Vanadi de Vadarta
08 March 2014 @ 11:20 am
[ Somewhere out in the rain — rain, not snow! It's almost delightful after the months of snow — there's a beaming face staring down into a camera. He talks quickly, excitedly. ]

You've heard, surely you've heard, that we're going home. Or, well, I suppose some of you lot might opt to stay, but — I've a proposal!

If you haven't anything absolutely pressing at home, even if I've never properly spoken with you before, come with me! Come with me, I'm going to Cittàgazze. It's this — a hub of worlds, you see, you can get anywhere from there, it seems. Voluntarily! All it takes is finding the right window to lead you into the world you'd like to visit.

Why, you might come with me even if you do have business at home to attend! You could find home, take care of it, and then spend the rest of your time seeing how many pleasurable worlds one can attend in a single month. Hmm? We'll make a contest of it, a corkboard up in a central world for tallies.

[ WIDEST SMILE EVER. ]

Come with me. Rin, Marduk, Collette? All of you!
 
 
Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle
08 March 2014 @ 11:20 pm
[For this final post, it's not Blue Beetle facing the camera, but Jaime Reyes. Technically, this announcement should be from the Blue Beetle, but the AI's already mentioned Jaime Reyes as being present for this, and he may as well roll with it.

Funny - the last time he willfully made his own post using his own face was to organize a movie party so very long ago. Now, however, he doesn't have such happy news to relay, which seems to be the norm right down to the bitter end.]


Hey. I probably should have mentioned this before the AI did. [It sounds like there should be an excuse for that coming afterwards, but he doesn't provide one.] You guys should probably know what actually went down with the UE's AI. The signal that Peter tracked down was coming from Vandrova because our AI and the UE's were linked - that's why our AI was asking for the kill switch. Our AI was the only thing stopping the UE from just bombing the hell out of us again. Just because we avoided that sacrifice, though, doesn't mean that we avoided sacrifice altogether. Me and Angel put our all into helping the AI overpower and kill - [and that is kill; necessary or not, Jaime's belief that AIs are alive doesn't go away just because this particular AI was planning on destroying Exsilium] - the UE's. Only, I'm still here. Angel's not, because she gave all of herself in making sure that what we did worked. She died there.

We have her to thank for finally having the option to go home.

[He's silent for a good thirty seconds, eyes averted from the screen more out of respect for Angel and her sacrifice than anything else.]

Me and Angel were going to put together a booklet of info for the newbies, but since there aren't any more, if you're staying and want the compilation of what we knew, just let me know. Maybe it's not relevant anymore, but I figure it's important to know what's possible in this world, how the system can fail. There's still lots to do here.

[Because let's be honest: everything documented is mainly the atrocities done by the UE, and the reasons behind it.]

But I'm going home, so... I guess this is goodbye, guys.

[And with that, he cuts the feed.]