IC Inbox for Apocalypse Now

[energyfieldgood]

"This is McKay. Leave a message if it's important. And I stress. Important.
Don't make me call you back and reiterate what important means."

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text; un: imwithgenius

[energyfieldgood]

[Wow, Donnie, he leaves to have his mind broken by Entities for five seconds--]

Aside from me being VERY DISPLEASED, this requires additional information. Where did this brother come from? Why did he use the centrifuge? Why did he use it in a manner that leaves it damaged and potentially unusable?

[Unfortunately, he very well remembers that no siblings touching the gear wasn't an explicit rule they made, so he can't quite call him out on that. Dammit.]

I feel like the workspace arrangements need some sub-bullets.

[semilethal]

The brother came from my home dimension, though technically a month earlier than my own arrival

But it's not unusable. I've repaired my own centrifuge at home more than six times. I know exactly how to fix it, I just was unable to do so before I had to leave for ADI. If you take a look at it before I do, it's easy to tell

Bullet points acceptable. If you'd like to leave them on my door, I'll review them when I come back

[energyfieldgood]

Is he scientifically inclined and if so, what is his specialty? Which one of you is the smarter one?

[He gives Don the benefit of the doubt since Leo is the alleged centrifuge-destroyer but he also has a genius sister he may or may not be in constant competition with so a biological sibling not up to par is an alien concept to him.]

Fine. I will.

[And, just in case,]

To counter any uncomfortable conversations when we see each other again, I happen to have had a series of mishaps at Dogtown so I am currently incapacitated and visibly injured. It has been taken care of by medical.

[semilethal]

Leo doesn't care about science, or discovery, or literally anything academic. He has his own gifts, though. A good strategist. Adequate with people in a way I'm not and don't care to be. [Rodney's already reached 'honest opinions about my brothers instead of bluster' status. that's what comes from letting a teenager use ur shit]

Noted RE: your injuries. May I ask what was worth the risk in Dogtown?

[energyfieldgood]

Noted. I know the type.

It started out as a fairly routine recon mission. Then we encountered a series of unfortunate events including ghost bullets, madness-inducing birds and spider bridges that forced us to move forward and deeper into the place. We found a strange building on the other side of the blood river - addendum, there is a blood river - that we wanted to investigate but couldn't reach it.

[semilethal]

[Matches up to the descriptions in that post by 'Pegasus' that Donnie had creeped on but hadn't replied to. So no lying, though there is some downplay.

Spider hand. Yeugh.]

A shame

I'm not one for blind exploration so I'll take your word for it, Doctor

[energyfieldgood]

It wasn't exactly a BLIND exploration?

[It was totally a blind exploration.]

I would have preferred more detailed planning from my end but I had an obligation to keep my less prudent teammate from diving head first into doom.

[semilethal]

Dr. McKay, sometimes you just have to let a fool face doom
They won't learn anything if you keep diving in to save them

[Talking like he's constantly pulling his brothers out of the fire when it is at best like forty percent of the time and the other sixty he is being saved himself]

[energyfieldgood]

I hear you, I hear you.
But strange as it may be, I happen to be somewhat fond of this particular fool.
Which comes with certain responsibilities.
They'd be lost without me. [d e b a t a b l e]

You know. The hard lot of being the resident genius.

[semilethal]

Gratitude is in short supply, but we are morally obligated to share our gifts. I understand completely

[energyfieldgood]

See, you GET it.
Let me guess, it's all fun and games until imminent catastrophic failure and then they all look to you and yell for you to magically fix the impossible.

[semilethal]

It's as if you've lived my life!

"Donnie what does this do?" "Did you read the manual I gave you?" "What manual?"

I don't know why I bother