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[somekindofsin]

Random influxes of strangers in April and July... we should expect that again in early October, I believe.  The weekend of curses also appears to change its timing along with the season.  Can we expect the third weekend to be cursed during the autumn months?  Perhaps a tangible pattern would be asking too much of the deities.

I've had a fair amount

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[2ndnightshift]

Atomic warfare's really meant to be a last resort. Or in theory at least.

[somekindofsin]

Understandable, of course, but why does it exist? Why on earth would it be necessary to obliterate an entire city?

[2ndnightshift]

I don't know. It shouldn't be necessary. I guess it started out as pure scientific pursuit for the next big thing. And when the Commies are shifting their interests too it ends up being an arms race.

[somekindofsin]

The Commies? Oh, right--Communists, yes.

Right, I see a bit of sense in it. Can you also explain why modern scientists are attempting to control antimatter? I can't for the life of me conceive of a situation in which I'd care to create something that, by virtue of its sheer existence, can destroy the entire planet.

[mechaeonical]

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[OOC: placeholder (for both characters I'll be commenting with) since I'm about to go to bed, but man is Aigis pinged by some of this.]

[haroicsacrifice]

You really think a lot about these things!

[somekindofsin]

Too much, arguably.

[misterblackbird]

'Vel in vita nos es in nex.' Morbid as that inscription might seem at first, I think I find it rather fascinating.

[ooc: As Mother's puppeteer for that ordeal in May, I must say.............wow and give you mad, mad props *_*]

[somekindofsin]

It's intriguing, if nothing else. I'm sure there's a great theological and existential statement in it.

[ooc: ♥ Thank you! Carl loves him some mythology.]

[misterblackbird]

Of course there is. After all, one could see every moment that passes as another moment that draws one closer to death. And, in the case of the church, what comes after death is immensely important. Here, matters are different, but that same inscription could hold here too.

[somekindofsin]

That's a bit unsettling. Personally, I'd rather not dwell all that much on death until I need to confront it myself.

[spiritofsorrow]

Many things in this city aren't supposed to exist. According to most of the world I live in, I shouldn't exist, either. Magic, multiple universes, all of this is alien to me.

As for the sidhe...I know nothing about it, either, but Lockon and I are trying to mass resources to deal with it.

Ah, the atomic bomb. I remember when that was invented. I'm behind the times myself, though not a hundred years so. But why are you making weapons here?

[somekindofsin]

Shouldn't you? It's remarkable, really, what exists beyond the expected and accepted reality. I don't know about your situation, but I was a member of a religious order (an order than was so secretive, in fact, that the Vatican was unable to acknowledge its existence or the existence of its members) that dealt specifically with beings that shouldn't have existed. We didn't bother with magic, though, and the idea of multiple universes--well! Far beyond even our scope.

I do wish I could help, but what information I've found is utterly useless. Myth, folklore... all of about as much use as fairy tales.

When are you from, if I may ask?

Ah, weapons... yes. Force of habit, I suppose. I was a weapons designer at home--among other occupations--and twenty years of an activity makes it second nature.

[spiritofsorrow]

I left about 1960. And yourself?

Hmm, I doubt the Vatican would have approved of me; is communicating with the dead not some sort of forbidden act, to them? Then again, compared to vampires, magic, and cruel deities, I'm not sure I would be the one to worry about!

Fairy tales, oddly enough, may be useful here in the City. So many things I thought were myth are reality in this place. Come along with us anyway; if you are willing to confront a dangerous creature, you can likely help as much as the rest of us. None of us understand the situation completely, or even very much.

I have never preferred violence, nor am I a scientist, but there is a place for everything in this flawed world. Nonetheless, you don't seem malevolent in your work -- what is your name?

[somekindofsin]

There was quite a lot going on then, wasn't there? Ah... 1889, for me