[Voice]

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

This network is apparently city-wide, isn't it?

Fine. Looking for anyone from a version of Earth that knows what a Daemonite is, or remembers a point in the early 21st century when the US government was overthrown by a super-being taskforce.

Chime in. Anyone. Civilian, super, or otherwise. Any information shared will helpful for both of us.

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[sibyllant.livejournal.com]

I ran a search on the archives and the word "daemonite" was not found, sorry to say.

Did the super-being taskforce remain in power, or were they ousted by another group?

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

Actually, ma'am, we abdicated. Some of us sooner than others.

[sibyllant.livejournal.com]

... ah. Definitely not a situation I'm familiar with, but I do hope there's someone from your universe here.

I'm Barbara Gordon, with the police force. If you have any questions regarding the City, I'm as good as anybody to answer them.

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

I'm The Midnighter.

When I ask who's really in charge here, you'll have to take my word that I'm not planning to depose them. Politics disagreed with me.

[sibyllant.livejournal.com]

The Porter, the machine that greeted you on the way in, controls the City as far as we can tell, but she doesn't take an obvious hand in day to day activities. That she leaves up to us, her "heroes".

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

...wonderful. Once we've beaten the Krauts, will she pay my college tuition?

[caststwoshadows.livejournal.com]

Worldwide, you might say.

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

Might I. That's not menacing in any way, shape or form.

Always knew the telephone company would wind up taking over in the long run.

[caststwoshadows.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I was being polite.

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

I extend the menace only to a global communications network that isn't asking me to pay sixty dollars a month, fifteen more for the texting feature package. Someone is getting more out of this little blackberry than money, and I'd like to know what.

[caststwoshadows.livejournal.com]

Paranoid.

They're getting the pleasure of watching the heroes flail about.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

That sounds like an interesting world.

Re: [voice]

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

It had its high and low points.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

As do most.

Re: [voice]

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

I've yet to find the 'high' component of this one.

[osreborn]

As others have said, that doesn't ring any bells. But how did that work out?

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

Badly, but in a fairly anticlimactic way. Small favors.

[osreborn]

Indeed. Seems as if that happens rather often nowadays.

Which side were you on?

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

I was part of the junta in question. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

[osreborn]

Does it not anymore?

[Text]

[hev-interloper.livejournal.com]

I remember a point in the early 21st century when the world's government was overthrown by alien superbeings.

The other term doesn't sound familiar, except for daemon as subprocesses on a computer...?

[returned as text]

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

Not my universe, then. We weren't aliens.

[Text] y so angryface?

[hev-interloper.livejournal.com]

Figured as much.

The Midnighter is a kind man of gentle temperament

[wardelivery.livejournal.com]

Now say it and make me believe you.

[hev-interloper.livejournal.com]