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[Check-In] Your Enthusiasm is Appreciated

[It isn't too long into the Jaunt before Ryo's excited voice comes through on the network.]

BEST JAUNT EVER!

[And Hajime's far more exhausted mental voice comes in afterwards.]

This is Hajime, we, ah, did that thing where we're both infiltrating and not infiltrating, and there's some kind of space base out here with a lot of aliens bent on conquering Earth to take care of some bioweapon? I just...don't really know what's going on beyond that.

[Ryo cuts in again.]

And we're mantises! Mantis people are normal here! Not many of them, but enough to be normal! IS AMAZING!

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You're ... with the Aurigans, yeah? I mean, they're not bugs, right, but ... You know what I mean, I think?

Kanji here. Just bein' me. Landed at the Earth base with a bunch of new guys and trying to see what's up.

Edited 2019-09-21 16:20 (UTC)

Hey Kanji! Welcome back - it's good to hear your voice again. You're at OFC? [It's instinct to make it an acronym anymore. He means the Indonesian Orbital Base Chikyuumaru.]

Oh-eff... [Give him a moment to work it out. Acronyms like that were never his strength.] Chikyuumaru, yeah. You up here?

And ... heh. Thanks, man.

Oh - yeah, Orbital Base Chikyuumaru. Sorry. Habit. Heh. That's where I'm at too. Are you military or civilian this time around?

I've gotta bunch of paperwork here, so I think I mighta been shoved in the military side of things? For now, anyway...

Good to know. If you need someplace to escape for a while, it looks like I have quarters on one of the Valiant's escorts. [have a ship name and quarters number which I totally know] If you hear anything about this bioweapon, could you give me a heads up? There's a lot of information to get through here.

Yeah, no worries, I'll letcha know. This stuff's a lot to get my head around... Think I might have somethin' on the Valiant itself, but it's probably gonna be pretty crazy around there.

That seems pretty likely. She's big enough that she might be a flagship. But command is definitely in there, and that's going to be busy and complex. You might want to look up your chain of command. They usually have photos to go with names, thank goodness. There are a lot of names here. Definitely a bigger operation than the Garrison. We may have been global, but we didn't have a space fleet. These guys must be more technologically advanced.

Yeah.

[He's quiet for a moment.

It's just. Uh. Last time I did army shit. It ... didn't go well.

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how_they_shine - 2019-09-26 02:01 (UTC) - Expand

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truerevelation - 2019-09-26 15:02 (UTC) - Expand

Hey, dude. Long time no see.

Heh. No kiddin'... Good to hear from ya.

[The more familiar 'voices' the better.]

If you want something for your signal brain to chew on, we need to figure out where the company founder disappeared to and how willingly she did so. If not, no worries, but I figure the more people on it the better.

Otherwise, how's things?

...She what? Think I've got a comms job of some sort lined up on the big ship? But I can keep listenin' out for that stuff, take a look around...

But yeah. Things are ... things. Feels weird doin' all this stuff again - I mean, ain't like I was doin' it at home, right? Just... getting used to it all.

Dara Eskandar. Scuttlebutt says it's a Mysterious Disappearance, and those tend to mean trouble in Jauntlandia.

Yeah, I bet. Still, your home's not unused to weird shit, so at least you're not completely out of practice.

Different sorta weird shit, though. Sorta weird shit I ain't thinking about, I'm punching.

[Pause.] ... Guess that the missing people ain't really so different, huh. Haven't heard anyone scuttlin' any butts about things, but ... can see what I can do?

I appreciate it, dude. And like I said, if you end up off down another rabbit hole, don't sweat it.

[She just figured getting the option on the table would do more good than harm.]

...who you sayin' is off down rabbit holes?

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claudiometer - 2019-09-21 21:17 (UTC) - Expand

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truerevelation - 2019-09-21 21:18 (UTC) - Expand

They've assimilated several other races into their army. Mantoids are just one of many that happened to. But yeah, we're fighting for the Aurigans. Ryo's going to have to start missing his shots.

...He good at shootin'?

But... oof. Yeah, man. I feel for ya guys... is all the talk over there 'humans suck' or...

More that you're all very dangerous and not to be trusted, lest you infect us with your terrible weapon.

Right. How do these bioweapon things work? Infection... Like the alien flu or somethin'?

You get infected, and then weird crap starts happening around you--it's hard to hide the symptoms, and it's supposed to be terrifying. Like your worst fears keep manifesting around you and won't stop.

Tch, can't be any weirder crap than the sort of weird crap we have over here anyway. Though man, that's ... that's nasty.

...Huh.

Edited 2019-09-22 19:24 (UTC)

Yeah, there's no question in my overlay's mind that this needs to be stopped. It's one reason he's so onboard with flying combat missions like this.

Don't blame him for callin' this bullshit. I mean... who wouldn't? I'd be thinkin' it was sick and all. That ... doesn't sound like somethin' people here would do.

I'd say it sounds like some kinda ... alien-ified X-whatyacallit virus gone crazy, but how would you even ... make viruses work on aliens? Like, aliens are all gonna have different ... guts and DNA and stuff, if they even have 'em?

Edited 2019-09-22 19:36 (UTC)

	
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