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[toldyouso]

Oh for the love of--

[One blue-eyed, human-looking guy in a weird helmet, squinting at you all. Pete's having trouble with the netbook. It's actually too primitive for him to figure out easily, and he only meant to do voice.]

...Flark. This is broadcasting, isn't it?

[He scrubs a hand over his face.]

Right. I'm Star-Lord, and unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I would still like to take this opportunity to ask how I ended up here, and to go on record as saying I am really ☠☠☠☠☠☠☠ sick of time travel.

[Because swearing on an open broadcast is the absolute best way to make a first impression, Pete. He cuts the feed after a second without saying anything more. Anyone he wants to see right now will get in touch.]

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voice

[implying]

Star-Lord! Now there's a title. Or is it a name? It's very impressive, either way!

voice

[toldyouso]

[Oh, look, he figured out voice.]

Title. Name's Peter Quill.

[implying]

Well, that isn't so bad either. How did you come across the title?

[toldyouso]

...Long story.

[70s Cosmic DON'T ASK.]

[implying]

Why, just the sort best told over drinks! That's what I've always found, in any case.

[toldyouso]

[Something is off about this, but Pete can't quite figure out what.]

And you are...?

[When in doubt and just shooting the problem isn't an option, ask a lot of questions and agree to nothing.]

[implying]

Vanadi, and it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, my friend! I do hope you're enjoying your stay so far — time travel aside.

permavideo;

[gamora]

I guess they really will take anyone.

[ She'd be more shocked to see him if Adam hadn't already shown up and if people didn't regularly come back from the dead to begin with. ]

So what, death not as exciting as you'd though it'd be, Quill?

permavideo;

[toldyouso]

[Casual insults, check. Nice to see you, too, Gamora. Pete shrugs.]

As far as I know, I was only a few seconds from dead, not actually dead.

[gamora]

[ It's a testament to how much she cares. ]

Great, you and Adam can start up the 'taken undefined moments before our deaths' club.

[ Going to just get that one over and out of the way, no problem. ]

[toldyouso]

[Needle scratch.]

Adam? Adam is here?

[Pete's not going to have to shoot him again, is he?]

...I'm not going to have to shoot him again, am I?

[gamora]

He's here. Though he was taken from the middle of the spell, so there's no saying how much of the overlap occurred with the Magus' timeline.

[ But, because she's Gamora: ]

You could do it now and save us the trouble later.

[toldyouso]

[Fuck Pete's life WHY DOES EVERYTHING ALWAYS SUCK FOREVER]

Gamora, if you're so eager to see him dead just in case, you're way more lethal than I am.

[gorillawarfare]

Earmuffs!

Anyways. That makes two of us, my man. Linearity is pretty much mythological at this point.

[toldyouso]

[He has no idea what earmuffs have to do with anything.]

Kid, linearity was pretty much always mythological.

[gorillawarfare]

See? Now I'm totally going to argue my failing grade to my physics teacher.

[toldyouso]

They teach temporal physics in high school where you're from?

[gorillawarfare]

Right after paradoxal arts and crafts. My pencil holder in ceramics was also an ashtray. Or was it.

[toldyouso]

I made a birdhouse in wood shop.

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[ohmygodgreywardens]

Star-Lord, it's good to see another royal here! I'm King Cailan Theirin of Ferelden, and you have been brought here to fight against the forces of darkness and despair.

[video]

[toldyouso]

[...Riiiiiight.]

I'm not--

[The funny part is that Pete actually is the son of the Emperor of the Spartoi, but it takes him a second to remember, since he ran the other way at several times the speed of light the moment the possibility of inheriting the throne came up.]

Never mind, not important. Forces of darkness, is it?

[video]

[ohmygodgreywardens]

[Why would you deny your heritage? Silly Lord.]

Forces of darkness, but no darkspawn, sad to say. There are some other things about time travel, too, but I haven't experienced that yet myself.

[video]

[toldyouso]

[Adventures to have! Bad guys to defeat! Horrible, life-shattering decisions to make!]

Right, okay, just so we're on the same page, what's a darkspawn?

[It sounds uncomfortably like what he's been fighting for the past few months.]

[video]

[ohmygodgreywardens]

They are these monsters... much like us humans in some appearance, but they've been tainted by a darkness so foul that it has turned them into these horrible creatures that will attack anyone living away from the Deep Roads.

Terrible to imagine, but they are numerous, which makes them all the more difficult to defeat.

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[toldyouso]

[Actually, that sounds terrifyingly like what he's been fighting for the past few months.]

I've got some experience with that, believe it or not.