hand. From Perth.}
RADIO: Under sunset covers while the city lights up
RADIO: {Good. Good, I'll look over it.}
RADIO: You'll find yours
RADIO: {Yeah. What?}
RADIO: Whoever, whatever, you need, it'll be here.
RADIO: {Mom?}
RADIO: Guaranteed under these golden old streets
RADIO: {Yeah. She is. Has been since… Events brought me into the group, pretty much. And it just made sense. So she's Mom.}
RADIO: It's alright…
RADIO: {She's good at it. I never… really dealt with her side of things personally. You all. She worked better with them. You.}
RADIO: 'Cause I'm telling you so.
RADIO: {Jaiden, Graeme, and I've been with her pretty much continuously for like… three years. I don't know how things were before I became part of this, but… Yeah. We're close. We have each other's backs. Doesn't mean that you're an outsider. If shit hits the fan, I'll have your back too. Just… I never knew who you were. You know?}
RADIO: It's alright.
RADIO: {Of course I'm an outsider. I was always an outsider. You all… You're family. Were even then. It's a luxury I can't really – couldn't ever, really – afford.}
RADIO: It's all in the process.
RADIO: {None of us can. But if we could afford it, then it wouldn't be as important.}
RADIO: It's alright.
RADIO: {That's not what I mean. Ask Liz. She understands.}
RADIO: You're all set to go.
RADIO: {How about I ask you instead. After supper.}
RADIO: So don't give me that look…
RADIO: {You could. But she could explain it better. And you'd believe it, from here. It'd just sound… bad, from me.}
RADIO: 'Cause I know you're up to it.
RADIO: {But sure. C'mon…}
RADIO: Just one place.
RADIO: {Food should be ready soon.}
RADIO: Just one place, to make amends.
RADIO: Just one friend…
RADIO: that's all it takes.
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {not there}
RADIO: {gone}
RADIO: {where are you}
RADIO: {please}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {please}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {maybe}
RADIO: here
RADIO: I
RADIO: I will be king
RADIO: {So, DOD is on board, right? We're all set then.}
RADIO: {Well done Tracy. Nathan. Nice to see you.}
- Transcript of Heroes Season 3, Episode 12: Our Father
RADIO: And you, you will be queen
RADIO: {What are you doing here?}
RADIO: Though nothing will drive them away
RADIO: {It's my job senator…Finding opportunities for you.}
RADIO: We can beat them, just for one day
RADIO: {Have you reconsidered my offer son?}
RADIO: We can be Heroes, just for one day
RADIO: {I agree with what you're trying to do. The world's a dangerous place and it's not getting any better. We need a leader. Somebody with vision. And that somebody isn't you.}
RADIO: And you, you can be mean.
RADIO: {Is it you?}
RADIO: And I, I'll drink all the time
RADIO: { I'm taking over Pinehearst. The complete program. I'll work out of my office, we can use my resources.}
RADIO: 'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
RADIO: {Who do you think you're talking too? I made you.}
RADIO: Yes we're lovers, and that is that
RADIO: {You wouldn't have gone to all this trouble to make me, if you didn't need me.}
RADIO: Though nothing will keep us together
RADIO: {You wanted a legitimate face for Pinehearst, a person with authority…Senator Nathan Petrelli.}
RADIO: We could steal time, just for one day
RADIO: {Alright Nathan. You win. Brief him on what we've done.}
RADIO: We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
RADIO: {You're angry.}
RADIO: What d'you say?
RADIO: {What do you expect? You went behind my back. You're supposed to be working for me.}
RADIO: I, I wish you could swim
RADIO: {That's exactly what I was doing, I'm on your side Nathan.}
RADIO: Like the dolphins, the dolphins can swim.
RADIO: {Your father sees the problems of this world: war, terrorism…he wants to make it a better place.}
RADIO: Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
RADIO: {You have no idea what my father is.}
RADIO: We can beat them, for ever and ever
RADIO: {I know he's crossed some lines, but he's a vision for the future, and you're in it as President of the United States. And that is where you belong Nathan, and I belong there with you.}
RADIO: Oh we can be Heroes
RADIO: {We'd like to call it intelligent design. Until now abilities have been random, given to good people and bad, whether they deserve them or not. When we perfect the formula, we get to choose who gets what power…and we've chosen the best…meet the future.}
RADIO: Just for one day.
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {gone}
RADIO: {lost}
RADIO: {so many stars}
RADIO: {so much darkness}
RADIO: {where}
RADIO: {are you}
RADIO: {where}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {maybe}
RADIO: {here}
RADIO: If you ever need someone to cry to
- Song is “I Will Be There” by Odessa
RADIO: {Shit.}
RADIO: If you ever need someone to hold you
RADIO: {So I'm not still high from the LSD yesterday. This will not make people think the Mas Girls are a cooperative sort but you're alive and here and I am so happy to see you. But we must be quick cousin, What. How. Who?}
- An exchange between Eve and Odessa (The Diner)
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Mazdak. I have to go back to where they’re keeping me holed up when we’re done here, but… I needed to see you.}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {I couldn’t come to you. It’s only a matter of time before people figure out I’m not a corpse. My window is very short. I don’t know what they want with me, but I was told I’m alive because of you.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {They were always in the background, now they've been everywhere. All over the headlines. Extra extra. They will be watching.}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {Who would be doing such a favor for me, for our family? Are the others dead or was it just you? What messes we find ourselves in.}
RADIO: If you ever need someone
RADIO: {Clothes, some pretty things for you. Pants! They aren't mine. But they are nice. Dresses as well, wear them. One was your aunt’s. Money, 10k. Don't spend it all in one place, multiple bills. Stay fed.}
RADIO: To just love you
RADIO: {Phone. Two. I have a lot of burners. We mustn't ever be pinned to one place no no. Slippery as the eel that's what we are. Means to defend. Every woman needs it. One gun. Two of my best knives. Bullet bullet. Keep them close. Oh and fun. Pop some molly, a little green, tabs of acid if you're looking for a little introspection. Our favorite blue fairy ever and some very hot and heavy reading. Mean Heat. It's a classic! }
RADIO: If you ever need someone
RADIO: {You are so good to me. I hate pants. Look at these things. A year I've had to wear there. Don’t get me wrong. They’re insanely comfortable. But, boy do I ever miss skirts and dresses.}
RADIO: To simply adore you
RADIO: {I don’t know if anyone else made it out.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Apparently you have a friend who calls herself the oni?}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {"Those legs were made to be shown yes yes yes! Oni? As in ON1 as in Asi motherfucking- What in the fucking balloon ducks is this? She's a wizard with the machines, technopath. Japan's finest… she went rogue. Showed us around Japan, helped me and my friends stick it to Adam once or twice or three times. Seems she went rogue again, hm.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Well, I suppose it's good I'm so friendly. But Asi is running with a dangerous group, I can't judge because of PARIAH but the connections to Adam are staggerin- ah wait! Hello my lovely.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {I don’t know what her real name is, but I can only assume they’re probably one and the same. How is that not melted?}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {I can’t judge people for their dangerous acquaintances, being as how I myself am a dangerous acquaintance. Would… Would you tell Richard I’m alive? Tell him you saw it in a dream or you can feel it in your bones or something.}
RADIO: From the mountains to the sea
RADIO: {Strong women are always deemed dangerous. "I will tell him, for you. Not that I've seen you yes but that I have a feeling, that I just know. The Whispers might no longer speak on my ear but I still know things, feel things in the air. Like they are taunting me… or calling me to come home.}
RADIO: And the city
RADIO: {I know the feeling. I appreciate this, Eve. Really.}
RADIO: From the valleys to the moon
RADIO: {I should probably take your gifts and go, but I’ll reach out again when I can. Thank you. Truly.}
RADIO: In every country
RADIO: {Wait. Actually, before you go…}
- This is where we diverge in the wood. This is not how this scene ended.
