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[Despite aiming for semi-anonymity, Danny goes with using his voice instead of text. Because if he has to type this and give himself the chance to overthink things, it might never happen.

The mic picks up the light sound of wind, and when he speaks up, Danny's not putting in the effort to change his voice, beyond playing down his slight New York accent and shifting his tone to something softer and more professional. It's a stark difference from his usual laid-back drawl, but the kid's naturally scratchy voice is still easy enough to recognize.]

So...did anyone else who caught Fantastic's speech find that a little worrying?

For anyone who was caught in the Confluence, or just fell from the sky, welcome, or welcome back. Here's what you missed.

[A recording of Fantastic's speech starts playing. Tinny and rough, like it's coming from one speaker picking up another. It sounds awful scripted for a "heart-felt" speech. Not meant to comfort or inspire confidence but to rally soldiers. The kind of speech Danny became familiar with when he was far too young. And when he'd heard it coming from Fantastic, it settled in his stomach like lead.]

You can probably find a better version of that online, but this gives the gist.

Can't say I'm crazy about him talking to us like we're a bunch of soldiers, but then, I'm guessing that speech wasn't actually for us.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I have a bad feeling that if this guy gets to be the Alliance leader, the way he wants everyone to think he already is, things might get worse for us.

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[Huvrye's voice is terse when he talks - it's not a challenge to the post itself so much as it is anger at Fantastic.]

I am a soldier. It's not the first time I've heard that kind of propaganda. Anyone who talks like that doesn't actually care about anyone under them. If you step out of line, he'll cut you down.

[Huvrye has a sample size of one here; that said, Effiom leaves a lasting impression. Scarring, even.]

[Huvrye's tone downshifts from anger into thoughtfulness as he continues.]

I challenged him after that speech. He told me to butt out and called every meta a soldier by birthright. He was also annoyed at me - enough for me to see it. I think if we hit him enough, he'll break his image - we just have to make sure it happens in public, before he gets a chance to take over the Alliance.

I also don't think he's a coincidence he made that speech while the real leaders were distracted.

[He may have been thinking about this quite a bit.]

["Soldiers by birthright". Well. That put a chill down his spine.

Danny switches over to private because this has the potential to turn into a talk that definitely shouldn't be public.]

I've seen how the people who make those speeches treat the people under them, too. If he really thinks all meta's are soldiers by birthright, then this is somehow worse than I thought.

That might as well be political speech for "you're all disposable" if you're part of the Guilds, and possibly worse for anyone that's unaffiliated.

[It's also not comforting to hear that Fantastic probably orchestrated a distraction for the real leaders in order to make his speech. That wasn't just making a play or taking advantage of a situation to make a campaign speech.]

And if he set up a distraction to make that speech, that...that's bold. Feels like the kind of behavior you get from someone a breath away from starting a coup.

But it's good to know Golden Boy cracks under pressure. [And it's a little bit instantly endearing to hear that Huvrye's first instinct had been to call the prick out.] If that's all it takes to get him annoyed, I'm betting he could be cracked in public. The only problem is making him break without going so far that he and his fans can argue he was somehow justified.

It might be even better if he doesn't know the public can see him.

[Guess who hasn't really known about privacy settings until seeing them in action? Huvrye's internet fluency is severely lacking, but this is definitely going to help.]

I don't think he's going to discriminate between Guild and unaffiliated. He might expect Alliance members to obey him, but I don't think it'll stop there.

So we need to stop him first.

[Huvrye would rather die than let another Effiom rise to power. At least he can do something about it here. Be on the right side for once.]

[(Hopefully.)]

You're talking about a sting.

I'm happy to be the thorn in his side. The question is whether we should build up to it or try breaking him all at once.

[Not being sure if Fantastic would stop there was what had Danny worried. He wouldn't put it past someone like him to push for making things even harder on people who refused to join a guild. And if he did, how far would he take things?

That was going too far into the theoretical though. By the sound of things Fantastic might be egotistical and power-hungry, sure, but Danny didn't know enough about the guy to know if he would really stoop to that. So he keeps the thought to himself.

Stay focused.]

Agreed.

And, yeah, a sting could be the best way to catch him.

I could help with being a thorn in his side too, if it takes more than one person. I've been told I'm good at that. [And depending on the kind of ego Fantastic had, getting called out by some snot-nosed brat could help make him snap.]

Not sure what would be the best way to go. I don't know enough about the guy to know what would be more effective.

Trying to break him all at once would definitely be faster and could give him less time to come up with rebuttals. But if it fails he could catch on to what we're doing and it could get a whole lot harder to make him slip up or catch him off guard.

[This, he can do. He hadn't done much with planning Interground operations in the past - mostly just covered for their existence, for all the good that hand done them in the end - but he'd still been in on a number of the meetings, and he knows how these things work, at least to a point.]

So we need more intel. He's a public figure - there's got to be more information about him available. There are probably people from this dimension who don't like him either - the question is whether they'd be willing to whatever they have on him public, or at least accessible. If we find something we can use, we can build on it.

[Huvrye is barely familiar with the internet, let alone internet culture. There's probably a Fantastic Fails youtube compilation out there somewhere - he just wouldn't have any idea where to start looking.]

If we can find enough people we trust to help, it'll make intel gathering - and the op - easier to handle.

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