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solnet2016-10-01 07:06 am
justribbing) wrote in solnet2016-10-01 07:06 am
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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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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Very promptly, she forgot it was a snowy place. Hence why that might have become a feature in the town name. When her phone buzzes and she reads Sans text, she pinches the bridge of her nose, cheeks flushing.]
Snowman.
I could kick myself right now.
We kept trying to make something out of womanss.
[As she types, she says the word out loud. PING! Sure enough, the letters in the final word rearrange themselves to spell "snowman".]
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* this next one's pretty tricky.
* my brother ain't often sad.
* so... humans have a saying for when someone's sad, right? boo hoo?
* papyrus LOVES to laugh, so his is like 'nyeheheh'.
* try saying that in a sad way.
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That's not a complaint. We've failed on that one three times alone.
We're not in a rush to try again.
[But okay, the other one is like Papyrus's laugh? Steven was the one that got that one right, eyes lit up and everything. Based on Sans's hint, Rin can guess how that word might come out, but she has a feeling Steven will work it out much better. There's a delay here, as she works it out with both him and Zuko; if Sans happens to be looking at Cage 5 at all, he'll see it when she scoots over to better confer with them. She tosses one more text at him while they hash it out.]
Actually it is a complaint, and when we get out of here I'm going to write it up formally.
I'll be classy about it. Fountain pen and parchment, the whole works.
Then I'll douse it in habaneros, and make the Queen EAT IT.
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* i could give you valuable coaching on the proper pronunciation.
[ Still angling for cheap laughs at a time like this? Hell yeah. ]
* gimme some time to go over that last one.
* and shake off thes eshad
[ OK SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE FIGHTING FOR A FEW MINUTES ]
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People really need to stop scaring her half to death with ominous text messages today, there's only so many times she can feel her breath catch in her throat. It's happened so many times today already that this time, with this one, Rin doesn't feel her heart race. Doesn't sweat, doesn't grit her teeth.
Almost doesn't even look over her shoulder, until she remembers that unlike Sanji and unlike Tim, she actually can see Sans's cage. Right next to her own, it's one of the few close enough where, so long as the Shadows aren't in his cage, she could maybe help. Her phone clatters to the deck as Rin climbs to her feet — calls out Zuko's name, so she might follow — and takes even strides to one end of the cage where she can stick a fist out between the bars, her other hand locked firmly on her elbow to steady her aim.
It's not much help at all; she can't risk hitting the people inside, so the best Rin can do as both cages sway is pick off the Shadows that are further outside it, clinging to the bars and trying to get in. Aiming her Gandr shots more carefully than normal, she tries to do just that.
With all of the obstacles in the way, a single Shadow is probably all she's able to help with in the end, minus a few lucky shots that hit without taking the target down permanently, but one Shade is better than nothing, right?
It's too early to give up now; they have to help each other if they can.]
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When all's done Sans's reply is still delayed, on account of those within the cage taking a moment to regroup and check in with each other. Only then does the skeleton -- he's been without his hoodie, having handed it off to Pidge early on in this fiasco -- sag against the bars and get back to his phone.
At least this time he calls. ]
Thanks for the backup, but, uhh, shouldn't you be saving that for yourself?
...Not that I'm ungrateful, I hate the workout.
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Still, Zuko's first burst of flame is experimental, weak and short-reaching, just to be sure. Okay. It's fine. She takes aim at the few shadows still outside Sans' cage, helping Rin pick them off, until she can't make out any more.
She squints through the rain. The figures in the other cage seem to be standing down. Nothing else to fight. She helped, this time, a little.
Rin's discarded phone sounds again, and Zuko picks it up to answer, stepping close to Rin so she can hear it clearly.]
Don't be stupid. We're helping each other.
It's not like you're sitting around doing nothing.
[Did he forget the part where he's helping them solve their puzzle?]
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Well, he is sitting.
[Her voice is light from humor, even for how tired she is. But hey come on Zuko, they're not doing nothing either. Rin still thinks it's impressive they managed to solve as much of the puzzle as they did before needing to ask for help. She doesn't say anything about that, or the rest of what Zuko said, however. Largely because:
Don't be stupid. We're helping each other.
Yes, that summed up her thoughts succinctly.]
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[ Whoops.
Reel it back in with that gallows humor, Sans. Zuko's the type to take it literally, Rin's--Rin's the type to see it for what it is, and she ain't like Wade, who gets it, who understands the anesthetic properties of a joke, even the dark ones. (Sometimes, especially.)
And they've all got bigger things to worry about. ]
Anyway, don't blame ya for havin' trouble with that other one.
Y'know what a boondoggle is?
[ Honestly, he isn't even sure that'll translate right. ]
Hold your phone up to the puzzle if you gotta.
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Boondoggle?
[No, the word doesn't translate, but Zuko repeating it phonetically seems to work just fine. She looks up as the characters rearrange themselves to form what she's pretty sure is still nonsense, but whatever.]
That did it.
[Is that the last one?]
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Boondoggle?
[As Zuko offers that up as their guess, Rin utters the word like a foreign object that feels strange in her mouth, bewildered. Her speech probably comes out a little muffled, talking on the other side of Zuko.]
What? Did you guys grow up in 1940's New— [Glancing up at the ceiling, she suddenly cuts herself off.] Wait, wait. It's doing something new.
[That word was indeed the last one. The finished puzzle remains for a few seconds, glowing softly before seemingly erasing itself. In its place, letter by letter, something new is carved. Sans, of course, isn't privy to that. He just gets the short, bated silence on the phone as the word is spelled out.
When it's complete, Rin reaches to take her phone back from Zuko, so she can properly speak into the phone. Her voice comes in more clearly now.]
Altar room. [She breathes out a sigh, a little relieved, a little... Okay. She puts a grin in her voice.] Thank you, Sans. I think you just got us our key location.
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[ Sans's drawled 'cheer' doesn't even deserve that description. It's not sarcasm, he just knows they're not outta the woods just yet. ]
...Huh. So those puzzles don't open the cages?
[ Key locations. ]
Ok. Yeah. Leave it to the Queen to send us on a wild goose chase. Can you relay that to the rescue teams?
I gotta handle a thing over here.
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Zuko leans a little closer to Rin to make sure Sans can hear her.]
Yeah. We'll take care of it.