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exsilium2013-05-23 01:33 pm
fantasticforcefields) wrote in exsilium2013-05-23 01:33 pm
Entry tags:
- #announcement,
- asuka langley soryu (evangelion),
- caesar silverberg (suikoden),
- emil castagnier (tales of symphonia),
- raiden (metal gear),
- ryoji kaji (evangelion),
- saul goodman (breaking bad),
- sheryl nome (macross frontier),
- zelos wilder (tales of symphonia),
- ✝ ellie linton (tomorrow),
- ✝ samus aran (metroid),
- ✝ sango (inuyasha),
- ✝ shiki tohno (tsukihime),
- ✝ susan storm richards (marvel 616),
- ✝ tenpou gensui (saiyuki gaiden),
- ✞ — dropped characters — ✞
[video] -- backdated to yesterday (5/22) because of ooc cat-herding >_>
[Greetings, Exsilium. It's Sue Richards, in her white and black Fantastic Four costume, sitting in the DITR offices. She looks tense, but composed. Guess who drew the short straw on responding to this whole mess?]
Hello. I'm Susan Richards, of the Department of Initiative-Transport Relations.
[She's good at reading from a teleprompter, but this is obviously not extemporaneous.]
On behalf of the Initiative, we would first like to extend our condolences and apologies to those affected by yesterday's events--
[Sue stops, and her expression darkens.]
--No. You know what? I'm not reading this. I'm not making excuses for them.
[Oops. Sue just went off-script, and her spokesperson persona drops in favor of what she's really feeling, a simmering, controlled anger.
There's a strangled noise of outrage offscreen from Saul, but it's rapidly cut off.]
Thank you, Medusa.
Not at all, Susan.
[Sue takes a deep breath, squares her shoulders, and addresses the camera again. This is no longer someone playing the role of a bureaucratic functionary. This is the woman who has stood against gods and won.]
We just watched a world die. Some of us died ourselves.
We've been conscripted to fight a war that the Initiative tells us could come to our homes at any time. It's already come to theirs--and now, to Elmer Albatross'. The Initiative is desperate, and it's a desperation I understand. If my world is threatened--and it has been before, many times--I will do nearly anything to save it. I can't speak for others, but if the Initiative had asked, I would have helped gladly.
Desperation is an explanation, not an excuse. No matter how understandable the Initiative's motives, they've still wronged us, and I don't blame anyone here for not trusting them, or for being outright furious. I'm angry myself.
Unfortunately, United Earth is worse. First we were told, and now we know that they have the capability and willingness to destroy a civilization of billions. We might be able to find the right point in time to avert what just happened--I know a little about time travel myself, and I've seen such things done before. However, even if we can't manage to save that world, there are an infinite number of universes, some of them our own, that could be targeted next.
The Initiative is due a reckoning. I acknowledge that. But if United Earth isn't defeated first, that reckoning will come in a form none of us will be happy to see...if we even live to see it. I'm not asking any of you not to be angry. Be furious. What I am asking is, for the time being, that you to point your anger where it will do the most good--at United Earth.
My colleagues and I fully intend to take the Initiative to task for what a fiasco this turned out to be, from the security breach that caused it to the mismanagement of the response. This cost Adam Jensen his free will and ultimately his life. It also cost the lives of an untold number of people on Elmer's Earth. This cannot happen again. We Transports have an enormous amount of experience--in technology, in government, in logistics, in war--that's going to waste while we're shut out of the decision making.
The Initiative made this our war when they brought us here. Now they need to let us determine how to fight it.
Thank you for your time.
[Well, someone might not be working for the DITR after this.]
[OOC: Pink is Medusa. Medusa and Saul appear courtesy of Ammay and Heather. I'll hit up all the replies, but your comment might also get answered by any member of the DITR. Even Saul after Medusa lets him go.]
Hello. I'm Susan Richards, of the Department of Initiative-Transport Relations.
[She's good at reading from a teleprompter, but this is obviously not extemporaneous.]
On behalf of the Initiative, we would first like to extend our condolences and apologies to those affected by yesterday's events--
[Sue stops, and her expression darkens.]
--No. You know what? I'm not reading this. I'm not making excuses for them.
