savetheearth | Twenty-Fifth Message [Video

[On comes a video feed to the same room that Anthony broadcasted from the past couple times.

There's a bit of silence, and a good amount of nothing otherwise. The first sound that does come in is some slow, dragging breath, entirely to stall. It picks up a measure of voice into:]

I, umm --

[He lops that off, and having used that as a begging-your-pardon, reaches a hand that looks the way one'd expect an undead hand to look up to the top edge of the frame, pulls it out of the way, and leans himself into it.

He doesn't look much worse than he has in the past, bar the two empty eye sockets - one with a small something red flashing and embedded in the back and the other one plain dark and empty.

Latter one blinks, and he husks out proper words again - a bit thick, yet not in a lower tone rather than on-edge high.]

I think -- we should, uhh... col - collect and - share - information on, uhm. Different types of -

[He knows what he means to say, but he doesn't have a script to go off of, blast it - can't remember what he pinned as the least-impolite word.

He settles for the obvious and indelicate one instead.]

...Umm -- "monsters". For the network.

At least, uh - one-one other person said that we should... To -- to contradict misconceptions, and, to -- give, uh -- give advice, to -- people who are turning...

If -- there are... going to be more of us, er -- perhaps it would be best to have something ready...

[Runs a little thin and tightens up just short of inflection like a question.]

I - I don't know -- if... we should... do it, er - if we should just talk uhh about -- things we've had, erm - experience being, or things that we've seen -- in our visions, but uh, what if - what if, erm.

We offer our own numbers, to -- "call", erm... about - about things we're able to talk about...?

[That part creaks off - that bit's kind of a rehashing of a thought he's had before, but honestly, another component's attached itself - it wouldn't only be worthwhile (assuming anything would be worthwhile) to offer support but to offer something to meet curiosity, would it? They're technically not strictly demanded to hide - might be worth something for mutants to practice serving as their own spokespeople.]

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[His tone tenses up a mite again - it's with a kind of heartiness, though. Encouragement and what would likely to be a sizable start-slash-hand to go along with it...]

Uhh -- ? Rec - ...recording them would be fine...! [High waver. Would be a good way to do it - keep the so-to-speak data there on hand after getting it over with on one of their ends!

Assuming they are doing this.]

Are you -- ...

[Was going to be an obligatory "are you sure", which'd extend past "are you sure you want to" into "are you sure it'd be worth attempting" or "are you sure it'd not be better handed to someone else" - but picks out a related and smaller-scale question.]

How - how long is it -- ...by the way...?

[In other words, just how much would Nick need to go out of his way to record its contents for any purpose?]

Recording them it is. They're not exactly great bedtime stories, anyway.

[Even if they were based on fairy tales. Or fairy tales were based on them. Nick's still not exactly sure how that works.]

...uh. It's a pretty thick book, maybe four hundred pages or so? I haven't read them all, but I probably should, so this'll be good for me, too.

[Yeah he thought it might be something like that. Nick's going to try to head it off before it starts.]

You know I don't sleep... [One o' those tentative sheepish shakes of a laugh.]

Uh -- have you... Have you pulsed, from uhmm. -- Reading it before?

[The inflection creaks - reading through it completely could be beneficial and/or risky.]

[The comment makes Nick chuckle slightly.]

Another point in favor of recording.

[He has to consider that for a moment, because... he's not actually sure.]

Kind of? There's been a few people who got pulses from reading it, and then I pulsed off what they pulsed. But not directly, maybe because I've only skimmed it.

[Face twitches back into tense.]

Is it safe...?

[A cut to the chase, then.]

To collect this kind of information? As safe as anything is these days, I guess. It was exactly the kind of thing my other guy did, and it seemed to help. I mean, the stuff in there is kind of creepily geared towards how to kill supernaturals, but there's some pretty good info on strengths, weaknesses, characteristics, that kind of thing.

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