007: AMAs, Third Round

[tarnishedavenger]

So, we've got a load of new people, and that means it's time for me to do the only thing it feels like I get on these comms to do anymore: AMAs.

For you new people, I find it helps when we get together and explain a little bit about ourselves, any powers we have, and our skillsets. That way we know what we're starting with and what we can build off of. So, please, come and introduce yourselves and be willing to answer questions.

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[video]

[bringinghopewithme]

I'm the Easter Bunny, and you should just go ahead and tell me what your favorite fruit and dark-to-milk percentage of chocolate is while you're here.

[Video] [locked to the New Hires]

[bringinghopewithme]

Also, I've seen a few people asking, and I already confessed to a few thefts against Jorgmund on this network to test the security. I haven't been punished for those crimes yet, but they have shocked me for other, far lesser crimes, so take what you will from that.

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[alderaani]

Are you a Lepi, or related to them?

Bevcause where she's from giant talking rabbits aren't that odd.

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[greyerrant]

AH yes. Nora was explaining candy to me. What should I know about such things? Astartes do not typically consume sweets.

also video

[passifloraincarnata]

What for, Mister Bunny?

[If you want to imagine her calling him "Bunny-san", since that's the same effect as intended by the use of the English title "Mister", here, on her end, by all means, enjoy the mental image.]

[garmr]

Chocolate..?

[uh-oh. someone's pre-columbian exchange]

[audio] [locked to bunny]

[ownperson]

Okay, I gotta ask, because I had a hell of a concussion... you brought me like, flowers and stuff, right? In the infirmary a little while back. That wasn't me hallucinating?

[ She's come a long way to just accepting the things she considers strange since her initial reaction to Bunny, but she really did have one hell of a concussion that day and the idea that the Easter Bunny actually brought her something is wild for reasons other than his mere existence. ]

[valkywhee]

Farther east than what, anyway? Other bunnies?

[They don't have Easter where Nora's from.]

[video]

[zerofield]

I like strawberries and milk chocolate. But really, I'll give anything sweet a chance.

[ You're doing the Goddess's work, sir. ]

[video]

[fuckingaqua]

Oh, kickass. Easter Bunny's real. [ This might as well happen. ] Now my kid owes me 20 bucks next time I see him.

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[turntex]

hey
i did this whole song and dance already so im not gonna get too deep into it
my tapshoes are worn out ok
my dancing days are done its time to make room for the new kids
anyway im dave and im a literal god of time
also pretty sick at swords and comics and fresh beats
check out the old posts for more or just ama idc

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[heterochrocatic]

why the sunglasses all the time?

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[princesspower]

One sword or multiple swords?

[zerofield]

Do you only have power over the flow of time, or do you warp any other aspects of reality along with it?

video

[hot_dad]

I did the last one of these, but for anyone new who's shown up, I'm Rune Saint John. My specialties are magic, investigation, and pest control. Said pests are usually of the monstrous-slash-magical persuasion, but I've got experience with all kinds of things and people that've tried to kill me. I'm a bit crippled at the moment magically, since Jorgmund keeps my primary tools under lock and key outside of missions, so if I'm less than optimally helpful sometimes you can blame them.

Also: not human. I'm a New Atlantis native, if that means anything to anyone.

Oh, and Brand's my partner. He's nicer than he looks. And he's probably going to get pissed at me for sharing details here, but we're a little beyond that point now anyway.

video

[runes_brand]

[Can you see Rune in the background of Brand's video? Yes. That's not the point, the point is that Brand has a fucking reputation.]

Why would you [BEEP]ing lie to these people in an AMA? I'm not nice.

Video

[alderaani]

I am Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, a Former member of the Galactic Senate and still currently a diplomatic envoy.

[ And if the Empire had their way, dead leader of a rebellion that committed acts of sedition against their forces. ]

Though frankly, I don't see what good titles and references do us here.

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[heterochrocatic]

Oh hey you should meet Adora. She loves princesses.

[ Okay that's kinda mean, but still she's gonna ping Adora anyway. ]

[71lines]

So, I'm Tenten. I'm a ninja from the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

...I'm not sure what else to say. Should I talk about ninja stuff? No one ever seems to know what ninjas do. Even part-time ninjas like Dave.

[passifloraincarnata]

I knew! Mostly.

[runes_brand]

[A scuffle may or may not have taken place. If one did, it certainly wasn't between two grown-ass men, one an unfathomably powerful magical being and one deadly and dangerous bodyguard. And it's over anyway. You heard nothing coming from the bunk room known to be occupied by Rune and Brand.]

My name is Brand Saint John. I'm Rune's partner; I do the same [BEEP] he does with less magic and more knives, guns, and explosives. Especially the not getting dead part.

[fuckingaqua]

Okay. So I'm Tucker. I'm basically a badass space marine. But like, a reasonable level of badass space marine. The Gen Ed with no major of soldiering. I do whatever. Running and shooting. Missions. Standing around and talking. If you wanna talk time travel, don't do it to me.

I've got a cool alien sword that only works for me. Jorgmund confiscated that for missions only. I've got standard issue power armor, which Jorgmund also confiscated for missions only. Total narcs.

Oh, shit, I guess technically I was an alien ambassador for a while. Which was cool until it tanked.

Uh, I've got a kid? Which isn't relevant to this whole situation, but is relevant to letting you all know he's more awesome than any of your kids.

What else...

