EVENT ONE: JUNE 21ST-28TH

[luminals]

TAKE BACK KNOWHERE
When: June 21-28
Who: Everyone.
Where: All over Knowhere, ending in the Continuum Cortex and Observation Deck.

Event details are here, IC announcement is here.

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[gamora]

Quill's team operates out of it. ( She's not on particularly good terms with Peter Jason Quill at this point, thanks to a gentle brain rinse and betrayal of trust reasons. 'Rich', however, is a name she knows, or assumes she knows due to the mention of Knowhere. ) Richard Rider. ( Richard-human. Her on and off again lover, currently very much off? That Rich? )

There's an easier way to tell.

( Like killing them. But Gamora operates under the principle that if someone's behaving odd enough for her to suspect that they're actually a Skrull they'll appreciate the favor no matter what. )

[walkingballpit]

['It's a Small World' is suddenly stuck in his head, but his brain is substituting 'verse for World. It's a 'verse of Skrulls, and a 'verse of Kree, Inhumans and then there's humanity. There's so much we don't share, maybe we should beware. It's a small 'verse after all.

Robbie's head can be a strange place.]

Yeah, Rich Rider. [He's careful not to say Nova, though: space. Out here, that's probably what people would know him as.] You know 'im?

[He's making a face at her that clearly says 'please.'] I'm not about to kill someone on the chance that they're a Skrull.

[gamora]

( That gets a slow grin - she might not be on the best terms with Rider currently, but that doesn't change the fact he was a very sexy human rocket. )

We're familiar with each other. 'Operational knowledge' was the phrase once used.

I am. ( Terrans. Honestly. ) If they're a Skrull then you've solved the problem. If not? Well then they weren't themselves and would appreciate being put out of their misery anyway.

( Problem solving the Gamora way. )

[walkingballpit]

[That gets an eyebrow raise. He's not sure if joking and sarcasm are universal languages, but the smirk and 'operational knowledge' read loud and clear. Rich, your ex-girlfriends are cluttering up the space station.]

Is that what they're calling it out here? [A rather wicked half smile.] You poor thing.

[Really, who would date Richie? Well, Nita, but she was a lot like Rich.]

I'm not a Skrull, and most people wouldn't appreciate being 'put out of their misery' because they don't have a static personality.

[gamora]

I managed.

( Really, it wasn't difficult at all. Except for that part about emotions and talking about said emotions. Then she bailed. )

That's what all Skrulls say. ( Just going to point that out for him. ) I know I'd appreciate being dead rather than have my personality do a complete one eighty.

( Because that would be awful. And she's lucky that the people she surrounds herself with on a day to day basis get that. Or at least don't think it's odd. )

[walkingballpit]

[You'd think that most guys would jump at the chance to have something so uncomplicated. Darn him for being a nice guy.]

Yeah, yeah. I know. What if I told you I didn't kill them even when I knew they were Skrulls?

[Incapacitated, yes, but he'd been one of the only Thunderbolts not using lethal force. He has morals, okay.]

People don't stay the same forever. I'm not the same person I was a few years ago.

[gamora]

Then I think you deserve whatever they've got planned for you.

( A shrug, because pft. She doesn't particularly care but it's nice to know that she doesn't have to waste her time with a bleeding heart who'll get killed in a moment because he couldn't be bothered to kill some Skrulls. )

Neither was I. ( She was happy, actually. ) But I haven't become completely unrecognizable.

[walkingballpit]

I probably do.

[A similar shrug, because he's not really keen on someone who shows no mercy, whether or not they're a friend of Rich.]

's the trouble with Skrulls though. They're good actors, so you wouldn't be completely unrecognizable. But - I'm not a Skrull, and you'd have a tough time killing me, so friends?

[gamora]

I don't do friends and I'm very good at killing things.

( So that last bit sounds like a challenge more than anything else. But she doesn't move to shrug him off further, which is an indication of tolerance at best. )