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {You forget a pair of pants?}
RADIO: Standing beside you
RADIO: {No, no. Not pants. Boats. I forgot boats. The big boat.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {You… got me a boat?}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {No, no, cousin. I'm leaving for one. With Hot Hands. We're going to find Adam.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Are you… is this an invitation? Or…}
RADIO: Standing beside you
RADIO: {Maybe? I don't want to get you in trouble, but I want you there. Can you? Could you? Maybe?}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {They'll notice I'm gone, Eve.}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {Mohinder might swallow his tongue in protest.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Oh Momo can put a sock in it. Always worrying! You should come. Maybe we come back late… maybe we don't come back at all. Maybe you live on the boat!}
RADIO: Standing beside you
RADIO: {Where is he? His big boat? How far are we talking?}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Far enough, but not too far. Kimbo is coming too.}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {Wait, who? Is it just you three?}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Just us, Kaylee is busy-busy with police work.}
RADIO: Standing beside you
RADIO: {You… probably shouldn't go with just three people. Okay. Fine, fuck it. I'll go. But we have to make a stop first.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {Wherever you want, cousin. What're we getting?}
RADIO: Standing by your side
RADIO: {My sword.}
RADIO: I will be there.
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {no}
RADIO: {that…}
RADIO: {won't do}
RADIO: {not at all}
RADIO: {screech}
RADIO: In every country
RADIO: {Go go, get back to safety you've been out enough. You are loved, you are cared for. Please stay out of trouble, I'd had to have to poof in. Heh.}
RADIO: I will be there
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {better}
RADIO: {safer}
RADIO: {the child}
RADIO: {dangerous}
RADIO: {the serpent}
RADIO: {serves}
RADIO: {but still}
RADIO: {so}
RADIO: {alone}
OOC Date: April 29, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {I didn't like it then. I don't like it now.}
RADIO: {This isn't about personal preferences. It was, then. This is about survival. This is about rights.}
RADIO: {Is it? Where were you seven years ago?}
RADIO: {A different person. Faith comes to people at different points in their lives. I found mine slower than perhaps you'd approve.}
RADIO: {It isn't my approval you should be seeking. The people we've hurt. The things our ideology did to this country, the roads it paved…}
RADIO: {You can't blame us for this country. They salted the earth before we even existed. But it won't stop. Fear is a flame, child. It won't stop until there's nothing left to burn.}
RADIO: {I'm not a child.}
RADIO: {Then stop idealizing like one.}
RADIO: {You're right about fear… it being a flame. I just don't understand why you're so insistent on stoking it.}
RADIO: {You misunderstand. Fear is a byproduct. I'm not interested in stoking fear, that was the old ways. I'm interested in finishing the war you started.}
RADIO: {I made mistakes. People died, because of me. Because of the choices I made. It doesn't matter how well-intentioned they were. It doesn't matter how well-intentioned you are now.}
RADIO: {It's far too late to have those kinds of regrets. You know your father would see it this way too. You can't stand here and tell me this will last. This rickety, broken shell of a democracy propped up by foreign money. My sweet girl, this is a tinderbox. Either we control the fire, or we burn in it.}
RADIO: {Do you think so? Would you like to ask him?}
RADIO: [long silence]
RADIO: {Unless, of course, you're referring to my real father. You could ask him too, I suppose, except that he's probably dead. Just like all the others.}
RADIO: {You know as well as I do, my dear, that is an honor and a promise you can't deliver on. As honored as I would.}
RADIO: {Let me help you. Some other way. Please.}
RADIO: {But you're circling the point. Your kind are on the precipice of extinction. You father — both of them — saw the error of their ways too late to make a difference. How long until the UK invades the US? How long until this ends in nuclear war? Then what?}
RADIO: [longer silence]
RADIO: {One percent of the population is a vanishingly small number of supporters. It's only a matter of time before that number reaches zero.}
RADIO: {We aren't an endangered species! We're human fucking beings, the same as you. So you can take the divisive rhetoric and—}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 5, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {It's a ratings issue, Davies. The character just isn't testing well with audiences.}
RADIO: {Character? These are real people. Or were, I guess. Some of them are still alive. You can't just-}
RADIO: {We'll replace him with somebody else. Lots of hungry young actors looking for work.}
RADIO: {All right. Let's just say, for the sake of argument-}
RADIO: {Right.}
RADIO: {For the sake of argument, we kill Teodoro Laudani.}
RADIO: {Right.}
RADIO: {For the sake of argument, we kill Teodoro Laudani. Who is not. Actually dead.}
RADIO: {For the sake of argument, yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting we do.}
RADIO: {How?}
RADIO: {Sylar kills him.}
RADIO: {Sylar kills everybody. Something else.}
RADIO: {… Maaaagnes kills him?}
RADIO: {Okay, let's follow that rabbit hole for a minute. Magnes kills Teodoro. Why?}
RADIO: {Love triangle.}
RADIO: {Juicy.}
RADIO: {Delilah. It's got to be Delilah.}
RADIO: {Who the fuck is Delilah?}
RADIO: {The redhead.}
RADIO: {But we barely use her.}
RADIO: {Well you were saying Sylar a minute ago. Why don't you do that?}
RADIO: {A love triangle between Sylar, Teodoro, and Magnes?}
RADIO: {Yeah.}
RADIO: {Sylar could be queer. I think that's a bold choice.}
RADIO: {He has obvious sexual chemistry with Teodoro. That's true.}
RADIO: {Hey-}
RADIO: {I like where this is going. This could be really good.}
RADIO: {Hey, um-}
RADIO: {Do you figure it's a two or three episode arc?}
RADIO: {Did you guys miss the part where I was saying these are real people?}
RADIO: {Our lawyers are very good.}
RADIO: {This just isn't sitting well with me.}
RADIO: {What, the love triangle?}
RADIO: {This. All of this.}
RADIO: {This? As in? The show?}
RADIO: {It's not even a very good show. There are Mexican telenovelas that are written better than this.}
RADIO: {Here we go.}
RADIO: {We had a chance to do something really really interesting, really hard-hitting with this. And the network has fucking squandered it.}
RADIO: {The network writes your fucking checks.}
RADIO: {Not one of you have ever stopped to wonder why this is the way it is? Why we're told to write these people- these real life war heroes like caricatures?}
RADIO: {Now nobody wants to say anything? Fine. Fine.}
RADIO: {Let's just get back to it, then. Figure out who's fucking who this week. Parade their worst qualities out for the whole world to see.}
RADIO: {… haven't used Peter Petrelli in awhile.}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 9, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {— and they're staring into each other's eyes, right?}
RADIO: {Longingly?}
RADIO: {Well, there's an ache. I'm not sure if I'd call it longing. A mutual understanding.}
RADIO: {Their faces are centimeters apart.}
RADIO: {He places a hand on his jaw. Just sort of— to cradle his head against his.}
RADIO: {We think they're going to kiss. He even leans in a little, like so.}
RADIO: {Like so?}
RADIO: {Like so.}
RADIO: {But they don't kiss.}
RADIO: {No. Richard slides the knife between Zarek's ribs and gives it a little twist. Like so.}
RADIO: {This is ffffffucking garbage.}
RADIO: {Again, Davies? Again?}
RADIO: {You write it better, then.}
RADIO: {Yes, Davies. You write it better.}
RADIO: {All right. Same setup. They're standing opposite each other. You can even have the hand and the lean in, but don't make the audience think they're going to kiss. Let Zarek figure out what he's about to do at the last second. Have him tug away, but Richard holds him fast. Tangles his fingers in his hair. He has a moment to change his mind, but he doesn't. The knife goes straight through his heart, not his ribs. No twist. It's fast. Painless — for Zarek. It's Richard who's hurting.}
RADIO: {That's…}
RADIO: {That's pretty good, I guess.}
RADIO: {Thanks.}
RADIO: {How'd you come up with that?}
RADIO: {It's just a feeling I have.}
RADIO: {A feeling?}
RADIO: {Yeah, like— I don't know. A feeling. Like I know them. Where they're coming from, I mean. I read about the first hand accounts and I can put myself in their shoes.}
RADIO: {I think that's just empathy.}
RADIO: {Sure. They aren't bad people. None of them. That's what I've been trying to tell you.}
