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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.

[deal_me_in]

Not dead is good.

[That's probably a pretty low bar and being a victim of a stabbing or attempted strangulation isn't really great.]

Well, whoever it is, they can't stay anonymous long. Our community's pretty tight. We'll figure this out.

[faceguy]

…Yeah. Sure.

[He does not sound convinced.]

[deal_me_in]

Hey, whoever's doing this, didn't succeed, what, three times? They're not professional, they're bound to screw up. You just keep an eye out, not like I need to tell you.

[faceguy]

Yeah, well, I’m not too worried about getting stabbed.

[He raps his knuckles on his shell.]

[deal_me_in]

[Cayde flashes him a brief grin.]

Rockin' the built-in armor.

[faceguy]

[That actually makes him smile a bit.]

Yeah, exactly!

[deal_me_in]

[Ah, now there's the Leo he knows, if just a hint.]

Do me a solid and keep an eye on things while I work my way back. Shoooouldn't be more than a couple of hours now.

[faceguy]

[Leo perks up a little more. Being asked to do something by a guy he thinks is cool definitely makes him feel important.]

Yeah, sure, no worries. I’ve got everything under control.

[deal_me_in]

[Cayde grins, giving a quick two-fingered salute.]

[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!

[pursuitofcappiness]

Did it come out of the ground? Was there an earthquake?

[deal_me_in]

Oh yeah! There were a bunch of tremors on and off for 'bout a month, and then we look over and see a new mountain off in the distance!

[pursuitofcappiness]

Huh. Maybe that was right before I came here. Guess I'm lucky to not have seen big landscape changes. Those are usually devastating.