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Tweak says, "Now relax."

Jade and Double H (dbutt) wrote in the_nexus_rpg,
@ 2012-05-12 14:34:00

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dbutt, haganenomore, kittytamer, oshit_filovirus, shade_of_jade

While Jade took a couple pictures of the sign and the locals, Double H looked around, wandering not far from Jade's side as he looked for possible threats. Military habits died hard, even though the war was over

"Jade, this area seems safe enough."

"Right." She pointed her camera back up at the sign. "Ooh, is that sign awful. Who put that there?"

Double H smiled. "You could always ask, like it says."

Jade rolled her eyes. "Leave it to you to state the obvious." She lowered her camera and looked at the passerbys. "This is weird. Okay, does anyone know where that sign came from? And I suppose while I'm at it, how do you deal with peacetime boredom?"

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	dbutt 2012-05-14 05:23 am UTC (link)
	"Oh." Double H rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Well, either way, I'm quite glad you were brought back and are here today. We're meeting a wonderful person." Nice save! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-14 05:25 am UTC (link)
	Ed opens his eyes and smiles wanly. "My family agrees." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-14 05:31 am UTC (link)
	"Trust your family on this," Jade said. "They always know what they're talking about when it comes to how important you are." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-14 05:37 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah. My sense of self-worth has always been down the crapper so I need them to help keep it boosted." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-14 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, good thing you have your family to help you work on that," Jade said. "One day, you'll feel okay about yourself. I'm sure there's lots of reasons for you to, you just can't see them right now." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-14 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah. And one of those family members is an alt, so he knows what it's like and what to watch out for better than everybody else." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-14 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	"An alt?" Jade looked at Double H, who shrugged. "What's that stand for?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-14 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	"Alternate. It's the word we use for the multiples I mentioned." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-15 12:57 am UTC (link)
	"Ah, that makes sense. So 'alt' is just short for alternate. We have so many acronyms back home, it's kinda hard to tell what something might mean," Jade said. "And him quoting Carlson and Peeters all the time doesn't help." Double H looked at her. "They have many words of wisdom to say, Jade." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-15 01:00 am UTC (link)
	"Ah. Sorry for being slightly confusing?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-15 01:26 am UTC (link)
	"No, it's fine," Jade assured him. "I just wanted to know. I'm a nosy reporter that way." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-15 01:32 am UTC (link)
	Ed nods. "All right." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-15 01:36 am UTC (link)
	"So what else can you tell me about this place?" Jade asked, as Double H pulled out a transcriber. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

haganenomore
2012-05-15 01:41 am UTC (link)

"The AVF, which stands for Anti-Violence Field, covers most of the place. You don't attack anyone else, they can't attack you. There's also things called LOLs that sometimes hit people. They aren't bad but they can be annoying. Changing your gender, turning you into some sort of animal or whatever. The most common cause of those are food and drink that you don't know where it came from."

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	dbutt 2012-05-15 01:45 am UTC (link)
	"Uh." Double H looked at Jade, then at Ed. "Why would you eat food or drink something you don't know where it came from? That's just asking for all sorts of trouble." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-15 01:52 am UTC (link)
	"Because people can be stupid," Ed says drily. "Or whatever it is is being offered by someone else. I got to spend about a week as a ten-year-old because of LOLed candy that a friend was offering the Nexus and Ed drank something someone else was offering that made him sparkle for several days." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-15 03:18 am UTC (link)
	"Sparkle?" Double H looked mildly alarmed by that. "You'd look good in sparkles, Hub," Jade teased. "Please don't even joke about that, Jade." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-15 03:20 am UTC (link)
	Ed laughs. "Yeah, sparkles. I teased him for about a month after that one. A couple of the kids on the grounds also were sparkly, but being little girls, I think they got themselves LOLed on purpose. Unlike Ed." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dbutt 2012-05-15 03:23 am UTC (link)
	Jade laughed. "Yeah, little girls tend to like that kind of thing. I was never that kind of kid, but one of the kids at the Lighthouse is. She's a doll." "All of the children are sweet children, with the possible exception of Fehn," Double H said. "Aw, Fehn's not so bad. I suppose he is a bit of an acquired taste, though." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	haganenomore 2012-05-15 03:24 am UTC (link)
	"A hellion, I take it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

dbutt
2012-05-15 04:16 am UTC (link)

"Sorta," Jade said. "He used to be a sweet kid, if a bit of a loner, but after the DomZ took him captive and had him in one of their pods, he's gotten... rebellious. I think he was traumatized more than the other kids. Of course, the other kids got to go home to their rescued parents, Fehn's a permanent resident of the Lighthouse Shelter. So he's got more reason to be sullen, I suppose."

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	haganenomore 2012-05-15 04:18 am UTC (link)
	"Oh." Ed winces. "My alts and I are familiar with assorted types of trauma." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

dbutt
2012-05-15 04:26 am UTC (link)

"The horrors the DomZ inflicted on their victims is terrible," Double H said. "They scramble your brains while taking away your life energy to feed themselves. I spent four days in one. Gave my brain a good scrubbing."

Jade looked up at him. "And yet here you are, going on as ever. Honestly, I'm surprised the other kids aren't as bad off as Fehn is. Everyone in the city that was up in the cloister came back a little different. I'd hoped giving them back their lives would help, but..."

"You did what you could, Jade. Don't blame yourself."

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	haganenomore 2012-05-15 04:28 am UTC (link)
	Ed looks appalled. "That's... damn." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

dbutt
2012-05-15 04:32 am UTC (link)

"The DomZ were a galaxy-wide threat, and their pet Alpha Sections would help them along by pretending to help the victims all while sending them to their center of operations. Countless worlds have fallen to them. Their victims are long gone, dried husks of whatever they once were," Double H explained.

"Yeah, and the got led right to Hyllis looking for the Shauni force," Jade said, still refusing to name herself as this Shauni.