RADIO: {Right. Right.}
RADIO: {I had some other ideas? If you're interested?}
RADIO: {Shoot.}
RADIO: {So Ethan's not the bully he wants other people to think he is. He's actually really very—}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: April 19, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {Burning the midnight oil, eh?}
RADIO: {Draft's due Monday.}
RADIO: {They seem to like what you've been doing. The higher-ups, I mean.}
RADIO: {Do they? I mean. Really, though?}
RADIO: {They gave you the penultimate episode this season. That's the best one, you know. Real vote of confidence.}
RADIO: {I guess.}
RADIO: {You're such a wanker sometimes. Swear to God.}
RADIO: {They gave me some notes earlier today. Not sure I agree with them. That's all.}
RADIO: {Notes?}
RADIO: {Yeah, like– I don't know. Notes.}
RADIO: {That's part of the fucking writing process. Hate to break it to you.}
RADIO: {No, look. Here: "More emphasis on collateral damage caused by Ferrymen."}
RADIO: {Annnnd?}
RADIO: {And. The whole point of this episode was to do a better job showing that not everything is in the characters' control. I mean, yes. Collateral damage is real. Was real, I mean. It was a thing that happened, but it's like they want us to place more blame at their feet than indicated by our official sources.}
RADIO: {Our official sources are biased, you know.}
RADIO: {Not that biased. These notes are an opinion. No, these notes are a stance.}
RADIO: {Come off it, Davies. You wanted these people to be more human? You got it. Humans make mistakes.}
RADIO: {Yes, but-}
RADIO: {Humans are messy.}
RADIO: {Not my point-}
RADIO: {Take the note. Trust me on this.}
RADIO: {What if I got us better sources?}
RADIO: {Say again?}
RADIO: {What if I. Got us. Better sources. More reliable than the Albany testimony, or the books, or– or…}
RADIO: {What, like a person?}
RADIO: {Doesn't have to be a person. I can… I mean. It's difficult to explain.}
RADIO: {Try, then.}
RADIO: {You know how they're always saying I'm good with the motivations? Really getting inside their heads?}
RADIO: {Yeah?}
RADIO: {… yeah.}
RADIO: {Well, shit. Did you disclose-}
RADIO: {No, no, no. Not like– I said it was difficult to explain. So. I probably shouldn't try to explain.}
RADIO: {Definitely don't try to explain. Not to me. Not to anybody, yeah?}
RADIO: {No. I know. I mean. I know.}
RADIO: {You're a good writer. And a half-decent person, honestly. I'd feel bad if… if something were to-}
RADIO: {Yeah.}
RADIO: {Yeah. You should go home. Get some sleep.}
RADIO: {But the draft…}
RADIO: {Fuck the draft, man.}
RADIO: {I have ideas. I have good ideas. I just need more to work off of is all.}
RADIO: {Better sources would be nice. Not gonna lie. We could all use them. Material's starting to run pretty thin.}
RADIO: {Right. I'll do the– thing.}
RADIO: {Quietly, though.}
RADIO: {Yeah. Quietly. Like. Mouse quietly. Or like… some other thing that's quiet quietly.}
RADIO: {In the morning. You need a ride to the tube?}
RADIO: {Thanks.}
RADIO: {No problem. Come on, let's head on down. I'm having a hell of a time with Episode Four. I can't get into Sylar's head at all…}
RADIO: {Sure, sure. What do you know about addiction?}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: May 2, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {ringing}
RADIO: Hullo?
RADIO: Hey. So. I'm–
RADIO: Davies?
RADIO: Yeah.
RADIO: Where the hell are you?
RADIO: Ehm.
RADIO: Everybody's worried sick. The showrunners are spinning in circles–
RADIO: I said I was taking a leave of absence.
RADIO: Right. In an email. No notice. Poof.
RADIO: The email was meant to be the notice. I'm sorry. Sorry.
RADIO: The fuck dialing code is this, man? Caller ID says–
RADIO: NNNnnnn…New York.
RADIO: NnnnnnnNNNNew York? Are you fucking kidding me right now.
RADIO: I'm actually really quite serious. I've a visa and everything. It's– nice. Nicer than you'd imagine. The people, I mean. Most of them.
RADIO: Is this about the thing we talked about? That night I gave you a ride? Your– source?
RADIO: Ehm.
RADIO: Why are you calling? Are you in some sort of trouble?
RADIO: No. No. Nothing like that. Just wanted to hear a familiar voice, I suppose.
RADIO: You meet anybody? Rochester's just a hop, skip and a jump away. You could– Epstein, right? Gitelman? Think they'd even talk to you?
RADIO: I'm not stupid, you know.
RADIO: I know. I know. It could be good, though. If they'd give you an interview.
RADIO: How do you think that would go exactly? Hallo, I'm Ibrahim Davies, senior writer with the BBC and I've been slandering your good names for years. Can I step inside for a cup of tea?
RADIO: Well, that's a little on the nose, innit.
RADIO: No, I've been visiting historic sites. Museums. Most of it's still sectioned off. Exclusion zone, they call it. I'm learning a lot.
RADIO: Hey– look. You're still doing this for the show, right?
RADIO: Right.
RADIO: Do me a favour?
RADIO: What's that?
RADIO: We're working on this scene set in that one safehouse– the uh, uh. Fuck. I'm spacing on the name. It's the one with the ivy and that tumbledown fence we shoot out in Surrey?
RADIO: The Garden.
RADIO: That's the one! You think you could stop by, take a couple of pictures for us? Just so we can get a better feel for it?
RADIO: That's– uh. Ehm. That's on Staten Island, you see…
RADIO: It'd be a huge help if you did. You could… you know. Do the thing we talked about.
RADIO: Right.
RADIO: Look, if it's too dangerous… It's just. We'd really appreciate it, you know? You're the one making this grand push for authenticity… and… well. You'd come back a hero, really.
RADIO: Mm. I'll see what I can do.
RADIO: Don't go out of your way is all.
RADIO: Of course not.
RADIO: Will you call again? Soon?
RADIO: Would you like me to? Would that make them feel better, about where I am? What– what I'm doing? Trying to do.
RADIO: Yeah. Yeah. I'll get a few of the others together, see where else they might like you to visit…
RADIO: You didn't say anything, did you?
RADIO: What?
RADIO: You know what. About– me. And my– well.
RADIO: No. No. I haven't told anyone. I don't even know how it works.
RADIO: Good. Thanks. Thank you.
RADIO: I've got to get back into the writer's room. We're still breaking the mid-season finale.
RADIO: Still?
RADIO: Still. Be safe out there.
RADIO: You too.
RADIO: {click}
RADIO: {pop}
OOC Date: May 3, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: "–highly publicized trial in March. Did that affect your view of the character at all?"
RADIO: "Not really, no."
RADIO: "You've got a lot of fans in the audience this morning, and tens of thousands more watching at home! Come on, then. You can't just say 'not really, no' and just it at that."
RADIO: "Well, we've been writing these characters for– what? Three years? Four years now? They feel like old friends, really. We've already got quite a good handle on them, but that's not to say we don't take recent developments into account. The trial certainly generated some good ideas for next season."
RADIO: "And that airs in…?"
RADIO: "November."
RADIO: "I take that to mean we'll see Odessa again?"
RADIO: "Oh, you can count on it. She's such a divisive character. You either love her or you hate her. The only reason we had to write her off in Season Four was because Naomi needed the break. She's got that little one now. Wanted to take a year to spend some more time with her family."
RADIO: "Is there anything else you can share about what's next for the show?"
RADIO: [laughter] "Without breaking my NDA?"
RADIO: "Of course, of course!"
RADIO: "I can say that you'll see more of the Ferrymen, absolutely. We've really enjoyed delving into the Albany transcripts this year. Everything that's been simmering in the background for the last three seasons– it's finally starting to roll into a boil."
RADIO: "How exciting!"
RADIO: "Do you have a personal favourite? You said that Odessa was a divisive character, but that's true of most everybody on River Styx, isn't it?"
RADIO: "You're really putting me on the spot! Let's see… Mm. I don't think you're going to like my answer."
RADIO: "Don't tease!"
RADIO: "I think it's got to be Kazimir Volken."
RADIO: "Honestly?"
RADIO: "Honestly! Say what you will about the man's methods, but there's some truth to what he was about. The heart of him, I mean. I've got friends who are Expressive. Hell, my sister-in-law is an Expressive. That's not what I'm talking about when I say there's a real– danger. Kazimir saw that. He didn't respond appropriately, but he saw that. Recognized it."
RADIO: "I think we know what you mean. There was that incident just last week in Kent. Dreadful, absolutely dreadful."
RADIO: "That's exactly what I'm talking about. A man flies under the radar with the ability to persuade people into doing whatever it is he wants them to do, so he uses it to– to… is it all right if I say it on air?"
RADIO: "I think so, yes."
