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tushanshu_logs2017-02-08 02:47 am
highprofilerichkid) wrote in tushanshu_logs2017-02-08 02:47 am
if your past calls, don't you pick it up, it's got nothing new to say
Characters: Tony, Gene, Pepper, Valdis, Miles and Danny
Date: February 8-12
Location: House Spicy Iron Dragon, a kedanese dojo, KPD HQ, the College, Jasmine Dragon Tea House
Situation: Memory sharing catch-all!
Warnings/Rating: mentions of violence, major injury, death, roller skates
1. Pepper | House Spicy Iron Dragon | ɢ ʀ ɪ ᴇ ғ
Ah, it's so nice to have a day off once in a while, to kick back, relax, and... work in the lab. Okay, yeah, his hobbies are exactly the same as his work. So what?
He's been at it a couple hours, so Tony trots upstairs to the kitchen for a refuel. Pepper's already there eating lunch. Tony smiles. "Hey, Pep," he says, grabbing a leftover sandwich from the fridge. "I was gonna make some tea." (Coffee, as scarce as it is, is now reserved for special occasions.) "You want some?"
2. Gene | The Dojo | ғ ᴇ ᴀ ʀ
Tony's been diligent about attending his practice sessions, even with the temporary relocation while the Jade Dojo gets repaired, and it's paying off. He's getting pretty damn good at hand-to-hand combat (if he does say so himself), and he doesn't look like a complete idiot holding a sword.
Gene can still totally kick his ass, though.
"Uuugh," Tony groans from the mat. "My everything hurts." Nevertheless, he's smiling. He props himself up on an elbow and wiggles his other arm at Gene, asking for a hand up. "One more round?"
3. Danny | Jasmine Dragon Tea House | ғ ᴜ ɢ ɪ ᴛ ɪ ᴠ ᴇ
Tony's on edge. The... incidents with Pepper and Gene had been incredibly emotionally draining. Whatever magical bullshit is going around like the flu, Tony wants no further part in it.
He'd needed a little time away from the house, so he's escaped to the Jasmine Dragon tea house, where he's sitting in a corner with some technical diagrams, trying to lose himself in his work. The papers are scattered all over the table (some in dangerous proximity to his pot of tea), and Tony himself, open book that he is, looks a little bit frazzled. It's been a long couple days.
4. Miles | Tony's College lab | ᴄ ᴏ ɴ s ᴜ ᴍ ᴇ
Tony's glad he's just an all-purpose on-call genius and not a professor, because it means he can put the "WARNING: DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS IN PROGRESS" sign up on his lab door and avoid people without having to cancel any classes.
His working theory on the memory swaps is that the memories have to have some sort of association with the person receiving them (Gene and the plane crash is obvious; Pepper had lost her mother at the same age Tony had; Danny and Tony both had the secret superhero identity thing going on), so there's a lower chance of swapping traumatic memories with random strangers and casual acquaintances. Still, Tony doesn't want to take any chances. Until this is over, he's going to be making the most of the 'antisocial engineering nerd' stereotype.
He can't avoid everyone, though. He's fixed Miles' camcorder, and since they've only met a couple times, Tony figures his risk factor is pretty low. So Tony sends him a quick message letting him know that his camcorder is fixed and waiting for him in the lab. Fingers crossed that nothing weird happens when he shows up!
5. Valdis | KPD Headquarters | ʙ ᴇ ᴛ ʀ ᴀ ʏ ᴀ ʟ
So, based on the reports of the other Foreigners, the only consistent feature of the memory swaps is proximity. Everything else seems pretty much random. Which means Tony can either become a complete recluse for the entire duration of whatever this is, or he can suck it up.
He decides to suck it up. He's got too much going on to just vanish for a week or month or however long (as tempting as it is).
One thing that he definitely doesn't want to let slide is keeping tabs on the Cultists. As a sort-of-consultant to the KPD, he checks in with Valdis regularly to make sure they're on the same page. He doesn't have any new intel this time, but she might, so he drops by her office for a meeting.
Date: February 8-12
Location: House Spicy Iron Dragon, a kedanese dojo, KPD HQ, the College, Jasmine Dragon Tea House
Situation: Memory sharing catch-all!
Warnings/Rating: mentions of violence, major injury, death, roller skates
1. Pepper | House Spicy Iron Dragon | ɢ ʀ ɪ ᴇ ғ
Ah, it's so nice to have a day off once in a while, to kick back, relax, and... work in the lab. Okay, yeah, his hobbies are exactly the same as his work. So what?
He's been at it a couple hours, so Tony trots upstairs to the kitchen for a refuel. Pepper's already there eating lunch. Tony smiles. "Hey, Pep," he says, grabbing a leftover sandwich from the fridge. "I was gonna make some tea." (Coffee, as scarce as it is, is now reserved for special occasions.) "You want some?"
