I'm not getting rid of my microwave so I'll take my chances. I don't know if I'd say a lot. I know the Narukami twins have the app, you and I do now, all of the Strider kids do, uh...does Jason? Have you talked to him yet? It seems weird that it'd seek out genes though and not latch onto Mom and Dad.
[ no luke is a good boy who doesn't belong in the trash, annabeth will fight u. ]
I haven't, no. I figured Thalia would be contacting him. But for now, let's bet on yes he does. [ sticks something about siblings with a question mark in some small place on the board. ] Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it's something.
[ attempts to level luke with a withering stare. but it's luke so it's more like a withering pout. ] Yes. Like... particle accelerators. Like on TV. Except with more realism.
Can science and coincidences exist at the same time? Then again maybe there's some kind of ray that went out and sent a signal to the city calibrated to a certain type of person. Not like we can access the upper floors of the Retrospec building anywhere. [He's going to write something like "mind control" on a notecard and tack it to the board, too.]
Correlation does not equal causation is basically saying, yes, they can. I think? [ again: science is kind of a mystery. ] Has anyone tried scaling the building, breaking a window? Landing a helicopter on the roof?
Yeah, okay. [SCIENCE?] Not sure about scaling the building but let me call everyone I know that has a helicopter. [Oh. Wait.] I don't even know if the roof's that big.
[He taps the card for emphasis.] Mind control. Or brainwashing? What would you call the whole "most of the city doesn't even notice" thing?
[He rolls his eyes.] Drones can't break windows. At least I don't think they can. And at least science fiction would give us an explanation that makes sense and better than "this is happening because you all suck."
How do problems in science fiction even get fixed?
Annabeth. [He's laughing under his breath though.] We'll be more creative than that. If you're breaking in anywhere you have to make it look like you weren't there at all.
...blowing it up might be an option though. As a last resort kind of thing, I mean. Now you're just making it sound like the beginnings of the apocalypse.
Who says I haven't? Maybe I just haven't set my plans in action yet. And how do you know zombies aren't real yet? [Just. Pointing that out. Fuck.] What else makes up an apocalypse though?
Then I'm offended you haven't shared them with me. [ pause. yikes. ] Fair point, they may as well be on the table. Uh, the four horsemen? Or chocobomen. Whatever. The rapture? Biblically, anyway. Nuclear fallout, supervolcanic eruption, mass flooding, massive asteroid impact...
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Maybe when you're older. [Somehow that joke doesn't seem as funny but maybe that's because they're talking about the apocalypse.]
I don't even remember what the four horsemen are so you're one over on me. And you know I don't believe in the bible, but the rest of that...man, what are the chances we're going to be wiped out like dinosaurs and an asteroid just incinerates us?
[Luckily he doesn't get that far in his thoughts since their pizza seems to have arrived. Brb Annabeth.]
Because I'm so young. [ because sixteen is clearly so old?? ]
The Four Horsemen-- War, Famine, Pestilence, and... Death? I think? [ shrugs. annabeth isn't particularly bible-thumping either. she just Knows things. ] At this rate? It's possible. Though, actually, not all of the dinosaurs were just instantly incinerated. I mean, some were, and there were likely wildfires as well, but the asteroid impact would have also caused other catastrophes, according to the theory, such as tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. And of course, the sun was blocked out by debris in the atmosphere-- for months, maybe even years, making the earth's temperatures plummet and killing plants, thusly leaving herbivores with nothing to eat if they survived the other stuff...
[ is she following him to the door going on about asteroid impacts while he gets the pizza. does the poor pizza boy have to listen to this. or does he let her stand there talking to herself while he gets the pizza. which is worse. ]
[But she's definitely following him and the poor pizza boy looks incredibly alarmed? Luke ends up giving him a large tip though and shuts the door in his face before he can ask questions, herding Annabeth back to the kitchen even as he thinks that through.]
They all sound really friendly. [But he ends up rolling his eyes anyway.] We're talking about the end of the world and you're giving me a history lesson in how dinosaurs died? Come on. Let me pretend dinosaurs went out with a big bang and that might be the way we go out, too.
[He's joking, of course, but...the alternative is something worse, probably.]
[ that poor pizza boy. save the pizza. annabeth allows herself to be herded to the kitchen. she rolls her eyes at luke... rolling his eyes. they sure are from a middle grade/ya series ]
Fine, sure, we'll all die as the sun expands and engulfs us all as it becomes a gaping black hole. And it heralded by us hallucinating and horses becoming chocobos.
I know you're not, but I'm kind of freaking out, all right? Let me handle it the way I wanna handle it. [Unboxing the pizzaaaa gooo.] If the sun's expanding we could write the whole thing off as heat stroke and call it a day. That'd make sense for the hallucinations.
[He's also just grabbing a slice and not bothering with a plate because Luke's a savage.] Let's just focus on the board for now and worry about the apocalypse later. Deal?
Okay, fine. Freak out in your own way. I'm not sure heat stroke works that way, but sure. Why not.
[ unlike luke she's getting a plate? she's getting him a plate too, because what the hell you slob. ] Deal. But what if the board leads us to the apocalypse?
