CONNECTING... [ OPEN COMMS LINE | circling olympus ]

[unplug]

[The Real again.

You all have the same orders, or close enough. Forty-eight hour rotations for teams, twelve-hour shifts for every woman and man, five ships available if you include the two Olympians that survived. Formal crew assignments are less rigid these days, though some captains insist. Commissioned or not, your task is to find the ejected control unit of the Harbinger, which measures twenty by twenty feet, wherever it scuttled off to in the tunnels. Sounds big. Sounds easy— if you've never been into the tunnels.

The comms line is clear now. As your hovercraft floats its sensors and lights through cold darkness into the next gruelling hour, the chatter offers some measure of comfort. Young or old, chafed by habitual smoking or clear as a singer's, these voices accompany you through what was so recently enemy territory.]

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OOC: This post represents casual network spam and navel-gazing while characters are on this mission! Your characters can participate while on-duty or between shifts. No plot action/modding will occur in this post unless otherwise requested.

The search lasts 1 week, and personnel determine early on that the control unit must have hidden rather than escaped all the way back to the Machine home base.

Additionally, an addendum about the fates of the Phoenix and Nidhoggr are here. Players are welcome to take rotations with the Shangrila instead, and play it loose with schedules.

Comments

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[mightyfallen]

We all know it was you, Stark.

There's no point denying it now.

[servomotor]

COUNCIL SCUM

A NEW LOW.





DID YOU BRING FANCY COUNCIL FOOD

[alsohawkeye]

Every time someone references the saying "never meet your heroes" I think of you, Stark.

[hacker]

Could not be more accurate.

[alsohawkeye]

I wish I could tell you it doesn't apply to the rest of them, too, but....

[hacker]

Don't tell me that! How am I supposed to hero worship the rest of the Avengers if you tell me they're all like my scuzzy boss?

1/2 oh my god

[servomotor]

HOW OFTEN DO YOU EVER HEAR THAT SAYING ANYMORE

2/2

[servomotor]

I WOULDN'T WORSHIP ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE A MOUTH AND A BUTT AND A FUNCTIONING STOMACH IN BETWEEN THE TWO.

ROBOTS ARE GETTING PRETTY MEGALOMANIACAL THESE DAYS.

[hacker]

Are you insinuating that some of the Avengers lack a digestive system because wow that is more than I ever needed to know about Thor's bowels.

[servomotor]

NO I'M SAYING I'M A GREAT HERO.

OR AT LEAST A

SUPERHERO.

THOR MAY ALSO QUALIFY.

[hacker]

I gotta level with you, Stark, meeting you kinda ruined it for me.

[servomotor]

SAD FACE EMOJI.

DO I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU WERE FANTASIZING ABOUT

[alsohawkeye]

Well, I wouldn't call the rest of them scuzzy and he's definitely the worst. Widow's still pretty all-around incredible. And Thor is as muscley a shampoo commercial in person.

[hacker]

Yeah, I talked to BW. She's pretty cool.

wait.
IS THOR HERE?

[alsohawkeye]

I don't know. I never really met him in my Matrix, just sort of saw him in crowds. There was a guy in the matrix battle at Olympus that looked like he'd fit the part, but I couldn't say for sure.

[hacker]

omg
wait no if he's unplugged i don't wanna know about it. he'd be like way scrawny and recovering, right?

[alsohawkeye]

Definitely possible, I'm afraid.

intense texting

[lostsoldier]

[ xcuse u ]

not all

[hacker]

Oh yeah you knew

[ do other people know he's bucky barnes? should she make it obvious? better not. avoids. names. ]

What was he like?

1/2

[lostsoldier]

[ what he doesn't know ]

smaller
?

2/2

[lostsoldier]

just as stupid

[hacker]

What's stupid about saving people?

[mightyfallen]

Sorry, I left my 700-year-old caviar in my other dinner jacket.

You didn't bring yours?

[servomotor]

DINNER JACKET

IN ZION

SO A SMOCK WITH A BOW ON THE COLLAR?

YOU WOULD LOOK LIKE AN ARISTOCAT

[mightyfallen]

[ --Skipping straight to the salient part of that comment as he attempts to parse it, ]

Hold on, did someone put a bowtie on a cat in your matrix?

Tell me you're not serious.