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Hello there! ( the image that appears is of a smiling blonde woman, healthy and bright looking, dressed now in pristine weight to present herself, projecting poise and elegance and friendly invitation to hear her out. her German Swiss accent is quite strong, though, so hopefully no-one is overly attached to their w's. ) I hope everyone is doing well this evening. I am coming onto the network to reach out to anyone I might not have been able to yet. My name is Angela Ziegler, and I am a doctor from Earth. Human, as you can see. ( a light, pleasant laugh and an even more pleasant smile ) You may also know me as Mercy. It's my agent name from when I was in service to a global peacekeeping organisation known as Overwatch.

I'm from the 21st century, so the treatment that I can offer you is science based ( a slight pause here as if she's considering one last time how to phrase this ) rather than magic based, but I have a good deal of practical experience with general medicine so there's almost nothing I haven't seen or dealt with. My expertise is in applied biotics, and I also have experience with gene therapy, prosthetics, and cybernetics, if there is anyone here who may need more specialised care. My qualifications also include emergency and trauma response so, if you ever find yourself wounded and in need of immediate attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. Think of me as personal 999 for refugees!

If you do come to me for any kind of care, I promise to do the best I can help you, while upholding all the oaths I've taken as a doctor to do no harm and to protect my patients. I'm not charging anything at this time.

And, if you'd like to humour me and help me to understand our group a bit better, I have a set of questions: do you believe you have a soul? What makes you think you do or don't have one? And is such a belief common where you're from? ( she doesn't mention religion, because it isn't strictly speaking a religious idea. she's known plenty of atheists and nay-theists who thought there was something beyond intelligence that made people paramount to other species. whether they called this unique internal animating light a soul or not, it didn't really matter. )

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As long as there's someone to help.

( as trite as that may seem, the delivery is so straight faced it's hard to think that she doesn't believe it. )

Empirical evident of ghosts that can be supported by science? I hope it's more than a blurry shadow on an ancient camera or matrixing sounds on a recording device.

( but then she offers a tight smile. as much as it's nice to think what if she's in the same camp as him. )

[ that almost gets a smile. you'd think that she'd be too old for that sort of idealism, but here she was nonetheless.

it was endearing, if nothing else. ]

A little more than that. Back home, we did some pretty extensive research into ESP. [ most people thought it was just a disinformation campaign... however... ] During the Great Patriotic War, there was a soldier with the codename "The Sorrow". He was able to communicate with the spirits of dead soldiers, and learn things that only they could know.

[ ~~and he was also his father but...~~ ]

( hey, being stubborn can go both ways! it's not always a bad thing.

but as she speaks she keeps a straight scientist's face, considering what he's saying and parsing through the details. The Great Patriotic War? She figures that's a Soviet name for one of them. {though at the name of the soldier her eyes do light up for a moment with a flare of amusement at the coincidence of the name, coupled with spirits. recently she's actually meet someone with that name who apparently visits spirits every night. }

for Ocelot she has a few questions for him. ) Are you sure that that was information only they could have had? It's a pretty common trick for alleged mediums and psychics to just be uncannily good at manipulating people. He may have also been a spy with a lot intelligence.

Of course, I agree.

[ if nothing else, while he wasn't a scientist, he'd like to consider himself a solid skeptic. miracles, after all, weren't something that happened. if you dug deep enough, almost everything could eventually be explained by magic. ]

He was definitely a capable spy as well. Most of our soldiers were. But he had a way of being able to tell exactly what was going on across the battlefield as it happened. And, when he channeled spirits, they said that his voice changed in ways that wouldn't be easily imitable.

And to top it off, he really had no benefit in fashioning himself as a fake psychic. Soviet commanders didn't take kindly to frauds.

[ to... say the least. and, one more thing... ]

My first CO also had the ability to shoot electricity from his hands.

( wow, there are some...interesting versions of Earth out there. in some ways, she's really glad she got to live on a non-magical iteration of the planet. she considers carefully what he's said, though, and wonders if maybe there were mutants in his world? maybe something different had happened, the Soviets or the Americans had tested nuclear weapons too close to their own people. )

Huh. Real séances. Imagine that. He didn't actually spew ectoplasm from various orifices, I hope.

...Your CO didn't happen to get too close some radioactive materials?

[ ...interesting is one way to describe his version of Earth. what with parasites, AI's in their infancy, and nanomachines that might one day control how people think.

it's a regular barrel of fun. ]

Not that the records showed. But, who knows for sure?

[ he says it lightly enough, clearly with a sense of humour. and then, a pause. ]

I don't think so. He just had something of a natural gift for it. The only thing I've ever seen nuclear waste do is make someone infertile.

[ and even that didn't stop him from having kids. ]

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