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First Inquiry [voice]

Jan 10, 2011 11:18

[There's a rattling noise as the comm shakes with his hands.]

I don't know where I am, I don't know if anyone will even hear this, but I had to tell someone.
My name is Vic Sage, and...I can breathe again.

[A deep breath] For the first time in over a year, I can breathe again.

[There's a long pause, nearly thirty seconds, as he tries to collect ( Read more... )

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[voice] meowminx January 10 2011, 17:27:11 UTC

Back from the dead? You wouldn't be the first one here.

[voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 17:41:32 UTC

Wasn't quite there, but I was well on my way.

[voice] meowminx January 10 2011, 17:44:32 UTC

Year's a long time to not breathe.

[voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 17:58:54 UTC

[dammit selina, he's the one who's supposed to do all the annoying here]
I was still breathing, but it wasn't exactly easy.

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[voice] favorsthebrave January 10 2011, 17:49:24 UTC

'Congratulations' would seem to be the thing to say.

[voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 18:02:38 UTC

I suppose it would be, but I get the nagging feeling there's more to it than that.

[voice] favorsthebrave January 10 2011, 18:32:01 UTC

There may be a string attached, it's true.

Aside from being transported away from your home with no readily available way back, which is quite enough of an inconvenience for some.

[voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 19:22:46 UTC

It's the strings that worry me, quite frankly.

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[Voice] the_enemy_ace January 10 2011, 17:57:51 UTC

I can hear you, Herr Sage.

[For all the good it might do, he thinks]

Are you in need of assitance?

[Voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 18:05:00 UTC

No, no, I'll be fine. I think I just need to take a walk.

[He pauses before adopting a lighter, more amused tone.] But if you happen to know the number of a good oncologist...

[Voice] the_enemy_ace January 10 2011, 18:10:35 UTC

I will listen, if it will help.

And I am afraid I cannot help you, mein herr. The last person I knew who might fit the bill was the village Doctor, and that was in 1938.

[Voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 18:15:21 UTC

I don't really need to talk, just to think. Get my head clear.

You seem a little far from home. [1938? German accent? There's a question there.]

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Oracle's communicator; locked + encrypted sibyllant January 10 2011, 18:39:37 UTC

[ Instead of the impersonal computerized voice, she uses her own. Thing are different here, and nobody will remember when they leave anyway. ]

Question. [ Gentle. ] Welcome back.

This is Oracle. I'm sure you have plenty of questions. I can probably answer most of them.

[voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 19:12:13 UTC

[Has no idea how to work the encryption on this thing.]

Nice to find that someone here knows me.
So, what's the setup? There was some basic information available, but I haven't looked through it yet. I was a bit...distracted.

[voice] sibyllant January 19 2011, 07:12:30 UTC

[Bab basically takes a technological stamp and stamps it all over their conversation, as she is wont. This reply comes with a text containing the designated Oracle's Allies encryption code with instructions on how to use it. Beware, there are still entities capable of hacking it cough Major Kusanagi cough but for the most part it's pretty good.]

You'll find quite a few who do. Fortunately. Unfortunately? Well. That debate rages on.

Welcome to Not New York, where the Porter brings slews of people from other universes here for its own mysterious purposes. It's a pesky sort of AI, the kind that has thus far kept the most expert of experts and the techiest of technopaths out of its programming, and it rarely reveals anything of use. It's also been very quiet for a while.

The end result is a city full of metahumans, aliens, and robots. Technically, we're all metahumans now, as the Porter "gifts" us with superpowers that vary widely in terms of usefulness. I believe Batgirl makes a very nice cup of jasmine tea if she thinks about it ( ... )

[voice] nottheanswers January 19 2011, 08:05:40 UTC

[Fiddles a bit, figures this out. Huh, that wasn't too hard. also just to note this would've been last Monday, before most of the weirdness]

I'm not sure, I've never had the impression I was too well known in the cape circles. Obviously your people know me, or would that be his people? Both, I suppose.

That doesn't sound too different from home, only perhaps a little a little more focused. You still know everything that needs to be known, I see. Did that take long, or does it just come naturally?

That's...a little over five years. Huh. May have been at least that long since I last saw Shiva.

[Isn't even touching the Helena bit.]

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[Voice] arataznhoj January 10 2011, 19:08:55 UTC

Crazy little thing, isn't life? I was a ghost myself before coming here. Strangest thing, suddenly having a healthy and bouncy body. To feel, and to hear, and all the rest... people here say this place has it's downsides and I suppose, just like anywhere, it does. But for the moment, it feels just a little like Heaven.

[Voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 19:27:08 UTC

It takes some getting used to, doesn't it? I've been living my life with the knowledge that death was right around the corner, and now...

[Voice] arataznhoj January 10 2011, 19:29:06 UTC

Yeah. I've been a ghost for almost a year, maybe longer. And dead before that, even longer yet.

This being alive thing is almost like a faded memory.

I hope, however, you find it suits you again. I am lucky enough to have found my daughter here.

[Voice] nottheanswers January 10 2011, 19:46:20 UTC

I don't know how many people I've really left behind that I'd be able to reconnect with. I managed to settle most of my affairs before checking out. [Most of them, with one or two notable exceptions.]

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