ABRAXAS - IC Inbox.

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[marlbro]

hey I know it's kind of a shitty time

but can I ask you favor?

you keep an eye on my buddy Jack, will ya? scrawny little dude, missing his left pinky

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jerry I swear to god if I ever see you again I'm going to kill you

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ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW

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[Why did Abraxas curse him with nature's perfect idiot to catch a message? Of all the fucking messages he's sent out??

Fuck's sake. It's not like he has anything but time right now.]

fine I'll look for him

[marlbro]

you're a doll

we're looking for u guys just hang in there

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I feel so much better.

a few days later.

[marlbro]

hey

Nero

you copy?

[ Considering it doesn't always work. He had to try many times to get anything from Jack. ]

we asked around about Josselyn and Hydnellia, got some info idk if it'll help

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[Unfortunately, a few days later means Nero's even deeper in the shitter. He blinks his eyes blearily, the words spilling darkly against the bone in his hand. With nothing to do, he's been sharpening a few to use as makeshift weapons if -- when -- it's needed.

Shit. Jerry. He sits up.]

Spill.

[marlbro]

ok so we went to Josselyn's place and asked around

get this: her neighbors vanished. folks thought it was super weird. it was an old dude, a young woman and her brother Ed, maybe in their twenties ish

the girl was real tight with Josselyn

no one knew the name Hydnellia though

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[If he had the energy, he'd congratulate on Jerry doing absolutely anything of note at this point. But he's got wounds, he's exhausted to a brink he hasn't been brought to since the fight with Urizen, and the only leg up he's got is at least he still has two arms.

So all he can manage from what he understands of Jerry's message is short:]

doesn't help much.

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[And then later:]

you find joss?

[marlbro]

[ Listen, he's just reporting in. Don't be mean! ]

no but we broke into the other dude's house

well it didn't take much breaking in since it was abandoned

I guess his name was Esmond, not Edmond. so like, Es?

And his sister was Lorelei

Himeka had a vision. Lorelei went somewhere and got all fucked up, with weird black eyes. I think Josslyn made her do something bad

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[He'd say he's trying, but he's totally not. He's only trying to survive.

And peel away what he can get of these messages. It goes in and out, words scrambling as they spill across the ground in a way where he's not sure if it's the connection or his own brain fucking up.]

esmond?

[Jerry's a fuckin' weirdo, but he gets the sense he's not a total idiot. Maybe. God, Nero hopes he's not. 'Cause otherwise that means he's just telling Nero shit that doesn't matter right now.]

wait. black eyes. like holes? [Wait, he's with Himeka? Well. Actually, no, that's good. Means she has a clue in what's going on. And if Nero trusts anyone, it's Himeka. Even if she's sort of an airhead like Jerry...] she see what lorelei looks like?

[marlbro]

you gotta ask Himeka for sure I guess, she just described it to me

But not like holes, I don't think? Just black??

She looked weird.

[ He proceeds to give an approximate physical description of the Mysterious Acolyte before she became entirely mushroomified, though as Jerry relays what Himeka described to him, Nero may realize she was slowly transforming. ]

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[He's realizing. Something that had tingled back at the mind when he finally settled on her not being Josselyn. No way -- too timid.]

shit. I know her. doesn't look the same. she changed.