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[team_sociopath]

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[Tommy's sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by a tangle of wires and lit only by computer monitors scattered here and there. Computer equipment looms in the dim light, and now and then he turns to check something on one machine or another. Actually, he seems to know what he's doing. Mostly.]

So--

[he begins, turning to face the camera, moving to push his goggles up off his eyes, when suddenly something behind him explodes in a shower of sparks.]

Nonononono, not again!

[Whatever he was going to say is anyone's guess, as he fumbles to turn off the video feed and stop whatever is melting down from melting down.]



[ooc; duude, idek the first thing about the genre, really. ._. but hacker Tommy is here to... accidentally blow his shit up, more than anything else |D please imagine this was earlier (wednesdays suuuck) and it is massively backdating friendly!

also, he believes all this is untraceable and on secure channels, but it's just. not. <3]

Comments

[team_sociopath]

....Because maybe technically it's.....

Okay, so let's say it's illegal to do something, but the reasons it's illegal are bad reasons, bad people made the laws. If you're breaking bad laws aren't you doing kind of a good thing?

[deadly_legacy]

[Thoughtful pause because that is...VERY familiar.] I've always believed in trying to reform the system from within.

[team_sociopath]

Yeah, well. Tell that to the people on the inside.

[deadly_legacy]

I was where I came from.

...You are talking about your world and not here, right?

[team_sociopath]

Well, here for now. Since, y'know, it's where we are. Until we can bust out.

[deadly_legacy]

But... Those issues don't really apply here, do they?

[team_sociopath]

They do when you're like, twelve seconds away from hacking the Deities' computers.

[deadly_legacy]

You are?!

[team_sociopath]

Was.

[deadly_legacy]

What do you think you would have found?

[team_sociopath]

A way out, I hope.

[deadly_legacy]

Oh... [Someone doesn't hide her disappointment well.]

[team_sociopath]

What's wrong?

[deadly_legacy]

...It's good if people are able to go home again. [Just doesn't sound at all enthusiastic about it.]

[team_sociopath]

It's not right, letting them get away with what they do. Kidnapping. Imprisonment. For no reason.

[deadly_legacy]

I know. It's not. People shouldn't have to come here against their will. [She does agree! Just...]

[team_sociopath]

[He's kind of starting to guess at her reservations.]

...I'm sure not everyone'll go. I mean, some people seem to like it here, anyway.

[deadly_legacy]

Yes, I think a few of us would. I would stay.

[team_sociopath]

I wonder if it's possible to use whatever system they're running to travel between different worlds...

[deadly_legacy]

That might be interesting.

Though...I don't know if the effects of this place would last outside of it.

[team_sociopath]

Effects?

[deadly_legacy]

...I wasn't alive when I came here, Tommy.

[team_sociopath]

...Was starting to think that might be it.

[deadly_legacy]

I suppose there aren't many other reasons someone would want to stay here. It's not a secret, but it's not something I bring up very often.

[team_sociopath]

Could just be a better place than home. You never know. There's worse places than here.