[ SHRUG. ] Ugh, I dunno. This stuff's almost impossible when you're trying to keep it SFW.

[googledox]

I would like to contest the idea that your son is more awesome than anyone else's children.

And yet, at the same time, completely understand the compulsion to say so.

[Okay, look, Tucker, your kid is probably better at playing hoops but his kid's smarter. So there.]

Do you have any pictures? I was fortunate enough to be able to transfer a few pictures of my son off my omnicom to my comm device the last time I was allowed to have it.

[gempathic]

Hi! My name is Steven. I'm a Crystal Gem. We're all about defending the Earth from bad guys and fighting monsters and stuff with magic powers. It's not like, um. It's not really like this back home. So that's been something to get used to.

[ What's one of the nicest possible ways to say "this is awful"? That's probably up there. ]

Right now I kiiiinda just do shield bubbles. I used to have healing powers, but they... don't really work right now. It's complicated.

The important thing is, I think we can all work together and be great friends and great teammates. And if you're not used to that, you can start with me! I can teach you whatever you need to know about beginner level friendship.

[takenalive]

I thought you were larger before.

[onequartershark]

I'm Carolina. It's not my name, but it's what you can call me.

I was, at one point, the top agent and team leader of Project Freelancer. I wouldn't normally bring that up, but considering how much of that baggage is already off the carousel anyway I think it will explain a lot.

As Aiden Price has decided to make public knowledge: the Director of that project was my father. I don't particularly want to talk about it.

[ Carolina is not having the greatest time arriving mid-tirefire, but she's dealing. ]

I'm a good fighter, I'm a good shot, and I'm not anyone's boss anymore. Before this, I was semi-retired and living on the moon of a colony world with some friends of mine.

[ She's just... not even going to mention the time travel thing. It's a whole lot simpler that way. ]

video

[googledox]

I won't speak about the personal specifics of it, but he had no right to air out your communal personal business that way. I'm sorry you all had to deal with it.

[He doesn't specifically mention her father.]

[A brief raise of his eyebrows.]

Take it from someone whose private business has been a matter of public record - and public gossip - for a lifetime.

video

[googledox]

I am Brainiac 5. Back home, I'm a member of the Legion of Superheroes, a team tasked with responding to large-scale criminal operations and galactic threats.

Here, I apparently am suddenly a doctor due to sub-par staffing in the Infirmary, even though I have minimal training for it. Fortunately for all of you, "minimal" training in xenobiological medicine in 31st century Coluan terms vastly surpasses what many of the doctors of this era can offer.

That said, please do stop trying to die.

[Come on, guys, put some effort into it.]

Normally, at home, I have force field abilities. Here, I seem to have empathic reception and projection. I also have some kind of...animation ability, where I can control the forms of certain inanimate objects. It seems to only work on things that have some kind of bipedal humanoid shape.

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[prairietroubador]

So, dolls then?

video

[parannoyed]

[The blonde man looks very, very tired, but that's kind of his default look lately. The curved scars on his face from Rose Tattoo are finally healing and less pink.]

I figure I should just get this over with and let anyone ask questions if they're feeling nosy, since someone made a few private things public that I never planned to.

[Thanks a lot, Price.]

[At least this group isn't likely to actually be super nosy. Price's mistake was thinking everyone was actually interested in their private business, when the Freelancers didn't care to share it, and the rest of the New Hires didn't really care to pry.]

I'm Washington. I'm also a former member of Freelancer, like some of the others. Fortunately, the project is pretty thoroughly dead.

Same basic skill set as some of the others, armed and unarmed combat, some basic munitions expertise, etc. etc.

My powers seem to be making other people drop a few IQ points - some kind of confusion ability. And selective invulnerability that only kicks in when someone tries to kill me with something so ridiculous it belongs in a cartoon.

video

[zerofield]

[ Dropping IQ points sounds like a terrifying ability, Wash. ]

Be careful with that ability. I don't think some people on the Rig can afford lose more than a few.

[Video]

[fromfryingpantofire]

I suppose it is that time again, isn't it?

My name's Sam Winchester. I'm from a world that, to my understanding, is a bit of an oddity because it's one in which the supernatural is real, though hidden from most people. So ghosts, vampires, werewolves...different kind of werewolves and vampires to the ones we've had on the Rig. Demons and angels, too.

Anyway, back home, I'm a Hunter. Basically, when the supernatural gets too...eager to start taking out the general populace, my brother and I go in to deal with things. I'm also, as my brother puts it, a "walking encyclopedia of weirdness", which mostly means that I either know how to kill it or can find out pretty easily.

I guess that's everything. Other than, yes, I am actually this tall. I don't know how it happened, it just did.

[kingofneworleans]

[For once, Remy doesn't have his sunglasses on on the comms. Let the cameras deal with some of the weirdness that his eyes do.]

[He also has a deck of cards that he's doing an overhand shuffle with. Just something to keep his hands busy and isn't too noisy or distracting.]

Bonjour. De name's Remy, but I also go by Gambit. 'Riginally from New Orleans, Louisiana, in de States. On Earth, for dose dat don' know where eit'er of dose places are.

I'm a mutant, like Rogue an' Ric. Means we got a weird gene dat 'spresses itself in different ways, usually some sorta powers. 'S also where de eyes come from.

Beyon' dat, feel free to as' me any questions. I'll answer dem if dey ain't too personal. I'll tell you if dey are, though.

[greyerrant]

What game do you play with those? [ Loken is clearly interested in the cards. ]