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.

Comments

[zerg_rush]

I'm...not big on experiments.

[Haha no personal trauma here no sir.]

I've been a telepath all my life. Nothing really changed here.

[credit_not_blame]

Fair enough, no experiments.

[Not for now, anyway.]

Huh, that's cool. Is that something that's just a thing in the 26th century? That person's got brown hair, that person has blue eyes, that person's a telepath?

[zerg_rush]

No, it's pretty rare.

[Kerrigan's kind of not great at keeping conversations going.]

[credit_not_blame]

[Fortunately Stacia is excellent at it, though she's currently trying to determine if this line of questioning is making Kerrigan uncomfortable.]

That must have been an exciting discovery for everyone. I don't have kids, but I've done a lot of babysitting and I don't know what I'd have done if they could read my mind and figure out where I hid the candy.

[zerg_rush]

[Definitely getting into some unhappy territory.]

You said your name was Stacia?

[Look at that slick subject change. Smooth as buttah.]

[credit_not_blame]

[Stacia pivots into it as though this new topic is the most natural thing ever.]

Yep! I'm a werewolf.

[See? Whole new topic!]

[zerg_rush]

What's that?

[Hi, it's 2500 AD, Kerrigan's never been anywhere near Earth and was raised by the military. She has no idea what you're talking about.]

[credit_not_blame]

Uh, basically, I turn into a giant wolf-monster that walks on two legs and has big claws and teeth. You don't have any stories about people who can turn into animals in the far-flung space future?

[zerg_rush]

[Kerrigan's eyebrows go up. She'll, uh, take your word for it, Stacia.]

Not where I grew up. I'm pretty sure the colonists only brought domestic animals. I don't think anyone wants to turn into a cow.

[credit_not_blame]

[The werecows all got killed ages ago anyway. Long story; werewolves occasionally break out in a very bad case of "murder everything".]

What about pets? Do you have cats? Or other animals native to the planets?

[Oh man, terraforming probably fucks up the ecology of other planets in a major way...]

[zerg_rush]

Cats and dogs, sure. Plus native animals. You can probably keep some of those as pets.

[Pretty sure StarCraft is one of those universes that just has a zillion human-habitable worlds Because Ancient God Aliens.]

[credit_not_blame]

And no shapeshifter stories?

I'm not judging, I'm just surprised.

Thank goodness for the continued existence of cats and dogs. What would humanity ever do without them?]

[zerg_rush]

There might be, just not where I grew up. The central worlds have better libraries, so they might have something.

[Shrug.]

[credit_not_blame]

[Stacia is going absolutely mad with the desire to keep digging, but: open channels. No. Bad Ragabash.]

Well, if you want to hear all of the weird stories I know about werewolves, hit me up. I looked into it when I found out I was one, and most of them hilariously wrong.

[zerg_rush]

I don't want to waste any of your time.

[That is not, in fact, a polite brush-off. Kerrigan is just appallingly bad at socializing.]

[credit_not_blame]

[Fortunately, Stacia has practice communicating with people literally raised by wolves, as wolves.]

If it were a waste of my time, I wouldn't have offered.