Don't use actual science on me when I'm freaking out. [He gives her a Look, but okay. He'll take the stupid plate and drop his half-eaten piece of pizza on it with another pointed glare.] If the board leads to the apocalypse...then at least we have a new and stupid network we can use to warn everybody else. That's 'bout as good as it's gonna get.
[ sticks her tongue out. don't you glare at her, mister. ] I guess so. Maybe we should see if everyone will invest in new emergency sirens just for apocalypses.
No one likes the sound of Chocobos. Kweh this, kweh that. [ that's. the sound chocobos make. ] I can multitask. Eat and figure things out. [ she almost talks with a mouthful of pizza but she has Manners. ]
Yeah well you shouldn't multitask. [Nice sound effects, Annabeth.] It's just going to drive us both crazy so...we have a plan of action with the board. But we can take a step back and go from there at a different angle.
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I'm not getting rid of my microwave so I'll take my chances. I don't know if I'd say a lot. I know the Narukami twins have the app, you and I do now, all of the Strider kids do, uh...does Jason? Have you talked to him yet? It seems weird that it'd seek out genes though and not latch onto Mom and Dad.
[A pause.] "Science things." Really?
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I haven't, no. I figured Thalia would be contacting him. But for now, let's bet on yes he does. [ sticks something about siblings with a question mark in some small place on the board. ] Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it's something.
[ attempts to level luke with a withering stare. but it's luke so it's more like a withering pout. ] Yes. Like... particle accelerators. Like on TV. Except with more realism.
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Can science and coincidences exist at the same time? Then again maybe there's some kind of ray that went out and sent a signal to the city calibrated to a certain type of person. Not like we can access the upper floors of the Retrospec building anywhere. [He's going to write something like "mind control" on a notecard and tack it to the board, too.]
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[ she eyes the notecard. ] Mind control?
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[He taps the card for emphasis.] Mind control. Or brainwashing? What would you call the whole "most of the city doesn't even notice" thing?
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I don't know, but those both sound really... science fiction-y. [ nose wrinkle. yes she realizes everything is science fiction-y. ]
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How do problems in science fiction even get fixed?
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By shooting or blowing it up, I think.
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...blowing it up might be an option though. As a last resort kind of thing, I mean. Now you're just making it sound like the beginnings of the apocalypse.
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Hm. We can keep it in mind. Are we sure this isn't the beginnings of the apocalypse?
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Wouldn't an apocalypse include more doom and zombies than whatever's going on here?
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Zombies aren't real. [ neither are chocobos. ] Maybe we just haven't reached the real doom and gloom part. Yet.
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I don't even remember what the four horsemen are so you're one over on me. And you know I don't believe in the bible, but the rest of that...man, what are the chances we're going to be wiped out like dinosaurs and an asteroid just incinerates us?
[Luckily he doesn't get that far in his thoughts since their pizza seems to have arrived. Brb Annabeth.]
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The Four Horsemen-- War, Famine, Pestilence, and... Death? I think? [ shrugs. annabeth isn't particularly bible-thumping either. she just Knows things. ] At this rate? It's possible. Though, actually, not all of the dinosaurs were just instantly incinerated. I mean, some were, and there were likely wildfires as well, but the asteroid impact would have also caused other catastrophes, according to the theory, such as tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. And of course, the sun was blocked out by debris in the atmosphere-- for months, maybe even years, making the earth's temperatures plummet and killing plants, thusly leaving herbivores with nothing to eat if they survived the other stuff...
[ is she following him to the door going on about asteroid impacts while he gets the pizza. does the poor pizza boy have to listen to this. or does he let her stand there talking to herself while he gets the pizza. which is worse. ]
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[But she's definitely following him and the poor pizza boy looks incredibly alarmed? Luke ends up giving him a large tip though and shuts the door in his face before he can ask questions, herding Annabeth back to the kitchen even as he thinks that through.]
They all sound really friendly. [But he ends up rolling his eyes anyway.] We're talking about the end of the world and you're giving me a history lesson in how dinosaurs died? Come on. Let me pretend dinosaurs went out with a big bang and that might be the way we go out, too.
[He's joking, of course, but...the alternative is something worse, probably.]
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[ that poor pizza boy. save the pizza. annabeth allows herself to be herded to the kitchen. she rolls her eyes at luke... rolling his eyes.
they sure are from a middle grade/ya series]Fine, sure, we'll all die as the sun expands and engulfs us all as it becomes a gaping black hole. And it heralded by us hallucinating and horses becoming chocobos.
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I know you're not, but I'm kind of freaking out, all right? Let me handle it the way I wanna handle it. [Unboxing the pizzaaaa gooo.] If the sun's expanding we could write the whole thing off as heat stroke and call it a day. That'd make sense for the hallucinations.
[He's also just grabbing a slice and not bothering with a plate because Luke's a savage.] Let's just focus on the board for now and worry about the apocalypse later. Deal?
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[ unlike luke she's getting a plate? she's getting him a plate too, because what the hell you slob. ] Deal. But what if the board leads us to the apocalypse?
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