[Something happening once is an incident; if it happens twice, it's a coincident. If it happens three times, it's a pattern – and sure enough, for the third time in as many weeks, Jericho can be heard over the public-address system shortly after noon on Tuesday.]
You guys probably know the routine by now – meet in the foyer in ten, yeah? It shouldn't take too long this time.
[Whether you go or not seems to be pretty irrelevant, in the scheme of things; you can still hear him throughout the building, after all. He sounds better than he did over the weekend, though whether that's really welcome or not is difficult to say; on the one hand, jumpy masterminds probably aren't going to work out in anybody's favor.
On the other, Jericho is categorically really, really annoying.]
You've all been adjusting to those secrets being up there pretty well! Good for you, you guys are adaptable. That's a great trait to have – I mean, unless you're the guy who had that title, because Adaptable was kind of a mess? But you know what, I'm sure it'll work out better for you guys than it did for him.
Anyway, those secrets are a thing, aren't they? Some of you have some pretty bad ones. And you know what? For some of you, the one that's up there isn't even the worst one you've got. Some of you are still covering mistakes and problems from a good long time ago; of course, we've all got something going on in our past that we regret, some sort of fuckup that we'd love to get a mulligan on. Don't try to pretend you don't – hell, even I've got a few things I'd like to get to do over.
Once again, I'm pretty sure you've figured out what our power looks like. And not just the stuff that killed Nurturing and Meteoric – I'm talking displacing time, drawing from different timelines entirely, messing with dimensional crap that we probably shouldn't be messing with, the works.
How hard do you really think it would be to give you a chance to fix whatever your little black hearts desire?
We could change your life. Make it so that one...Incident of yours didn't happen. Ensure that that one person didn't die because of you. Ensure that all of those people didn't die because of you. Or maybe you just want a chance at a normal life – after all, if that one thing didn't happen to you, maybe you could actually have whatever it is would really make you happy. For some of you that's probably along the lines of riches and more coke than you can conceivably snort off a hooker's back, but for some of you?
For some of you, that's a place in the world. If only you had the chance to change something for yourself.
Go for Rule Seven, and I'll see about getting that for you, okay? Otherwise, you guys have a great week.
INCENTIVE
You guys probably know the routine by now – meet in the foyer in ten, yeah? It shouldn't take too long this time.
[Whether you go or not seems to be pretty irrelevant, in the scheme of things; you can still hear him throughout the building, after all. He sounds better than he did over the weekend, though whether that's really welcome or not is difficult to say; on the one hand, jumpy masterminds probably aren't going to work out in anybody's favor.
On the other, Jericho is categorically really, really annoying.]
You've all been adjusting to those secrets being up there pretty well! Good for you, you guys are adaptable. That's a great trait to have – I mean, unless you're the guy who had that title, because Adaptable was kind of a mess? But you know what, I'm sure it'll work out better for you guys than it did for him.
Anyway, those secrets are a thing, aren't they? Some of you have some pretty bad ones. And you know what? For some of you, the one that's up there isn't even the worst one you've got. Some of you are still covering mistakes and problems from a good long time ago; of course, we've all got something going on in our past that we regret, some sort of fuckup that we'd love to get a mulligan on. Don't try to pretend you don't – hell, even I've got a few things I'd like to get to do over.
Once again, I'm pretty sure you've figured out what our power looks like. And not just the stuff that killed Nurturing and Meteoric – I'm talking displacing time, drawing from different timelines entirely, messing with dimensional crap that we probably shouldn't be messing with, the works.
How hard do you really think it would be to give you a chance to fix whatever your little black hearts desire?
We could change your life. Make it so that one...Incident of yours didn't happen. Ensure that that one person didn't die because of you. Ensure that all of those people didn't die because of you. Or maybe you just want a chance at a normal life – after all, if that one thing didn't happen to you, maybe you could actually have whatever it is would really make you happy. For some of you that's probably along the lines of riches and more coke than you can conceivably snort off a hooker's back, but for some of you?
For some of you, that's a place in the world. If only you had the chance to change something for yourself.
Go for Rule Seven, and I'll see about getting that for you, okay? Otherwise, you guys have a great week.