[video] un: jbenjamin | booze + P O W E R S

[cicatrize]

[ the video features jack from a distance (who even knows how - maybe this thing works with the security cameras) as he rummages through some boxes and crates in the storage vault, chatting as he works. ]

This community survival, jobs assignment thing is cute and all, but we're forgetting a direly necessary aspect of all civilized society across eras and dimensions:

[ a beat, and jack sucks in a deep breath, before looking into the camera. ]

The time-honored tradition of getting shitfaced on intoxicants to avoid facing the doomed reality we're all chained to.

[ c h e e r f u l .

anywho, back to spelunking for more supplies. ]

That understood, I'm taking volunteers for this vital project.

Despite the droid army's literal buzzkilling, I have a few buckets, a lot of piping, and not a single clue what to do with any of it to make alcohol happen.

[ as you can see at his feet: a couple buckets, much piping. there appears to be another useful tub looking thing in the crate he's reaching for now, that's a little too high up for him. ]

So if anyon— oh come on, you hunk of space trash. [ jack is about half a foot too short to be able to reach this crate and it's really starting to get obnoxious. that is, until the crate rockets off the edge of what it's sitting on, smacking jack directly in the face, and sending him toppling backwards onto his ass. sitting up straight with a jolt, he's squinting down at where the tub inside rolled, some 5 or so yards away, stretches out a hand, aaaand...

zoom, right into his palm. ballin. ]

Uhm. Powers are back?



[[ ooc; powers are not back, but I did just buy jack's canon powers back, and if you guys have AC points you can count up, as long as you post them into your AC thread, you can go ahead and spend them on the rewards page. the TDM threads can be used for bonus AC as well. ]]

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video: un; proudstar

[proudstars]

[ he's not going to be much help with the drinking but the last part of the video does catch his attention. he frowns and then narrows his eyes, wondering if he'd missed out on a fellow mutant or if this was something else all together. ]

Powers are back?

[ repetition was good for when you needed a second to figure out what to say. ]

What kind of powers do you have, man?

[cicatrize]

Mine are, at least.

[ because he just accidentally smacked himself in the face with a space crate, which would be why he's now gingerly pinching the bridge of his nose, making sure nothing's broken there.

the tub he'd just yoinked to his hand from about five yards away then is set to float about half a foot above his open palm, for demonstration's sake (and because he freaking missed it). ]

Telekinesis. Handy, when it's behaving.

video; UN: RambleOn, Threadjacking OK

[righteously]

Yes!

[ He declares firmly, pointing at the camera. ]

For the love of god, one hundred thousand percent yes. I need booze. If you find anyone who actually knows how to get some hooch going that won't make us go blind, I can weld together whatever we need.

text / id: nazyalensky

[tempestes]

( she considers video, but Jack has already seen her at her lowest. she doesn't need to add desperate to his list of adjectives to describe her. )

How are yours back? I've tried, and mine still aren't working.

[cicatrize]

[ oh thank fuck, he's not the only alcoholic on board. ]

The enthusiasm's appreciated. We just need someone who knows the chemistry.

And, the chemicals.

[ yeah, he doesn't really know what goes into booze, but there has to be at least something they can use around here. ]

[cicatrize]

I couldn't say. You just saw how it happened - off one second, on the next.

Are you sure they aren't working?

[tempestes]

( she had hoped maybe there was something off the camera she hadn't seen. )

I don't really stop trying for them.

Maybe it's in waves.

[cicatrize]

It could be. This is hope, at least. They aren't completely out of reach.

[tempestes]

( that's surprisingly reassuring, despite everything. )

I'll try to wait patiently.

In the meantime, I'm no use to helping make alcohol, but if you need a good taste tester my palate is impeccable. Or if you just want to spoil me.

[proudstars]

I bet.

[ telekinesis. huh, that was a new one. john's not seen that one before. at least, not in the underground. ]

Mind if I ask how you got those? The powers, I mean. Not the alcohol.

video; un: sturmhond

[sturmhond]

I didn't imagine you had it in you, Jack! Impressive, I must say. I take it you didn't feel them return?

