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asgardeventide2012-02-08 10:42 am
oxbridgethegap) wrote in asgardeventide2012-02-08 10:42 am
1st Revision; Video
Ah--is it working now? Yes? Good.
[Though curt, the speaker retains just enough politeness in his voice to pass as "approachable". The image suddenly turns, giving everyone a good look at the owner of the bracelet: a man wearing a peculiar body suit. Worry and frustration hardens the lines of his face.]
If anyone is hearing this--or seeing this, I suppose, as this device is apparently capable of transmitting video recordings as well as sound--I would like to have a few things clarifed. The maid has already helpfully informed me of the basics, but was unwilling to tell me much else.
Am I to understand that every single person brought here is expected to stay in this city for an indefinite amount of time? And that everyone has been given an ability of some sort?
[Charles stops, taking a breath.] My name is Charles Xavier. If anyone could answer my questions as well as disclosing the specifics, I would be most grateful.
[Though curt, the speaker retains just enough politeness in his voice to pass as "approachable". The image suddenly turns, giving everyone a good look at the owner of the bracelet: a man wearing a peculiar body suit. Worry and frustration hardens the lines of his face.]
If anyone is hearing this--or seeing this, I suppose, as this device is apparently capable of transmitting video recordings as well as sound--I would like to have a few things clarifed. The maid has already helpfully informed me of the basics, but was unwilling to tell me much else.
Am I to understand that every single person brought here is expected to stay in this city for an indefinite amount of time? And that everyone has been given an ability of some sort?
[Charles stops, taking a breath.] My name is Charles Xavier. If anyone could answer my questions as well as disclosing the specifics, I would be most grateful.
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Yes, I'm from AD 2026 in the United States, and a lot of people here, even people I know, are from before that time. Some people here who aren't humans are even turned into humans by the gods.
They finally told us about it recently, yes. Wait a second-- [There's a pause, then Apollo sends a link.]
Click here. That's Odin's explanation.
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If you ask me, it's rather convenient of them to keep the war and its effect on all other worlds a secret until someone else took the matter out of their hands. Although, to be fair, a cursory scan of the myths would have been warning enough.
[He sighs.] Date-wise, it was 1962 when I was pulled from my world--just about 60 years in your past. [Charles presses a finger to his temple, then lowers his hand after a moment, looking grim.] You mentioned entirely different species have been turned human? But that's impossible. Doing so would require rewriting their genetic code. Has science progressed so far in the next century?
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That's what I was thinking. They give us information only when it suits them. People were here for weeks without being told anything about it, even though they knew it all along. So who knows how reliable they are.
No, our science can't do that. It's something specific to this place. [He wishes he could explain it, but he can't.] I don't know how it works. This is a completely different world. The "gods" seem to be able to do a lot of things other can't. People say it's magic. [Apollo's tone is apologetic when using this term.] But I don't see why it can't be advanced science.
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[And here's the part that really concerns Charles.] It is true that the things they're capable of are difficult to explain, though science can sometimes result in what seems like magic. For instance, individuals with abilities much like the ones the gods have given people here have begun to appear in my world. That, however, is a result of natural evolution, a simple but brilliant mutation in the genetic code.
Which is why I cannot begin to understand how these gods have managed to both suppress old abilities and force new ones to surface.
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Oh, really? We don't have people with abilities like that in my world. [Well, not really. He has his perceiving, but it must not be a "real" ability if it still works, or at least not the kind that was taken away.]
That's what I mean. I'm more familiar with genetics and mutations and things like that, not that I'm a scientist. I don't believe in magic, but that's what people are calling it. I have no idea either. Maybe they can change out genes somehow?
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Perhaps it would help if one of us were to ask the captives if abilities existed in their worlds, and how they were used.
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We have tried that. There's a census that we were working on. [Apollo pauses.] It was voluntary, obviously and a lot of people didn't fill it our right. [Not that it was a complete failure.] Some did, though. Here...
And here's a link.
It's interesting! You can get to know your fellow captives. [For good or ill.] And fill it out, if you want.
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[He saves this information for later. It's quite long.] So this is the census that was mentioned. One person organised it?
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The one place we're not allowed to enter is the castle where we first show up. You don't see much of it when you initially arrive, and then you're not allowed to go back inside. There's no way to get in.
[Apollo understands, as he worked on it and read through it. It's a lot to read.]
Elika and someone named Shion came up with the initial idea, but a few of us helped with expanding the idea and collecting the information. Myself included.