MISSION: GRAB THE EYEBALLTAUR

[initiates]

Date & Time: March 7th, 1994
Location: The MICA campus: Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Characters: Everyone
Summary: All transports are shipped back to 1994 to steal art from art students. Also, some of them arrive bodyswapped.

The Initiative has timed the incoming waves of Transports to the MICA campus for Freshmen Orientation, but even so, the flood of newcomers gets a few surprised glances. Looks like MICA's up for a major boom in attendance next year, wow. But do some of those freshman look a little old to you? …And do some of them seem to be freaking out a lot more than usual about being in Baltimore?

The cloaking devices, with holograms visible only to the natives, will be blending everyone in with the native 90s fashion senses, and all non-humans will find themselves getting much more tame curious glances than they might back on Exsilium, as they project a human appearance to natives around them. So at least there's that. Just try not to get arrested, hit by cars, or challenged to any break dance competitions as you grab and run off with bizarre works of art, alright? The weirder it looks, the more likely it probably is to be the power source the Initiative needs for the Transporter.

Oh, yeah, and sorry about the body-swap-around. Just deal with that as best you can, because the mission really must go on. Any harried and worried Initiative employee along on the mission that you might be able to find will just sputter a hasty not-really-explanative explanation and hurry away, trading frantic messages with the headquarters in Exsilium. They'll get this all sorted out by the time you get back, don't worry.

Comments

[controlledvariable]

"Stubbornness, if I had to guess," She hasn't had the best experiences with cats, between Kara's and Klarion's cats, she's gotten mauled one to many times.

While she's personally fairly blase about death, she doesn't miss Asuka's reaction, and files it away as a potentially sensitive topic, "I could probably answer that question, but it might be a bit depressing."

[redheadcarrier]

"I never thought of cats of all that stubborn," Asuka arches a brow, "More lazy..."

Asuka scowls at Steph's reply, "People who think like that just aren't worth anything, anyway. If they want to die, let them!"

She might be reading too much into Stephanie's answer, but Asuka always tends to jump to conclusions.

[controlledvariable]

"You've never seen a cat decide that it absolutely has to sit in the most inconvenient place in the room, have you?" More than once, Kara's cat decided to use Steph as a pillow and resisted any and all attempts to move it.

Her expression closes off a little, "It's never as simple as that." It hadn't been quite what she meant, but she's talked enough suicidal people down from rooftops to feel defensive of them.

[redheadcarrier]

"I've never owned one," Asuka shrugs. She slips her hands into her pockets and glances up at Stephanie. Well, no one agrees on everything, even if Asuka thinks certain opinions are silly. After all, the world doesn't revolve around her (much to her disappointment).

"Sometimes it is," she counters, "You can't force people to live for themselves if they don't want to!"

Which is kind of ironic, considering Asuka's issues, but she's not that self-aware.

sorry for the delay

[controlledvariable]

There's something like frustr5ation in her expression, as she exhales sharply, almost but not quite a sigh; this isn't really a conversation she feels like having.

"I don't think it's ever really about not wanting to live," Because she remembers what people said about Batman, after Jason died, and she doesn't think it was that he didn't want to live, he just didn't know how to stop hurting.

Likewise. :x

[redheadcarrier]

"Sometimes it is," Asuka retorts with a shrug. That's her experience anyway (and her own shame that she went through a rather terrible phase where she would've preferred nothing else but to stop existing).

"I mean, it's kinda tragic, I guess. But sometimes you can't really stop people."