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ataraxion2015-05-16 01:52 pm
forgodssake) wrote in ataraxion2015-05-16 01:52 pm
oo7. video.
[ Charles Xavier has managed to time this video for a moment when he isn't bleeding from the face, but his face is quite white, like maybe he has been not so long ago. When he speaks, his tone is level and informative-- but in most other ways, a certain amount of anxiety radiates off of him.
One of his eyes has blood blotting over white at the corner from burst blood vessel. ]
I wanted to share something I found when I was asked to examine Felix Laurens. Some of you know I have psychic abilities and-- well, now all of you do. [ Ha. Ahh. Anyway. ] I sought to find out what-- prevented him from speaking directly, or caused him to behave in strange ways, and a little about how he came to be here at all. Last we knew, he was dead.
What I found was a second presence, buried deep in his mind. His consciousness was separated from it by a sort of psychic, membranous barrier, which I don’t know the nature of. In my haste, I broke through the barrier so I could understand what it was, and-- initially, it was just. Sounds. Memories. Thousands of them, and I wasn't able to make any sense of it. But there was something else, too, something intelligent and aware that seemed to see me, like a single searching eye, and tried to-- do something. Pull me in, is what it felt like, to all that noise. Felix helped break off the connection before that could happen, and I experienced symptoms not unlike the ones we're experiencing now.
[ Charles hesitates. Taps his fingers against the desk. Continues, to the point. ]
It's in everyone. Everyone's mind.
This barrier is, anyway. It reads to me as being "thinner" [ you can hear the quotation marks in his tone ] for those who have been here longer, and "thinner" for those that attended Shepard's recon mission a while back. I haven't looked beneath it since I observed it in Laurens, but only because I fear that I'd find the same thing.
It's also-- I believe-- causing the rolling side effects we're all experiencing now, or has something to do with them. I've observed that there is a resistance happening, a ripping, like the barrier is trying to detach from our minds, and then when we seek physical contact and the symptoms abate, the barrier strengthens. Perhaps it isn't a barrier at all, but a--
[ He stops. He hadn't want to ramble and speculate. ]
Study is ongoing, anyway, about what it means for us, what it does to us. I'll put up my own findings in the archival timeline, and keep it up to date. If-- if anyone like me is looking to confirm this phenomenon, I can't stress enough that it's important you go carefully. It will overpower you, given the chance.
[ Grim public service announcement executed, he tries to consider how to sign off. ]
For those that are newer, my name is Professor Xavier, with Xenogen. Sorry about all that.
[ Aaand cut. ]
One of his eyes has blood blotting over white at the corner from burst blood vessel. ]
I wanted to share something I found when I was asked to examine Felix Laurens. Some of you know I have psychic abilities and-- well, now all of you do. [ Ha. Ahh. Anyway. ] I sought to find out what-- prevented him from speaking directly, or caused him to behave in strange ways, and a little about how he came to be here at all. Last we knew, he was dead.
What I found was a second presence, buried deep in his mind. His consciousness was separated from it by a sort of psychic, membranous barrier, which I don’t know the nature of. In my haste, I broke through the barrier so I could understand what it was, and-- initially, it was just. Sounds. Memories. Thousands of them, and I wasn't able to make any sense of it. But there was something else, too, something intelligent and aware that seemed to see me, like a single searching eye, and tried to-- do something. Pull me in, is what it felt like, to all that noise. Felix helped break off the connection before that could happen, and I experienced symptoms not unlike the ones we're experiencing now.
[ Charles hesitates. Taps his fingers against the desk. Continues, to the point. ]
It's in everyone. Everyone's mind.
This barrier is, anyway. It reads to me as being "thinner" [ you can hear the quotation marks in his tone ] for those who have been here longer, and "thinner" for those that attended Shepard's recon mission a while back. I haven't looked beneath it since I observed it in Laurens, but only because I fear that I'd find the same thing.
It's also-- I believe-- causing the rolling side effects we're all experiencing now, or has something to do with them. I've observed that there is a resistance happening, a ripping, like the barrier is trying to detach from our minds, and then when we seek physical contact and the symptoms abate, the barrier strengthens. Perhaps it isn't a barrier at all, but a--
[ He stops. He hadn't want to ramble and speculate. ]
Study is ongoing, anyway, about what it means for us, what it does to us. I'll put up my own findings in the archival timeline, and keep it up to date. If-- if anyone like me is looking to confirm this phenomenon, I can't stress enough that it's important you go carefully. It will overpower you, given the chance.
[ Grim public service announcement executed, he tries to consider how to sign off. ]
For those that are newer, my name is Professor Xavier, with Xenogen. Sorry about all that.
[ Aaand cut. ]
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[Her tone is flat. Unsurprised. She pinching the brim of her nose. The bleeding has stopped for the time being, with the exception of a slight trickle coming out of her ear. Her face is blanched, definitely looking worse for wear.
[Well, more so than already.]
Don't suppose this thinning barrier in some of our heads would be what causes the compulsion?
[It doesn't bode well for someone who both has been here since day one and partook in that recon.]
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[ His head tips, mouth twisting a little. A makeshift handkerchief, folded in such a way so as not to display probable blood stains, he holds clutched. ]
I'm reluctant to impose intent. The most I've been able to observe of it is the presence of it in static conditions and its reaction to what ails us now. But I don't imagine you're off the mark with that thinking.
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If you think it would help; would like to know more about whatever the hell is in my head.
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Suppose sooner would be better. Unless you need time to recover from your more recent head trip.
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Apologies in advance for the mess. [Her own head is, of course. Said a little more good-natured than it probably should be coming out, given the implications. But hey, anything to make her feel better about the idea of someone poking around in the bedlam that's up there.]
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[ Lightly said, taking her good naturedness for what it is. ]