towerofanimus | just this once, everybody lives!

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just this once, everybody lives!

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

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[She follows up on his gesture to the large estate in front of them with a nod. Vines crept up it's stone walls, foliage abound wherever she looked. Not a creature to be seen though. That was what made it empty. A beautiful emptiness.]

It's... very nice. Probably.

[She'd had the same problem, once upon a time.]

I can't see what you're seeing.

[That gets David to turn around and face her properly, looking quite surprised.]

Wait, you can't?

[She shakes her head slowly, gesturing with a hand to what she saw as her old home.]

It shows everyone what they want to see. I see my home; an estate in the forest.

[David gazes in the direction of where she's pointing. ... Yep, no forest or mansion, to him that's Hyperion Way. Pointing directly at the Architect Entertainment building, even.]

Huh.

[He looks back to Veronica.]

I'm lookin' at my hometown right now, Paragon City. Right nearby City Hall, in fact.

Paragon City?

[Never heard of that one. Of course, there were a lot of places she'd never heard about.]

I'm... sure it's really nice.

[That counts as a compliment, right?]

[David gives Veronica a half-hearted smile in recognition of her tactful response, much as he'd earnestly agree with it.]

Yeah. One of da biggest cities in da United States—you got a United States in your world? United States of America?

[That's one of the best yardsticks David knows for determining how similar someone's home dimension is to Primal Earth.]

[At the very least, she's learned how and when to properly compliment someone. The way he was gesturing to whatever he was looking at lent a hand in that.]

[She nods.] Yeah, I do. I don't live there though, but I have traveled through it.

[David nods a few times. So they're from fairly similar worlds. Well—similar compared to some of the other people he's met here, that is.]

S'in Rhode Island if you're ever in da area again. 'Bout as big as New York City, heh—takes up a whole lotta da state.

[He points out toward City Hall again.]

We're—or, I'm, I guess—in Atlas Park right now, dat's where City Hall is. Right in front of da building dey got a huge statue of Atlas himself dere, holdin' up da world like his namesake's s'posed to've done.

I've heard of that place, but I've never been there. I mostly went to major cities in America when I was traveling.

[Her father aimed for largely populated places. Easy to shake off hitmen and assassins.]

I can't see it, but it's probably very impressive. I'd like to go there sometime.

[Mention of "the major cities in America" puts a waning smile on David's face.]

World's prob'ly too different from mine, 'cause you prolly woulda at least heard about it otherwise.

[David still hasn't met someone from a world similar enough to his own to have a Paragon City in it ... which is strange to him. Many of the alternate dimensions he'd traveled to in the past had some form of Paragon City. Maybe it was just a matter of not traveling "far" enough, multiversally speaking, away from Primal Earth?]

[And yet ...]

But hey, we fix dis whole mess, maybe I can come find you an' give you a tour.

Oh?

[Many people had been offering tours of their worlds to her, or even to let her stay somewhere if it turned out her world was not savable. It wasn't something Veronica wanted to consider, but if her world really was dead, and her family was too, what was she supposed to do?

...Ugh, she'd think about it some other time. She put on a small smile.]

Uh, thank you. I'd like to see some of these other worlds. They seem really different.

Yeah, dey can get pretty out dere—

[David glances back over to the cityscape, surveying it.]

Before da Tower took me, my world was in da middle of a war with an alternate universe. So I was doin' a lotta scoutin' of other nearby dimensions to help keep tabs on deir movements. Boy did I see a lotta crazy stuff.

[Though, David actually hasn't heard much talk of other people doing that ... he'd only thought of offering this to Veronica given his past experience with crossing dimensions. Which piques his curiosity, and causes him to look back over to her.]

So, uh—you met a lot of people who do dimensional travel?

[She shook her head.] I've met people, this one person, who offered me a place to stay if my world wasn't saveable. Other people I know like to talk about their worlds.

I'd like to go see some of them sometime, see the people again.

[David thinks that over. Either that person Veronica's met is capable of dimensional travel themselves, or they have an idea of how to pull it off ... He looks at her more directly.]

Who's da guy, if ya don't mind me askin'?

He called himself Ashe I think.

[It had been so long ago, she almost didn't remember.]

I don't want to think that my world is gone though, my purpose is there.

[... Hm. Name doesn't ring a bell. He might have to ask around about that before things hit the fan. Trying to find other people's dimensions could be tricky, once everything's been set right again. Endless possibilities in the Multiverse, after all. Speaking of which—]

I feel ya. Dere's billions—naw, more dan billions—of people back home I can't let down.

[David glances back out to the cityscape again.]

Even if we can't fix 'em here? I'll make it my life mission if I gotta.

[She hardly recalled him herself. She'd recognize him if she saw him though.

She watches him glance back at the front doors of her estate, thought she knew already that he was looking at some kind of impressive cityscape. His worlds brought a small smile to his face. There were a lot of people around that would try to help, if things went wrong.]

Yeah, that will be my mission too.

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just this once, everybody lives!

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Sorry about the delay! Disk imaging went OK and chkdsk fixed my hard drive, I'm good to tag now.

s'all good!

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