RADIO: "He uses it to coerce young women into sleeping with him. Well, one of them snaps out of it in the middle and stabs him twelve times with a knife he didn't know she had. Now, the police won't press charges, thank God, but can you imagine how she must feel? How many times must he have gotten away with it before karma came back to bite him in the arse?"
RADIO: "I hope she's getting the help she needs."
RADIO: "We all do. My point is. Not all Expressives are dangerous. Not all Expressives use their abilities– their gifts, whatever you want to call it. Not all of them use them to hurt other people. But the ones that do… I think that's what Kazimir was really worried about. Our Kazimir, anyhow. The one on the show."
RADIO: "Right. The one on the show."
RADIO: "He stood against rapists. Murderers. Arsonists. Whether you do it with a gun or a–"
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {pop}
RADIO: {click}
OOC Date: May 7, 2019
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {-believe you said Kazimir fucking Volken. What the hell is wrong with you?}
RADIO: {Look.}
RADIO: {Look? You look, Sebastian. Do you see this?}
RADIO: {A… phone? Your phone?}
RADIO: {What's on the phone, you idiot. Look at the screen.}
RADIO: {Says your voicemail's full. You really ought to clear it o-}
RADIO: {It's full because I'm being flooded with complaints. Some asshole posted my number on Reddit.}
RADIO: {They doxxed you? Over an interview?}
RADIO: {I wasn't even the one in the fucking chair. That was you.}
RADIO: {I'm… sorry?}
RADIO: {You're sorry? Like it's a question? Are you fucking kidding me?}
RADIO: {I don't know what else you want me to say. She asked me a question, I answered. I didn't think it would be that big of a deal, honestly.}
RADIO: {It is. It's a big deal.}
RADIO: {Why? The things I said. They were… in line with. You know. They're in line with the episode success criteria-}
RADIO: {Don't quote the episode success criteria at me. I don't care that you're one of the fucking showrunners. I know.}
RADIO: {You asked us to present both sides of the issue. I did. On national television.}
RADIO: {But did you have to say Volken? You couldn't have said— I don't know. One of your Season One blokes. Company. Dr. Woods?}
RADIO: {Not exactly a compelling answer, though, is it? You wanted people to talk. Well, they're talking.}
RADIO: {I should fire you. I really should.}
RADIO: {You need me.}
RADIO: {I'll make you a deal. How about that.}
RADIO: {Listening.}
RADIO: {Your writers are still working on that mid-season finale, yeah?}
RADIO: {Yeah.}
RADIO: {You have plans for the Rowan sisters?}
RADIO: {Sort've. I mean. They're flexible. If you want.}
RADIO: {You sit down, you talk to Davies-}
RADIO: {Uh.}
RADIO: {Uh?}
RADIO: {Davies is on a leave of absence.}
RADIO: {Then you call Davies. You tell him to get his ass back to the studio tomorrow-}
RADIO: {Uh.}
RADIO: {Don't tell me.}
RADIO: {Yeah. Davies is in. Uh.}
RADIO: {Uh?}
RADIO: {America. Davies is in America.}
RADIO: {I'm sorry? What?}
RADIO: {He's in America. New York, actually. Blevins- told me.}
RADIO: {The hell is Davies doing in New York?}
RADIO: {Research.}
RADIO: {… call Davies. No. Better: Have Blevins call Davies. Tell him he's got a new assignment. Fuck his leave. We're gonna rewrite the mid-season finale.}
RADIO: {But we already started rehearsals—}
RADIO: {We're gonna rewrite the mid-season finale. Have him track down Rowan. The real one. I know there's only one, by the way, so you can wipe that grin off your fucking face. What's that charity of hers called?}
RADIO: {Benchmark.}
RADIO: {See what he can dig up on the Zeus thing. We've been wanting to put that in for years.}
RADIO: {She wasn't Zeus, though. Not yet, anyway. That came after. She's just a Ferryman now. On the show, I mean. Pretty likable, really. At least in terms of polling…}
RADIO: {I know. Fix it.}
RADIO: {static}
RADIO: {crackle}
RADIO: {pop}
People
"Lonely Radio"
- First appeared in the broadcast OOCly dated March 27, 2019
- Described as she/her in an article by Quentin Frady
- Rejected from Peridance
- Sending messages to her parents
- She talks like she knows she'll never find them - another universe?
- Currently suspected to be Lisa due to a few scenes.
- Edward and Juliette stated that they had a child in From Here, mentioned in meta as part of a 'terrible truth'.
- Mentions that she has a 'good reason' for the Mandela Effect but is an outlier - from another timeline?
- Spent time in an underground area with cramped locations. Ark?
- Lisa's name is listed as 'Louis and Mary Bradbury' - Luis was Juliette's surname. Bradbury = Ray Bradbury. Cover identities??
- Is spending time in Jackson Heights and has sent at least one person to Raytech. Family ties?
- Ability is 'Heightened Intuition' - possibly a version of Edward's ability? Complained about statistics in one of her broadcasts.
Adam, Joy, and Kam
From Spoilers from MoniMoni:
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “em did you ever read the legend of white snake”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “it's about a snake who gains immortality thanks to a young boy”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “and she can shapeshift into a woman”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “and at one point she saves another snake and they become sisters”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “snake ladies are A Thing in east Asian myth”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “but madame white snake makes me think of Joy and Kam and Adam”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “the boy buys immortality pills without knowing what they are, ends up throwing up into a river where white snake eats them and gets immortality and magical powers”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “and she and the boy's fates are all intertwined after that”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “at one point, the two snake sisters turn into women and white snake and the boy (when he's older) fall in love and get married”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “there's even a bit where another spirit is all pissed off and plots against them”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “they trick white snake into revealing her true form and the dude dies of shock, so the snake sisters go to a mountain (or something) and steal an herb that brings him back to life”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “if we ST this, and the herb is actually whatever gave Adam his power… then maybe he's been trying to replicate it all this time with all his science experiments”
Spoilers> Littleleaf Linden> Monica says, “listen i am onto him, i read mythology”
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, “same girl same”
Conduits and the Entity
- What are the Conduits conduiting?
- Kazimir asks this in Wszyscy Święci
- … The Entity? Something a level above that?
- There was an answer given by Rouen in What You Are, but she admits it's only her take on the subject.
- “We are conduits to the past,” Rouen finally explains, looking up to Nathalie finally. “To the memories of those that once held the gift we do. We are conduits for their experiences, their hopes, their dreams. To speak as Antoine did, we are mediums. But I do not prefer those words.” Rouen glances down to the snow, then back the way they'd come. “We are conduits to everyone who came before, that walks the purgatory shadows of memory.” Then, brows furrowed, she adds: “All conjecture. One woman’s perspective.”
- Kazimir asks this in Wszyscy Święci
- The Conduit hosts seem to persist and maintain the same way that the Entity does — through memory of them
- In All Saints, Peter says Kazimir persisted because of something Gabriel did that preserved the memory of him
- Mosaics who possess the Conduit are 'vessels' rather than hosts
- See lack of Gabriel in the Graveyards seen in Wszyscy Święci
- See lack of Alfonse d'Sanmartin in list of Conduit hosts found on Kazimir page
- Quote from All Saints: There's a subtle shake of Peter's head, the way he tiredly closes his eyes is more telling. "It was different for you. Different for Alfonse d'Sanmartin as well." Another unfamiliar name, one that comes with a shrug of Peter's shoulders. "Sometimes, this… ability. When it tries to possess someone, it's the other way around. The vessel takes control, wrestles the beast into submission. Then it's more like a tool, an instrument to be used. I think Alfonse lived in England, sometime in the 1700s. I had a dream about him…" Dark brows crease together in a look of concentration, "he was hung."
- Mosaics vessels who possess the Conduit may somehow fuck with things in a way that cause its previous Host's memory to persist
- See: Kazimir's spirit persists on after Gabriel, very strongly
- Needs confirmed: Did Alfonse d'Sanmartin possess the Conduit immediately after Madeline Rouen?
- Entity is HELLA old - likely Mesopotamian in origin?
- There are various uses of ancient Sumerian in reference to the Entity
- Manny dropped this tidbit 6/12: "I've technically already spilled the tea on what the Entity's ability is" "since it can manipulate genes on the fly" "It's not like anyone in 530 BCE knew what DNA was" "but if the Entity wants to do something, it flips its DNA to make it possible." "on the fly genetic manipulation"
- Are mosaics immune to the Entity/Conduits / 'cut from the same cloth'?
