anomaly 030 . video

[dinosize]

The Admiral's not responding, and the lot of you are going mad with power and having pool parties. Don't you remember what happened with the Mirror Barge? There is something wrong.

Try to find him. He might be a bastard, but he's consistent, and that's something I can't say for most of you.

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[americasdirtiest]

That's what I said. Don't know what the fuck else to do about it, though.

[dinosize]

Didn't get powers yourself?

[americasdirtiest]

No, I did.

[He'd restored his weapons cabinet and his shower, done some meddling in the gym, and then... stopped, tired and at a loss. Whatever's going on, it's capped below the level of anything he really wants, anyway.

Honestly, mostly what he wants right now is the Admiral back.]

Doesn't mean I think it's a good idea, though.

[formerself]

How?

[Serious question. The answer to Stephen's rhetorical question is 'nope', but he'd definitely like the dude he signed up with back, please. He's just not sure how they'd go about finding someone who seems more like a concept than an actual person.]

[dinosize]

Use his power. It's got to be tied to him, somehow.

[tucky]

[In pops one of the pool party co-conspirators, and someone who is arguably going a little mad with power.]

There's wardens that are going along with it. Would they be doing that if it wasn't safe?

[dinosize]

They would if they didn't know any better.

[isahumanbeing]

Stephen, how exactly do you expect us to find someone who until very recently could bend time and space to their will and bring back the dead?

If what I've been seeing is any indication, he may very well be dead. Or at least, displaced out of whatever realm the Barge exists in. Where could we even begin to look?

[dinosize]

Some of the people here have his power. It's got to be tied to him. And if someone can be brought back from the dead with that power, who knows what else it can do?

[brbculling]

Maybe he's dead.

[dinosize]

You'd like that, would you?

[leavetreadmarks]

I don't remember the Mirror Barge. That being said, I don't disagree with you, but you're missing something very important too right now.

Some of them need this.

[dinosize]

They need constant access to a pub?

[demolitions]

Give it a rest, Jeremiah. Ain't nobody gone mad with power.

[Yet]

[dinosize]

Fine. Stupid with power, then.

[routemistress]

What your Nick said. This is very like the mirror and the door.

[Thank you, Stephen.]

[dinosize]

Well, I couldn't stay here this long without picking something up. About how it all works.

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[sssiiiiirrrrr]

Maybe he is dead.

[Horatio's voice is kind of distant. Detached. Exhausted.]

She can't find him. That's why she's using us. She's already tried.

Voice

[dinosize]

She?

The ship?

[rickitikitarr]

What happened on the Mirror Barge, dare I ask?

[dinosize]

A lot. A lot happened.

The short of it is - there's a Barge that's our opposite, supposed to make people evil instead of the other way around. We ran into each other. Some of us switched places.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

I'm definitely open to suggestions if you have any idea of where to start looking.

[dinosize]

All I have to suggest is who to start looking.

This is all a bit beyond me.

[bodilesswarrior]

I remember we didn't have any power in the Mirror Barge. [There's a bitter edge to the words. She's gotten past it, mostly, but it's not a wound she likes to prod.] Maybe this is the Barge's way of preventing that sort of thing from happening again. If the power is dispersed over multiple people...

[But she shakes her head, because she doesn't know. She's gone over her own data over and over, and it isn't really helping.]

At the moment, I'm more worried about what this power is doing to them. [That's something they can see with their own eyes, at least. Something they can measure.]

[dinosize]

I'm not. Most things around here that are done to people seem easily fixable.

Except when it happens to Anya, evidently.