mark iv suit ❦ [ voice + two encryptions ]

[starked]

[ tranquility, red smiley, everyone who even remotely being a creeper and stalking, hello, haven't you missed tony? no? well that's fair he needs to keep his nose out of everyone's business anyway. but yeah, no, that's not ever going to happen. sorry guys. the red smiley putting him on the list has actually accomplished something awesome, because while tony likes using text, some of you are really stupid about using it or you just like another setting better. guess whose voice you get to hear today? tony's. send your regards to red smiley at 1005 creeper avenue, if you insist on thanking them. 

it's weird, you know, being at the top of the list and with such awesome company, but tony has been notorious way too many times in his life to really be too bothered by it. yes, the element of try not to die is bothersome, but he figures that he's three for three in the try not to die race, and he'd like to think he's good enough to be four for four. it's okay everyone, you can be jealous, after all not everyone can be him. it's a terrible privilege. ] 

Shockingly, though not to some of you, the elite few of you who have really heard it, I do have a voice. Some of you probably thought I was mute and sorry to disappoint and/or make you lose a bet if you thought that. I'd say that I'd pay you back but my money is at home and other than, like what, less than ten of you, we don't share a home world. Can't say I'm sorry about that bit though, since some of you are actually the worst company. But you probably already knew that. I'm digressing from my original point here, let me just do something.

[ and after he says that there is a text packet going to everyone with a easily read version with only the numbers of the list entitled, click me twice for i am an important list. ]

That's for those of you who haven't seen it. And those of who have been pinging me since Caffrey was nice and namedropped me as someone to go to so you could read it. It was in morse code originally, it was disgusting to decipher because morse code is stupid. In any case, yes, some of us are on here, and yes, I'm on it. In fact, I'm at the top of the list. Isn't that red smile just charming?

Rhetorical question, by the way. So don't answer it. Not even you Bacon Guy. 

Because I have a sneaking suspicion that some of you are just that paranoid, no, this is not some stupid list of people who we need to do something to prevent the red smiley from doing fuck knows what to us. Because, I'll let you in on a little newsflash, this list is filled with some people who are kind of important to the ship. Including me, because I don't know how many of you have been trying to fix up shuttles, but I have. So. Let's calm down for, oh I don't know five minutes or days or I don't know, until the next jump maybe? I'd be good with that. Think everyone else would to. Crazy idiots notwithstanding.

And if one person sends a single message of "I told you so." this is not my fault and I'll have you know it didn't talk to me this time. That confession sucked, but if you guys want to read, it, it is sitting there, unencrypted. Just saying.

[ 100% stark listmate encryption to listmates (including wasnik) minus megamind + JARVIS ]

[ it's after he flips the encryption, not entirely caring how people might take the fact that he encrypted the feed, that he flicks his device to video. tony is sitting in a room with far too many pieces of paper sitting on the desk and he knows his arc reactor is glowing through his shirt, but perhaps this time video is a necessity. ]

So, barring Megamind and I guess you ??? people, did any of us actually do anything to earn spots on this list? I'm curious because, yes I pissed off the red smile, I'm so well aware of that, and technically Aberdeen talked to it too, but I don't think anyone has. And Kirk and Spock, you two are like the non-original crew's version of Ward and Resnik, technically. Don't correct me on that, it's just easier to classify you as that. Conceivably you shouldn't be on this list. Unless just being in command pisses the thing off which in that case, that's a bigger issue that I am not even remotely getting into. 

Yeah, I know, none of us want to think about this, but I personally like living and like I said, some of us are pretty important to the ship. Might as well make us think about the list before I end up dead or someone comes across one of our dead bodies. Being proactive or some bullshit like that. I'm not- I don't- The hero thing, I'm not the hero type, but I do like making it so that the trying part of try not to die is easier to accomplish.

By the way, no, Megamind isn't on this encryption and don't even think of putting him on it. Because for all he nonsensically rambled about us encrypting things, I find that I do whatever the fuck I want. Because I can and he's annoying and well I'm sure most of us don't need another reason, but hey, let's toss in the pathetic failed mutiny in for good measure.

[ 100% stark encryption to banner, romanoff and JARVIS ]

Right. Let's just put forth the theoretical idea that this list was done due to threat levels, name good reasons why neither one of you two are on it. Because Banner, you turn into an enormous green rage monster and, Natasha, you know what you do. In other circumstances, I'd find it flattering, this time, not so much.

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[video/stark encryption]

[ms_pepperpotts]

[she says nothing, but wears a :| face for a moment]

[then decides to speak]

You know why I'm not happy, Tony. I don't like your name on lists.

