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[cashlin]

Hey, gang! Hope some of you didn't get maimed-slash-dismembered over the last couple weeks. [stated as breezily as ever, way to go lilith.]

Got a PSA for you all. I know alcohol sounds pretty great, especially after the wendigo crap, but don't drink the stuff in the restaurants without checking it first. I got lucky with the first one I tried-- sorta tasted like a fruit cocktail kind of thing-- but one time a bottle got knocked out of my hands and it dissolved through the floor. So, uh. Yeah.

Also, does anybody else have guns around here? Are you restocking your ammo at all or are you just... rationing it out? I've been trying to look around the armory but every weapon there's of the stabby variety. That's great and all, but you can't shoot swords out of a shotgun.

[... no one tell her.]

That's it for now. Lilith, out.

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[cashlin]

[the mention of her wings again confirms that he's not lying about all of this, seeing as the people who've gotten to see the wings first-hand are, excluding mordecai and brick and roland, extremely dead. BACK TO MAYA--]

In the same kind of phase energy that I use? [awesome.]

Awesome.

[awe...some... ]

[hybridification]

Y...es?

How is that a bad thing. Like, I'm definitely detecting a little condescension here. Some people really thrive in an office setting, you know.

[cashlin]

whatever you say, Rhys.

[cashlin]

A skag's a screaming alien quadruped that's overrun the planet I was on before coming here. ...I think they're mammals? I'm not really sure.

[they are gross. very gross.]

No prob. [you are too pure for this horrible murdercave]

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[smited]

That doesn't worry you at all?

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[cashlin]

Hey, I'm not NOT trying to figure it out.

[cowardley]

...Oh. Wow. [ look, what else is a girl supposed to say? ] That's a terrible name for them.

[cashlin]

It's a terrible name for a terrible creature, to be fair. If you're lucky, Pandoran wildlife's out to eat you-- and if you're not, it's out to dismember you for kicks.

I'm including the bandits in that umbrella, by the way.

[cowardley]

That sounds insane. [ Like straight out of a novel, or some action-adventure movie. ] Why would anyone stay there?

[cashlin]

[A thoughtful pause.]

They said there was a treasure there-- hidden in something called the Vault. For years people flocked to Pandora looking for it. Including me not too long ago. Too bad all we found in it was a big alien that nearly killed us.

People do all sorts of crazy things to make a living, you know?

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[smited]

Fair enough. Though I don't understand why you would use something when you have no idea how it works or where it came from.

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[cashlin]

They work well-- SUPER well-- and I'm not dead. Knowing the mechanics is desired but optional.

What kind of idiot would I have to be not to use the powers I was born with?

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[smited]

Power always has a price. Do you know what yours is?

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[cashlin]

Don't care. I'll pay it to keep them, my powers are a part of me.

[famous last words.]

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[smited]

You may regret that someday.

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[cashlin]

we'll see about that.

[in the years to come, she'll wear herself thin for the powers-- for the sheer strength that comes with them. but she'd never regret it. that's not her.]

Who peed in your cereal this morning though? Seriously.

[camouflage]

Huh. Learn something new every day.

[cashlin]

Knowledge is power, o neighbor of mine.

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[smited]

Who peed in my what now?

[hybridification]

You really like hurting my feelings, don't you?

[cashlin]

Just a little bit.

[cowardley]

...It sounds like it would have been easier just to get a regular job than treasure hunt. [ if you just want to make a living, make one, but lilith doesn't sound like the kind of person who just wants to make a living ]

But why would an alien be hidden in a Vault? And why did people assume it was a treasure?

[cashlin]

[annnd ashley would be right in that guess.] Now where's the fun in that?

'Cause of what they'd found on the planet before: ruins from a hyper-advanced alien civilization. Weapon corporations reverse-engineered everything they could get their hands on, and technology advanced like crazy. Not really a stretch people started talking about what else the Eridians left behind. Urban legends get outta hand that way.

[as for the alien itself...]

We were told... [or, rather, not told until the very last minute.] The Eridians sealed that thing in the Vault so it wouldn't destroy the whole universe. It was called the Destroyer. Real points for creativity to whoever named it.

[attagirl]

Yeah, she's pretty awesome. Tattoos are killer, too.

[ uhh. this is so awkward. why does she have to be from the past. ]

Sooo. Yeeeep. Sounds like you've really got a lot to look forward to!

[ don't tell her about roland he can't ever tell her about roland ever. ]

[cashlin]

Duh! She's a Siren. All of us are.

[Except maybe Steele but that was sort of a need-to-know basis. Whatever.]

Sure does. After that weird AI lied to us about the Destroyer, though, pretty much anything sounds like it'd be an improvement.