2. Gene | The Dojo | ғ ᴇ ᴀ ʀ
Tony's been diligent about attending his practice sessions, even with the temporary relocation while the Jade Dojo gets repaired, and it's paying off. He's getting pretty damn good at hand-to-hand combat (if he does say so himself), and he doesn't look like a complete idiot holding a sword.
Gene can still totally kick his ass, though.
"Uuugh," Tony groans from the mat. "My everything hurts." Nevertheless, he's smiling. He props himself up on an elbow and wiggles his other arm at Gene, asking for a hand up. "One more round?"
3. Danny | Jasmine Dragon Tea House | ғ ᴜ ɢ ɪ ᴛ ɪ ᴠ ᴇ
Tony's on edge. The... incidents with Pepper and Gene had been incredibly emotionally draining. Whatever magical bullshit is going around like the flu, Tony wants no further part in it.
He'd needed a little time away from the house, so he's escaped to the Jasmine Dragon tea house, where he's sitting in a corner with some technical diagrams, trying to lose himself in his work. The papers are scattered all over the table (some in dangerous proximity to his pot of tea), and Tony himself, open book that he is, looks a little bit frazzled. It's been a long couple days.
4. Miles | Tony's College lab | ᴄ ᴏ ɴ s ᴜ ᴍ ᴇ
Tony's glad he's just an all-purpose on-call genius and not a professor, because it means he can put the "WARNING: DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS IN PROGRESS" sign up on his lab door and avoid people without having to cancel any classes.
His working theory on the memory swaps is that the memories have to have some sort of association with the person receiving them (Gene and the plane crash is obvious; Pepper had lost her mother at the same age Tony had; Danny and Tony both had the secret superhero identity thing going on), so there's a lower chance of swapping traumatic memories with random strangers and casual acquaintances. Still, Tony doesn't want to take any chances. Until this is over, he's going to be making the most of the 'antisocial engineering nerd' stereotype.
He can't avoid everyone, though. He's fixed Miles' camcorder, and since they've only met a couple times, Tony figures his risk factor is pretty low. So Tony sends him a quick message letting him know that his camcorder is fixed and waiting for him in the lab. Fingers crossed that nothing weird happens when he shows up!
5. Valdis | KPD Headquarters | ʙ ᴇ ᴛ ʀ ᴀ ʏ ᴀ ʟ
So, based on the reports of the other Foreigners, the only consistent feature of the memory swaps is proximity. Everything else seems pretty much random. Which means Tony can either become a complete recluse for the entire duration of whatever this is, or he can suck it up.
He decides to suck it up. He's got too much going on to just vanish for a week or month or however long (as tempting as it is).
One thing that he definitely doesn't want to let slide is keeping tabs on the Cultists. As a sort-of-consultant to the KPD, he checks in with Valdis regularly to make sure they're on the same page. He doesn't have any new intel this time, but she might, so he drops by her office for a meeting.
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He looks at Tony, pain and fear in his eyes as he processes the memory he'd received in return. "What did you do?" he says, his voice hoarse. "It's like the Walrider. That thing just wanted to destroy." He tucks his face into his elbow for a moment. Don't puke.
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"Technovore was just a virus. Project Pegasus had stolen data about my armor— it was just supposed to wipe their mainframe and burn itself out. I don't know how it infected the nanites. I didn't even know Project Pegasus was experimenting with nanotech like that. But somehow, the nanites— it developed some kind of swarm intelligence. It wanted to destroy because that's what it was programmed to do. But it was supposed to destroy data. It was never supposed to leave Project Pegasus' hard drives."
In all fairness, he couldn't have reasonably been expected to predict that a simple computer virus would infect a batch of advanced nanites and escape into meatspace. That's pretty nuts.
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He manages to choke down his bile, coughing a little, and says, "Have you never seen a movie in your life? That is some serious evil-genie shit."
He tucks his head down and breathes again. The Walrider's still prickling, but it's not as bad.
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More on topic, he protests,
only a little bit hysterically,"They had my armor specs. They were going to sell them to Stane, and he was going to mass-produce the suit as a weapon. I couldn't let that happen. I thought a virus would shut them down without anyone getting hurt. What was I supposed to do? Blow up the whole place instead?"Tony's heart is still pounding in his chest, but the nightmare of Miles' memory has receded enough that he can almost think clearly again. And he notices that Miles seems to be taking this a little harder, even though the memory he'd gotten from Tony wasn't nearly as bad as his own.
"...Hey, man, are you okay?" Pause. "I mean right now, not... none of— that was okay." Obviously Miles is not okay in general, but Tony would like to know if he's in more immediate acute distress.
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He barks out a laugh. "I'm not ever going to be okay, but...seriously, thanks for asking."
Stane. Suits. Mass-produce as a weapon. Just like the Walrider. Murkoff was going to use the Walrider as a weapon, sell it to armies and God only knew who else. The bottom line was their only concern.
"Who is Stane?"
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and nothing of value was lost"He wanted to do the same with the armor as soon as he saw it. That's why I couldn't let him get the specs. That's what Technovore was for."