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[badlydisarmed]

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Voice. | un: . (a bit after their last thread :)b)

[theroadwarrior]

How dedicated are you?

To finishing Alrys' mission.

[A shot in the dark, but he thinks he has a good enough read on Romano that this won't end in him getting tied up and interrogated or thrown back to Solmara as a traitorous bastard.]

[badlydisarmed]

[Good Catdog saving Romano a text.]

Not very. Alrys gets a whiff of what this place is like and starts a war. Misery for everyone involved.

[Connor mentioned Max won't want to finish the mission, so full honesty seems safe enough.]

[theroadwarrior]

Mm. Don't think she'd stop at just the tech.

[There are also people here she would love to rob of their freedom, he's pretty sure. If not that, when try to get rid of them so they can't cause her issues for crossing the lines she's hoping to cross.

... Also, she half-starved him for compliance. Fuck her.]

Don't think Ithaqua cares much to complete it, either. Etraya's got too much to offer him.

un: jaycetalis | text

[hexcope]

So it's going to have to be electric-battery operated until I can find a way to harness magical energy here short of using a gemstone, but!

[The way he did not even bother with an introduction, just started sending messages and pictures immediately. He sends over a sketch drawing of what looks like a fusion of these two pictures.]

What do you think?

[badlydisarmed]

[He bursts out laughing at the message. He knew this would happen but he can't help being surprised anyway.]

I love electricity, electricity is my best friend. Love the sketches too.

I feel like I should bring you flowers or something.

[hexcope]

I like tulips.

[He's not actually expecting flowers, though.]

Still working on the neural part. That's going to need a lot more work. But I can start forging these designs once I get the metal parts together. Oh, and we'll need to request the batteries.

Text. | a little bit after getting beat up and shot :')

[theroadwarrior]

[Things went... pretty badly. Really badly. It was a miracle that they all got out of it with nonfatal injuries all things considered, but there's more and more stacking. They won't be able to keep themselves under wraps like they'd hoped. Not with Connor's deviation and Hank trying to get the heat off the guy — and making it worse for them in the process, this goddamn old bastard.

Romano gets a text while he's probably laid up, too. Probably. He's not happy to have to strategize at a time like this, but Romano's the one he trusts the most to try and limit the damage at this point.]

We're gonna have to come clean.
We don't, we look worse for it. People are starting to notice.

[badlydisarmed]

[ Don't you love getting shot by your buddy and then being the one having to deal with the fall out? ]

Yeah, I have a working draft.

"Hello Etraya, a group of us were sent to secretly steal from you from a sister city named Solmara. We didn't because you seem nice. Aurora has been informed, so everything is fine now 😃❤️🥳

We will be answering questions but only if they're not stupid and you're super nice about it."

What do you think?

1/2

[theroadwarrior]

[theroadwarrior]

Seems fine enough.

[Guys, that's a terrible draft--]

Should probably mention Solmara was a hellhole with a war-hungry tyrant and we don't want to ever go back.

.... Might make them realize why we think they're 'nice'.

UN: 313 248 317 - 52; voice (after the failed heist)

[instabilitatem]

Robert... I am deeply sorry for what I did to you.

[badlydisarmed]

[ Robert sounds exhausted, but less annoyed than he should be. ]

My own fucking fault for letting you use my first name. I get no respect here.

[instabilitatem]

I'm sorry, doctor. [Connor will immediately step back in deference to Robert.]

un: jaycetalis | text

[hexcope]

Scale of one to ten, how equipped are you to re-sew torn stitches with the supplies you have on hand?

[badlydisarmed]

I can do it one-handed with my eyes closed but I'm deeply hurt I wasn't the one stitching it up to begin with.

Who's hurt?

[hexcope]

Me.

text

[theknightshift]

Are you available?

audio

[badlydisarmed]

[ talking is easier than texting when you have only one hand. ]

How much of an emergency is it?

Text

[theknightshift]

Two broken ribs and a knee injury.

[ He's ignored it for now, but that is no longer viable. ]

audio | un: dailyplanet

[thisisontherecord]

Robert? I've been talking with Aurora. There's been an upgrade to tech levels for prosthetics from my world that the companion bots are capable of fitting people for. If you feel like giving it a whirl.

[badlydisarmed]

That's very thoughtful of you, but I got a blind ten year old working on it.

[thisisontherecord]

The fact saying that here isn't entirely surprising... Either way, means you have backup too. Doesn't hurt.

un: R.B. | Text

[godsandbats]

Robert, I presume? I've been working with Jayce on the nanomachines.

[badlydisarmed]

Do you ever wake up to a text message that reminds you you're living in a sci-fi movie? I guess not.

Do I owe you a thank you for the arm?

[godsandbats]

Hadn't thought about it until maybe coming here.

That depends. How has it been so far?