dr_riley: (holding a grudge)
dr_riley ([personal profile] dr_riley) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2021-06-26 07:43 pm

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[ The video opens with a fairly standard head and shoulders shot of Drake, who seems to have made himself comfortable at a desk or counter of some sort in the research building. The lighting is much dimmer than the bright flourescent of a regular lab setting, but workable and almost pleasantly ambient. He has a few small desk lamps and behind him are various machines and computers - or at least they look like computers, a few of which seem to be on, as they blink out different colored patterns in the background. There are screens and dials and big, boxy looking equipment scattered around, and who knows if any of it works or what they're meant to do.

He looks annoyed, as per usual.]


Hello! If I could have your attention for just a moment. I don't mean to interrupt everyone's happy fun times, but -

A beach party?!

Really? Right now? That's the response that a threat of this magnitude gets? Did you all miss how insidiously pervasive that complete memory stamp was? Or how it went on for a month, and would have gone on longer if the Agrii hadn't broken through?

Miss Starling wasn't too happy with me for expressing an admittedly prematurely low opinion of you all when I suggested that the ship might be too full of finger paints and coloured pipe cleaners to fit necessary equipment I wanted to bring back from Coruscant.

Well, friends, this idiocy is exactly what I meant. Thank you for confirming that I may as well be on a planet inhabited by talking ficus plants. This is-is-it's...I have never seen this level of incompetence and irresponsibility after such a direct, powerful, multifaceted attack.

I'm trying to find out what caused it and how to prevent it from happening again. And I expected the same or better of everyone else.

Mr. Kaplan provided a list of names of some people who were here during the time a race called the Atroma were present. He thinks they might have had a hand in amplifying the effects of his abilities. So if anyone knows a...

[ He looks down and a scrap of paper comes into view]

...Wanda, a...Soldier? Lance, and Keith? please send them my way, I need to have a chat. Or if you're listening, feel free to get back to me here or leave a message.

If any of you have even the barest hint of a sense of self-preservation, I would appreciate some help. I would ask elsewhere, trust me, but apparantly everyone's lost their minds and there's no one left who isn't a sudden hippy with the memory of a goldfish.

And by the way. The mobile analytic laboratory probe is ready for field work. You're welcome.
ezra_of_lothal: (ezra smiling by herasyndlla @tumblr)

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[personal profile] ezra_of_lothal 2021-06-27 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Not when it's you making a free choice to try to find your own...balance.

If I'm trying to force my will onto people, I'm almost certainly failing to be the Jedi I should be. That gets messy when the other person's will is to kill or torment, but, you get the idea, yeah?

And aside from that, I hope to be your friend. Not your keeper.

wearingthestars: (vulnerable)

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[personal profile] wearingthestars 2021-06-27 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
That means a lot. Thank you Ezra. I feel like...I'm crazy or something. This feels like the right choice, but I don't want to fight the people I care about.
ezra_of_lothal: (Ezra thoughtful by recadreuse)

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[personal profile] ezra_of_lothal 2021-06-27 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
I've been in that position, too, and it sucks. I ran off on my own - well, tried to. I got lucky in multiple ways, including the droid member of my crew stowing away to keep an eye on me.

It turned out ok, and I learned what I needed from that trip, but I don't recommend the going it alone part.
Edited 2021-06-27 03:06 (UTC)