[Network]

[deal_me_in]

[The image flares brightly, the way a camera freshly exposed to light does before the picture adjusts, but even between its focusing one can tell that the thing is moving. Once it clears up it still might be difficult to make out what anything is, the close-up of worn leathers, the edge of a ragged cloak.

The swinging of the camera feed makes it evident Cayde's walking with his tablet in hand, a sort of listless pace that stops abruptly with a jolt and a thud, and viewers get treated to a glimpse of the ground before it blacks out as the thing falls flat. Even then, it's still recording.

Finally the screen lightens again, flash of brown accompanied with the crunch of gravel and a weary groan, and eventually, sky. Cayde lets out a long, convincing sigh.]

...so that was a thing. Have I ever told anyone how much I hate screaming moons? If anyone needs me I'll be at the bar.

...soon as I get up. I dunno, maybe I'll just nap here.

Comments

[crystalmaster]

You had a really rough time with it, huh?

[It definitely hasn't been pleasant for Radley either as he's dealt with people's powers going haywire. He hopes it's over now.]

[deal_me_in]

Exploding nightly in a gout of solar flames, every hour on the hour? Yeah...gets kinda tiring.

[crystalmaster]

... How did you survive something like that?!

[What kind of power did he have when it wasn't on the fritz?]

[deal_me_in]

Look, just be glad most of the northeastern end of the city's ruins already.

[crystalmaster]

Are you really okay, though?

[deal_me_in]

Yeah, yeah..! Thankfully I'm fire proof.

[When his powers are working, anyway. ...so at least it's a package deal whenever stuff goes on the fritz but he can do without the malfunctions either way.]

[crystalmaster]

... That's good....

Have you been through these storms before?

[deal_me_in]

A few of them, yeah. Didn't expect the moon to make a return appearance. Don't think anyone missed it.

[crystalmaster]

So it hasn't been there for all of them? I wonder why it started causing trouble....

[Video]

[only_an_echo]

You look awful.

[Echo sounds just as weary, but he nods, relieved to hear from him.]

I'll second that. A nap doesn't sound so bad now that that's over with.

[deal_me_in]

Na-uh, only happened the last time around. My guess'd be that someone saw how fun it was for us the last time around and decided to hire it again. Who knows?

[deal_me_in]

[SNORT.]

You're one to talk..! [Not that he can see Echo, as can be told by the fact that the video is still in fact showing sky.]

'least you didn't have to worry about being a walking solar bonfire every night.

[crystalmaster]

Oh, like these mysterious enemies we never get told much about?

[deal_me_in]

Depends on what mysterious enemies you're talking about.

[crystalmaster]

I have no idea. I was told there's some enemies the Agrii don't talk about.

[deal_me_in]

Well, can't really say they don't talk about them since we hardly talk to the Agrii, buuuut from what I understand, the Agrii hadn't even considered them a problem on the account that they were supposedly taken care of.

[A sigh.]

That was also the understanding of a few veterans here who'd been snatched by those very beings and most of them aren't here any more.

[crystalmaster]

... They were kidnapped?!

... But brought back?

[He hoped they were gone because of being sent home.]

[deal_me_in]

Heh, why're you sounding so shocked? Technically we all are, right?

But the others already went through something like this, 'cept they were stuck on ships. The shuttles we use now were what they used, or at least some version of them. The tech used to bring us here's the same too, theoretically. After all, the ship the Agrii live on now was provided by them, the Atroma.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley rolls his eyes.]

Okay, kidnapped again. I just wondered if they're still missing from the second kidnapping or if they went home.

... Why were they stuck on ships?

[deal_me_in]

[Not that Cayde can see. His camera's still taking a lovely shot of the sky. That cloud looks like a duck!]

You know, this is the opposite of naptime.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley sighs.]

Okay, I'll let you go.

[only_an_echo]

[He's not even looking at the screen either, but he can't be bothered to switch between modes. A sort of wheeze makes it past the helmet's filter, easily covered by his words.]

I'm sorry. I don't envy you at all, but that had to be a pain.

[deal_me_in]

[An offscreen yawn.]

...'m sure if you ask around you'll find someone to tell you the juicy tidbits.

[deal_me_in]

I'll say. Scorching everything in a given radius! I couldn't even aim anything at the moon! Maybe it's a good thing the plants have been trimmed back but I took care of whatever else was by the Northeast ruins. ...and most of whatever was left of the ruins.

[crystalmaster]

I'll do that. Maybe I'll see you around sometime?