Close the City and tell the people

[liverletdie]

Who: Tony Stark, a skrull body, and YOU! (This is also a mingling type of thing if you wish!)
Where: Avengers Mansion: the basement lab
When: Sunday through idk, whenever?
Warnings: Some sciencings! A dead body! There may be more autopsy-esque things in here!
Summary: Tony got ahold of the Skrull's body. This is all for education!! Also to look at everyone who comes because he monitors everyone :(
Format: Para to start, tag yourself in as you like!


809 Fifth Street. The mansion with the large A on the gates was something of a dead giveaway. They weren't open, but at a new arrival, it was likely they would. The yard itself was silent. The path to the mansion proper was blocked off with a rather familiar suit that looked a lot like Iron Man who would stand there, and point the way to the exterior basement entrance. Once in, a lot of the side projects and other tables have been cleared, and there's essentially just a Skrull's body. Tony's nearby in slacks and a button up, looking over that something that looks like an iPad (but it totally isn't!!!) his fingers tapping against it gently as he moved around the body.

There were cameras above, watching, listening in. He might be focused on the tablet for the moment, but he was pacing, waiting to educate. With the information about the Skrulls compared to what he'd known he'd been doing, he knew that hadn't worked. It had not worked. Futile. He'd thought keeping it secret had kept down the paranoia, would cause fewer problems. It hadn't. Who had been the one who suggested that? Jessica Drew. He was going to try something different, and maybe-- Maybe with all the different superhumans, different powers, things may have a better chance?

So he was going to at least try, and give some of the people a look at it up close if they wished. See who was interested, and who wasn't. And who could help out with any information he gave out. Not that he would give out all of it to anybody, paranoia only stretched so far. Things like Skrull biology, skrull society, he could share that, though. It wasn't exactly common knowledge, but common enough with the superhuman community.

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[smallblackmage]

Vivi arrived right on sunset and kncoked politely on the laboratory door. He was somewhat hesitant, but he told himself that this was something he probably needed to see. Knowing what the enemy was like was always a good thing.

"Excuse me... Mr. Stark?" Vivi called before entering and spotting the corpse on the table. It wasn't his first time around a dead body - not by a long shot - but he still flinched at the sight of it.

[liverletdie]

Tony looked over, eyes following the motion of his cameras as he regarded the small boy. A kid, dammit. He never knew how to handle kids in this situation. He really didn't know what to do when it came to kids. How much to tell them, how much to leave out?

Sure, the kids in the city were a bit heartier, but... Well, he'd always left better people to deal with them. It said a lot about what he thought meant better with kids when he put Gyrich in charge of a group of them.

"Hi," he answered awkwardly, stepping around the table to block some of the body.

[smallblackmage]

"Hello Mr. Stark," Vivi replied, lifting his hat up so Tony could get a better look at Vivi's face. "I heard your message about the, uh, Skrulls, and I thought I'd better come and have a look at it so I've got some idea of them."

He tried to peer around Tony but it wasn't really working. "It's okay Mr. Stark. I'm... familiar with dead bodies. Maybe not so much things that can change their shape though. Do you know how they do it?"

[liverletdie]

He remained in place for a moment, and then moved. He couldn't protect every kid from seeing the grim parts of the world, and every little boy he'd ever known was fascinated by dead bodies.

"It's part of their biology, actually. It's not a power, or anything like that. It's how they've always managed to be so good at gaining more planets in their empire, at least where I'm from."

[smallblackmage]

"Oh."

Vivi studied the body. He'd seen quite a few monstrous bodies in his time, and while this one at least had the courtesy to not be noxious or still dangerous, it was always wise to be careful around them, just in case.

"So... how much of a person can they pretend to be? Just their appearance or can they do more than that?"

[liverletdie]

"Everything," he said bluntly. There was no point in obscuring it, even if it was a kid. "It depends on the skrull, but they have been known to get powers as well, if they can get their hands on a sample." He remembered being on a skrull ship, he and the rest of the Illuminati captured and the ones with powers held at bay. Disgusting.

[smallblackmage]

Vivi stiffened at that. If they'd gotten hold of what was taken from him when he was kidnapped...

"Let's say... that they have a sample of you to work with. Can they access powers that they don't know you have or didn't have cause to activate because you weren't in the correct emotional state? What about powers you got when you were Ported out and back again after they got the sample?"