[Oops. Sue just went off-script, and her spokesperson persona drops in favor of what she's really feeling, a simmering, controlled anger.
There's a strangled noise of outrage offscreen from Saul, but it's rapidly cut off.]
Thank you, Medusa.
Not at all, Susan.
[Sue takes a deep breath, squares her shoulders, and addresses the camera again. This is no longer someone playing the role of a bureaucratic functionary. This is the woman who has stood against gods and won.]
We just watched a world die. Some of us died ourselves.
We've been conscripted to fight a war that the Initiative tells us could come to our homes at any time. It's already come to theirs--and now, to Elmer Albatross'. The Initiative is desperate, and it's a desperation I understand. If my world is threatened--and it has been before, many times--I will do nearly anything to save it. I can't speak for others, but if the Initiative had asked, I would have helped gladly.
Desperation is an explanation, not an excuse. No matter how understandable the Initiative's motives, they've still wronged us, and I don't blame anyone here for not trusting them, or for being outright furious. I'm angry myself.
Unfortunately, United Earth is worse. First we were told, and now we know that they have the capability and willingness to destroy a civilization of billions. We might be able to find the right point in time to avert what just happened--I know a little about time travel myself, and I've seen such things done before. However, even if we can't manage to save that world, there are an infinite number of universes, some of them our own, that could be targeted next.
The Initiative is due a reckoning. I acknowledge that. But if United Earth isn't defeated first, that reckoning will come in a form none of us will be happy to see...if we even live to see it. I'm not asking any of you not to be angry. Be furious. What I am asking is, for the time being, that you to point your anger where it will do the most good--at United Earth.
My colleagues and I fully intend to take the Initiative to task for what a fiasco this turned out to be, from the security breach that caused it to the mismanagement of the response. This cost Adam Jensen his free will and ultimately his life. It also cost the lives of an untold number of people on Elmer's Earth. This cannot happen again. We Transports have an enormous amount of experience--in technology, in government, in logistics, in war--that's going to waste while we're shut out of the decision making.
The Initiative made this our war when they brought us here. Now they need to let us determine how to fight it.
Thank you for your time.
[Well, someone might not be working for the DITR after this.]
[OOC: Pink is Medusa. Medusa and Saul appear courtesy of Ammay and Heather. I'll hit up all the replies, but your comment might also get answered by any member of the DITR. Even Saul after Medusa lets him go.]
action;
But then she says it, and gradually, he calms down. He's still mad when the feed ends, but not mad enough to do anything about it. Not that he could, anyway. What would be the point?
Once she's finished, his angry writhing turns to a let me go, please wriggle.]
Well, Sue, you either just saved our asses or cost us the whole department. Nice work.
[Said only half-sarcastically.]
action;
The Initiative needs us a whole lot more than we need them. Ask the US Army circa 1972 happens when most of your forces are unwilling conscripts.
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[After a moment he stills, takes a deep breath, and tries to relax in the hope that Medusa will finally let him go. She does, but not without giving him a warning glare, first.
He then smooths down his tie and glowers at everyone in the room, especially Sue.]
A little warning would have been nice. 'Hey, Saul, I'm gonna go ahead and disregard everything you've written. Is that cool with you?' Oh yeah, Sue, sure, go right ahead. I mean, it's not like we could have maybe discussed this beforehand, right?
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Next time you'll know better than to stick me with your PR flack dirty work, won't you.
[A coffee mug floats across the room from a side table and into her hand, and she takes a sip before giving the cup a betrayed look. Cold.]
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Okay, fine. We want transparency from the Initiative? Great. That goes double for what happens in here from now on. [To everyone:] Collaboration, people! Teamwork. No more of this shit. I am not going to be undermined again and I don't want this to happen with anyone else, either. We can't afford to go public to the entire network and look like we're not all on the exact same wavelength.
[Then, back to Sue:] Deal?
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No more weaseling.
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A lot of people I care about died yesterday. I died, too. So if you don't believe me when I say my priorities have shifted, I don't know what else to tell you.
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I'm glad you're okay, Saul.
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Don't jump to conclusions. [Beat.] You got this under control?
[Because really, he should go.]
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Ask me about the time the entire world blamed my family for a war in the Balkans one of these days.