issue #5 | video

[survivorsguilt]

[She's put this off for like a week, thinking it was best to not incite anger, or to bring attention to herself, but it just keeps coming back to bother her. Ellie can't let it go.

The sweater she's sporting perhaps isn't the best thing to be taken seriously in (thanks, evil trees laden with fun shirts!) but anyone who knows Ellie will recognise that fire in her eyes. She's dead serious.]

You know, you can direct all the righteous anger you want to at the gods, and that's fucking fine, I get it even, but have you considered that spending less time arguing with them and more time working towards solutions to all this shit is probably a good idea? Fuck.

It seems like some of you are just totally fine with them dying, and I- you- [Maybe she should have planned this out better. Distress seeps into her voice, and she chokes up a little, but presses on.] I mean, don't you get it? There are people here who aren't even alive back home. A lot of them. If this place goes up in flames, if they gods die, they go nowhere. I'm not letting that happen.

And to this fucking lying scumbag, whoever you are? If you are one of us- I'll find you.

[That didn't go as smoothly or sound as eloquent as she'd hoped for. Ellie switches the video off with more force than is probably necessary.

Incredibly, she doesn't feel much better.]

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[outofthefire]

[Laura is brand new and knows nothing about the gods, the Null, and everything that's been going on, so she's more than a little confused by all of this]

Back up a little. Who are you looking for and why?

[survivorsguilt]

[Ellie, already impatient and annoyed, is probably not her best bet for solid answers. All the same, she knows how it feels to arrive and be totally confused and out of your depth, so she doesn't totally brush Laura off.]

One of the gods told us there's probably a mole in our midst. Someone working against us. They seemed super sure.

[outofthefire]

[yeah, she's very much confused and out of her depth. even the phone is confusing. they never dreamed of that kind of technology in 1989]

Gods? What gods? And someone's trying to hurt us? Why?

[survivorsguilt]

[She groans a little, teenage impatience bubbling over.]

Hang on, it's all- there's a record. On the phones. Uhhh... one sec.

[Ellie fiddles around for a moment, and then a text should come through on Laura's end.]

here. and more bullshit.

[outofthefire]

[hey, Laura's only 17, so she's got your share of teenage impatience, too

Laura manages to get the files to open after a lot of trial and error]

--wait a second, none of this makes sense. How can anyone feed on emotions?

[survivorsguilt]

[Between the two of them, they could probably make it go off the charts.]

I don't know what to tell you. Shit here is probably really fucking different than wherever you came from. You're gonna need to throw away whatever ideas of 'normal' you had.

[outofthefire]

[they could. it would be awesome for anyone who isn't them]

Getting that impression. [short laugh] And I thought that demons and freaky paintings were as weird as it could get.