failures | 034 [video]

[The feed opens to a very sickly Larry, who is covered in a mountain of blankets. His skin his flushed, and he's visibly shivering and sniffling. Basically, he's been dealing with a killer fever for a few days now. And with all of this weird power and mutation business going on, something's crossed his mind more than once. He decided to take to the network about it.]

So uh... [sniffle] Has anyone else gotten really sick but didn't get freaky powers and stuff? 'cause I've been sick and really cold for forever and a half and I feel kinda cheated...

[And just as he trails off, he starts coughing. And since he's Larry, he doesn't cover his coughs so he tilts his head to get it out of the way.

Just when he thinks he's done, one last cough comes out...and so does a gob of fire.

He stares down off-screen where the Ember attack landed, frightened and in awe at the same time. Did he seriously just cough up a fireball?]

... Never mind.

[Still staring, he then realizes oh god fire in the bed FIRE IN AN INN. As he dives to put the fire out, the feed cuts out.]

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[Larry is thankfully not badly injured when he responds, but wow Heather, you look like hell. He can relate.]

It got you too, huh? Please tell me you didn't burn anything down either.

I've incinerated like five pillows and one turtleneck.

_{[And was eventually going to blow up a hot dog cart.]}

Ouch. Well...could be worse?

[Larry don't jinx it.]

Yeah, I GUESS I could just be permanently ON fire. THAT'D be worse.

_{[GRR ARG. >:(]}

[...Whoa. Even though they're separated by several towns, Larry still backs up a little bit. Did he strike a chord? Because he didn't mean to.]

Um...yeah. Definitely worse.

[It seems like people are reacting to their new powers in different ways. Ur was happy to have hers, but Heather...]

Did you get it that bad?

_{[It's okay, Larry-- for once a girl's bad mood is actually not your fault at all. Heather and fire just happen to go waaaaay back.]}

No, but I bet I will soon if things keep going this way.

Why? Is yours getting worse?

[He doesn't know how powerful these powers can get.]

Every day.

Seriously? I didn't even think it could get any worse than spitting fire. What can you do?

[Sorry for Larry's inappropriate excitement, Heather.]

_{[She actually shoots him a fairly dirty look. Because she is the FURTHEST from excited about this.]}

Oh, sorry, I'll just give you all the gruesome details.

[And now Larry is realizing his horrible wording in his last comment. Welp.]

I-I didn't mean it in a bad way! I mean, maybe these powers can help too. Especially if they can get even stronger...

Yeah, because giving a whole population of people the ability to light stuff on fire is so gonna end well, right?

_{[Well jeez Heather maybe if you'd stop being a Negative Nancy for a moment...]}

If there's people out there blowing up Pokemon Centers and attacking people with their powers, someone's gotta be on the other side of the spectrum to stop 'em, right?

[Clearly he spent too much time playing a superhero back home.]

Yeah, except for the part where nobody seems too good at CONTROLLING anything yet.

_{[Except the bad guys, ironically.]}

Poooint... Us Fire people got kinda shafted in that sense, yeah.

Practice makes perfect? [It's said sheepishly because really, it's a bad excuse but it's true.]

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