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[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[Nate sounds exhausted, drained of all emotion when he speaks]
I've walked a future destroyed to try and kill a single girl. Australia was nuked. South America was burned to completely to ash. In Europe, most of the key water supplies were poisoned. The resulting riots and wars took care of most of the rest of the population. Africa and Asia, bioweapons and chemical agents. Many of the people left in North America were... converted. Humanoid cockroach. The self-declared President of America bled green. An attempt to destroy them wiped out most of the rest of the human population as well

To my knowledge, that future no longer exists. Reset, by stopping the man who perpetuated the atrocities - I hope. Only three people remember it - the three who lived it and came back to the past - or the present, to the perspective of everyone I knew.

[There's a long silence - that hadn't really been meant as an argument either way. Just. Food for thought. When he finally speaks again, he sounds marginally more himself.]

I've got a harddrive from the UE compound - almost certainly heavily encrypted, and without proper hook-ups. And some samples of animal blood from the Outlands for toxin and DNA testing. Anyone have the resources to handle them?

And for those who knew him, Charles Xavier [there's a pause because no he is not going to let his voice crack in a public post] is no longer in Exsilium. He has an important future ahead of him, in his world, and... I'm glad he's not here to see this. [Because he knows Charles and he knows this would have crushed the young man's idealism, totally and completely]

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[fintastic]

[ There's a lot to take in here. So she just kind of latches onto the one part she really knows well: people leaving. ]

He's really gone? It's been so busy, I haven't even checked...

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Yeah - he's not on the island, and he wasn't in the UE with the rest of us. And his name is gone from the network.

It's probably for the best, though.

[fintastic]

Yeah, I guess... I am going to miss him though. He is like the only person who understands why I want to go to school!

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Oh? Why's that? [He actually sounds genuinely curious and not simply patronizing]

[fintastic]

Why I want to go to school? To learn more about Earth. To learn to fit in here better. I will always be a troll and I will always love being a troll, but if I am going to stay on Earth for the rest of my life, I'd better learn to live the way humans do!

[acts_of_claudia]

[Claudia was just about to ignore Mr. Morose when something he said piqued her interest. She flicks on her video and waves]

Yo. I've got a UE harddrive, too. I've been working to decrypt mine but I can take a crack at yours, too, if you want.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[The most morose]

Probably uses a similar schema, so if you've already started, you'll probably have the best luck. Where should I meet you? [you know, so he can psi-scan you to make sure you're trustworthy]

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[bodilesswarrior]

[Her voice is quiet; grim and weary.]

Mind if I come along?

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Not a problem from my end.

[acts_of_claudia]

Sounds like a plan to me. I'll let you know what I find out.

How 'bout outside the housing complex. Seems as neutral a place as any.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Sure thing.

[OOC: Log or handwave? Either is fine with me!]

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[taijiya]

[This post is the first thing yet to give Sango the slightest bit of pause. She doesn't understand the technicalities of some of those details, but she gets enough to realize that the timeline Nate speaks of was bad shit. She gets enough to see that Nate is the first person to apply an actual experience to the situation at hand, that he's tried this thing the Initiative suggested and that it worked... hopefully.

You hope.

[Nate is someone she trusts. This story is the first thing she's heard to make even a remote amount of sense in this insanity. But... hope?]

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[oldsoldiersneverdie]

I'm not one of the handful of people with the power to actually see changes in the multiverses. [He doesn't sound defensive as much as just... tired.]

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[taijiya]

[Exhaustion is... something she can sympathize with.]

You're saying that you, personally, went back to the way things were? Like the Initiative proposes will happen if we succeed?

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Mm. Both Hope and I - that future we lived, it wasn't what the rest of the people I know will experience as those years.

I know some divergent universes have ceased completely to exist, when their originating factors were disrupted, but there aren't many people around who can verify that sort of thing.

[taijiya]

[Ugh, she hates time-travel.]

There's no way to be sure... that just because it won't have happened for the Exiles that we'd be saving, doesn't mean it'll never have happened? [She thinks that's the right way to say it.]

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[getoffmyearth]

You sound like you could use a drink. Can you get those, around here?

[There's a lot that you could say, about something like that. But he wouldn't want some relative stranger poking his personal demons if he made that kind of confession; so.]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Yeah - most of it's crap, though.

[but alcohol is alcohol]

[getoffmyearth]

As long as it's not poison, I'm not gonna be picky about it.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Not any more than any booze is.

[getoffmyearth]

I imagine something else is going to kill me a lot quicker than alcohol ever will- [Thanos, natch, he already knows.] - so if you know where there's some to be found or who I have to annoy to get a drink around here I'll bring you one.

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[awarlock]

[Well, damn. He can relate.]

You've done this before. Manipulating events in time.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Yeah. More than once.

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[awarlock]

Why? Was the circumstances so menacing that it was the only path you could take?

[voice]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

I'd say so - but I suspect there will always be others who disagree.