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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[zerg_rush]

To me it's not added. [Kerrigan shakes her head.] I've been able to sense minds as long as I can remember.

[Which is a lot less time than for most people, but Loken hasn't unlocked that dialogue tree yet.]

Not having it is like being blindfolded.

[greyerrant]

Now that I have heard psykers say. They feel cut off from the greater universe. They referred to those of us without such talents as blunts. A... xenos I was briefly assisted by said similar things.

[zerg_rush]

[Kerrigan scoffs.]

It's just annoying, not spiritually devastating.

[Apparently all of Loken's psychic friends back home are drama queens.]

[greyerrant]

I cannot speculate on the spiritual aspect of things. I am secular by nature, as are all adherents of the Imperial truth. I put my faith in science. Though some here have seen fit to try to proselytize at me with ancient variants of what I believe is the Terran faith of Cathericism.

[zerg_rush]

I couldn't tell you much about that. I've never met anyone from the core worlds who was religious. [She shakes her head.] All the really loud believers from...what's it called... [Kerrigan needs a second to dig up the name] ...Christianity went to the fringe worlds a while back, because it was that or get arrested. The fringe is full of weird cults now, big surprise.

[greyerrant]

WEll, this fellow certainly came across as a weird cultist. Have you met Mac?

[zerg_rush]

The dumb███ who made that stupid dating guide?

[greyerrant]

THe same.

[ Oh no.
OH NO
]

[zerg_rush]

[Loken's real lucky he's out of telepathy range.]

I listened to 30 seconds and decided I had better things to do, like bang my head against a bulkhead or have oral surgery without drugs.

[Saved by Kerrigan's low tolerance for idiots.]

[greyerrant]

I try to be kind to him. He seems like he has had a hard life, and he is a useful source for knowledge about old earth if you can sift anything out o the morass of foolishness.

[zerg_rush]

Yeah, well, he doesn't go public with how he thinks your half of the species is sub-human.

[greyerrant]

I should have lost my temper with him sooner then.

[zerg_rush]

Don't give me that. If you'd really lost your temper the whole Rig would know.

[She's not upset, she's just stating a fact.]

[greyerrant]

I have to be gentle with baseline humans. If I was not I would no better than... my erstwhile brothers. [He stares away from the comm for a moment. ]

[zerg_rush]

[Even Kerrigan's socially apt enough to realize her automatic retort questioning Mac's status as a human is inappropriate here.]

...Sorry. I didn't mean to suggest you'd murder someone.

[greyerrant]

It was not out of line. Astartes are dangerous when we are angry, and Mac is a deeply anger-inducing person.

[zerg_rush]

What'd he say that was the last straw?

[greyerrant]

A mix of the proselytizing and the telling me I should ignore women.

[ Oh shit he fucked up. he fucked up bad. It's a good thing garviel is already incredibly pale. ]

[zerg_rush]

[Fortunately for Loken, the idea that he's developing a crush is not on Kerrigan's radar.]

You actually engaged with that idiotic advice? Loken. Don't encourage him.

[greyerrant]

On my oath I shall not make that mistake again. MOst of the ways he suggested would seem to end in him getting arrested or shot or worse. He must be very lucky to still be alive.

[zerg_rush]

I don't believe he ever successfully convinced anyone he was "book smart."

[She made it that far at least.]

[greyerrant]

That does seem like a reach for him. I would not have mistaken him or a Remembrancer, a scholar, or an Iterator to be certain.

[zerg_rush]

You've mentioned Remembrancers a few times. What is that?

[Subject change to Anything But Mac.]

[greyerrant]

Artists who accompanied our expeditions to record the re-uniting of humanity, the battles of Astartes, and the work of rebuilding. Amongst baseline humans they were the ones I was most friendly with. I would have counted at least 3 of them as personal friends.

[zerg_rush]

Journalists? You talk to journalists?

[are you crazy]