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[deal_me_in]

[Bright blue obscures the screen briefly before Cayde pulls back, flashing a grin just as bright for it being backlit in amber light. There's a chicken on his shoulder. It looks like he's somewhere in the woods.]

So for starters, all's quiet on the volcano front. Also? It is a lot farther out than you'd think! Definitely not a day trip! ...didn't mean for it to be a week trip though.

Er.

Longer than a week? How long has it...

Well, anyway! Good news, I don't think it's planning to erupt any time soon. Of course, I am no volcano expert so take that as you will. Sorry if anyone missed me, thought I left a note. Way back too longer I think, I'm sure that ravine didn't help.

-Oh yeah! If you were wondering, these things are pretty tough!! I'm sure that drop was at least five stories! Good thing I'm built tough too!

SOooooo what'd I miss?

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[faceguy]

Dude…

[deal_me_in]

...that bad?

[faceguy]

There’s a masked psycho on the loose!

[deal_me_in]

I assuming you don't mean your brother.

What's the damage?

[faceguy]

[WHAT DOES HE KNOW…

No wait, he’s been at the volcano, he probably doesn’t know anything. Leo is being paranoid now.]

Okay, one, if my brother was gonna be a psycho, it would be on main.

Two, three different people have been stabbed and/or strangled.

[ALLEGEDLY.]

[deal_me_in]

I mean, he was laughing out in the rain that one time...?

[Easy kid! He was joking!

The Exo's brow furrows at the news.]

What?! Reasons? -they okay?

[Doesn't take too much for him to get serious, Colonel giving the slightest squawk as Cayde reaches up to tuck her under an arm as he picks up speed.]

[faceguy]

Yeah, that sounds like him… He’s harmless, though! Unless you steal his stuff…

[He doesn’t feel like those kinds of jokes right now.]

Well, they’re not dead, so…

We still don’t know who did it.

[pursuitofcappiness]

What do you use to tell if a volcano's going to erupt? That's the last thing we need.

[deal_me_in]

Darned if I know, I was just eyeballing the thing.

Never claimed to be an expert, but I figure the lack of tremors and smoke is always a good thing!

[pursuitofcappiness]

You're not wrong, but do we know when it last erupted?

[deal_me_in]

The whole thing formed and blew its top just last year. I'm guessing you weren't here for that. Probably for the best, it was boring down in that bunker.

[pursuitofcappiness]

Must've just missed it. Good - at least where I'm from, if the volcano doesn't erupt continuously, we should be good for at least a few years.

[deal_me_in]

Well, hopefully it behaves like a normal volcano despite all the whole popping out of nowhere thing!

[text]

[in_extremis]

There's a new guy in town.

Local guy.

New local guy.

Had a lot to tell me about that volcano.

We're best friends now, by the way, you don't have to come back.

[Text]

[deal_me_in]

he take you on a date yet
whatd jon say about him

[in_extremis]

We got to know each other. It was very intimate.

Jon will probably like him. Good listener.

He's been sick, though. Jon. Don't know about new guy.

[deal_me_in]

wait
jon doesnt get sick what

he okay?

[in_extremis]

I still don't know.

He's alive. He's not contagious.

[deal_me_in]

concerning

alive is good
what kind of sick
stuffy nose coughing that sort of thing?

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[thelastechidna]

What'd you miss? A lot.

The bounty hunter disappeared. He went home, I guess. There's some guy with three wings who showed up and decided to take the Security datapoint. And these two mysterious nutcases keep going around trying to kill people! They got that Richie guy and the girl Robin.

[He looks frustrated and angry. He wants to catch them before anyone else gets hurt, but he's worried he won't succeed with that.]

[deal_me_in]

Oh hang on- someone tried to kill my busboy?! And Robin? [Never mind that the girl once used almost all his general stock for molotov cocktails, that's definitely not deserving of near murder!]

[thelastechidna]

[Well, Knuckles wasn't aware of Richie being the busboy, but whatever, he'll roll with that.]

Yeah! The girl's laid up in the hospital. Richie probably still is too. We're all going nuts trying to figure out who's doing this!

[deal_me_in]

[Busboy, clean-up crew, sometimes dishwasher and usually entertainment. Richie was a great all-rounder.]

Go figure, I leave town for ...a while, and someone decides to go on a spree. We'll see how funny they think they are at the end of my gun.

[thelastechidna]

First we have to figure out who's doing it. Then I've got a few things to tell them too, with my fists!

[He growls, then tries to calm down and continue the conversation.]

It seems like every time we think we're getting close, something weird happens. Somebody's reprogramming other people's devices to say Unknown or something so they can call from them and then implicate the owners! It happened to Eddie and Donnie.

[deal_me_in]

Can't be that hard to figure out.

Huh. But if they're reading as unknown then how do we know whose devices are whose? In any case, way I understand it, only people with that dumb data point can do that, not that it's hard to switch to it. Don't know how fast people can figure out that sort of thing with a data point though, never touched the things.