MORNING 23 | TEXT | FROM: DI481O

[salamanca]

Did this place change you?

Has your heart wandered, since you've been here?

Signed,
A Concerned Friend

((OOC: This post is specifically dedicated to somebody special! Lalo will not be responding to any comments, but feel free to talk/threadjack amongst yourselves. ))

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text | AN000N

[glencolans]

Sure, I'll play your game today.
You've been entertaining enough.
No.
I haven't changed at all.

text | DI481O

[salamanca]

[ SCREAM! Be still, his beating heart. He all but swoons. Look, you don't get to call him your pet and have him not be insane about you. Those are the rules.

He tries to think of what to say, a million possibilities running through his head, all of them dismissed for how foolish he thinks they make him sound, like a teen girl with a hopeless crush and a demented supervillain with an archenemy at the same time.

And then it occurs to him. It's a public network. There's one question he'd seen bandied about, one thing people want to ask this person...

A way to interact with them, reveal something about their character, and look not insane to everyone else on the network! Win/win/win. ]

If we could ask you where your territory began and ended, so we could stay out of it, would you tell us?

[ There! He smiles at Rust, satisfied, then looks over at the cabin. Lights still out. His brow furrows. Why? Power out from the storm? No... It seems like more than that. Someone deliberately lying low. But why???

First things first, though. Can't get distracted.

Lalo's heart flutters. ]

[glencolans]

Just another grab for intel, then?
You've let me down little creature.
I thought we had something.

1/?

[salamanca]

We do. ♥

2/?

[salamanca]

[ They "have something???" SQUEAL. But wait... ]

3/4

[salamanca]

[ You messaged Shaw privately! But not him! JEALOUSY. ]

4/? I lied

[salamanca]

[ This warrants getting on the walkie because???

Lalo's cheerily insane voice blares into the walkie. ]

First of all, don't call me that. [ He says it not even imperiously so much as automatically, like he takes for granted that this will mean something to this person and will be very surprised when it doesn't. He can appreciate a cutesy pet name, but c'mon, dude, they are in public. ]

Second of all, baby. Baby. If that's how you wanna play it...

5/?

[salamanca]

Then let the games begin! :)

[ SUCK IT, EVERYONE. Nobody is allowed to get mad at him for going to the cabin ever again hahahaha and none of you whiners are allowed to blah blah blah at him about how this "guy" just wants to be alone. Suck it, Martin. Suck it, ✨ Detective ✨ (he still loves you tho).

6/7

[salamanca]

Hey! Wait. Not a fan of Joan Jett, are you? By any chance?

[ Hums a few bars of "I Hate Myself For Loving You". ]

Yeah, me neither honestly.

[ In person he's excited, antsy, like a little kid who just found out what they're getting for Christmas. He's thinking about the lights being out in the cabin, although it course it crosses his mind that it could be some kind of trap... But if it's not, if Lalo's friend is truly out, then what could be found there? And what could it mean?

He thinks back to the suspicious rustling. Maybe nearby, then, if not actually in the (assuredly booby-trapped) cabin. ]

7/7

[salamanca]

[ He's about to leave it at that when something occurs to him. This part isn't as romantic, so it can be a text. ]

Hey, now I know this is a longshot, but I just thought I'd ask.

Is there ant chance YOU know who A324KN is?

[glencolans]

You're even more unhinged than I thought.
Perfect.
If I kill them, you'll be the first to know about it.

text | RE419S

[aluminumandash]

[ Mumbletymumble (let's say at least twelve) hours after Lalo makes the post: ] Are you bored?

[glencolans]

Like you wouldn't believe.

[aluminumandash]

I dont talk about what I believe on here.

The elephant didnt do it for you?

[glencolans]

Is that what that was?
Interesting.

[aluminumandash]

Briefly.

Ever seen one?

[glencolans]

I have now.
Tastes fine.

cs: LO431Y; text

[lonelynotforsaken]

[Martin reads a few of the responses before writing his own message. Maybe the person in the cabin wants entertainment before they'll tell everyone where their territory is? Fine. He has at least one or two poems about hunters memorized. At least parts of them.]

A. Hunter is my hero's name,
And occupation too:
To hunt the country o'er for game
Is all he aims to do;
And yet A. Hunter comes to town
Quite often, through the year,
Upon no earthly business save
To meat the people here.

[glencolans]

Serenades are more of Orca's thing.
But the attempt is cute.

[lonelynotforsaken]

You said you were bored.
Just thought you might like something like that.
Could trade recipes, if you prefer.

[glencolans]

I never said I didn't like it.
Do you know more of them?
Maybe I could put you in a cage so you could sing them for me, bird.
I think I would enjoy that.

[lonelynotforsaken]

I don't really keep well in cages, thanks.
Just want to keep away from you, if it's all the same.

text; TN811N

[hyakuoku]

Are you Leopard?

[ Senku doesn't bother with small talk or whatever the fuck is going on in some of these messages. Wow, ten billion percent not his thing. ]

[glencolans]

No.
It knows how to have a good time, though.
Still alive?

[hyakuoku]

I assume.
That means you must be the Hunter. I wasn't sure because of conflicting context clues.

[ Senku absolutely does not want to know what "have a good time" means after seeing that mess with "Ben" yikes. ]