EMERGENCY BROADCAST (text)

[justribbing]

(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


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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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[heritrix]

[BUTTON MASHING UNTIL SHE CAN GET AN ACTUAL RESPONSE OUT. It takes several seconds because she has to start over four times.]

You weren't supposed to bring that up! We had a pact!

[ishotyouuu]

hey no need to stop being a lady, sweetheart

i dont recall any pinkies being sworn over this

but ur probably right

getting punched would probably be an improvement on this ugly mug of mine ;)

[heritrix]

[That kind of comment might have been really funny if they hadn't been bonded the way they were, and Rin realized how that self-deprecating humor is a front for how much his appearance really bothers him.

Stupid jerk. How is she supposed to keep mad after that?

The next reply takes much longer, not for any technical reasons, but because she decides not to send her initial response.]

Mark my words, Wade Wilson, I'll find a BETTER way to pay you back. You better sleep with three eyes open. : - P

[That's her first one of those smiley face things (lessons learned, they're not runes). She doesn't think it came out right...]

[ishotyouuu]

ur lucky im such a gentleman or i could say something about that third eye comment you just walked into

but i wont

because im better than that

[Who are you even fucking kidding, Wade.]

[justribbing]

* you've been hiding a third eye this whole time?
* it's like i don't even know you.

[heritrix]

Oh.
So those are your preferences.

[justribbing]

* carve it on my statue in a suitably goofy font, pal.

[heritrix]

[Rin is CACKLING but no, that's wonderful. Please. No one tell him.]

[ishotyouuu]

i havent been hiding it, its always been there

u just werent looking in the right place

[justribbing]

* i know that kinda "tone" anywhere.
* this is some gross human joke, ain't it?

[ishotyouuu]

well i mean u know me better than anyone else here bro

am i the kind of person to do something like that

[justribbing]

* oh boy, i'm gonna have to give that some serious consid

* yes

[ishotyouuu]

hey come on dude u really have to have a lot more faith in me than that

i mean in this case ur absolutely right but still

[justribbing]

* heh heh, ok weirdo.
* i gotta go, don't know when those shadows are gonna start creeping around our cage again.
* can't make this TOO easy for 'em.
* you guys be careful, ok?

[ishotyouuu]

hey dont worry about me

ive come back from worse things than this yknow

check in every once in a while okay

oh and can i ask you to do me a huge favor

[justribbing]

* heh, i bet.
* won't promise ya anything but sure, ask away, big red.

[ishotyouuu]

Don't die.

[justribbing]

* between you, my bro, and the kids?
* nobody'd let me live it down.

[heritrix]

[Damn, boi. You running for president?]

As a refined and elegant lady, I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

[Which is why that person who responds to Sans definitely can't be her, no matter what the name says.]

Has anyone in your cage tried getting out?

[ishotyouuu]

not yet

though im pretty sure the big guy is gonna try tossing the contents of his stomach against the bars soon if u get my meaning

really hoping there wont be any blowback

[heritrix]

Gross? Tell him downwind is his friend.

Also tell him and anyone else with you not to pull anything funny.
There's magic applied to these cages.

[He'd know from being bonded to her last month that she has a very good sense for things like that.]

It's designed to reject any escape attempts, if I'm understanding its nature right. Any attack made against the cages will rebound back to everyone inside.
I wanted to warn you.