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[doctopoda]

Display Name: Otto Octavius
Profile Photo: is a selfie taken by your tentacle still technically a selfie



[This is just a very short message, sent out a day or two after the end of the Confluence. Otto had wanted to believe it was otherwise - had spent time looking for the boy. But he's seen this before. It's clear what happened.]

Just so everyone knows: the older Spider-Man vanished in the Confluence.

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text | un: @st33lchains

[codicies]

i'm sorry, that sucks

seems like this one took a lot of folks away this time

[doctopoda]

Did it? I haven't been out much lately.

[He hasn't been feeling up to being very social since the entire false-life incident, though he's not just going to say that.]

[codicies]

yeah. my friend lost his bf.

[ There's a pause before the next message comes in. ]

i think eddie and venom are gone too.

[doctopoda]

Oh, god.
I'm so sorry, Dylan.

Are you and Sleeper both alright? Do you need anything?

[codicies]

we're ok for now, I think. still processing.

but thank you. I'll let you know if there's anything I need.

[doctopoda]

Of course. Anything you need, don't hesitate.
Is Diana still with you?

[codicies]

yeah. and ripley's here, too.

thank you, though. it's good to have friends.

I'm sorry about Spider-Man.

[doctopoda]

Thank you.
I just hope he's alright.

( text )

[dothelokimotion]

It seems there are less and less of those who first came here.

[doctopoda]

True.
Maybe we're discovering some new limit of the Confluence.

[A time limit on how long it can keep them tethered here? It's theoretically possible, he supposes. Doesn't seem particularly likely...but he's in a rather gloomy mood.]

[dothelokimotion]

You think so?

[doctopoda]

No, probably not.
Doesn't make much sense for a space-time rift.
There could be other factors, but we'd have to gather more data first.

[dothelokimotion]

I'm not sure I have it in me to research it. Everyone I knew here has gone, save for one or two exceptions.

[doctopoda]

I'm sorry.

A close friend of mine arrived here when I did, but he only stayed a few months. It was very lonely here for a while after he left.

[Things did get better. Frankly, Peter was a good part of that. But at least now...he has a fair number of people here. He isn't alone.]

You're not alone out there, are you?

[Obviously he knows you live in Sunset Falls, we are all very well aware of that]

[dothelokimotion]

I'm living by myself if that's what you mean. And I spend my time managing the theatre and my new duties.

[ so not much of a social life. he has sephiroth, but considering their hiccup, loki didn't think it was fair to mention it. ]

[doctopoda]

But you've got friends around?

[He hadn't meant living with someone, really!]

LOKIOFASGARD; private text

[ikols]

how many are left, which sorts?

private text

[doctopoda]

Just one now. The kid.

[If Loki knows that one, Otto's not aware of it, but he knows he was close with one of the others.]

text; dn: Accelerator

[levelshift]

Is there some method that confirms someone has left that way?

[doctopoda]

You can scan for bursts of Confluence energy, if you've got the right equipment. Found somewhere away from the main Confluence itself...

[Well. Fairly obvious what happened.]

[levelshift]

What kind of equipment? Are we talking Alliance-supplied shit?

[Since the Alliance seems to be the ones who are the most up to speed on how the Confluence works.]

[doctopoda]

They do have equipment like that if you need it. But I just went ahead and made one of my own a while ago. Thought it might come in handy.

[levelshift]

[Okay that sounds kind of impressive.]

You must be pretty smart if you did that. Unless you just piggybacked off of the work they had already done.

[doctopoda]

Oh, it's definitely a variation. Mostly, I just don't like bringing Guild equipment home.

[He's got two one non-Alliance meta kid in the house, and issues trusting the guilds!]

[levelshift]

That's smart, too. They're shady as fuck.

[But he has severe trust issues with any major organization that wrangles superpowered people and tries to present itself as benevolent.]