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( Hey, Hadriel! You know that lovely rare sight of Kate, actually using video instead of text? You're being treated to it again today, hair a paler shade of pink than before (she needs to dye it, but it can be stretched out for a while longer, she thinks) and eyes?
Well. They're completely white, no irises or pupils to be seen, and giving off an eerie glow against her skin. But that's the point of it, she needs a statement to be made. (Though, honestly, there’s enough statement in the background of the Colosseum, crumbling and ancient as ever, in the frame.
Kate, dramatic? Say it ain’t so.) )
So.
( Still sticking with those eyes, Kitkat? Okay, then. )
We need to talk about the Door.
( A pause. )
...Least, what's most likely the Door.
( Meanwhile, Alphys is very slightly off-camera, on virtue of the fact that she’s four feet tall and therefore too short to be caught in most video focused on someone’s face. But she stands on her tiptoes, waving her hand to get it to tilt down a bit. )
So, uh, we may have been-- well, uh, I’ve b-been looking into it. It absolutely matches Door signatures of the energy we’ve, uhm, captured when it brings in new arrivals. It’s unstable, and not consistent, but… yeah.
( She looks down, tapping her claws together nervously. )
It is telling the truth. Or s-seems to be.
( Maybe Kate should sit down the next time they do this. But nevertheless, her eyes finally fade and she looks less than pleased with the fact that they can only say so much. )
Behaviour means we haven’t got a proper reading on it. ( Her lips purse and tug to one side. She wants to get her hands on it, but it already causes her headaches when she stares at it from above ground. What the hell kind of experience would looking at it directly be? ) Not in the time we’ve had.
( SIGH )
Null’s not bullshitting us, far as we can tell. ( It would be so much easier if it was, really. The thought of it being somewhere in this city makes Kate antsy. Who knows how long they have before its communicators go back online and it drags the rest of its species here like some horrifying, metallic beacon? ) So.
We need to organise.
( Before 50 different people end up with the idea of doing their own thing, really.
But fuck if she didn’t have other plans for this. Ones which gave them more time, which didn’t ask them to post to the network in plain sight of the gods. )
It can’t really, uh, search right now, but I might b-be able to help a little?
( She reaches off-camera and pulls out a small device, with what looks like a camera lens on the back. )
I made this a while ago, but it tracks magical signatures. I’ve been able to confirm that the Door has, uh, a unique s-signature that doesn’t match god magic. It can’t track long distances, just scan what’s in front of it, but, uhm. If anyone thinks they found a piece, I can confirm it.
( ooc: replies will, of course, come from both kate and alphys, but holler if you want someone specific! )
Well. They're completely white, no irises or pupils to be seen, and giving off an eerie glow against her skin. But that's the point of it, she needs a statement to be made. (Though, honestly, there’s enough statement in the background of the Colosseum, crumbling and ancient as ever, in the frame.
Kate, dramatic? Say it ain’t so.) )
So.
( Still sticking with those eyes, Kitkat? Okay, then. )
We need to talk about the Door.
( A pause. )
...Least, what's most likely the Door.
( Meanwhile, Alphys is very slightly off-camera, on virtue of the fact that she’s four feet tall and therefore too short to be caught in most video focused on someone’s face. But she stands on her tiptoes, waving her hand to get it to tilt down a bit. )
So, uh, we may have been-- well, uh, I’ve b-been looking into it. It absolutely matches Door signatures of the energy we’ve, uhm, captured when it brings in new arrivals. It’s unstable, and not consistent, but… yeah.
( She looks down, tapping her claws together nervously. )
It is telling the truth. Or s-seems to be.
( Maybe Kate should sit down the next time they do this. But nevertheless, her eyes finally fade and she looks less than pleased with the fact that they can only say so much. )
Behaviour means we haven’t got a proper reading on it. ( Her lips purse and tug to one side. She wants to get her hands on it, but it already causes her headaches when she stares at it from above ground. What the hell kind of experience would looking at it directly be? ) Not in the time we’ve had.
( SIGH )
Null’s not bullshitting us, far as we can tell. ( It would be so much easier if it was, really. The thought of it being somewhere in this city makes Kate antsy. Who knows how long they have before its communicators go back online and it drags the rest of its species here like some horrifying, metallic beacon? ) So.
We need to organise.
( Before 50 different people end up with the idea of doing their own thing, really.
But fuck if she didn’t have other plans for this. Ones which gave them more time, which didn’t ask them to post to the network in plain sight of the gods. )
It can’t really, uh, search right now, but I might b-be able to help a little?
( She reaches off-camera and pulls out a small device, with what looks like a camera lens on the back. )
I made this a while ago, but it tracks magical signatures. I’ve been able to confirm that the Door has, uh, a unique s-signature that doesn’t match god magic. It can’t track long distances, just scan what’s in front of it, but, uhm. If anyone thinks they found a piece, I can confirm it.
( ooc: replies will, of course, come from both kate and alphys, but holler if you want someone specific! )
[video]
Powers're as active as anything else. Just another type of energy, gives off its own kind of signature. Problem's tuning into it when there's so many different worlds.
( And therefore, so much difference in logic. How powers come about. Nothing in Kate's world is simply magical energy without a form, as the gods are. Even Creatures have a physical form, albeit one that can't contain or control their power as well as a human body could. )
[video]
Of course they do. I've just no idea how in the world you would measure that with any sort of device. Or display it for that matter. I've a hard enough time explaining that magical signatures exist in the first place, never mind convincing anyone that they look like anything.
[video]
Used to add some of my power to items to make them sensitive to it. ( Back then, that was the only way she could see powers at all. Now, her abilities channel into herself. Better, more active, and she can fix powers with a touch, but those enchantments are missed right now.
More importantly... ) People don't believe powers have a signature where you come from?
( She's only ever encountered this in Hadriel, people seeming confused when she explains what she can do. Back home, it was accepted as the truth. People would ask her what she saw, rather than what the fuck she was talking about.
What do my powers look like?
Blue.
More than blue, but they hadn't earned the right to have a full explanation, in her mind. )
[video]
It's less that they don't believe in a signature than that most of them can't see it, I suppose. A man will understand that he has wind or water magic, that's a given. But it's less easy to explain the fact of how I might have been able to read that before they made it obvious.
[video]
Hear that here. ( There's a brief clear of her throat before her cool tone changes, obviously meant to show the mimicry of things she's heard when explaining what she does to others; ) What d'you mean? How's that work? Don't get why you need it.
( What can she say, it's been bubbling for a while. At home, her abilities and the medical uses of them go without question, they're a boon. Here, people seem confused by the very idea that powers could need medical treatment as much as anything else. )
[video]
[And here is where Alucard does an impression of his own that sounds not unlike a familiar black-eyed magician we both know, even if it's something he'd probably never ask aloud, complete with familiar scowl and all:] Why have you been granted that kind of a power?
[He switches back to his normal, dazzling smile.] Someone must always be a critic.
[video]
But fuck, it's nice actually complaining about this to someone who gets it. )
Guess some things are the same in any world.
( Is it a good thing people, as a whole, don't change whether they're basic humans or magicians or something else entirely? )