Thirty-Fourth Message [Video | Backdated to September 2nd]

[scramasax]

[Paper crumpling and a shaking video feed.

A voice scraping.]

There's a monster in the warehouse with Robyn.

[Pulled tighter upward, dry crack:]

-- Help, I can't find the people who -- ! I can't find the people who went to -- went to find Robyn, there's a Vermaxi in the warehouse - [Swallows, releases to impatient shake - ] -- There's a Vermaxi in the warehouse with Robyn, does anyo - any - anyone already - do they already know -- ?!

((OOC: This would be already after people were well on their way to either attempt to rescue Robyn or intercept the first group. Thread-jack and what have you as necessary!))

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[Voice]

[prismaticdestruction]

[There is panic in her voice. She actually had run around the house trying to find someone she knew went.]

What do you mean you can't find them?

[Video]

[scramasax]

[Softer - no looser, but it's sorry, and panic on panic pitches it higher.]

I don't know where they are -

-- I-I got out of the house to -- to find them, tell them what I know, I-I-I haven't heard them --

[Voice]

[prismaticdestruction]

But...Is that a really bad thing? I don't know what that is.

[Trying to calm down. She wasn't in the know on big bads fully.]

Because I can't find my cousin. She wanted to go and help...

[peacefulwinter]

[In her head, Winter is running through the sizes of creature they know of. Vermini, tiny. Vermedi, about her size and fairly deadly. Vermaxi... they'd really only ever met one or two, and they were a fair fight for a couple dozen of them.

Damn it.]

You said a vermaxi? The huge one that almost killed us all, at the party a while ago?

[scramasax]

[Nods, and in an expelled hum through what he's got left of a nose:] -- Mmhm.

It's a Vermaxi... -- It's a Vermaxi...

[peacefulwinter]

Then we're in trouble. Even if that's what's waiting, we can't afford to act - not while Robyn is still being held. But... people could be killed. We can't afford not to act either... ugh.

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

A... A Vermaxi?!

[She doesn't know what that is, but it sounds bad.]

And... it's where Robyn is?!

[Video]

[scramasax]

[In-the-headlights nod.] -- Yes, it's - it should be in the warehouse with her - or near her; I don't - I -- probably... Probably in case someone c - tried to go get her...

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

Oh.... oh no!

The mafia... are they working with aliens or something?

[She's going around the house, looking for things.]

Robyn's in danger! She could... if the monster gets to her...

voice;

[alilyinthemoonslight]

...dammit, it is a trap isn't it?

There's no way most of the people who have gone are going to be answering their phones now...

video;

[scramasax]

[Quavering all through:] I know, that's, that's, that's why I'm trying to find them, I don't -- [And upward crack - ] - don't know what direction to go or how far they got or who's going --

What do I do -- what do... Please, what can I do?

video;

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Just... do your best to keep trying to find them, Anthony. Please. They're not anywhere near enough prepared to be taking on something like that so suddenly, and without a whole lot of people...

voice

[abhero]

What the hell is Vermaxi.

[He doesn't even know what Vermini and Vermedi are-- he encountered them, but he has no idea how they're called.]

video

[scramasax]

It's -

[How does he describe this...] Have - have you seen a Vermedi yet -- before -- ?

permavoice

[abhero]

I dunno what-- wait.

[Checklist of all the weird shit he's seen, and there's a lot of it...]

I saw a fuzzy monster a couple weeks ago. Is that it?

text

[sjokolade]

How should I know? I sure didn't but get out of there as fast as you can! Or at least just warn the others quickly too!

That thing can seriously kill you all!

video

[scramasax]

[Urghhh, curse him the carelessness that lost him that last eye! Swallows, shallow:]

I-I-I can't see text - [Darts his fingers into one of the sockets.] - i - is someo -- someone -- ?

[Someone else there?]

[ghostly_heiress]

[WHY WAS I RIGHT.]

[WHY WAS I RIGHT AND NOT JUST PARANOID.]

[WHY DIDN'T PEOPLE LISTEN.]

[Her voice is strained.]

How many went?!

[scramasax]

[And his fixed at strained right back - good god, he's sorry!]

I-I-I don't know I couldn't find everything onnn - on the network - didn't - [Quick sticking.] - wasn't in on anyone's planning, I only - came out here when I knew...

[Hopefully safer to say that than "was told".]

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Those freaks have...

... Damn it. DAMN IT.

[scramasax]

[Wheezing.] They have --

[Assuming he's completing that thought correctly!]

-- I'm sorry. [Technically all-around regret, not specific apology in this case. Swallow.] -- A-and I don't even know if Robyn's - r - really safe from it or -- !

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

If it's Mafia-controlled... that's a definite point in Albero's favor. Even if it's their ace, it would be unwise to think it's their only advantage...

[He sounds so tired, to the point where stringing together these concepts is difficult.]

People can't leave well enough alone.

[Video]

[scramasax]

Uhmm - pardon me - ...?

[Taking an honest swerve to ask that, hushed in case that's compensation for not doing that indeed-heard tiredness any good, and giving himself an inevitable mental smack for it - the mob, or is this directed at the rescuers?]

Voice

[umbrael]

There's a WHAT?!

[not an original comment, but here we are. Doyle's bristling and although he's still in Vegas, he feels the need to get in there and take care of the situation.]

Video

[scramasax]

There's a Vermaxi -- [Sharp slip - slips back with his back and shoulders shrinking to compensate, in some stupid sense.] -- with Robyn -- where they're keeping Robyn... I think some -

S-some of us are coming to help -- [Cough into a loose fist, clears his throat.] - now, but.

-- Everyone's right, it's dangerous... Everything -- [Holds the "ng".] -- Everything about this. -- Still dangerous... Still dangerous, God, I'm -- worried...

[The rescue team still don't know; it's at least two parties rushing there, and the rescue team might get there first far before any backup, and there are too few of them, everything still unbalanced, still so much room for matters to get worse, which they've clearly been doing...]