- In All Saints, the gold-eyed raven in the Graveyard "[n]ever crashes, of course, soaring past Gabriel's shoulder, though he never reacts even when feathers clip fabric. Or, more accurately, pass through it, as if they were made of the same substance"
- The Zuni's take on the Entity -
- In Sun and Moon, Laughing Coyote tells the tale of a well-meaning man who accidentally unleashed the vengeful spirit of his dead relative into the world and caused the world to be flooded in vengeance
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- In it, the major, world-changing actors are:
- The vengeful spirit of the Towa who was killed by a Navajo, who kills nearly every Towa chieftain and shaman
- The unnamed Towa youth, who did not die when touched by the spirit, and instead became possessed by it
- The grandmother who came down from the mountain, died, and became Kolowisi
- The youth calls on the spirit for guidance because he feels his clan is too greedy and proud. He asks for help in stopping the cruelties of his clan, setting right their wrongs, but the spirit "knows only one answer" and goes methodically murdering the leaders of the Towa clan. Catastrophes follow in the spirit's wake - great earthquakes. The Towa people, including the young man, flee to the top of a mountain. When the spirit comes, the young man descends to meet the spirit and deter it, and instead is possessed by it. The spirit says, through him, that the Towa will drown in 'all the world's waters.' A grandmother descends to ask that the waters wait until the children of her tribe arrive, and the spirit agrees; but takes her life as payment. The spirit is washed away in the flood that comes, and the remaining Towa people survive atop the mountain.
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- In A:dikwahna' — MORE MYTHOLOGY YAY :D — gods and aspects of Zuni religion are explained
- Reintroduces concept of winged serpent of the water, Kolowisi (also known as: Awanyu, Misi-kinepikw, Unktehi)
- Introduces Awonawilona; name for the sun, "Creator of all things"
- Introduces the Ahayu'da warrior twins of the sun — Ahaiyuta and Matsailema — heroes who helped the first people defend themselves and rise up from the great flood
- These two are shown with opposing color schemes, and it's believed they represent the Conduits, where Awonawilona would be the Entity in this case.
- Where this gets fucking confusing for me (Emily) is I have no idea how well this ties in with the myth referenced in Sun and Moon?? Because you'd figure the vengeful spirit to be the Entity representation in that one, and the boy to be Adam, possibly?
- Also introduces the concept of the Kachina — "living spirits that inhabit all things. Even time and space" — importance to them not immediately obvious?
- In Sun and Moon, Laughing Coyote tells the tale of a well-meaning man who accidentally unleashed the vengeful spirit of his dead relative into the world and caused the world to be flooded in vengeance
OOC Date: 6/12/2019
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan see-saw hand. "Else saw what she wanted, she saw herself. So she saw the entity as a woman. Though I've always used gender-neutral pronouns for the Entity. Adam always refers to the Entity as "they". Admittedly, the two on-camera hosts that you can clearly identify have both been women."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yes"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "hosts"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "for a disemboided MOSAIC"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "I mean you're not wrong there"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yes"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve rolls joint slowly and nods
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "so tell me"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "I've technically already spilled the tea on what the Entity's ability is"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "the tea girllll"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "since it can manipulate genes on the fly"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "i like my tea laid out"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve leans in
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "It's not like anyone in 530 BCE knew what DNA was"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "THEY DIDN- hgwigbsuwrqbor"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "YEA 530 BCE"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "but if the Entity wants to do something, it flips its DNA to make it possible."
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "on the fly genetic manipulation"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "flip it and reverse it alexa play missy elliot"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "whatever ability it wants, whenever. Which raises questions"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "love t love it love it. and it has a sage aspects"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "it can make you have one"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "About why it needs Peter right now"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "HMMMMMMM"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve waits for peypey and alexander to pose
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Why can't it just imagine up some Molly-like power and then teleport right to what it wants?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "its been fravtured"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "we have theorized that i think"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "All good theories."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "me and kaylee are knee deep and i don't wanna come out"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "ahhhhhhhh"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "I get hung up on the snake and how it was stitched to Kaylee's brain. Maybe it isn't whole yet."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "the white conduit"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "the it healed chicken and her gift came back, different but it came back"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "maybe it wants to be healed so it can be back at full potential"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "it like: i gave you immortality fuckin heal me"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "Yeah….. we don't know if Richard's is different now too"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "I'm waiting on that reveal"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "because… it only wants the black conduit"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "so the white conduit comes"
+sp Richard melted a man's face off on accident
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "Richard melted a man's face off on accident"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "cuz they orbit each other and always eventually end up together"
+sp its different now
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "its different now"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "Well, it might need what Eve has too."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "IT AINT GETTIN iT"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "XD"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve cackles off in a cloud
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "I will also bring a scene up that… is far more significant than folks may have discovered yet"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "do so my good man"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "Plus it is in Sibyls body. It's only going to get worse."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "i am literally here. i haven't turned on my mmo"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "ONLY GOING TOO"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "http://string-theory.wikidot.com/wszyscy-swieci"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "there's a lot to unpack in this scene"
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "man, so it being in sibyl doesn't necessarily mean it's trapped there either, with the psychic well thing"
+sp because it can just change her DNA
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "because it can just change her DNA"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "nah"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yes"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "its fine"
Spoilers> Black Walnut> Cassandra says, "Note, the title is 'All Saints' in polish."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "it needs to be healed is my gut feeling"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "ty cassie"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "before i read this log REAL close. so one day… it just changes its dna and has a abiltiy that… if people believe in it.. it becomes stronger"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Great catch, Cass"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "because: http://string-theory.wikidot.com/all-saints"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "also exists"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "for contrast"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "YES"
Spoilers> Black Walnut> Cassandra gets to a nice blank spot and pinches brow, looks at 26 pennies left to go through. Bet that memory might exist there somewhere, if Manny were an evil sort.
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "of the first meeting between adam and the dragon"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yea dude do you need refrain? xanax?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve looks through bag
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily | With a few steady footsteps, Kazimir approaches Eileen much as he had in the mirror of memory. I don't know how you're here, or what's become of you, his brows pinch together in an expression of worry, but you've done something no one since Gabriel has.
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "mmhm"
+sp :browlift
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily browlift
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve | here's a ghost of a smile that haunts Kazimir's mouth. "Conduit," he mumbles back, but leaves the term aside for now. "I'm what sits down the end of a different road that diverged in the wood, it seems. I know your heart, your sacrifices. In this world, they were mine." Kazimir's brows furrow together, slowly lifting a hand as if to reach out for Eileen, but stops himself.
+sp in all saints there's a crow with golden eyes
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "in all saints there's a crow with golden eyes"
+sp and i'm squinting at it
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "and i'm squinting at it"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "so the golden eyes must have been a early mosaic thing"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "maybe.."
+sp
Huh? (Type "help" for help.)
+sp raven, nvm
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "raven, nvm"
+sp :| There's the sound of wings slicing through the air, as the raven launches off the staff and ducks, weaves too close to the ground for a bird of its size. Never crashes, of course, soaring past Gabriel's shoulder, though he never reacts even when feathers clip fabric. Or, more accurately, pass through it, as if they were made of the same substance.
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily | There's the sound of wings slicing through the air, as the raven launches off the staff and ducks, weaves too close to the ground for a bird of its size. Never crashes, of course, soaring past Gabriel's shoulder, though he never reacts even when feathers clip fabric. Or, more accurately, pass through it, as if they were made of the same substance.
+sp eve you might be right
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "eve you might be right"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "oh my god someone saw it"
+sp Gabriel never became a host because mosaic?
