IC contact for glencolareef

[cactusy]

CALLSIGN TO994M

[For private network chats, or in-person threads if she ends up traveling with anyone.]

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[aluminumandash]

[ Well, alright. If they're just saying this: ] Lets call it half tactical.

[cactusy]

Explain.

[aluminumandash]

Im not alone.

[ A pause. ] De Guzmans unpredictable, tweaked in the head about this guy.

[cactusy]

I'm probably not alone either. Technically. Whoever gave us these walkies is probably monitoring.

What's de Guzman been doing?

[aluminumandash]

So far just talking. Nothing I care to repeat. [ Not in front of everyone who might be reading along. Not when de Guzman could just snatch the walkie out of Rust's hands if he got the urge. ]

Past couple days we been finding shit. Feathers. Crossbow bolt, bloody and dinged up. Just out here waiting for us to stumble on it.

Not one fucking track though.

[cactusy]

A bloody crossbow bolt sounds like a threat.

[aluminumandash]

Yet it wasnt lodged in anyones gullet.

Think we should clear out?

[cactusy]

I've been finding things that I'm pretty sure were left for me. Some innocuous, some not. I've gotten some threatening walkie messages, too.

How many are with you? Any civilians?

[aluminumandash]

Just de Guzman and me.

Whatd you find?

[cactusy]

a butchered animal that i'm pretty sure was left out for me to find. couldn't figure out if it was a warning, somebody trying to help, or a trap.

[aluminumandash]

What kinda animal? Fresh?

[cactusy]

Some kind of deer. Very fresh.

[aluminumandash]

He get creative with it?

[cactusy]

If they had I would have recognized it as a threat. This was a clean, practical kill that could just as easily have been someone trying to bait me or someone trying to help me out.

1/2

[aluminumandash]

Alright. Gonna send you the one thing he aint served us on a platter.

2/2

[aluminumandash]

[ There's a pause...a long pause...that's right, it's happening. ] 11 2 5 41 4 19 11 18 26

[ Nocturnal. ]

[cactusy]

We really need a better code. But thanks.

[That's useful!]

The one I talked to is AN000N, and they used a keyboard emoticon when they were talking with me. Says something about time and place of origin.

[aluminumandash]

Better poem at least. [ No, he just likes to bitch. ]

Is that what that shits called? [ He typed half of what the fuck before figuring it out. ] Whats it say about place?

[cactusy]

Someone with consistent enough internet access that someone can be terminally online enough to know the lingo. The western English-speaking internet, specifically. Other cultures have their own thing going on. And yeah, if you're asking, I hate that I know this off the top of my head.

[aluminumandash]

Useful though. [ Give him a minute. This all feels like stumbling around in the dark. ] Whats access say? Money?

When he spoke to de Guzman, that wasnt English. Barely call it language.