text; shakily handwritten on one of those hotel notepads with a leaky pen

[moreweaponsthanyou]

first thing first, what's the date and time?

SECOND: THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: IF YOU SEE AN ODD LOOKING MACHINE WITH A STRANGE GLOWING SYMBOL AND LOTS OF INVITING BUTTONS DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE URGE TO TOUCH SAID MACHINE. IT WILL BE TRAUMATIZING.

so much trauma. and near death by drowning.

BEFORE I FORGET SOMEONE NEEDS TO CALL THE COPS; THERE'S A DEAD BODY IN THE POOL. damnit i think i recognize that face too. it's the guy who was screaming about cultists getting him a couple days ago.

thunder corp owes me a new phone, pretty sure mine is dead. ALSO BY DROWNING.

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[disdainfully]

[FIL

he's all right, somehow, or at least he's able to connect to the network and write a lot which is good.

So much relief.]

[disdainfully]

[okay reading...

this is not good at all. BUT ON TO THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. Also to trying to calm Fil down enough to get something out of him, there really is no reason to bother with the parts that are not his nephew now, or with patience at that.]

voice; done!

[disdainfully]

FIL.

CALM DOWN.

WHERE ARE YOU?

[Yes, he's shouting. That text did seem like Fil might be a bit besides himself and like he might have to get through that. And also it just... feels right.]

voice;

[hotshots]

[ Holy shi-- wait. ]

You're sure it's the same guy?!

text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

I was busying trying not to drown and I don't want to go back near him but....80% sure it's him.

text

[abhero]

everyone knows you shouldn't push mysterious glowing buttons don't you watch movies
anyway wtf happened to you
and did ghost dick guy get murdered

text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

I was curious okay!

got taken somewhere...it's all pitch black, can't see a thing. that would have been okay, but you can't FEEL anything there either, not even your own hands and legs.

...ghost dick guy?

Text

[sylvanguard]

[The thing about sleeping all day is it gave you strange hours.]

Killian is going to be happy to know you're alive. He nearly lost it when you vanished.

Text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

oh shit.

he alright?

text

[arrowpoint]

dude killians been having a fit you should like go find him right now.

text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

how? i'm in Vegas! And my phone's dead!

[text]

[scarlet_devil]

It's the tenth of August and it's almost six.

Is there anyone else there other than the dead guy?

text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

Okay good. It was hard to tell time in that place...I thought I'd might have been stuck for days.

And nope. Just the dead guy.

Text

[buildyourworld]

[ Wait, what?! What the hell happened?! Jovan is dead?!

With Neil calling the FBI, he'll concentrate on Fil's safety instead. ]

Shit. Get out of there and tell me what you see. Try not to make noise or attract attention to yourself. I'm coming to get you.

Text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

It's hard not to attract attention when you're dripping water everywhere. At least with this heat I'm drying out real fast.

Two blocks down from the hotel there's a bust top. I'm sitting in the bus shelter.

text

[sunshinethatwarmsherup]

[ Dead body in the pool? And it was the... oh god. No. No No No.

Linda hadn't know the guy that Fili was talking about, but she had talked to Fili before and... damn it. This was just, what the hell?

She needed to calm down. Be calm and stay calm. Even though there were plenty of reasons to panic. ]

Do you already have someone who's going to be calling the cops?

[moreweaponsthanyou]

Someone's calling the fbi already so I'm covered there,

voice

[youngestone]

Fuck.

[That sound? That is the sound of a relieved baby brother-cousin]

You're okay.

Text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

Perfectly fine. Physically anyway. I have all toes and fingers still attached to me. Head too.

[senseandcecilbility]

[Joining the "Jovan is dead?" crowd.]

Are you sure it is him?

[Jovan, he would have come back to you, pal, really. All he needed to do was deliver Mrs. Bonbright safely home and then...

Jovan, why couldn't you pretend to be friends with the cultists for five seconds?]

...That- He was merely doing his best to save that nice lady!

[moreweaponsthanyou]

I didn't want to get too close to the dead body but...he really does look like that guy who made the panicky post about cultists a few days ago.

...I don't know what he was doing to end up like this, okay!

[Texted]

[espigeonage]

You're not dead!

text

[moreweaponsthanyou]

still alive and kicking!

[umbrael]

Sounds like an ordinary morning in vegas tbh

[Ha ha but okay this is ten kinds of Not Good going on here. And boy oh boy oh boy, is Doyle ever tempted to rag on this guy for pushing buttons he didn't understand, but uh, he's pretty sure this guy is also possibly hooking him up with a giant nail file or some other solution to his typing/computer use woes, so maybe not.]

OK so that guy is dead, are you hurt at all?

[moreweaponsthanyou]

I've been to Vegas before. There was drinking, shows and gambling involved, nothing to do with dead bodies and strange teleporting machines.

...except for possible mental trauma, I'm fine.

[wonk]

project jump is a teleporter + my friends keep dying

gdi

u sure its him

[moreweaponsthanyou]

Huh. I guess you COULD call it a teleporter.

85% sure. I didn't bother getting a second look, okay.