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "Gabriel never became a host because mosaic?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "maybe mosaics have protection because thats what the dragon is"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "that's rad, excellent"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "and explains why the dragon didn't just enthrall peter. it can't"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "i think the conduit line in that eileen and kazimir scene is the most relevant"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "That would explain why Adam is trying to make mosaics."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yes"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "Heh… Liz and Magnes JUST talked about that I'm a scene"
+sp so but… Peter, though, he exists in the graveyard
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "so but… Peter, though, he exists in the graveyard"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "idk hat umbra does exactly as a guard. but yea"
+sp and I believe he's been possessed previously
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "and I believe he's been possessed previously"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "peter was a host"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "for a while"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "that maybe he was looking for an innocukatuon to help fight it"
+sp yeah
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "yeah"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yea!"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "but maybe that is why he's trying to make mosaics cuz he's seen"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "well maybe okay think of this"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "its hella cray but"
+sp Peter in All Saints complains of losing time to Kazimir, waking up after doing things —
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "Peter in All Saints complains of losing time to Kazimir, waking up after doing things —"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "(I mean like the inoculation might be he's trying to adjust the Shanti virus or whatever to create an injection that turns people into mosaics)"
+sp :nnnnh i don't like this
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily nnnnh i don't like this
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "the first evolved are all mosaics. maybe for a long ass time they were. And then ADAM is the first to have just ONE ability. And so he's passed it down, thus making adam all our great great times a billion grandpappy"
+sp I just had a weird 'kazimir is the Entity' moment and i don't like it
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "I just had a weird 'kazimir is the Entity' moment and i don't like it"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "huh"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "kazimir lives in the space between with the others i think he just knows more about it then the others because he held the conduit the longest ya know"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "Where is the scene Peter got the conduit?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "ah fuck if i know thats a good question"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "he got it from… gabriel.. right?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve rubs head
+sp gabriel what are you doing here
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "gabriel what are you doing here"
+sp :| Finally, he lifts an arm in a silent summons; the raven launches itself off the statue, weaves between Peter and the rest of the monuments, and makes to land on Gabriel's arm. // It doesn't, not exactly. As soon as its feet hit his black-clad wrist, it seems to simultaneously vanish, be consumed by, scatter into shadow and become a part of Gabriel, and his arms lowers matter of factly.
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily | Finally, he lifts an arm in a silent summons; the raven launches itself off the statue, weaves between Peter and the rest of the monuments, and makes to land on Gabriel's arm. // It doesn't, not exactly. As soon as its feet hit his black-clad wrist, it seems to simultaneously vanish, be consumed by, scatter into shadow and become a part of Gabriel, and his arms lowers matter of factly.
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "I am getting zero work done today. lo."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "if its about the conduits then"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "perhaps a metaphor for taking life and making it apart of yourself"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "brook's meta is always so eloquent and beautifuk"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "beautiful"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Ask and ye shall receive: http://string-theory.wikidot.com/checkmate-the-black-king"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "amazing"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "Manny you are the best."
+sp :rubs face
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily rubs face
+sp guys, in All Saints Peter says the only reason Kazimir persisted is because Gabriel did something that kept the memory of him alive
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "guys, in All Saints Peter says the only reason Kazimir persisted is because Gabriel did something that kept the memory of him alive"
+sp and Kazimir says thanks when he shows up later
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "and Kazimir says thanks when he shows up later"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "might be somethign releated to eileen"
+sp and I've got these bad Entity vibes and I don't like it
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "and I've got these bad Entity vibes and I don't like it"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "that's related tooo…"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "im unsure entity wise"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "geeeez"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "but manny has the linkkkk lets see"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "http://string-theory.wikidot.com/endgame-and-all-that-could-have-been"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "what the hell was i doing there"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve blinks
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "OH"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "THIS scene lmao"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Where Abby destroyed the black conduit. But Gabriel had copied it via his tactile telepathy and he basically rebuilt it"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yes"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yessss"
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "Okay, but does that not have to do with the thing where the Entity retains its power and keeps/grows it based on people remembering/knowing of it?"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "8)"
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "because the way it's phrased, it makes it seem like maybe Kazimir's the loudest voice because of that 'memory' that persists"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "oh oh oh!"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "SO THATS HOW IT BECAME THE ENTITY"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "a mosaic rebuilt its mind and bam disembodied"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "with tactile telepathy or telepathy of some kind"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "so if that's a by product of gabriel doing that for kazimir"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "i can only think of it like a lesser form of what happened to the dragon in BCE or whenever"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "which is why i say the dragon did the same thing that was done to it for the black and white conduits"
+sp all saints evaded tagging. shoot.
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "all saints evaded tagging. shoot."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "because the conduits can bypass this mosaic protection that allows them not to be possessed by the dragon also a thought"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "ok my brain is so dusted in white"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee hmmms.
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "maybe Sibyl goes 'how did YOU get in THERE' meaning how did the conduit end up hosted in a mosaic"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "mmmmm"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve dark crystal mmmmmMMMS
+sp over there like 'girl tell me your secret so i can take over the world'
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "over there like 'girl tell me your secret so i can take over the world'"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "if it's fractured and needs to be healed. I wonder WHAT it told Peter"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "like"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "hey so im hella old and lemme tell you all about your ANCESTORS btw i need to be made whole so i can destory the WoRlD."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "i mean usher in peaCE"
+sp sounds plausible
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "sounds plausible"
+sp how did we end up talking about this again
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "how did we end up talking about this again"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "So had a thought coming back to Kensei and the dragon. And it makes sense that scroll was in Kaylee's nightmare. The dragon is still taking Adams love even now."
Spoilers> Anonymous Beaver Devi says, "Please do make a thing on the page. I missed so much of it this morning. Work sucked today!"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "about the legend of white snake"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "yes he luhed kaylee like a daughter"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "now she's tainted"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "they have a vicious cycle"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "i wonder if"
Chalk >.> Thinks it's LURVE Isis says, "Aw. Sadness."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "!!!!!"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "adam wants the conduits"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "because the dragon wants the conduits"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "What is the dragon wants to DESTROY the conduits."
Chalk >.> Thinks it's LURVE Isis says, "Ooo. Hostage negotiation."
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "?"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "he prob orbits them like they the white and black orbit each other"
Chalk >.> Thinks it's LURVE Isis says, "He wants the conduits to get Dragon to remake the deal - leave his loved ones alone?"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "like he has em and is like the jig is up don't even think about destroying my world"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "yea"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "i could see it"
Chalk >.> Thinks it's LURVE Isis nods.
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "so"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "the dragon… did to the conduits"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "please for the love of allthats holy, someone put this WHOLE THING in the chalk page. other people will want to see :)"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "like it di to adam"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "Hmm. IDK. I mean. They could be the fractured pieces it needs to be whole again."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "you could do a tab thing"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yes"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "yes"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "so like it GAVE those pieces away without realizing"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "I can't cuz I'm mobile"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "it wasn't just adam that didn't realize what deal he was making, neither did the dragon"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "its prob done it only three times. the first with adam, a piece and then with the conduits, like then later with the snake and such but i think that when it imparts a gift it loses a piece of itself"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "Big chunks and other smaller pieces? Maybe? IDK. The snake in Kaylee's head talked about seeing the face of god again. *clucks tongue in thought.*"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "inherited from edward maybe"
Chalk >.> <.< Manhattan buzzer
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "finally"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "ty"
Chalk >.> <.< Manhattan says, "the conduits are older than Adam, as per All Saints"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "oh fuck"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "I was thinking that."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "so conduits first then adam- why ADAM"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "like knowing that it would do that to itsef"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "was it lonely"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "in that cave"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "we keep saying give it a hug but is this the actual solution"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "i wish we could see more of that child"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "That it was inherited. Okay. Good to know."
+sp quien es Alfonse d'Sanmartin
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "quien es Alfonse d'Sanmartin"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "the one from eve's first vision. idk if it was even a vision. cuz she has memories sometimes? of things she wasn't at"
+sp is that a familiar name to anybody
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "is that a familiar name to anybody"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "alfonse is cassandra's dad but that's it"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "that i know of~"
+sp I'm guessing another mosaic
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "I'm guessing another mosaic"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "in all saints log?"
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily | There's a subtle shake of Peter's head, the way he tiredly closes his eyes is more telling. "It was different for you. Different for Alfonse d'Sanmartin as well." Another unfamiliar name, one that comes with a shrug of Peter's shoulders. "Sometimes, this ability. When it tries to possess someone, it's the other way around. The vessel takes control, wrestles the beast into submission. Then it's more like a tool, an instrument to be used. I think Alfonse lived in England, sometime in the 1700s. I had a dream about him" Dark brows crease together in a look of concentration, "he was hung."
+sp si si
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "si si"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "It said she gave him his ability. Was Edward a Company test subject? Early formula?"
