Black as Night, Black as Coal...

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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:47 am

"There's got to be a way they all work, aye?"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:48 am

"But are they all useful?"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:56 am

"Maybe not for fighting crime, but that's not everything that's useful."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:59 am

"That's not what I meant. There's people who are just kinda worse off for their mutation..."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:15 am

"Sorry. It's just... something that gets on my nerves, aye?"

"When I wound up at Muir I was convinced I was the one who was unlucky."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

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Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:26 am

"And maybe you were. And then you found a way to make it work. Not saying you can't feel bad about it cause someone else has it bad or worse..." she says a bit carefully.
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:46 am

"I know I shouldn't be making more of it than you really said."
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High Concept: Waking Goddess
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 6:45 am

"It's alright... I mean you're not wrong about how you feel or anything."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:14 pm

"No, but you didn't really mean it that way. I was arguing with someone, but that someone wasn't you."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:22 pm

"Who were you arguing with?"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:26 pm

"...everybody who acted like my life was basically over when I became a mutant."

"That includes me, at one time."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:58 pm

"Shows what they knew. You just rescued someone by stealing millions of pounds from a train. Okay, saying it loud makes it sound way more nefarious than heroic, but my point stands!"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:05 pm

"Technically we just rescued someone who was millions of pounds."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:10 pm

"I'm sure the police would care greatly about that distinction." she chuckles.
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:46 pm

"Or at least the fact that we didn't buy a gold-plated SUV with it."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:47 pm

"Well yeah. They're just gonna print some more. We cost them, like, a day of work and in exchange they got a kick-ass story out of it about that time a bunch of mutants robbed them! Win-win!"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:28 pm

"Nobody's come to get me for the aircraft carrier that disappeared, so I guess the headmistress is pretty good at talking her way through things."
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High Concept: Waking Goddess
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:31 pm

"I guess. But that wasn't even your fault, was it?"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:57 pm

"Aye. Just... surreal to think of all the things I've been involved in lately."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:15 pm

"You have no idea how disappointed I am that I missed that one though."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:49 pm

"Well, it was kind of awful, on the whole."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:19 pm

"But also a cross-dimensional adventure. With dinosaurs even!" she points out.
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Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:18 pm

"At least twice we got a ship shot out from under us. I met my... well, I guess 'evil twin' is a bit cliche but someone who might've been me and tried to kill us all. And then towards the end I got impaled."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:53 pm

"Okay, maybe it wasn't all awesome, but you got to fight your evil twin! That's awesome!"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:06 pm

"It's actually kind of disturbing, seeing how you might go wrong."
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Aspect: Not Crazy
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:29 pm

"But it's not you. That's why they call it an evil twin. That makes you the good one."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:14 am

"Well it's not like there were labels, aye? The whole world was in a shite situation."
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sat Mar 11, 2017 2:00 am

"If she was you but evil then she was an evil twin! Or Doppelgänger. Either way, evil!"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:49 am

"She was more me but insane."

"Or... moreso, I guess." She mumbles.
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sat Mar 11, 2017 5:44 am

"What are you talking about? You're not insane. Come on, there's no way you'd end up as some kind of crazy killer. That wasn't what you coulda been because you are who you are and you don't murder people."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Sat Mar 11, 2017 3:53 pm

"There's always... similarities you notice. I mean yes, it's distorted. It's like a bloody funhouse mirror. But there's things you recognize, aye?"
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High Concept: Waking Goddess
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sat Mar 11, 2017 5:15 pm

"Sam, people look at funhouse mirrors to have a laugh. Cause there's no way you could actually look like th---" It's roughly around this point that something seems to click with here. Sam's perspective on this whole thing, on people in general, must be different. Because she could be them. Look like them, even have their thoughts in her head.

"Oh!" she just says for a moment as she tries to wrap her head around that. "I mean... I don't think anybody else believes you could be that. I sure don't. But... I... think I get it now."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Sat Mar 11, 2017 6:04 pm

"It's hard not to think about it, sometimes. You know, who you'd be if push came to shove."
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High Concept: Waking Goddess
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sat Mar 11, 2017 6:27 pm

"That never really occurred to me. I mean, not like that. To me you're jsut Sam and I just can't see you going all murderous on people. I mean even that Finn guy's still alive."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:02 pm

"I was... tempted. I mean, I thought he'd killed Will at the time."
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High Concept: Waking Goddess
Aspect: Enraptured by Violence
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:28 pm

"I can't even imagine what would have happened to him if that money had gotten out... Think he's just in a really deep sleep?"
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:44 pm

"I'm... really not sure. That's why it's probably better if I'm out of there while they work, aye?"
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High Concept: Waking Goddess
Aspect: Enraptured by Violence
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:57 pm

"I'm sure they got it under control."
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Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:58 pm

"Aye, and my temper wouldn't help things one bit."
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High Concept: Waking Goddess
Aspect: Enraptured by Violence
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Not Crazy
Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Black as Night, Black as Coal...

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:10 pm

"You're just... passionate."
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