[video/stark encryption]

[starked]

[ he just gives her a look for a moment before he shrugs. ]

To be fair, my name is on a lot of lists at home. Mostly good ones. It's- look, having everyone else on the list means that maybe it's not that bad of one. I mean really, why the fuck would you want to kill a pie maker.

/OBLIGATORY

[consulting]

"I told you so."

SH

YOU ARE ACTUALLY THE WORST SHERLOCK.

[starked]

Deduce how many people beat you to that.

TISM

100% encrypted (iron man, black widow, hulk, and JARVIS)

[widowing]

[ she's actually not going to say something like 'probably because we didn't taunt it' this time. ]

I honestly couldn't tell you. There's several reasons why I should be even if you ignore the threat level one.

100% encrypted (iron man, black widow, hulk, and JARVIS)

[starked]

[ wow no one likes you natasha, you already said i told you so and that's enough. ]

Since you and Banner are on this filter, I figured it'd be fitting to just use the threat level. Intelligence level can go under that well, he is Dr. Banner and I don't think I need to remind you about what you can do.

By the way, tell me I'm not the only one who realized that there isn't a single six on there.

voice;

[tumbleweeds]

You talk way too much for someone who doesn't have much to say.

voice;

[starked]

Do I? You can always say that I just like hearing the sound of my own voice. Trust me, wouldn't be the first.

Then again, you hear any of what I said or did it just fly over your head?

voice;

[cons]

Whaaat? I was under the impression the list was the creeper's version of TIME's Top whatever Influential Passengers; were people really talking about coming after the ones on it?

-- Though I guess now we're all thinking about it, yeah.

[ kidding.......? ]

voice;

[starked]

They might have been. I'm not a creepy stalker so for all I know someone mentioned it and just is waiting. Also really? One of those people on there has done pretty much nothing. Not really a qualification for being on that list. But I do like being on top of lists that TIME makes.

[ a beat. ]

Yeah, but at least we know where you all got the idea from. And hell, maybe I'm working that angle.

voice. what are encryptions.

[therangerking]

In what manner of importance?

[ Genuinely curious here. ]

voice. things you have GOT to learn, aragorn

[starked]

That depends, do you really want to know?

filters all over the place - this made both the list and Team Stark Knowing Avengers thre

[ironnanny]

It may perhaps be a random drawing, though unlikely. As you've stated, they are all of some importance to the ship's newly found cohabitations.

let's make this one be just for the listmates, and threadjacking in the other one later.

[starked]

Not all of them. Like I said, fuck if I can tell what the ??? people have done and there's a dude who bakes pies.

VIDEO | STARK LISTMATES ENCRYPTION

[archimedeia]

I'd say it's pretty obvious why it chose Ward and me.

[ and here's resnik, wiping sweat from her brow. there are streaks of grease up and down her arms, and she's wedged in what looks like a nondescript dark little crawlspace with slick surfaces and a bevy of cables. most of what's lighting her is coming from the communication device in her hand. ]

I can see some connections between the rest of you—some more than others—but I wouldn't bank on a single cohesive link. Unless you've got ideas on what it could be?

VIDEO | STARK LISTMATES ENCRYPTION

[starked]

I don't know, I'm completely unaware as to why it might choose you.

[ his eyes narrow a tiny bit as he tries to take in the area around her as best as he can with the bit of light provided. ]

The only thing that you can maybe say is that we're important. But then bits of us throw it off. It doesn't make sense on some of them.

[ a beat before he decides that he can't even bother to hide his curiosity. ]

Where even are you?

Voice; 100% encrypted

[andblockbuster]

What're the odds it's just a list of people it likes? [He doesn't buy that for a second and it shows, but whatever. All this paranoia and panic and shoving around puts him on edge.]

Voice; 100% encrypted

[starked]

Do you like Megamind? Be serious when answering this question.

[ no really topher, he'd love for that list to be about that, but he's not banking on it. ]

text;

[majestyofthethrone]

It's not that stupid.

text;

[starked]

The list? I like to think it is, personally. Plus, since none of us really know the meaning of it, I feel like it needs to be called "The Stupid List" at least until we know what the purpose is.

You like texting?

Voice. Listmate encryption.

[fly_like_pie]

[More encryption Funky Fun Show Time, great. Why can't he just change the channel?]

I bake pies, so n-oh, I don't see the relevance of me being on a list.

Voice. Listmate encryption.

[starked]

[ ha ha ha. changing the channel. why would you want to, ned? why would you want to? ]

Pies. Okay, I've now decided that you should probably bake us all a pie to deal with the fact that we're on the list. At least then we can call you the list baker.

