[A weirdly short time after they've all set out to put up their transceivers, and Chase's team is already mostly done aside from the steps they need to sync with everyone else. TEXTING TIME.]
I did the hell out of the thing! That's why we're like done. Can I say I find your lack of faith disturbing?
[Where's the trust Clary!!! He did at least 50% of all the heavy lifting and actual building of the thing. They just had a couple super genius nerd puzzle-solving types along for the ride, so he generously let them have a little bit of the spotlight. Totally.]
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
You should totally find a rope and tie yourself to the nearest person who can.
Uh huh. So do they teach stuff like this in fancy private schools? I can't believe my mom didn't break her back trying to send me some place like that so I could be prepared for planetary destruction.
[ She's got your number, Collins. ]
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Kinky, but no. I only know Garrus and Sturmhond on my team and I make a fool of myself in front of them daily. I think I'd rather fall.
[Chase considers being dodgy about it, but honestly he'd rather Clary not get curious enough to read his disaster of a file if she hasn't yet. Also it's not like everyone here doesn't have some kind of wacky, unbelievable backstory, including her. Don't think he didn't read about all that shadowhunter business. Useless aside from answering boring questions, his ass.]
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Don't laugh?
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
I'm kinda a witch and I can do magic. Which is mostly how I haven't died horribly yet. Anyway turns out magic is super useful when you want to build giant tacky planet destroying puzzles.
[ She's actually really nosy but for some reason the files seem like a breach of trust somehow. Unless you're a threatening person and then she's reading that shit to learn how to beat you. ]
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Oh! That's so cool. I was hoping I'd find someone with magic around here. I know a Warlock back in Brooklyn and he'd be like super useful here?
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Do you read the files? Have you read mine? I don't know if I need to be 'it's ok if you have magic I do too' or not? Especially considering I'm not supposed to call it 'magic'.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
I can't use mine to build weapons of mass destruction though. 8(
Because it offends the old guys who run everything. They don't want to be seen as having anything in common with the Downworlders.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
That's what they call Warlocks btw. And also vampires, fairies, and werewolves. Pretty skeevy, right? They suck.
[ Her immediate thought is to give him an answer of nothing good. But then she pauses. She's not at home. There's no Jace to warn her off and nobody to really tell if she does admit to it.
And maybe she wants to be a bit boastful. ]
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
I blew up a ship before I came here. It literally just burst apart.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Also I can heal myself. And make myself sort of invisible.
[This whole explanation only gives him so many more questions, Clary! (ur name field has never been more appropriate.) Also excuse? Downworlders?? Who are these old scrubs. Because no.]
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Back up. What are they even running, really?
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Alright, that? Is cool. You have to show me. On something that's not the ship we're about to live on, preferably.
The world? Mostly. Where I'm from the Shadowhunters are kind of like ... invisible forces. Normal people can't tell they're there. And they have a council who mostly tells the soldiers what to do.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
They hate anyone who isn't a Shadowhunter. It's seriously racist and gross.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Considering I nearly drowned last time? Yeah, I think we'll skip trying it on the Nehada.
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day 110
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Is your team almost done? This is so boring.
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FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
No :( Because the manual is stupid and I'm going to blow us all up.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Also I'm going to fall off this mountain.
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You didn't get anybody that's done this before on your team? Our guys barely looked at the manual.
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Also I'm fairly sure blowing up or falling off a mountain counts as the stasis "or something" and you did swear on scout's honor that you wouldn't so
[Clary don't die who would he drag out dancing???]
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Chase. We're supposed to do the thing. It's a test. DID YOU NOT DO THE THING?
[ Did you freeload off everyone else's expertise? God, why wasn't she on his team, she could have punched him and made him help her. ]
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Look, I know. But I can't fight gravity????
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I did the hell out of the thing! That's why we're like done. Can I say I find your lack of faith disturbing?
[Where's the trust Clary!!! He did at least 50% of all the heavy lifting and actual building of the thing. They just had a couple super genius nerd puzzle-solving types along for the ride, so he generously let them have a little bit of the spotlight. Totally.]
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
You should totally find a rope and tie yourself to the nearest person who can.
no subject
Uh huh. So do they teach stuff like this in fancy private schools? I can't believe my mom didn't break her back trying to send me some place like that so I could be prepared for planetary destruction.
[ She's got your number, Collins. ]
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Kinky, but no. I only know Garrus and Sturmhond on my team and I make a fool of myself in front of them daily. I think I'd rather fall.
no subject
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Don't laugh?
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
I'm kinda a witch and I can do magic. Which is mostly how I haven't died horribly yet. Anyway turns out magic is super useful when you want to build giant tacky planet destroying puzzles.
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Some other people helped too I guess.
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FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Oh! That's so cool. I was hoping I'd find someone with magic around here. I know a Warlock back in Brooklyn and he'd be like super useful here?
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Do you read the files? Have you read mine? I don't know if I need to be 'it's ok if you have magic I do too' or not? Especially considering I'm not supposed to call it 'magic'.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
I can't use mine to build weapons of mass destruction though. 8(
no subject
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Wait, why can't you call it magic?
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
What can you do with it?
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Because it offends the old guys who run everything. They don't want to be seen as having anything in common with the Downworlders.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
That's what they call Warlocks btw. And also vampires, fairies, and werewolves. Pretty skeevy, right? They suck.
[ Her immediate thought is to give him an answer of nothing good. But then she pauses. She's not at home. There's no Jace to warn her off and nobody to really tell if she does admit to it.
And maybe she wants to be a bit boastful. ]
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
I blew up a ship before I came here. It literally just burst apart.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Also I can heal myself. And make myself sort of invisible.
no subject
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Back up. What are they even running, really?
FROM: collins.chase@cdc.org
Alright, that? Is cool. You have to show me. On something that's not the ship we're about to live on, preferably.
no subject
The world? Mostly. Where I'm from the Shadowhunters are kind of like ... invisible forces. Normal people can't tell they're there. And they have a council who mostly tells the soldiers what to do.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
They hate anyone who isn't a Shadowhunter. It's seriously racist and gross.
FROM: fray.clary@cdc.org
Considering I nearly drowned last time? Yeah, I think we'll skip trying it on the Nehada.