exsilium | A short list without an App to list it (Audio & Text)

[the feed clicks to audio, and suddenly there's a very loud enthusiastic greeting.]

Hellooooo Exsilium!

Nailed it.

[the greeting ends as soon as its last syllable of "um" drops, and the post switches to text.]

Great! Everyone heard that, right? Now that the whole pleasantries thing is out of the way (as well as our B-Movie undead run-for-your-life quasi-fiasco), there are some suggestions that I must present to make us all the more comfortable. Please kindly lend your ears and open your hearts! The Initiative is welcome to take such suggestions, so I hope you've your ears open. I've condensed these to a brief number! Onward!

(1) A party every Saturday featuring the round Italian pastry covered in a copious variety of cured meats. I also propose that we're offered a number of stylish festive hats for the occasion. Top hats are in season, and nothing is complete without some kind of festive hat to show our enthusiasm.

(2) While I hardly mean to offend the technology offered to us by our captors, we're left regrettably with a single App that does a single boring thing and absolutely no games! I would settle for Birds of the Angry Emotional Feelings, or perhaps the Saga of Crushed Candy! Anything mind-numbing to pass the time. Even some Exsilium produced space-cat forum!

As a side note, anything of interest and practical use may also be warranted for App exploration. Perhaps something for these "missions" I've heard so much about. Or lists. Yes, lots and lots of Apps for lists. Perhaps a App of lists that lists all the App lists.

(3) Also include the Internet On-Line World in the suggestion above.

(4) I suspect it vital that we all learn how to walk on the moon. We're in luck! I've heard of what's appropriately dubbed "the moon walk." It's a series of difficult steps in Midgardian dance that cause the illusion that you're walking forward, yet you're walking back! Quite helpful in the scheme of things while we take residence.

This is a very small list for those of us who have been captured from our homes and drafted into an unknown future-war that none of us even had suspect of happening! All in favor of boosting morale.

Oh, yes.

I see that some of you are quite aware of the handle of "Loki." If you could give me any such knowledge of your experiences with this fellow I would be eternally grateful. Eternally grateful ... IN SPACE!

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I know you're capable of feelings, Adam. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell me how disappointed you are in me on a regular basis.

He does sort of radiate that disappointment.

[and oh boy, does he know something about radiating disappointment.]

He means well, I promise. Best-intentioned guy I ever met. His heart's in the right place. He cares. And he's not always wrong, either. Just sometimes you gotta know when to shrug off the stuff that doesn't really matter, you know?

[Like bar fights.]

Edited 2013-11-11 05:11 (UTC)

I can only be this disappointed if I held a high regard of you, Peter.

And we all know you're too smart to do something like that.

[He can't pretend he hasn't earned this.]

You would think so.

It seems we're both fools.

Yeah. Guess we are.

[Well this just got serious in a hurry, didn't it.]

...I'm sorry, for what it's worth.

Not now, Peter.

[we're not having this discussion in a kid's network thing c'mon (even though he totally dug that up shh)]

I'm sure you could use this time better as some team bonding experience.

Sometimes I think if we get any closer we're going to kill each other. So long as it's just the three of us.

[Apparently, he already did.]

Why would you say that, Peter?

[Because he already did.]

Bad joke. You know me, sometimes I just...open my mouth without thinking. Forget I said anything at all.

Edited (FAKE EDIT FOR NOTIFS!) 2013-11-25 17:58 (UTC)

I'll try.

[but the leader of his team just said they're all going to kill each other so]

I can't figure out if we're still calling ourselves a team for the sake of familiarity or that we are a team.

Edited (html why) 2013-11-27 18:55 (UTC)

[Because they are. And don't think that's not killing Peter.]

I'm not gonna pretend we don't have problems. I know it's hard. I know I haven't been an...ideal leader. But Adam, if you don't think you and Gamora are the most important people on this whole das't base to me, or that I wouldn't face down flarking Kang for you, or that I don't think you would do the same for me, I don't know what you want me to say. If you still want to do the job and you're still willing to do it with me, then we're a team. Everything else is just details we can work around.

The willingness to sacrifice ourselves for each other doesn't make us a team. As far as I know, that makes us friends.

[and the implications of that is a bit more worrisome, but another time, another time.]

Between the three of us, do we have a common purpose?

[Everything about this conversation suddenly hurts like a knife in the heart.]

"Save the universe" doesn't count any longer?

Which one, the one we're from or the one we're in?

Both? I didn't think there was a need to discriminate. It's what we're supposed to do, Adam.

The difference matters because it reorganizes our priorities. As much as I like to, Peter, we can't be two places at once.

But the thing is, I don't think we can solve the first one without getting this one out of the way. We can't just ignore the problem, even if it isn't ours. Hell, Adam, none of them have really be ours until we made them ours.

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