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[spoileralert]

[ @everyone ]

[ Steph seems terribly excited about something, though she keeps the level of cool she usually does when chatting with people she doesn't know that well. ]

Hey, so, we have at least one chemist here, right? I need a favor.

[ She turns her watch around, with some difficulty and blurry transitions, until it shows a box containing the largest, squarest coffee bag Steph has ever seen. The top is open, of course, so those not familiar with the packaging can see that it's full to bursting of coffee grinds. ]

I need somebody to test this and make sure it's not poisoned without using more than like, a spoonful.

[ There's some grunting and then Steph appears on screen again, evidently sitting next to the box. ]

If it's gonna take more than that this is a bullet I'm happy to take. In fact, I insist. If somebody is risking their life by drinking coffee it's gonna be me.

Comments

[plate_builder]

I am only thirty-eight, young woman. I have plenty of life left in me. You are quite the rapscallion.

[spoileralert]

Hey, you were the one who said ‘old’.

[plate_builder]

...

You definitely have a point there.

[spoileralert]

I usually do.

[plate_builder]

Well I fear I should caution you that points should be stuck into enemies and not kindly mid-life gentlemen who could build you a bookshelf.

[spoileralert]

But I already have a bookshelf. You know all these houses are furnished, right? Hell, in a bit I'll have a french press.

[plate_builder]

Well I will not offer to make you a better one then. And stay away from the path of potential pointy things.

And a french press is a gift of Minerva indeed.

[spoileralert]

Not who I'd pray to about coffee but hey, I'll take what I can get.

[plate_builder]

I can’t imagine you praying to the manifestation of the very flow of life on my planet. So I’m not surprised.

[spoileralert]

True enough! [ Weird that she shares a name with the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, but whatever. ]

If anybody's world has a god of coffee, though, sign me the hell up.

[plate_builder]

Now in that we can agree. I would happily offer materia at that shrine. 

[spoileralert]

Hard same. Whatever that is.

[plate_builder]

Crystallized knowledge from those who have come before, through which magic can be used. 

[spoileralert]

Dang. Your world actually sounds weirder than mine, and we've got dudes in capes flying around fighting bad guys.

[plate_builder]

Well, I do have a friend in a cape who sometimes flies around and definitely fought bad guys. But Vincent was... strange in some ways. Rather unique.

[spoileralert]

If you can only name one you're miles ahead of my world.

[plate_builder]

Well Sephiroth could fly and even had wings at times, but no cape. And if you count him with wings you have to could Angeal and Genesis.

[spoileralert]

Well those don’t sound real.

So yeah, they all probably count. Can’t say I know of anyone with wings, myself.

[plate_builder]

I'd rather not have known those three or the people they hurt.

Vincent's wings were another matter entirely.

[spoileralert]

[ She sobers some, nodding. ]

Yeah. Sometimes the bad guys can fly too.

[plate_builder]

Sounds like you've some experience in that. Flying outside of the airships I mentioned in a previous conversation was not common in my world. Though more bad guys flew without machinery than good guys.

[spoileralert]

My world has a lot of metahumans- people with powers- even if Gotham doesn’t. And some aliens, monsters, magic users, what have you. There are a lot more bad guys than good.

[plate_builder]

Monsters, aliens and magic users are part of my world too. Though it would be more accurate to say 'alien'. Jenova was miserable.

[spoileralert]

Let's see...

[ The camera goes crazy for a minute as Steph adjusts her seat, and comes back sort of sideways while she ticks names off on her fingers. ]

Good guy aliens. Superman, Starfire, Martian Manhunter, Powergirl, Hawkman and Hawkgirl. [ She starts the count over. ] Bad guys: Brainiac, Darkseid, Doomsday, the six or seven different races that invaded that one time, that one race of aliens that invaded that other time that we never found out where they came from... [ 6 to 5, since she isn't counting the alien alliance as more than one. ]

Okay, yeah, technically we're winning in that department I think, at least on Earth.

Metahumans I could literally go on for hours about, but magic users are really uncommon. Most people are still convinced there's no such thing.

[plate_builder]

Okay... that is a lot. We only had the one alien. But it did almost destroy the world with a meteor.