Third Gate [Video]

[forsometimenow]

Who: Jennifer Keller and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Near the docking area of the bug ship, the goodship Wonderduck... idk, give a place and she'll be there.
When: June 22nd

[The video message is short; Jennifer sounds like her mind is elsewhere as she speaks.]

Part of being a doctor is learning your limits- and having to acknowledge that sometimes, there's nothing you can do. That no matter what your skill level is, that no matter how hard you try, there are some patients you can't save, and being unable to save them doesn't make you a bad doctor.

Sometimes I need to try really hard to keep that in mind.

[Anybody who finds Jennifer- at the medical station she helped set up, in the Wonderduck, or elsewhere- will find her quiet (or quieter than usual) and contemplative, looking at some data written down on a tablet. It's about the bugs, and the fungus that has infested them, if anyone cares to look.]

Comments

[feathery]

[The trials and tribulations of conversation with Davesprite.]

Yeah, none of us really had a choice. Apparently the gods who pulled us in couldn't do much about it.

[forsometimenow]

Interesting... not even gods can have total control over their realm. I can see some similarities to our benevolent Atroma there.

[feathery]

I dunno how much control anyone's actually got over any realm, despite whatever they say. Maybe especially when you start to realize there's all these levels involved. There are always loopholes and shit.

[forsometimenow]

Yeah, and it's hard to keep track of every little thing that's going on, even when you have eyes everywhere. Trying to make us believe they see and hear everything is a way to maintain control over us. Sometimes the underlings are more intelligent than they bargained for, though.

[feathery]

I wonder where the people who disappear go. Like if that's actually got anything to do with them.

[forsometimenow]

I'd like to hope they all get to go back home- but we haven't found out for sure yet, to my knowledge. And when they're taken out seems to be rather random.

[feathery]

Yeah, makes me think it can't all be Atroma. Maybe. In Asgard, the gods had to jump through all these hoops to hang onto us and they didn't even get a say in who they brought in. Which is how they accidentally enlisted Satan, to my knowledge.

[forsometimenow]

Satan? Really? ... that can't have been good.

[feathery]

It was a pretty shit idea. Dude, like, actively sabotaged the world-saving effort because he was kinda insane.