Spoilers> Black Walnut> Cassandra says, "Manny, if you make cassie a Mosaic from another world, I'm going to give you /such/ a pinch."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "thats a old conduit holder me thinks"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "lmao i wish we could be mosaics. i almost tried to app one but its a HARD NAH on that for PCs ;-;"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "hmmmm"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "totally"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "could be"
+sp He was — but he doesn't exist on the host list
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "He was — but he doesn't exist on the host list"
+sp he was like Gabriel
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "he was like Gabriel"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "o o o wai"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "wait"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "after ten fucking years"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "someone finally noticed that line and said something about it"
+pub :slow glance to clock
Public> The ghost of Emily slow glance to clock
+pub :slowly covers clock over
Public> The ghost of Emily slowly covers clock over
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve ^_^
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "its roll city today baybay"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "so coo! this all makes the chalk seem more and more true from today"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "there's three black conduit bearers from the 1700s"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "i also don't think they are all listed? or are all the names there the ones that have ha it and thats it"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "ojh WAIT"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "gjernhgwkgbwr"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, David Miljenko, Madeline Rouen"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "SHE WAS THERE"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "ROUEN"
+sp oh my god
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "oh my god"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "1754-1812Madeline Rouen"
+sp that's why Rouen persisted
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "that's why Rouen persisted"
+sp Whatever the fuck Alfonse did
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "Whatever the fuck Alfonse did"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "wait wait are my times wrong"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "was it 1670 eve and des went too?"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "1671 is when the Dragon was first defeated."
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Eilean was there."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "AH HA"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "FUCKKK"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "WAIT"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "it was first defeated"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "and then she's the first KNOWN holder"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "geriug"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "she got it a year before it was defearted"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "she was only 33"
+sp I'm wondering
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "I'm wondering"
+sp What's making Rouen's memory hold on. Like 'Alfonse did something fucky' might be true, but HE died, too and he's been well and gone
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "What's making Rouen's memory hold on. Like 'Alfonse did something fucky' might be true, but HE died, too and he's been well and gone"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "someone might have done what gabriel did and kazimir doens't remember"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "*?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "hm she didn't have the conduit nearly as long as kazimir"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "also worth reminding about:"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "pls do dump it in my brain"
+sp that's why I'm thinking it's gotta be something to do with the mosaic that possesed the Conduit immediately after whoever
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "that's why I'm thinking it's gotta be something to do with the mosaic that possesed the Conduit immediately after whoever"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "http://string-theory.wikidot.com/sun-and-moon"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "i love dat one"
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "Did Eilean open the portal?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "is Eilean a guys name? cuz if so then maybe…"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "and http://string-theory.wikidot.com/a-dikwahna"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "whoa"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "lmoa"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "wait"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve | "There was a man, a young man, who saw the doings of the Towa and knew it wrong. But he was the only one to stand up against them. He feared, for all our peoples." Scratching into the dirt again, Laughing Coyote scrawls that same wavy line once more, starting the whole process from before over again. "He called for the guidance of his ancestors, of his uncle who was killed by the Navajo for insight." A grim tone enters the old man's voice. "But the spirit that came, he was a vengeful one called into this world. The young Towa boy asked him for help in stopping the cruelties of his clan, setting right their wrongs, but the spirit knew only one answer."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "is this the same damn myth as kensei and the dragon?!"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve | A line is scratched from the symbol, "Th spirit left for the land of the Towa, for their elders and shamans. But the spirit was interrupted by a child on his way, and where the spirit touched the boy, the boy fell ill. His touch lingered, and the child fell dead. The Towa youth was horrified by this, at what he had let loose, but no longer was there a way to undo his mistake?"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "or maybe these are the type of people that hte dragon decided to gift. the ones that stood up for the people idk idk lemme finish reading"
Chalk >.> <.< Manhattan says, "Leaving this here for later since you're discussing historic things: http://string-theory.wikidot.com/what-alice-found-there The 1671 vision there is particularly relevant."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "this legend is the story of how the conduits came to be"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "or an interpetation of it"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "because there are no known native americans to have held it right? unless that was so long ago that the names weren't recorded"
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily | "The Kachina are living spirits that inhabit all things. Even time and space." Sparrow squares the painting with the others and looks up to Richard. "Some folks back home think people like us," and by that she means herself and Richard at least; she's not as well-informed about current events, "were what inspired the Kachina." She wrinkles her nose. "I don't like that, though. I think the Kachina are the Kachina and we're us."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "yesssss"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve shakes
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "What if visions are through the Entity. might explain it."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "thats what eve is telling people"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "WE ARE THE OLYMPIANS"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "THE GODS"
Chalk >.> <.< Manhattan says, "oh yeah and http://string-theory.wikidot.com/kensei-and-the-princess"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "Religion is often a central being and it's minions (angles and gods) Soooo Maybe."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve | Much as sand moves and shifts, so too does Coyote's words. He changes back to the story, bringing it to its close. "So the waters came, great and mighty, and washed over the land to flood all the canyons and valleys deep. The water washed away the apparition, swallowed him whole. For her sacrifice, the Grandmother was changed and transformed, to live on in those great depths as Kolowisi the serpent," one of the mythic figures of Zuni folklore, "and so did the oldest of the surviving priests of the Towa tell this story."
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "So one all powerful and then those lesser ones with more specialized purposes."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve nods at Kaylee
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "How did I miss that."
Spoilers> Tuliptree> Emily says, "the flood image there rings especially strong after lisa scenes today"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Sun and Moon and A:Dikwana are very deep mythology dives."
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "me faves"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "where i live"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "So… the Entity killed her people and ended up disembodied herself to live on? Yet our kind persists."
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "She returns again to try and stop them… thwarted again and again."
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "Sun and Moon (which I think I wrote in like 2009?) largely flew under the radar but was always a story I wanted to revisit. A:Dikwana was me peeling back that tab again"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee tosses more darts.
Spoilers> Black Cherry> Elisabeth says, "And Richard has been teaching himself Zuni LOL"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve MMMMs at it all
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "its nice that the myths echo each other"
Spoilers> Pussy Willow> Eve says, "so no matter which culture you really have dived into there are similar stories"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "Yes"
Spoilers> Honeylocust> Kaylee says, "Events become history, History becomes stories, and Stories become legends."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "how literal is this you think, kaylee and i are chalking. AS WE DO"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "https://heroeswiki.com/Dragon"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "Yup. I have thoughts."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "it says he went to the dragon in a cave. so lets say, adam is a solider. loves japan and yaeko, its on the brink of destruction. Idk if he hears legend of a dragon or what leads him there but he finds the dragon its like ya i help you just gimmie a host after. he like okay ya. wins the war and THEN if you remember that memory that joy and adam were in i forget the scene but she's like "are you afraid of the dragon?" and it makes me think she's like silly boy"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "and then the dragon shows up like, oooo i like her i want her body and adam is like but she's my girl you cannot. hear take me. And he kills himself and then kaylee was like and then the dragon takes yaeko anyway and brings him back to life"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "I don't think Adam understood what the dragon was asking of him in return for the skills he received. He might have thought in terms of his own emotions. Not Yaeko. I wonder if he even told her the price."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "SO maYBE. omg kaylee you said it"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "what if it gave him a gift before the immortality"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "for the battle like maybe adoptive muscle mimicry"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "or like curtis"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "He might be the first Gemini."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "y u p"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "He might be the first Gemini."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "the natural process. like eve now"
Chalk >.> Kaylee smacks phone.
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "phone PLS"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "it all makes sense then"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "if thats what happened and thats how that legend could be quite literal but we know they say myths ar based in truth but thats because we dont believe these sorts of "magical" things are possible in the real world so what if this myth and the myths of the world icly are way closer to the truth then people realize"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "hercules was a man with super str"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "zeus controlled the weather and so on…"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "anyway back to the dragon. YEA I think Kaylee is onto something"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "But yeah after the battle The dragon shows up to take its price and Adam is like okay. but the dragon is like no… I want to take your love. *motion Yaeko* but Adam is like no… kills himself (sacrifices his life) to save her. Dragon probably just laughed and took Yaeko anyhow and brought him back like, you can't get out of this deal so easily."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "yes"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "and it enthralls him"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "This ain't a fairytale boy."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "so of course this is personal for him"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "exactly"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "Evil is not so easily defeated."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "maybe they were together a while and he started to break free"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "they like found those guys that helped him do the first Ritual"
Chalk >.> Devi gawks.
