first one to make that doctor who joke loses

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Everyone! All of you!
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Definitely!
When: Anytime during the toxic moon event!

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[boy oh boy, isn't everyone just so excited to explore this... charming... place...?

this is a game-wide mingle and the timeframe isn't super-important, so throw in with whatever you want! play war games, go shopping for gas masks, get lost in the wilderness, hide up in the Iskaulit and refuse to set foot on the moon, anything goes.

here's the main event info post for reference! have fun!]

Comments

[grandstanding]

I'm aware.

[precedented]

[ He chuckles softly, knocking down a pawn. ]

Do you find me that unbearable?

[grandstanding]

You're talking about things you shouldn't know, that I haven't told you.

[It sets his teeth on edge, because it's familiar. Like Charles. Only this was entirely alien to him, and wearing a somewhat familiar face.]

[precedented]

If it helps, I cannot perceive your thoughts or mind. Unfortunately, there is only so much . . . control I am afforded with my abilities.

[ It's not placating. He's well aware of how it comes across and he'll make no excuses for it. But he won't make excuses for how he is either. ]

[grandstanding]

[He glowers, and falls silent. But only until he makes enough moves to capture Leto's pawn.]

What are those, then?

[And what are you, goes unsaid.]

[precedented]

I can perceive time. The probabilities in time. What was, what is and what could be.

[ He fiddles with the queen briefly. ]

It's an ability afforded to me by . . . ah, certain genetics. My father was an . . . experiment of sorts. I'm the end result.

[grandstanding]

[An experiment. Even now, it chills him somewhat. The idea of perceiving time is even stranger, despite his recent experiences with the vagaries of time travel. He fixes Leto with a considering look, before returning his gaze to the board.]

Does that make you some kind of prophet?

[precedented]

[ That word makes him scowl, so he turns his gaze. ]

Of a kind, yes. They wanted someone who could see all avenues of time. My father could, but I can see a little further.

[grandstanding]

[Seems like he struck a nerve.]

Even in a place like this? [Where so many realities are colliding, meshing and clashing together.]

[precedented]

Time is time. It may slow down or speed up, differ from the reality you know, but it is no less the same. That doesn't mean what I know is final. I simply know . . . all possibilities.

[grandstanding]

Hmm.

[He lets that sit, after Leto is done talking. A few moves later, he moves a knight into position.]

Check.

[precedented]

Not bad.

[ He takes that knight with his castle. ]

Now that you're in another place once more . . . do you have any plans?

[grandstanding]

[The response is so long coming, with Erik just frowning at the chessboard, that it might seem like he doesn't plan to answer. Eventually, he does, in a flat tone.]

No.

[Plans would mean accepting that he's here indefinitely. He's not willing to do that yet. Acceptance is defeat, and despite himself, he's trying to ward off that kind of resignation.]

[precedented]

[ He hums lightly. ]

Well, company might be on its way. You may want to consider it.

[grandstanding]

[He snorts, unmoved. People arrive here every week. That means nothing. It's best to keep his distance, given he's already on his own.

He pushes a bishop two spaces along.]

I prefer to take things as they come.

[precedented]

Not a bad idea in itself.

[ He smiles. ] Just something to think about.

[grandstanding]

I'll keep it in mind.

[precedented]

[ He shrugs. ]

Check.

[grandstanding]

[This takes some thought. After surveying the board for a couple of minutes, he moves a pawn, taking the one of Leto's that was in the check position.]

These genetics you mentioned. Are those the cause of the difference in your skin?

[precedented]

No. Those were intentional.

[ He glances at them in a faint grimace before shrugging and moving on. ]

I have a symbiotic link to another creature.

[grandstanding]

Symbiotic...? [An odd concept.]

[precedented]

It means we share the same body. I allow it to live through me and it grants me . . . extra abilities.

[grandstanding]

[It's not something he thinks he'd commit to himself. Sharing something like his body... that's far too intimate.]

I see.

[precedented]

Do you?

[ He doubts that. ]

Sometimes, the situation calls for something drastic.

[grandstanding]

[He doesn't, not really. It was filler in the conversation.]

That, at least, I understand.