[ He says that with the same cheerful optimism as always, but inwardly, he feels sick. He might be the only one who'd lost powers that has absolutely no interest in seeing them return.

He's free of the monster. It cannot go back in. ]

[cicatrize]

I can't promise whatever comes out of this still, if we even get to the point of successfully assembling a still, will have any kind of decent taste to it.

But, one of us will have to be brave about giving it a try before we can find out.

[cicatrize]

[ giving the entire truth to that question would get really awkward, but not one needs the tmi details. ]

I— [ the briefest of a pause here, ] made a deal with someone for it.

[ a short, quirked smile, too quick to be clear if it was empty or not. ]

The city I was in before I came here was something like this. Transdimensional. Full of things a lot of people didn't think were possible.

[cicatrize]

Had what in me - alcoholism or superpowers?

[ hardy har harrr. hey blondie with the tragic name and the cute smile, how you doin? ]

Assuming they weren't switched back on just a second ago, no, I didn't feel anything. Granted, I haven't had these abilities for terribly long.

[sturmhond]

You mean you weren't born with them?

[ His tone is a healthy construction of surprised interest. In reality, that interest has just become far more personal. ]

There are people in my world with quite extraordinary powers, but they're born with them. The powers manifest as they age. They're called Grisha.

How did you acquire yours?

[tempestes]

No one's ever called Zoya Nazyalensky a coward before.

Inebriation's inebriation at this point.

[proudstars]

You made a deal?

[ okay, he's surprised and it takes a lot to do that. he's quiet for a few moments, turning the words over in his head before he has to ask another question. ]

As in you promised someone something and they were able to give you telekinesis somehow?

[cicatrize]

As in that exactly, yes.

He might've been something on the side of demi-god, we really didn't know for certain.

[ the people in the city certainly worshiped him like one. then again, he was also batshit crazy. but the power works just fine, so jack's good with it. ]

[proudstars]

[ huh. ]

Didn't even know that was possible. Doesn't work that way where I'm from. You're born with powers even if they don't manifest immediately. I don't know anyone that can give that to someone else.

[ he'd either be a very popular or a very targeted person. ]

What'd you give him?

[cicatrize]

No, I was born plain and simple human.

[ frail and breakable and irrelevant against the fights that matter. jack's lust for power has been more based in survival than glory. well, mostly. ]

I've met some born into power and some created that way. It seems to vary across the dimensions.

They came from a trade made with a powerful being.

[cicatrize]

There is a difference between cowardice and not ingesting potentially toxic substances, but don't let me stand in your way.

And that is an apt point.

[cicatrize]

Where I'm originally from, no one had these kinds of powers at all.

[ the trade was an opportunity, and a strategy to keep himself safe in a number of ways. a lot of details he hasn't shared with more than maybe a single person. ]

Something that probably wasn't an equivalent exchange. Not my soul and not my first born.

[ Someone already called dibs hahaaaa badumtish. Pretty clearly something he doesn't seem willing to state. ]

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[morethanasidekick]

[ You had her attention at alcohol but then you had to go and pull the fancy trickery with the ball. ]

Is everyone here a super-powered freak in their other life?

[ Sounding the most put out because, well? She is not. ]

[proudstars]

Little different where I'm from. Not everyone had powers. Some did, some didn't. Luck of the drawn kind of thing.

[ there was probably some research out there, someone who had tried to find a commonality between the people with the x gene and the people without. ]

How long you had these powers?

[cicatrize]

[ oh. uh. well, if it helps - ]

Not in my original one?

[righteously]

[ Nope, say hello to your homeboy Booze Winchester. ]

Unfortunately toilet wine's kind of out of my wheelhouse. If you figure something out, though...

[ For the love of god, keep him posted. ]

[sturmhond]

That sounds like an expensive trade. You asked for this power specifically, did you?

[ Nikolai can't blame him. If he could have asked for a power, that would be a useful one, wouldn't it? If he were to do the same, it would take some considerable thought. ]

At any rate I'm glad it's returned to you. Decent warning that others need to be prepared, I suppose. And it'll make whatever you're doing with those boxes go a lot faster.

[morethanasidekick]

[More squinting.]

Is this a Buddhist thing, because. I'd sign up if it comes with superpowers.