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "but i wonder how they learned to even do that"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "or if it was a fluke"
Chalk >.> Elisabeth stares
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "yep"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "I want to know how he learned to talk to the dragon in the first place. Clearly there was a ritual."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "ME TOO"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "thats the memory i want"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "the very first meeting"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "I feel the answer to destroying it is in the past. Damn what I wouldn't give for Hiro."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "also also also"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "there were clearly other people with powers"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "like did the dragon give that guy portal powers?"
Spoilers> Oh Lawd He Comin'> Manhattan says, "{Flood Timeline} Noah built an Ark because God told him to. — http://string-theory.wikidot.com/along-came-a-spider… (Garden of Forking Paths storyline)"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "so maybe its not the first or maybe it is and adam isnt the real first person to receive a ability"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "the portal guy could have encountered the dragon beforehand but we would need to see more past logs with him to like know"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "'Tis a Good Question. For all we know the dragon was a disembodied mosaic. lol."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "because think about it"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "we are saying that evolved are just 400 years old ish?"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "the world and people were around way before idk if they just sprang up!"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "or how one eclipse one day just created them 300 something years ago"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "eve's first vision ever was of a child raising their hands towards a eclipse"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "what if it was human at one point and like you said, either got ejected from her body"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "or died and had an ability that kept it going"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "like yes, its the first but not the first evolved. It's the First Mosaic"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "The first conduit."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "also a good one"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "So to speak."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "yes"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "it didn't mimic powers. its like kam, it just has the powers"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "so then somehow it just achieves or has god level ability"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "Maybe Evolved only gathering powers as it went? Imprinting on them like the conduits we know have imprints of past hosts?"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "yeaaaa i like"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "maybe there are other FIRSTS so to speak. the first telepath, pyro, seer, temporal manipulator"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "I think the first evolved was a seer. lol."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "i would love that lol"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "oh oh MAYBE"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "the dragon only created the conduits in that, it used the ability to eject you from your body to whoever was the first person to have life force manipulation and healing"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "so it's not like a god that created two different entities but they were two people just like it was at one point"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "because this is heroes and its based in science and not magic right? so like it would only make sense if those three were all people at one point"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, "I like the idea that evolved naturally evolved, but there was this one. this one that was seen as maybe evil or a witch and killed, but it persisted beyond death."
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "i love that"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "i think that's exactly what this is"
Chalk >.> Smoke Chalk Erryday> Eve says, "and i would want to end the world too"
Chalk >.> Kaylee says, ""Burn the witch!""
Comtitles
Spoilers
Alia
- Boot. Reboot. Shutdown.
- American Sycamore
Asi
- Kuromatsu
Cassandra
- Black Walnut
Chess
- Foxglove Tree
Cooper
- Southern Magnolia
Dequan
- London Plane
Devon
- Blue Spruce
Eileen
- Red Mulberry
Elaine
- Sweet Birch
Elisabeth
- Intro. Bridge. Chorus.
- Black Cherry
Ellis
- A Tree With A Bird In It
Emily
- Seed. Stem. Flower.
- Tuliptree
Eve
- Chicken. Egg. Omelet.
- Pussy Willow
Faulkner
- Ginkgo
Godfrey
- English Walnut
Hudson
- Rain. River. Ocean.
- Sassafras
Huruma
- Quaking Aspen
Iris
- Eucalyptus
Isa
- Sourwood
Isis
- Bitternut Hickory
Jim
- "Help us."
- Is he the Lorax? Does he speak for the trees?
Kara
- Eastern Redbud
Kaylee
- Garden. Snake. Apple.
- Honeylocust
Lance
- Jack Pine
Ling
- Camphor Laurel
Lucille
- American Beech
Luther
- American Hornbeam
Magnes
- Jump. Fly. Fall.
- Common Hoptree
Marlowe
- Hinoki Cypress
Monica
- Littleleaf Linden
Nathalie
- Eastern Hemlock
Odessa
- Second. Hour. Eternity.
- American Mahogany
Raquelle
- Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
- Flowering Dogwood
Remi
- Red Jasper
- Oh, snap.
- Oh now that's just MEAN.
- Thicket Hawthorn
Richard
- Red Maple
Robyn
- Yellow Birch
Rue
- White Poplar
Shaw
- Olive Tree
Silas
- Young. Old. Dust.
- Silver Maple
Sophie
- Common Horsechestnut
Squeaks
- Ping. Echo. Image.
- Sugar Maple
Vincent
- Pin Oak
Yi-Min
- Dawn Redwood
Zachery
- Observe. Document. Act.
- Northern Red Oak
Whispers
OOC Date: April 26, 2019
"The universe is a web, a net."
"Empty, but occupied."
"Capable of a trap."
"Points of origin and space between, where other things dwell, I am sure."
"God, perhaps?"
"Every good web has a lovely spider."
"Let's hope for all our sakes…"
"…we don't find that spider."Tell me a story.
Kensei."Sometimes a roof is a roof."
"Sometimes things are just coincidences…"
"Do you of all people really believe that?"
"I've seen enough possibilities to know the universe is chaos."
"You can mistake coincidence for design. But if everything… all the chaos, if that's something intentional?"
"What would that be?"
"Terrifying."sing sing sing
walking in a ring
I cant feel, mother
gone gone gone
why don't they won't they love me
mother mother daughter son
so lonely
so lonely
I amEve
What have you done?"Kamisama. Dochira mo."
"Karera wa koko kara kite inai."
"Karera wa motinimodoru."
"Hitsuyo ga arimasu."
"Yogen-sha."
"Kanojo wa watashi no kioku o ikashi tsudzukeru."
"Betsu no mono…"
"Sore wa tobiradesu."
"Watshi wa endesu."
"Sore ga anata ga shippai suru riyudesu."
"Watashi we sudeni katta."
"Watashi wa sudeni katta."
I can see.
Eye to Eye."You said my being here changed this place."
"How? The girl, LeRoux?"
"As you called this place, that power, it is a conduit."
"A conduit produces nothing."
"It is exactly what it says it is."
"Have you ever stopped to wonder…"
"What we are a conduit for?"My child.
I see you."I knew far more than was good for me."
"And I was burned at the stake for my knowledge."
witch
witch
witch
"Oui."
"Vous savesz qui je suis Monsieur Boulle."
witch
witch
witch
"We are conduits to the past."
"To the memories of those that once held the gift we do."
"We are conduits for their experiences, their hopes, their dreams."
"To speak as Antoine did, we are mediums."
"But I do not prefer those words."
"We are conduits to everyone who came before, that walks the purgatory shadows of memory."I can see.
Eye to Eye."You've changed the landscape."
"You've tangled things that were once disparate together."
"You've changed everything."Your place of origin is where you can do the most damage.
"Your victory is only a temporary one."
"You can't prepare for what you can't remember."
Why does it hurt?
"You want out? Hell, so do I."
"I know the formula's in two parts"
"and a human catalyst."
Why does it hurt?
"Do you know who the human catalyst is, Dr. Pratt?"
Why does it hurt?
"The Catalyst."
"The essence passed on from my mother you when you were a baby, Claire Bennet."
Why does it hurt?
"Then… If Arthur took my ability, then he took that too."
"If Delphine restored that too, then I have no idea."
Why does it hurt?
"That's impossible, even for me."
"And Cat's right."
"The Catalyst might resurface again."
Why does it hurt?
"Arthur's dead, Peter's dead, and soon…"
Why?"My name is Joy."
"Feel what I am."
"You're that too, right now."
"Your mother is here."
"Focus."
"Focus on my voice."
"On your mother's gift."
"You can do it."
"You can save her."Gutes-asi.
OOC Date: May 3, 2019
was emitted @ Emily for unrelated reasons (pretty sure?)
sharing because the song was an inspiration for the Entity
If
You are near
To the dark
I will tell you 'bout the sun
You are here
No escape
From my visions of the world
You've been crying
All alone
But that doesn't mean a thing
To me
Knowing the song
I will sing
Till the darkness comes to sleep
Come to me
I will tell
Of the secret of the sun
It's in you
Not in me
But it does not mean a thing
To you
The sun is in your eyes
The sun is in your ears
I hope you see the sun
Someday in
The Darkness