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[mrsklover]

[The message starts off with nothing but darkness for a few long seconds. It's quiet and still until, finally, a groan comes through. Another one follows behind it and the video shifts to show it apparently just pressed into the dirt.]

Fuck...

[The video turns again, whipping around as the person holding the comm seems to drop it a few times before finally righting it, camera facing the wrong way.]

How does...fucking... Shit...

[It falls again but then is lifted back up, turned around, and at long last the owner is shown: Richie Tozier squints at the device almost like he's in pain. Which...yeah. Sort of.]

Uh... Hey everyone... [He scratches his head.] You ever get the feeling like you missed something? Or a few somethings?

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[mrsklover]

[ Richie shrugs. ]

They say there is a reason? Like we're the 'He Rows' right? But I don't know what selection process picks me up in the same group as geniuses like Tony or magical assholes like Jon. I might have done shit with supernatural crap, but I am a forty year old man who once held an ax and a bat. That's all I got.

Well that and like a whole host of issues.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley smirks a bit in sympathy.]

You feel like your heyday is past, huh? Hey, at least you had one.

[mrsklover]

[ Richie's smile is tight and practically a wince. ]

Eh. It's a long story, pal. And not a good one so. Uh. Let's just... Yeah, we'll go with that I guess.

[crystalmaster]

[Realizing he hit a sore spot, Radley nods.]

Right. Sorry about that.

[Radley still feels like he failed back home, so he envies someone who seems to have made a difference once. But not really knowing anything that happened, he supposes that difference may have come at too high a price.]

[mrsklover]

You didn't know. Not a problem.

[ He shrugs it off. ]

Well, at any rate, it was good to meet you Radley. I gotta run off to meet someone but I sometimes get people together for a non-therapy therapy session. Mostly for drinking. You should come so we can chat more.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley smiles a bit. He's not into the drinking, but hanging out sounds nice.]

Thanks. Maybe I'll do that. Where do you get together?

[mrsklover]

The bar. Cayde's place.

[It's been a long time since he's hosted the last one. Long even before he disappeared. ]

I'll send word when to meet up. Probably just be nice to get a lot of people in the same place.

[crystalmaster]

Cool. Sure, just let me know.