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[freedomsuitsme]

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[freedomsuitsme]

"In theory. Although..." He strokes his chin, thinking.

"The probe may not have been enough of an invitation. To open the Door wide enough, They... or anything else... may need to be called by a more deliberate act."

[takethatnature]

"So is that something we should be doing or trying to stop anyone else from doing? If we don't want to be obliterated or eaten or turned into half-dead moonglass porcupines?" Wilson's frustrated frown isn't going anywhere; he's out of his depth in a field he doesn't even want to be working in. "Is your ritual something like that?"

[freedomsuitsme]

"It's... it's whatever I need it to be, to put a stop to whatever madness might ensue. But I don't know it would be enough to overpower something coming in from the outside."

[takethatnature]

"So it needs a more potent power source?" He doesn't know what that would be, or how one would go about connecting it, but maybe Maxwell will.

[freedomsuitsme]

"I... I don't know. It could address almost anything already present on the ship. But I don't think the force behind it would be a match for any sort of power cosmic." Not without the rest of Tiamat's power, and I'm certainly not giving her that without a very good deal, he thinks.

[takethatnature]

"I suppose that's to be expected," Wilson says, pinching the bridge of his nose. "The Captain can control what abilities we get to keep, and if you could harness enough power to fight off a cosmic monstrosity singlehanded, you could probably use it to blast your way out of here."

[freedomsuitsme]

"So it's less for fighting anything on the outside, and more for taking control of whatever is already in here. And from what I understand, it will only work once. So I need to play my hand carefully."

Oh Max, if only you knew how complicated this was going to get...