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maskormenacelogs2014-03-07 04:09 am
corviform) wrote in maskormenacelogs2014-03-07 04:09 am
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you know you could have it so much better
WHO: SHADE and GILBERT
WHERE: Residence #004
WHEN: 3/7 evening
WHAT: One actual Victorian fellow and one not really Victorian fellow smoking a smoke and being classy and weird. Probably more weird than classy.
WARNINGS: tba
[ Sharon hadn't been herself before Gil had come to realize she had been infected with some mysterious virus whose origins were still unknown to him by the end of it. She needed rest after such a grueling and strange week and he tended to her without crowding her. It was never polite to impose too much on a young lady, especially the Duchess Rainsworth's granddaughter.
But then she disappeared and he was filled with temporary panic before it receded and was replaced by a touch of happiness and comfort Sharon was back where she belonged.
Then came bitter thoughts. He was supposed to be happy she was ported back home, to continue what they had all started out to finish regarding the Baskervilles, Leo, the Sealing Stones, and the mysteries of the Abyss. But while pleased for Sharon, he began to wonder when his turn would come. Three years away from Oz was rapidly approaching and his throat felt tight and head dizzy and heavy.
He needed to get back and yet here he was. All he could do was focus on cleaning the home, offering Aileen the now spare bedroom, preparing meals, and when the evening settled in and quiet fell upon the neighborhood he stepped out into the backyard and took long drags of his cigarette, watching the sun disappear from view. ]
WHERE: Residence #004
WHEN: 3/7 evening
WHAT: One actual Victorian fellow and one not really Victorian fellow smoking a smoke and being classy and weird. Probably more weird than classy.
WARNINGS: tba
[ Sharon hadn't been herself before Gil had come to realize she had been infected with some mysterious virus whose origins were still unknown to him by the end of it. She needed rest after such a grueling and strange week and he tended to her without crowding her. It was never polite to impose too much on a young lady, especially the Duchess Rainsworth's granddaughter.
But then she disappeared and he was filled with temporary panic before it receded and was replaced by a touch of happiness and comfort Sharon was back where she belonged.
Then came bitter thoughts. He was supposed to be happy she was ported back home, to continue what they had all started out to finish regarding the Baskervilles, Leo, the Sealing Stones, and the mysteries of the Abyss. But while pleased for Sharon, he began to wonder when his turn would come. Three years away from Oz was rapidly approaching and his throat felt tight and head dizzy and heavy.
He needed to get back and yet here he was. All he could do was focus on cleaning the home, offering Aileen the now spare bedroom, preparing meals, and when the evening settled in and quiet fell upon the neighborhood he stepped out into the backyard and took long drags of his cigarette, watching the sun disappear from view. ]
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If I were running a country, I would wave this little trump card around enough to ensure they were more than aware I had it just sitting here. The Cold War was all about weapons that nobody wanted to use.
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Wouldn't they retaliate at some point?
[ He's heard some stories about Russia, mainly from Natasha, who told him parts of their history had been etched in blood. They had suffered. ]
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[ Shade honestly didn't care so much about these things. Fascinating, and he'd lived through the age, walked the streets of both Washington and Moscow -- not here of course -- but to him, it was only a curiosity.
The wheel of history turning. ]
One gains more power, the other figures a way around it, until they both have too much, and if either one capitulates, then the world will fall to pieces around them.
Neither one wishes to go that far, and leave only ruin behind. It's about intimidation.
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Power itself can be a complicated matter. He had spent the better part of his life chasing it with little success initially, his desperation, his thirst for Raven's power stronger with as more and more time passed and Oz remained trapped in the Abyss. Nearly ten years had passed before he was able to tame the Nightray's Chain and acquire the power not just to seal, but to kill and to protect.
His hand drifts to the lower half of his neck, feeling the carcere beneath his clothes. ]
Do you think something like that will happen here?
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That doesn't necessarily mean it will here, but perhaps it will.
After all, they still have nuclear bombs.
[ It's a low chuckle that he released, at the thought. Well, most people couldn't survive a nuclear blast. Shade had first-hand experience with bombs. He as certain he could recover from something like that.
But who wished to take that chance? ]
Even though we may have the balance, they still have enough that I doubt the war would escalate too rapidly that we wouldn't know it's coming.
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[ He's heard of them, but he's not certain what they do besides explode. How many bombs does it take to level a city? ]
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They're quite dangerous. The thing could level a city, and there's been hardly enough work done to figure out what other effects it could have on the rest of the world.
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[ Had it been nuclear? But if it has effects like Shade says, maybe not. Not if it affected the whole world. Surely they would have gotten sick at some point. ]
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Whether or not it was nuclear, the damage is still...terrifying, isn't it? Imagine a constant stream of dealing with such threats, if either side were to escalate it. That's why it hasn't happened.
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[ imPorts stronger than a nuclear bomb. Resistant to it. He's seen what plenty of them are capable of. ]
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[ Shade could stop it, after all.
He'd stopped that bomber from harming his Opal. ]
But, would that perhaps create a new Vulcanus -- may be a Vulcanus-esque nation? If we were to intervene?
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I would hope not. They've made enough trouble for everyone.
These people truly like us... for whatever reason.
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[ He puffed away on his pipe, looking into the sky. ]
People with superpowers, they don't start out all chaos and destruction. That comes later. At first, it's elation, and wonder, at the fact that a man can run like the wind, or fly, or lift a car.
The distrust comes when the power is shown to be so great, and fear then settles in.
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[ Or so they've been told... but it's there in the books. He hasn't found anything to contradict the positive relationship shared between locals and imPorts.
However, Shade isn't wrong. They've seen it for themselves in the City. ]
Do you really believe this will go the way of the City and that world?
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[ He really didn't. He thought it could go any way, depending on the way the winds shifted. ]
It depends on us, doesn't it? The more we sully our reputations, the more likely it is to happen. The better we do, the less likely it is to happen.
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He pauses before he nods. ]
How much is better? We don't know what the military and government want us to do exactly.
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For the most part.
[ He says it, but this is Shade. He's likely to just be himself, which is bad enough. ]
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[ He'll make Gil mother hen him. ]
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Hardly.
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If you cut off your finger, is it dangerous?
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I'd hardly call it dangerous.
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You can't always be so certain!
[ Wow, Shade, check your limb regrowth privilege with people who are going to lose an arm in the future. ]
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But I can! It's hardly something I haven't experimented with. It makes more sense that I would be more reckless though, doesn't it?
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