video| un: polaris

[ferrokinetically]

[ If the first question you have when you see Lorna is "does she spend all her money at Hot Topic?" then you're asking the right questions. She's got on an asymmetrical leather jacket with metal spikes on the sleeve, black leather pants with straps that kept her collection of metal knives secure, and bright green hair from root to tip. The green theme is one she's clearly fully on board with. Accenting the bright green hair she's also got some deep green lipstick on and sparkling green nail polish. To fully tie it all together she's also wearing a metallic green headpiece. Nobody can ever say she's not coordinated. ]

Hello fellow inmates. Since I'm brand new here I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Polaris. [ Every word she speaks is practically dripping with sarcasm and she's got an equally sardonic smile to match. ] Just wanted to see how everyone was doing in our beautiful underwater prison today. [ Because that is exactly what it is. A prison. Nobody was going to convince her otherwise without some damn impressive skills. For a moment she looks like that might be all she actually has to say. Then she leans back and folds her arms over her chest. ]

Actually, I've got a question. I've been looking through these archives and looks like some of you have been here a long time. I get it, it's got some nice amenities. Love the view. But I gotta ask, how'd you all just collectively give up on trying to find a way out? [ And with that question she does, rather abruptly, end things there. ]

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[ferrokinetically]

[ She's got a completely deadpan expression on and shrugs. ] We can't contact people back where we're from and we're being kept here. What else would you consider it?

[ferrokinetically]

Just don't start suggesting we do a family production of YMCA. [ Please don't do that to her. ]

You have a sloth. [ How did he get a slot? This is important information. But more important than that is: ] Don't even try to say you didn't get that for the irony.

[doubled_speed]

That really old song with the stupid dance? Totally fucking pass.

[Don't look at him like that. Don't talk to him about irony.]

I have a sloth. And I didn't pick it. Speedy picked me. Just showed up.

[ferrokinetically]

Good. Happy we settled that at least.

[ She laughs. Can't help it. ]

A slot just showed up at your doorstep?

[doubled_speed]

Hardly. How would it knock? It was in my bed.

[ferrokinetically]

How would it knock? Asking the important questions there. It is a lot more logical that it'd have just appeared in your bed.

[doubled_speed]

[Dude, she knows it's funny to ask that. And he feels like he's won a prize there.]

And yet, it did. And a book telling me how to take care of it, and part of my dome was converted into a habitat for him. And there was a picture for Mom.

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[11calls]

[Alex just sighs softly.]

I'm afraid that's really not how it works here.

[ferrokinetically]

Someone had to give it to you. But why are they handing out sloths?

[ferrokinetically]

You just give up and accept it?

[itsnothingpersonal]

I meant subjectively.

[thegrifter]

Duty. [He scoffs.] You know, I like you, sister, but don't preach to me about duty.

[ferrokinetically]

If I was preaching you'd know. It'd be a much longer speech. Just saying I know a thing or two about setting the world on fire.

[11calls]

There's a difference between giving up and knowing that something is impossible, I think.

[Because giving up isn't something that Alex does.]

[ferrokinetically]

Didn't realize there's a subjective definition of trying.

[ferrokinetically]

Maybe getting back home is impossible. But what about getting out of this place? Maybe that's more realistic.

[11calls]

Well, considering a nuclear bomb didn't break the glass of the domes, I don't know how realistic that is. Besides, we're literally at the deepest point on either. If we put a pinhole in the domes, the pressure would kill us all.

[ferrokinetically]

Can you tell me more about that? The nuclear bomb thing. [ Maybe it'll tell her something. Or she's just being desperate. ]

[11calls]

Max, the head of the Council here... and yes I know how completely weird it is that he became the head of the Council, he lost his daughter here. She was sent home without him. So, in retaliation, he built a nuclear warhead and detonated it directly against the glass that encases the Sphere itself. Afterwards, there wasn't a scratch on it. Not even a smudge apparently. And all of the radiation had been absorbed by something so it didn't even effect the inhabitants of this place.

[ferrokinetically]

They put someone in charge that tried to nuke the place because his daughter got sent back home? [ Nothing about that seems logical to her at all. At least it's consistent in how nothing was making sense. ]

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[minus1twin]

We haven't stopped looking but there is more here than meets the eye and I don't think its right to leave things as they are.

[She remembers the skeletons from within the core of the Sphere and frowns. Something had brought them back to life and while Wanda needs to return home, she wants to help this place before doing that. That is what Avenger's did.]

Did you read about the flood by chance?

[thegrifter]

There's no coming back from nuclear fallout.

[doubled_speed]

There's only one Speedy. So they're not just handing them out. And I think it's supposed to be a lesson, or perhaps a comment on 'slow the fuck down'.

Maybe this place doesn't like me running around fast? I try to keep it under Mach 2, you know, just for respect.

[ferrokinetically]

There's still people out there, right?

[ferrokinetically]

A sloth lesson. Sure, I've heard of weirder things. [ Not really. But she might as well go with it. ]

Or it's just an ironic joke the place is playing on you.