01 | video | slightly backdated to mid-afternoon may 5th!

[khajidont]

[Jaime chooses to use the video function for a couple of reasons: the first is that he’s really, really hoping that someone he can trust will be able to recognize his face if not his voice and the second is that he hopes others will use it too. He doesn’t look happy in the slightest, but he also doesn’t look quite as terrified as he probably should be.] Hi. I guess I’m supposed to introduce myself here. I’m Jaime.

Uh, I already got the run-down from that spooky-weapons-lady a little earlier, but I’m guessing I didn’t get everything about this place because all this? Still makes no sense. So if there’s anything I should know... [He trails off, gaze diverted up into the sky. He tears his eyes away from whatever he's looking at to address the network again.] Aaaanyway, I'm starting to get used enough to this place that I know I'm not gonna make it home in time for dinner anytime soon, but I still want to hear how legit all this is from people who don't actually benefit from spoon feeding me this in--

[He's staring up again. There is a definite boom, and Jaime's eyes widen as he ducks his head as if that will somehow protect him from any debris] Did that spaceship just explode--

[Fade to black as Jaime unceremoniously shoves the device into his pocket, though he does announce his apparent survival a little after the hubbub is wrapped up with the voice-only addition of:] Next time I say I'm even starting to think about getting used to this place, someone should probably hit me. Are exploding spaceships just a thing here?

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[gevurah]

Are you alright?

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[khajidont]

Yeah, I was way out of the way. And it looks like everyone else is fine from here - but seriously, what was that?

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[gevurah]

A spaceship.

You're the third person to ask, but no; it's not a thing here.

→ video; private; a few hours after the crash

[controlledvariable]

[She knows that face, and that name. It takes her a moment to actually place it, re-watching the video a few times before it clicks into place.

Jaime Reyes, the Blue Beetle.

Well then.

When Steph's reply comes, she's in civvies, looking freshly showerwed, which is probably the only reason she's not scowling at the screen. (It's not Jaime's fault,, she's just had a shitty two weeks and being in a crashing spaceship was the icing on the fucking cake.)]

Jaime.

[Wait no he's not going to have any idea who she is.] I'm, um-- [She doesn't actually want to say Batgirl over the network.] A friend of Rob's, from Gotham.

[GOD THAT WAS THE WORST

Steph is just going to scrub a hand over her face and try not to look like she's gone crazy.]

Sorry. Are you alright?

→ video; private

[khajidont]

Um. [He's trying to place her face, he really is - especially with the purposeful way she says his name - but ultimately fails.

Which makes sense, if she's from Gotham, but he can't say he particularly likes someone knowing who he is without being able to say the same in return.] I'm fine. If you're a friend of Rob, should I... know you? [He scrubs at the back of his head, realizing that he probably sucks worse at doubletalk than this girl does, and she doesn't seem great.] Is this thing not private?

→ video; private

[controlledvariable]

[Come on, Brown, this isn't that hard.]

We met at a recruiting drive. [Which is - true enough, the Titans had their little thing. She mostly just hung out with Traci, since neither of them were actually planning to join the team.] But it's cool if you don't remember me, I was dressed a bit different.

[God this is why she never talks to heroes outside of Gotham, she is terrible at it. It doesn't occur to her that it might not have happened for Jaime yet, which it really should, but she's not on the top of her game right now.]

And no, not really. I've put a pretty good encryption on this exchange but someone with the skills could hack it, and I don't know how much the Initiative have access to.

[Well, if nothing else, that makes her sound like a Bat.]

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[goinbust]

"Kid, you ain't in the debris field, are you? If so stay safe, few of us are workin on gettin people outta that mess."

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[khajidont]

[This response is a little late - after seeing all that go down, he really didn't waste any time in suiting up and going to help.]

I was fine. Was anyone badly hurt in there?

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[goinbust]

"So far not too bad. Only about halfway up though. Place is a mess. I'd steer clear unless you got somethin real important stowed up here."

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[oncearanger]

No, most definitely not.

[There are rustling noises as Billy picks through the rubble.]

We travel through time and around the earth, but we never really leave Earth's atmosphere. This was a theft of opportunity gone wrong. I believe the ship was rigged with explosives?

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[khajidont]

Explosives? Man. Talk about bad luck. So do these guys just have time machines lying around or what?

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[originalgaangster]

Oh yeah, happens all the time.

But, uh, I'd be careful out there.

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[khajidont]

[He points at the screen.] See, I'm new and impressionable. I could have totally taken you seriously if like, three people hadn't already told me that exploding-emergency-crashing-spaceships don't come around every day.

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[obliterating]

[Text takes entirely too long to type. People might be hurt. He's running toward the building, barking into his tablet.]

I guess they are now. Can you see any wounded from where you are?

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[khajidont]

[He, on the other hand, switches to voice - he's wasting no time getting suited up and hopping in there, but that doesn't mean that he can't communicate with others while he does it.]

No, nobody. There's just a bunch of smoke.

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[pixieboots]

Yeesh. Way to make an entrance.

[video;] ; guessing he can only see his head and not the little R on his chest!

[khajidont]

I'll say. My introduction might've been a little lame, but I wasn't really expecting that to spice it up. Looks like everyone's okay, though.

...but uh, if you don't mind me asking, what's with the mask?

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[deathofempathy]

[Hisoka just kind of. Stares, raising an eyebrow.]

Do you think exploding spaceships are a 'thing' anywhere? No, it isn't exactly a common occurance here.

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[khajidont]

It could be. I mean, once you get dragged into some sort of future-dystopia business, I think that exploding spaceships are as game as anything else.

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[fintastic]

I have seen a lot of things, but this is the first exploding spaceship! So you probably don't have to worry about them being a thing.

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[khajidont]

Then that makes me and you both. I can't say I was actually worried about it before, you know, it happened.

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[ultimate_coordinator]

If it provides you some comfort, no. It isn't a normal occurrence ...


Howver, it doesn't make this world any less strange.

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[khajidont]

That's the picture I've been getting. You mind filling me in on what sort of strange stuff you're talking about?

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[aceordisgraced]

Nah, it's not too common around here. But then again, it might happen every few months. When I first got here the first thing I did was live in the catacombs for a few days because it was raining bombs.

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[khajidont]

[He lets out a low whistle of disbelief at that little gem of knowledge.] Raining bombs. Wow. They weren't kidding about all that warfare stuff.

What happened? To the guys tossing bombs on you?