You didn't bake any pies and leave them by your door anything for whatever it is to steal, right?

voice; listmate encryption

[askedtobe]

If I was home I think i'd have an idea, but here? I don't have a clue why i'm on it. [ no actually he's blaming nathan. ]

voice; listmate encryption

[starked]

Did you completely miss the part where your brother called you out and apparently all of us for some reason decided to defend you?

Because I can bring that up. In fact, I think I'd actually take some pleasure from doing just that.

voice;

[northerner]

I already said I told you so.

[ that might have been a joke. someone screencap this. ]

voice;

[starked]

[ i already did and now i replied so you can't even change it. ]

You did and then we exchanged tales and we talked about honor and it was all fine and awesome. Lady Natasha did it too. Because it was apparently time to tell me that I shouldn't poke red smiles with sticks. Metaphorically. Not literally because fuck if I know where it's coming from still.

It was for those who hadn't had the pleasure.

[saidhe]

[ wow okay thank you even though you said morse code is stupid which is super rude, morse code is useful as fuck ]

For once in our short-standing acquaintance thus far, it's at least a comfort to find we coincide on something important.

[starked]

[ okay no, morse code is a pain in the ass to dechiper for tony. so out of practice with it, okay. ]

...I feel like I need to save this conversation for later. [ he pauses. ] Look, I don't even understand why either one of your names aren't on the list. Yeah, I get why my name would be on there and like half of the list, but short of there being a cut off at 005s, this list has omissions that throw things off.

I'm going to say deduce and see if that's like your secret code word and if it's not, it should be. Because it's actually kind of funny to me.

video;

[redhotsummers]

So you've either done something to piss the captors off, or you and your list buddies can provide something they need or want.

[Alex snorts, and then gives a little shrug.]

Or they just chose people who they thought might be important, just to fuck with everyone.

voice;

[starked]

Technically, and I use the word captors loosely, Ward and Resnik would be defined as the captors. Plus they're on the list too. Just pointing that little tidbit out.

[ on tony's end he rolls his eyes, not that alex can see it. ]

Well it certainly has fucked with some of us. If that was the goal, than bravo Mr. Red Smiley.

voice;

[cargojet]

You know, all the hysterics make a lot more sense now. My brother's number is on that list.

[ And this is the first he knows about it. Great. ]

voice;

[askedtobe]

What's that supposed to mean?

video; listmate encryption.

[romanticism]

[ Rubbing his temple has become something of a habit for Oxford now, and his sounds a little bit weary, though not with Tony. He doesn't really believe Tony is much at fault for getting on the unsettling smiley face's nerves, because if it hadn't been him, it would have been someone else. There are more than enough mouthy individuals aboard the ship, and Oxford doesn't exclude himself from that list. He doesn't speak immediately, eventually looking up at the video feed tiredly. ]

I wouldn't necessarily class myself as a figure of particular importance here, unless perhaps our cheerful red observer similarly believes that there is a lack of literary class here. [ A pause. ] Not that I believe that can be fixed, to be honest.

video; listmate encryption.

[starked]

[ in the grand scheme of things, tony likes to think that what he did was tame compared to other things people could have done. he gives oxford a look before speaking and shakes his head. ]

Chapel has that library, step in the right direction for you or something. But better connection, you are tied to someone vaguely important. Aberdeen. Unless you relly want to give me the bullshit about how you all don't know each other, which let's face it, by now is impossible to claim.

text

[coffeeking]

I would get on the bandwagon and say I told you so, only I didn't, so I can't. Well done, though.

text

[starked]

I use voie for the first time and yet there are still you hold outs who want to use it with me. God I will never please all of you. Shame.

The whole blaming me thing is annoying though. I mean, yeah, I get why you want to, because I'm me, but really? I'm good, but not that good. I've barely even talked to some of these people on the list. Ergo creepy list is not my fault.

voice.

[swagneto]

Do you always talk this much?

voice.

[starked]

No, I'm just talking this much especially for you. You should feel special.

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[statsraaden]

Oh, that's what everyone was talking about. Thanks.

[Stats looks at the list for a few seconds and frowns.]

Is is me, or everyone who's responsible for what went wrong here is also on the list? I mean, the mutiny? the 'demon' invasion? On the other hand, there's a few people I've more than noticed, either way, and they aren't on it. [John and Sherlock for example. Or Holmes and Watson. Or the other Starks and their worldmates. Or... oh well.]

[starked]

Just doing my service as the ship's resident morse code decoder.

[ all the sarcasm in his tone, really. ]

It's the missing people that are more interesting. Yeah, yeah, the mutiny and the demon invasion were interesting, but of course you'd expect them to be on the list. Why are the other people missing.