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[Oh hey, it's one of those kids with the weird hairstyles! Shouldn't he be in school about now? Nonetheless, the video feed opens to a few moments of Shark glaring silently at the communicator camera, sitting barefoot and crosslegged on his bed, elbows on his knees. He's propped the communicator up on a desk or something similar, facing him. You may notice he's looking rather red-eyed and his hair is dripping water onto his jacket.

Clearly, whatever he's about to say is a heavy topic for serious discussion.]

...I need to ask if any of you found out about your powers in a really dumb way.

[Guess who fell asleep in the bath this morning and woke up two hours later, freezing and underwater and suspiciously not drowned?

Yes that would be Shark.]

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[ex_mostlyarmless446]

I found out about my powers when a snake in the lab I worked at started to complain about his food choice. [A pause.] I, ah, can talk to reptiles.

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That makes perfect sense, so it's not dumb.

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[ex_mostlyarmless446]

It's fairly dumb if you weren't expecting it.

[voice]

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That's not really what I mean. [An irritated sigh.] No, a dumb way to learn that kind of thing would be to accidentally start speaking snake to your boss just because she's got a snakeskin purse, or something.

[voice]

[ex_mostlyarmless446]

My laboratory work involves reptiles. I think that suddenly talking to an animal that you're studying is slightly embarrassing.

[voice]

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Yeah, well, not quite up to scratch for what I'm talking about.

[Where are this kid's manners anyway, gosh.]

[voice]

[ex_mostlyarmless446]

If you say so.

Although, for comparison, just how did you discover your powers?

[voice]

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I'm not discussing mine.

[voice]

[ex_mostlyarmless446]

Is it really that embarrassing?

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[soulbonder]

would you like to hear how yuma discovered his powers shark

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[hexappeal]

No, it's just you.

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[crab]

I discovered half of mine through holding hands with a pair of people who were attempting to eviscerate me.

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Yes that's the question

[voice]

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What a brilliant deduction.

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Alright, that's pretty bad unless your powers are making people want to tear you open.

[hexappeal]

I know it was.

[voice]

[undeadsidekick]

[Rio by Duran Duran might just be blaring inappropriately in the background.]

You don't actually want to know.

[soulbonder]

no you were asking about my powers because you said your powers meaning a larger group of people

yumas powers are not mine

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[crab]

[ a snort. ]

No, they're making people want to stop, which is how I managed to extricate myself from both situations without spreading my entrails all over the pedestrian travel strip. It's like, I don't know, some kind of calming thing. I haven't really tested it since then.

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[glowsferatu]

My arm grew back.

...Among other things.

[voice]

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Asking will not make this any more of a topic.

[Yes, it is that embarrassing.]

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Astral i don't care

tell me about whoever, there's a criteria to be met and its not that hard

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If you're not going to offer anything useful, why are bothering me?

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Probably a good thing, if it means less people trying to murder you.

[voice]

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[It just HAD to be Rio...]

Yeah, that's definitely why I'm asking.

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That only qualifies if your arm was taken off embarrassingly or something.
Otherwise, I can't see how that's anything but good.

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[glowsferatu]

Well, it would have been quite embarrassing if it hadn't.

[hexappeal]

If you're not going to post anything interesting, why are you bothering everyone that can read the Network?

[voice]

[undeadsidekick]

[Could be worse. Could be REO Speedwagon.]

Tell me your ridiculous story and I might consider telling you mine.

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[ex_mostlyarmless446]

[There's a good natured chuckle on Connors's end.]

Well in that case, I hope you find what you're looking for.

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Right, so posing a question on a public network is definitely the same thing as offering a pointless answer directed at a single person.

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...thanks, I guess.

[Genuine encouragement: does not compute.]

[voice]

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[Not quite as effective; his sister's name is only spelled one way.]

I asked the question first for a reason.

[voice]

[undeadsidekick]

Too bad. Mine are pretty good.

[hexappeal]

Poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe. Tuh-may-toe, tuh-mah-toe.

[video]

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Embarrassing isn't usually what limb loss is described as.

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Do you want a round of applause or something?

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Not good enough to be offered up properly.

[hexappeal]

I wouldn't be against it, but I don't expect it. I can't imagine you appreciate really interesting people.

[undeadsidekick]

They're embarrassing, that doesn't mean they aren't funny. I just don't feel like sharing for nothing.

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[glowsferatu]

If you're afraid of dying from it, perhaps I could see your point. It was a rather moot point for me at the time. But I suppose that wasn't really the most embarrassing part of the night in question, either.

[crab]

No, no, ugh. It's more complicated than that -- you wouldn't get it, being a human and limited by your narrow cultural focus and inferior mental and emotional capacity and everything, blah blah I'm better than you, not the point -- I can't actually use them.

[soulbonder]

yuma would constantly pull out rice from his jacket before realizing that was simply impossible in any other circumstance