8220/Brave New World

Brave New World
Date of Scene:	13 October 2021
Location:	Reed and Sue's Suite - Four Freedom Plaza
Synopsis:	Fantasticorp goes Interplanetary
Cast of Characters:	Reed Richards, Susan Richards

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Reed Richards has posed:
Reed Richards sips coffee looking out the window over the city. He seems a little distracted, pondering deep mysteries.

Susan Richards has posed:
     From out of nowhere, there is the light, gentle pressure of a familiar embrace from behind, and the feeling of someone resting their chin on his shoulder. There is the feeling of warm breath feathering lightly across his cheek, and a gentle kiss brushing across his face. "Mysteries of the universe there?" Sue murmurs lightly.

Reed Richards has posed:
Reed Richards chuckles softly and pulls his wife close, "Bit closer to home, actually." He smiles and hugs Sue, "Do you remember Psychohistory, from Foundation?"

Susan Richards has posed:
     Susan finally releases her hold on her powers, fading into visibility once more. She smiles as Reed pulls her close, allowing herself a small sigh of contentment. Really, it was small moments like these that made all the fighting and saving the world well worthwhile. "Hmmm, what about it?"

Reed Richards has posed:
Reed Richards spins you easily and smiles, looking over pleased with himself, "It's not fiction anymore. I solved the equations and did a trial run of the simulation... the resultbjust came back."

Susan Richards has posed:
     Susan grins at him, cupping his face between his hands and peering into his eyes. There was something about the way they sparkled at moments like this, when he was in the midst of a new discovery, that just seemed to turn back the hands of time and make him like an excited college student all over again. "That's great! Show me?"

Reed Richards has posed:
Reed Richards pulls up a holographic display, the view shows graphs and data read outs. it shows projected results, graphed against real time results. The general trends follow well but there is an abberation. "The data projects well, especially over large groups and long time periods. But recently... " He inficates the divergence, "There's be an interference.

Susan Richards has posed:
     First one brow, then the other lofts upwards, as Susan peers intently at the holographic readouts. "That IS weird. What do you make of it?" Her embrace remains, but now she's as intent as her husband on the data in front of them.

     For better or for worse... in sickness, health, and SCIENCE.

Reed Richards has posed:
Reed Richards sigh and raises his own ibrows, "it's consistent interference a significant and consistent perterbation.... There is something, someone exerting an influence on society as a unit... "

Susan Richards has posed:
     "But who, or what? And is there any other sign of this influence, besides the charts?" Susan gestures towards the holographic readouts, tracing the data spikes with her fingers as if they were a real, physical thing. "Has anything else unusual been happening at the same time as these charts?"

Reed Richards has posed:
Reed Richards nods and brings up a group of new articles, memes, inflammatory social media posts. They seem to random and un aggregated. but as Reed ties their dates into the graphs a pattern emerges as the information correlates tothe events but the events are disparate, unrelated, a family dispute here, a hate group, progressive bullying. "I am still trying to understand it. Something is amplifying the divides between us, something external to the model."