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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Comments

[gamora]

I've never needed saving. ( Well there was the once, but as Gamora has complicated feelings regarding her time as a select, she simply chooses to ignore it rather than dwell on it. ) And if you're going to use it, why not make yourself useful?

( Terrans. A half shrug of a shoulder as she runs a hand through her still-short hair, not completely used to the feeling of it growing in. It's the last thing to come back, however, and she'll take it over the option of being dead any day of the week. )

Gamora.

[walkingballpit]

Right, right. This princess saves herself. I get it. Anyway, I'm a terrible shot with guns. I've got other ways to make myself useful. You can ask the pink gorillas a few decks down, if they wake up and there's not too much nerve damage.

[Someday, he's going to meet a green girl who doesn't have a no-nonsense attitude. Someday.]

Robbie Baldwin. Do you know what the heck's going on here? Because right now I'm trusting a Kree kid - which isn't exactly on my credible sources list - and Nita, who I thought was dead until I got here. Might as well trust you, you haven't tried to kill me yet either. I wouldn't, by the way.

[He has impressed himself by not making a Sodom and Gomorrah crack.]

[gamora]

( It comes with the color, Robbie. )

Beyond the Infinity Gems being shattered and ending up on a different Knowhere than the one in my universe? No. It's not my job to know things - try Adam Warlock for that.

( Especially about the Infinity Gems. )

Could do worse than the Kree.

( Skrulls. Church of Universal Truth. Honestly, the Kree are the least of their troubles. )

[walkingballpit]

[ He gives her a sharp look, trying to place her and failing. ]

There's a Knowhere in your universe, too? Nita said there's one in ours, but I've never been here. She was only here for a few days though, and it's not like Rich's here to ask about it.

[ Robbie shrugs and follows it up with a nod. Yeah, there's worse than Kree. He'd take listening some random Kree over Norman Osborn or a tv executive any day. ]

Yeah, I know. I missed most of the Skrull Invasion though, so I don't have that xenophobic urge to start punching people in the face until they Skrull out.

[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. )