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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Well, you could put a warning on it. Just in case. But I think a compendium of information for monsterfolk would be pretty helpful. Just so they know they're not alone in the universe.

But the network does the same thing... And --

Could-could we be sure that people would find it, um. Even on - the network...?

[He's sort of breathing his way through this - it's less "the reasons that this needn't be bothered with" and more "please tell me that you have the answers".]

The network is so transient and... [he waves a hand, trying to think of a good word. He settles on one that's ok but not what he was trying to pull out of his head;] Weird. Like, it doesn't actually even exist, right? Except between us numbered. So we'd probably have to write it down somewhere. Physically. Or on a computer, locked down. And hell, we could even post it to pastebin or something. Normal folks would just think it was fiction!

["Weird" is undeniably a good word for the network, at any rate.]

But -- not -- if they knew about - "us"... Right? Do we - do we - do we want them, to -- know... about, umm. What more of us are... like...? [Ending high creak.] -- Or would that just make the rest of us, look...

[Sinister, dangerous...]

Worse -- ?

Look, stutters, they're going to judge us whether they know just the basics or the dirty, nitty-gritty details. I think getting it all out in the open in the first place would be easier. Then they could make their own decisions.

You sound like you don't really like your own idea. [Shiro scoffs] If you didn't really want to do it, why did you post about it?

[Cracking at a decided limbo between defense and apology:] -- It's not that I don't like - it - ...! It's that I -- don't know who should - ...don't know who should do it - I -- obviously -- don't know how...

[Cough.] I'm sorry...

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