[Locked to Residents]

[lorentzian]

Hi, Luceti. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jane Foster. For several months, I've been working with Tony Stark on a project. A project to get all of us home.

For most of that time the project was kept pretty much secret. Even then, it wasn't entirely safe. We suspect the Malnosso know what we're up to and aren't too happy with us. That's exactly why we want to bring it to the rest of you and step it up: so we can finish this faster than they expect us to and get out of here before they can try to stop us.

The basics are actually pretty straightforward: we're building a device that can open a wormhole, get us through the barrier, and back to our respective worlds and universes. Don't ask about the technicalities unless you're really sure you want them. It's complex stuff.

What we need from all of you is missions. We're close to completion, but there are still a lot of parts we need to complete the device. The only way to get those parts is to buy them with mission points. You guys go out on missions, earn points, buy the parts we specify, and bring those parts to us. Pretty simple, right?

We're not saying you have to participate. But we wanted to open up the project to anyone else in the village who might care to help.

Like I said, it could be dangerous. Helping us probably isn't without consequences. If that's a risk you're willing to take, you can come talk to me or Tony and we'll give you more specifics.

So uh ... any questions, I guess? Fire away. We're both here.

(ooc: Both Jane and Tony will reply to responses here. Feel free to threadjack like nuts.)

Comments

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

What makes you think you can come up with something the Malnosso haven't already tried?

[ Joshua really, really wants to get home, but this is even more suspicious than the portal that dumped him in the forest making kitten noises. ]

[voice]

[lorentzian]

Fooor the same reason they often have us do the dirty work they can't or won't?

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

We have a high concentration of fighters, we're a captive volunteer pool, easy to bait, and expendable?

[voice]

[lorentzian]

Talents. [ She says, with the verbal equivalent of an eye roll. ] We have talents and skills they don't possess.

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

[ All of Joshua's were true, too. ]

Meanwhile, they have resources, freedom, and experience that we don't possess. What skills do you think you can exploit that make up for that?

[voice]

[lorentzian]

You know, largely? The fact that we're replicating a machine that we've both already seen work once before to do exactly what we're doing now.

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

Here? Or back in your world?

[voice]

[lorentzian]

Back in my world. If it had already been created here, we'd already know if this would work or not, right?

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

Not necessarily, if you were replicating it from incomplete information.

Either way, multiple abilities to move between worlds have already existed in Luceti but been rendered useless. There's no reason to have any faith that this device will be the one to actually work.