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EMERGENCY BROADCAST (text)

(All active cellphones sound an alarm briefly during the delivery of this message.)

To: All Users
From: sans.
Subject: (SUBJECT HERE)
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URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT: The following is an automated message.

Nature of Emergency: cagey queen left us hanging

PRESS 1 if outside the vicinity of: home If it is safe to do so, follow the prompts to take and send an image of your surroundings to the administrator.

Users in the vicinity of: home are requested to congregate in the: mess hall immediately for: probably a good idea to come save us

Additional Notes:

* sup.
* not much, not much, just hangin' with about 3 new and old friends in this cage dangling precariously above the water.
* can't say i like the conditions either, but the cold and damp doesn't get under my skin. i think i see other cages, tho and, uh, i can't say much for them yet.
* six other occupied cages, with about three in each. hey, it's like those math problems you used to get in school.
* startin' to get a real sinking feeling so if there's anybody out there who ain't locked up, it'd mean a lot to me and over 20 other people if you bailed us out.
* see ya. sans.

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* tori's son, chara's bro, yadda yadda.
* lemme ask ya something.
* our little birdcage has one of those sliding tile puzzles that form a picture if you arrange 'em right, you guys have anything like that?
* thinkin' maybe they open the cages.

That's why I asked if your brother was good at this shit!

[A long pause; Sanji is struggling to follow the prompts and send a picture. He doesn't use his phone much.

4 pictures later (one of a hideously cropped angle of Sanji's face when he accidentally turned the camera on him), Sans is sent a picture of the hangman picture, the 9 blank underscores, and a length of rope that hangs from the ceiling]

Edited 2016-10-01 19:25 (UTC)

[ Yeah.

See, reason for prompting him like this is he wants to know what kind of puzzle Papyrus will be looking at. Because, awesome as his brother is, he can get stumped by, uh, certain things. ]

* hangman, huh?
* simple guessing game, typically over in 10 wrong guesses. that's pretty good wiggle room.
* ...what's with the rope?

[Another picture. Of Sanji just time, with a flat and irritable expression. The angle continues to be awkward but Sans will clearly see that the rope loops down - tightly - around the chef's neck.

Thaaaaaat's why he wanted to know, Sans]

[ Under no circumstances does he want Sanji's life on Papyrus's hands.

Make the kid do it, he thinks, wondering at this new wave of bitterness. Strong enough to make him feel a little nauseous.

That's new. The fact he finds it so easy to figure, hey, Asriel's hands are dirty enough, let him shoulder the possibility of failure... makes him hate himself a little.

That's not so new. ]

* wow. this is NOT your day, pal.
* you're gonna be ok. my bro's got this.

Tch it's like I'm back home

And right right you told me, I believe you

[San is sticking to the story? Alright, Sanji will... let it go then. Maybe Papyrus really is that good]

Whats your puzzle lookin like? No ropes I hope

* y'know those tiles where you can move 'em around one at a time until they form a picture?
* tedious as hell, real grade schoolmonster stuff.
* got somebody on it right now, don't wanna break their concentration.

I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO GOT A NOOSE?

[Wow he knows he said he's glad no one else is in danger but he is feeling attacked suddenly]

A WJAT??/

[Oh, hi, did you think these texts were private? Norma's reading through more and more of these and - of course she's keeping her eyes peeled on a few more than others. This bit of news is distressing in the worst possible was and she immediately feels a cold spike dig its way into her chest.]

* right welp that's my cue to go
* good luck buddy

[SANS YOU SHITTY PIECE OF FUCK HE THOUGHT THESE MESSAGES WERE PRIVATE]

Edited ((rofl I changed my mind NEVER MIND)) 2016-10-01 20:26 (UTC)

[ whoopsie doopsie ]

[SIGH well so much for his plan to keep this to himself for the time being]

Norma-chan don't worry it's not that tight

We complete the shitty puzzle and I bet it'll come off

[Hahaha, you better believe Norma didn't even bother reading that new text message and is calling Sanji right now. Not like she'd be any good at texting right now, what with her hands shaking as they are and furious, scared tears welling up in her eyes. God damn, why is it always people she cares about getting into trouble like this?! Did she really do something so slimy in her life to deserve this kind of crap?!

Sanji, you better fucking take that call, dude.]

[In the brief second of panic that comes after seeing the text screen flicker away to show an incoming call, Sanji does consider leaving it; the situation is what it is, he and Pap have already tried a bunch of ways to get this rope off his neck. Sanji just wants the puzzle finished.

... But he never could leave a lady hanging, and won't start today. Norma doesn't have to wait but two seconds before Sanji's voice is on the other line]

Norma-chan.

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not here; sorry, I had to

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[Just trying to get an idea of who else is out here. What puzzles they have, any other similarities. Oh hey, it's Sanji. Wait, what.]

If that's a joke, it's not funny!

[LOOK HE LOVES IT WHEN LADIES PAY ATTENTION TO HIM but this is not the way he wanted it, trust him. He balks at Rin's text and takes a moment to respond]

It's not a joke

I'm guessing I lose if we can't figure out this shitty puzzle

[Well that's not chilling or anything. But no, she'd rather hear it straight than rely on vague details and wishful thinking. Huffing over in Cage 5, Rin hunches her shoulders to shield her phone from the rain and responds back quickly.]

Then don't lose. I disallow you to die in such a stupid way.

[They both know she can't help it, but it pays to be optimistic. Mostly, she hopes the comment cheers him up even a little; that he imagines the way she would say it out loud. She'd probably call him instead for it, if it didn't strike her as a good idea to stick to text to conserve the phone battery. Who knows how long they'll be out her, after all.]

Who's helping you with the puzzle?

[He said it above, but she was sort of skimming earlier.]

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