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snowblindrpg2016-11-25 01:55 pm
definingfuture) wrote in snowblindrpg2016-11-25 01:55 pm
[network] @IAmLegend; video; Day 182 [open]
In case anyone hasn't spoken to a friend for obvious reasons, we seem to have all cooled off. I know now might not seem like the best time, but after what happened it's more important to keep in contact with each other and stay with people.
[Tony really wishes Steve were here. It should be him making this kind of announcement.]
What happened the day before wasn't an accident. It was something, the town maybe, trying to reach out and assert its influence over all of us. And if we react by dropping the work everyone has done so far? It wins. It gets exactly what it wants, because all of us break apart, making us easier to pick off. Or we give up. What we should be doing is pushing back and finding out who the prophet really is. We need to try to figure out what they intend to do for our own safety.
If there's anything I can do to help the rest of you, I still intend to do that. I'm not going to stop. I want everyone to be safe. And the best way to help each other is communication. Like the man said yesterday, don't shut down. He's a good guy.
So, on that note, my name is Tony Stark. I'm considered a superhero on the Earth I come from. We handle organizations that want to endanger the world, the occasional intergalactic threat, and... Things like this when they happen. Some of you might consider that a police force, but we're more of a general emergency response solution. I just want to give you a fair idea of who I am.
[He's holding the tablet up so he can address them properly, and raises his off-hand to gesture.]
Also, I have questions. First, how are your eyes? If you are still showing signs of change, I'd like to know. Do you feel different? Secondly, if you are alone right now and weren't with someone when this started, please check in. Let us know everyone is still here and no one is stranded without help. And if you have questions, today I'm going to be completely open.
[Tony really wishes Steve were here. It should be him making this kind of announcement.]
What happened the day before wasn't an accident. It was something, the town maybe, trying to reach out and assert its influence over all of us. And if we react by dropping the work everyone has done so far? It wins. It gets exactly what it wants, because all of us break apart, making us easier to pick off. Or we give up. What we should be doing is pushing back and finding out who the prophet really is. We need to try to figure out what they intend to do for our own safety.
If there's anything I can do to help the rest of you, I still intend to do that. I'm not going to stop. I want everyone to be safe. And the best way to help each other is communication. Like the man said yesterday, don't shut down. He's a good guy.
So, on that note, my name is Tony Stark. I'm considered a superhero on the Earth I come from. We handle organizations that want to endanger the world, the occasional intergalactic threat, and... Things like this when they happen. Some of you might consider that a police force, but we're more of a general emergency response solution. I just want to give you a fair idea of who I am.
[He's holding the tablet up so he can address them properly, and raises his off-hand to gesture.]
Also, I have questions. First, how are your eyes? If you are still showing signs of change, I'd like to know. Do you feel different? Secondly, if you are alone right now and weren't with someone when this started, please check in. Let us know everyone is still here and no one is stranded without help. And if you have questions, today I'm going to be completely open.
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So you wanted to be a doctor, but you also wanted to be left alone.
[Yeah, that sounds familiar.]
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i didn't wanna be bored
people are boring most of the time
[It's why he avoids the clinic when he can.]
they care about bullshit social niceties
grease the wheels with a friendly bedside manner and get the cash machine going with your kindly family doctor
he didn't have to deal with any of that
no one expected him to be nice or charming
he just came in to do something he wanted to do and he did it
and they needed him
so they kept him around
must've been a nice little power trip for a guy in his position
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Or maybe he liked it better that way. Solitude. I guess it depends on what you want.
[He thinks it would be painful to be hated and ostracized by everyone. That's a life he doesn't think he could stand. But some people seem to prefer being alone, and he knows that there are days where he just wants to be alone in his garage. He can't blame House for wanting to pursue his puzzles.]
I can see the appeal.
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is this going somewhere, stark?
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Was it everything you wanted it to be? From the guy with identity issues to the man that has himself figured out. Did it work?
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take a wild guess
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Are you an untouchable? Isn't that what you tried to be?
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it's kinda impossible to be an untouchable
black sheep is about as close as i can get
i still have to work clinic
boring cases
wilson thinks it helps with my bedside manner
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I used to resent having to make appearances.
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what's with the get to know you game?
are you trying to psychoanalyze me?
[Paranoia is a bitch.]
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I'm a superhero. Before that, I ran a company and took trips when the work wasn't exciting enough. I was the favorite son of the industry, and I think I probably still am. In the industry. I'm an alcoholic.
Maybe I just want to hear from someone else? You're smart.
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i do everything i can to get out of clinic duty
and the last talk someone tried to force me into
i slammed him, his company, and the patent-hoarding pharmaceutical industry in front of the entire audience
i almost got fired
wilson almost resigned
our administrator almost got fired
and the hospital lost a hundred million dollar investor
i'm smart
they picked me over the money
of course i resent having to do crap that any other bleeding heart intern would love to do
but they know they need me
so they put up with me
and i need my job
so i put up with it
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Maybe that isn't the ideal situation the way you first imagined it, but it's what works. You tolerate it, they tolerate it, and... occasionally there are days that are more interesting than others? Sounds all right.
Would you have been upset if they had left? Wilson and your administrator?
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and wilson leaves after i get his girlfriend killed, apparently
talked to the cutthroat bitch, yet?
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Yes, I have. She seemed nice enough, but I suppose the name choice has to come from somewhere.
[He's not really sure where.]
It wasn't a long talk.
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i give it to her
she works for me after i lose my team
and then i fire her
she gets together with wilson
i get too drunk to walk at a bar
call wilson's phone
she comes to get me, instead
and she gets injured in a bus crash and dies after
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[There's a lot to take in. Tony's response is musing, half-stunned by all that new, terrible information.]
I lost a company to the bottle. And friends. And the ability to be Iron Man, which was harder to lose than anything else at the time.
But someone still came and found me.
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none of this has happened, yet
it probably never will happen
she isn't from my universe and neither was he
who the hell knows what was supposed to happen for me?
we're never leaving this town
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It's difficult, but I think there's still a chance we can leave. We don't know yet.
We can't base everything on what came before.
But I know what you mean. Familiar faces here could just be from another world. Still.
She kept the name.
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i don't know her
i don't want to know her
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Anyway, maybe we're all from different places.
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and of course we're from different places
she's from a different universe
so was wilson
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They might be different, but they're familiar.
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she knows me
i don't know her
he's not the man i know
he's the man that guy becomes after i screw everything up
really sucks when future you is even more of a dick than present you
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I don't know if you can be jealous of yourself, but I think I'm figuring out a way.
Especially since I don't know how I'd ever compare. Things are falling apart where I'm from. Maybe we never become those people.
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