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[morallygrayson]

[The feed clicks on, showing a surprised masked man.]

Okay, what did I just--

[He clears his throat.]

Hi. I’ve been trying to hack this terminal for an hour or so, to see if I can verify the information I’ve been given. It’s not really working, so I guess the next option is to ask around.

[He rubs the back of his neck, clearly not used to having to ask for help.

He’s not alone, either. Behind him someone happens to be hovering past the doorway silently at first, but then backtracks and stops in the entrance. Since his back is facing her he probably won’t notice, but she’s definitely noticed him. Her eyes open wide and her jaw drops with an audible gasp.

Yeah, her surprise is definitely apparent.]

Nightwing?! You are here??

[He jerks around in surprise, already brandishing a pair of escrima sticks.]

Who are you?

[Who she is might just have to wait, because (heedless of the weapons, she’s just that excited) before the last word has left his mouth she’s already halfway across the room, throwing her arms around him in relief and accidentally sending them both against the terminal. The last thing that the feed picks up from either of them is a shout (“What in--?!”) from “Nightwing” and a relieved string of WORDS (“I am so relieved to see you are undamaged!”) from the weird orange girl before the feed cuts off rather abruptly.]

[OOC: Answers will come from both Starfire and Nightwing!]

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[morallygrayson]

Guessing that's a regular occurrence, then.

[People just showing up and getting... he doesn't even know.]

While I've got you on the line. The one who wrote the "let's be happy here" thing -- does he bother to show his face?

[Or is he afraid it'll be punched? Because Nightwing would kind of like to.]

[redbranch]

People showing up and asking about stuff? Yeah, it was pretty regular sometime back.

[And then it had "stopped" for a while.]

Riki? Well, he texts people. Doesn't really show his "face" per say. And even if he did, you probably won't be able to get to him, seeing how he and all the other admins have their place in the basement and the elevator to that part is inaccessible.

also sorry this is late!

[morallygrayson]

Right... I'm not really comfortable with that, if I'm being honest. Do the admins not mix with the people they save?

[He frowns a bit, trying to phrase this right...]

Why'd it stop? Are... um, the two of us, did they run out of people to save or something?

It's okay! Backtags are welcome!

[redbranch]

Nah, probably because they're afraid we'd punch them in the face or something.

I don't know. The two of you aren't the only new people to suddenly show up. Maybe they ran out of energy bringing people in regularly and only saved it back up now.

haha awesome

[morallygrayson]

[Smiles, briefly. He might be able to like some people here, that's... good.]

Guess that makes sense. I hope that doesn't mean there are people who weren't saved, though.

Re: haha awesome

[redbranch]

[He sighs.]

Again, I don't know.

[And he doesn't like to think about it, either.]

Given all these different worlds, though...the people you know are gonna turn up sooner or later, even if they're different from how you remember.

[morallygrayson]

That must be what happened with the girl here. I'm not how she remembers me.

[Slightly uncomfortable about that. Both for her sake, and because he's busy imagining ways the people he loves might end up different.]

The appropriate reaction is relief that they're safe in any case, but it still sounds disturbing from that end.

[it's disturbing from this end...]

[redbranch]

It can be a good chance to meet people who you thought you couldn't see any more.

[But he had waited for years. While others had their dead friends return, Misaya...never returned.]

Still, what matters is that they're basically the same person, right? Just remember what made you like them in the first place.

[morallygrayson]

[Nightwing's slumps over, just a hair.]

Does that apply to everyone who died when the world was wasted, or just the ones you lost before that?

[He thinks it'd be hard to forget.]

[redbranch]

Both, if you think the world is really gone.

[morallygrayson]

Do you have evidence it isn't?

[redbranch]

Not really. I don't have any evidence that it's destroyed either.

[Not evidence that he wants to believe in, anyways.]

[morallygrayson]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I don't know if I have it in me to hope you're right, but it'd be nice.

[redbranch]

[On some days, even he doesn't believe that the worlds are still out there.]

Just try not to worry about it for now. Not like we have an exit or anything.

[morallygrayson]

I'm not the worrying type, anyway.

[The obsessive planning type? Maybe so.]

But I feel like there's something I could be worrying about.

[redbranch]

Well, there's the experiments, if you wanna watch out for that. They happen about once per month. Pretty troublesome, if you ask me.

[morallygrayson]

I'm guessing they're not voluntary?

[redbranch]

Nope, it's not really your choice if you get affected or not. Every administrator has a different style, and you can't really tell what they're planning.

[morallygrayson]

Do you have a favorite? Or one you'd like to punch in the face?

If there's no overlap between the two, I mean.

+1 to the punch Jason club

[redbranch]

Everyone wants to punch Jason. He's the guy in charge of medical and he has the worst experiments.

Which makes him sad 'cause his bro is named Jason

[morallygrayson]

I'm not surprised the two go hand in hand.

What's the penalty for actually trying to? Beyond being the next guinea pig, I mean.

Re: Which makes him sad 'cause his bro is named Jason

[redbranch]

I tried once. Got my limbs frozen and got thrown into this one prison where I got "punished" by Ruana.

[morallygrayson]

"Can't move" frozen or "Iced-over and shatter at the touch" frozen?

It's an important distinction.

[redbranch]

"Paralyzed and can't move" froze. If it was the other type I would've broken out.

[morallygrayson]

Super-strength? Or heat powers?

[Excuse the interrogation.]