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So here's the thing…

We have a lot of work left to do. Those of you who ventured down below got a taste of what we're looking at and hopefully that means we can make better preparations. I'm working on opening a new portal based on your energy readings and getting it to stabilize itself so you aren't stuck down there longer than you have to be. May take a few days, but I'm hoping to get a map drawn up, too.

How many of you have been out to Magatus? You might wanna compare notes…the influence started spreading even further. It's better to bring everything and everyone out there back to the city where we can put up forcefields and I can monitor from here.

So what am I saying? I need two teams, a rescue team and an exploration team. Take some time to decide, figure out your skills, organize and arm yourselves. Assignments will go out when you're ready, and when I'm ready.

Oh yeah…and if you're interested in working for me directly? Send me your résumé.

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Ummm...

Well, Xioalang, the fire department, the police, probably a gang or two and half the thieves in the city are all pissed at me for some reason or another...with varying degrees of how much of my fault it is.

[Anyone else you want to mention buddy? I think you might have missed a few people...]

Edited (added sassy meta commentary) 2019-03-07 06:31 (UTC)

I can safely say that Xiaolang wouldn't spread rumors like that.

And I can't really see the police or fire department doing it either?

Yeah, I don't think he is that kind of person, or if he was he wouldn't do it NOW right after we had a sit down.

Police were chasing me like a wanted criminal in January, for no reason.

Fire people hate me cause they think I am after their jobs

The gang...might be after me for money, or almost killing a guy once. So I don't see how these rumours help them.

The thieves, well, I steal from them...trying to clean up my act a bit and they keep trying to rob a friend of mine, rumours don't change that.

So, I don't get the benefit of spreading those rumours...cause, it's not a scandal if people can just call me and see it's fake news.

i wish i could say rumors don't last forever. but if someone is committed to spreading rumors about you, they will keep doing it.

about all you can do at this point is keep showing up all 'surprise, i'm alive!'

True, I guess I could try to make a song and dance about it.

If this is going to be a long term thing, might as well try to have a little fun with it.

Maybe "I will survive"?

You like singing and dancing? I did not know that.

I have been accused of trying.

Might have gone better at dancing since learning Alibaba's(Other me) sword skills though.

But I meant I could make something up to make it more fun for me.

Ah, but if you are too trivia about it, you might cause them to think you were playing a joke on them.

True, I suppose I can only wait.

Maybe they are trying to trap me? Make me either lose my temper or alienate those close to me somehow?

But that would mean they would have to know me well enough to think that might work.

Either way. It's probably best to try to not lose your temper. We are most prone to mistakes when we are angry.

True. I guess I'll try to be light hearted about it...

I just hate how it makes everyone at home worry so much.

But enough about me, how have YOU been?

Well. I kind of turned into a dragon last month.

[which was honestly kind of cool]

That sounds like it might have been fun!

Wings and the whole deal?

No wings. Chinese dragons don't have them. But I did have scales, and claws, and horns.

Oh,still sounds pretty cool though, did you get to fly?

I got scales too...but I was turning into a metallic snake and just felt like burrowing underground and sleeping.

Just the was I usually do with my boots. There were some cameras behind one gate up in the sky. So I took care of those.

Ah, so you were born in the Year of the Snake.

I guess? Was that the pattern?

Does it fit the personality changes we went through too?

I think that was the pattern, yes. I can verify that at least two other people matched up with their Chinese Zodiac sign.

I'm not sure on the personality changes? I would have to look up the personality traits.

Oh, makes sense.

Did you run into any black hearts last month?

Black hearts? No, I didn't? Were they through one of the gates? I didn't go through them all.

They were up here and one got me, making me act REALLY nasty to a ganster...that pulled a gun on me.

Saying I didn't take it well...is an understatement.

What in the world were you doing that you would run across a gangster?

Running away from the black heart.

It was getting faster by the second, so I tried to lose it the way I lose most people chasing me.

Alleys and what not, kinda like what you see in the movies.

People in movies also run into obviously haunted houses and get killed.

Yeah, movie logic.

I once ran into a TV star and helped him get away from some ghosts by doing the same thing!

I also used firewalls too, but still fun!

Edited (grammar) 2019-03-27 19:21 (UTC)