@ren.amamiya

[variate]

[ after waking up, feeling like crap, having a cup of coffee while holding hands with Tony Stark for a good fifteen minutes, it's time to let go. ]

Hey, since we could all use a little good news, I've got some.
Stark came by to move my body in cafe I'm stuck at in New Amsterdam. When we touched, I got kicked out of the sim. Not for long, but long enough to know what happened. It doesn't work unless you're constantly touching someone outside the sim. I'm back in now.
That means it's possible to break out for a while, even if it's not permanent. I know it's been hard, and we don't have much of a choice but to keep going. It's not much, but this is something we can work with.

[ he'll always remember the time they shared feelings, Tony. ]

Comments

@kyna.medina

[evocation]

holy shit what?
was it the empathy bond?

[variate]

Yeah, empathy happened too.

@ian.fowler

[wittingly]

so about that kumbaya shit

@tony.stark

[voicelog]

[ STOP CALLING HIM OUT ON THE NETWORK, GUYS. spare him. ]

i'm not accepting requests so ask reyes

[ yeah, he fucking passed the ball. he isn't sorry. handholding is closed for business here, folks. ]

@kyna.medina

[evocation]

dude come on

[variate]

This could help.

@gabriel.reyes

[gravemistake]

Do I look like a hand-holder to you?

@robert.plant

[righteously]

would you do it for a klondike bar

@jason.todd

[reneger]

hey
@ tony.stark
help a guy out here for a minute

[variate]

He's not listening.
You should amp it up.

@james.barnes

[deadthenred]

Wow. I didn't take him for the touchy feely type.

[voicelog]

hilarious, barnes

it was an accident

[variate]

We had a moment.

@gabriel.reyes

[gravemistake]

I'm not taking hand-holding requests but could possibly be convinced to check on bodies. In fact, if anyone left anything useful out here now might be a good time to tell us.

[variate]

Thanks, Reyes.

[ he feels like it needs to be said. ]

@jason.todd

[reneger]

anything useful like what?

@jongdae.lee

[itsjiaheng]

hey! that's awesome!
only i'm pretty sure i'm extremely low priority for hand holding
also at this point i'm not 100% sure i remember where my body is
also it probably wouldn't matter
but more importantly (!!)
hoping you all figure this out soon

[variate]

"You all"?

@noah.smith

[hardbody]

A bit of hope is always welcome, particularly when it seems so thin on the ground.

[variate]

It's needed right now.
This could also be useful.

@daenerys.targaryen

[dragonwarder]

Congratulations.
I am glad to see there is some proven truth to the theory.

A pity it is so unreliable in here.

[variate]

Yeah, that part sucks. This is something instead of nothing.
We can work with it, but we have to be cautious.

@tomoe.mikage

[jinshi]

I only hope that Judas didn't notice anything amiss.

[variate]

If he didn't, then we have something else working in our favor.
I'm not about to let him win.

@david.washington

[hardwearing]

That's a huge deal... I've seen the glitches when we try to use the link here, there's something about what's been done to us that makes his control slip.

Has anyone tried getting a bunch of us together to try and break it from the inside?

[variate]

You mean linking us together in the city?
Even if we wake up, we want to make sure the rest of New Amsterdam can too. We can't leave them in here.

@goro.akechi

[impede]

I believe the true question is: how do we convince both Reyes and Stark to open their hearts to the people inside?

We'll need to decide who would be less useless, too.

[variate]

We give them something solid.
If people are going to wake up right now, it should be for a good reason.

@kira.solo

[forcevisions]

I wonder what would happen if two of our bodies were touching, not with someone who's outside?
Like, if Stark moved two of us to touch hands. Would we still wake up?

[ this isn't a plan yet, just a curiosity. ]

[variate]

That's another question.

@quentin.coldwater

[filloryfanatic]

Could this serve as a potential distraction? I'm not sure if it messed with the system waking one person up, but what if briefly we all were woken up, for a few seconds. Would that potentially cause a ripple of some kind? IDK what to call it.

[variate]

Yeah, possibly.
But I don't think we'd be able to surprise him like that twice. We'll need to have a reason and go hard.
There's also the New Amsterdam citizens.