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. ))

Comments

[glencolans]

An observation.
It's also proof that I'll never run out.

[aluminumandash]

What do you do with the bodies?

[glencolans]

I don't let them go to waste.

[aluminumandash]

Youre gonna leave it at that? Nows your chance to scare the shit out of us.

[glencolans]

I don't need to.

[aluminumandash]

We got some dumb motherfuckers in this bunch.

1/2

[somethingintangible]

honestly yea

2/2

[somethingintangible]

not HE412T tho he's cool

private...and stressed

[aluminumandash]

Dont give him targets.

also private and also stressed! (cw: mentions of use of police force on civilians)

[somethingintangible]

[ Give him targets?? Wait, is he going to read what she wrote and then go after Dirk? Maddy's blood runs cold. It was a thought that hadn't occurred to her, that he or she or whoever this "person" (?? they don't sound like a person) is would do that. The truth is that Maddy is terrified of the entity at the cabin, or would be if it were closer to her. Far away at the airfield, this hadn't felt truly "real" to her at first, but this comment makes the hairs on the back of her neck stand on edge as the threat becomes, suddenly, real.

This guy she's talking to... he's a cop. A cop that Maddy doesn't really know. At least the cop, like the cabin, is far enough away that this time she can't be physically cuffed to a table and have her clothes literally cut off so that somebody can collect evidence she doesn't want them to.

But he seems like he's trying to help (again, ??). Maddy's fingers start to become damp with sweat. She's suddenly nervous as she pounds away the letters slowly, one finger at a time. Despite the decreased speed, her punctuation and spelling immediately becomes much better as she tries to make her texting more accessible to an old person, especially a detective. She's not really sure how to address him - "detective" is what his boyfriend calls him so that seems weird, but she doesn't really feel comfortable calling him anything else either, so she just settles on "sir": ]

Hello sir,

Please accept my sincere apology. I was promise I not trying to give him any ideas.

[ If it were a less serious topic, she might counter with, "How do you know it's a 'he?'" but this isn't really the time for that kind of thing right now.

A combination of self-absorption and genuine worry for Dirk's safety makes her add: ]

You don't think he's going to go after anybody because of what I said, do you?

private

[aluminumandash]

I know you werent. But the best thing you can do is let him alone.

Decent odds he can read this. Notice his callsign aint on the list? How it looks like maybe he picked it himself?

private [1/2]

[somethingintangible]

He can read this? Like a hacker???

[ Wait. No.

If Maddy's read on this cop guy is correct, he probably doesn't know what "hacking" is. Or if he does know, he probably doesn't really understand it.

Not that Maddy truly understands it either, but she's at least familiar with the concept. ]

PRIVATE [2/3]

[somethingintangible]

[ If whoever this is can read their private communications, Maddy has a new cavalcade of worries. She thinks immediately about Levi, who doesn't want anyone to know his callsign or associate it with his name... if private communications aren't safe, then... ]

Listen, if he can see this then that's really really really bad. I feel like you don't have social media or like computers so I'll try to explain. I'm not good at explaining this kind of stuff though. Sorry.

Basically he doesn't need to get to where people are to get them. He can dox them. That means he could expose private things people say here. He might collect stuff about people too, like if they don't want info to be shared but they say it privately.

And like if he found stuff that let's him read this VS if he just knows how. That like could mean different stuff.

[ Poisoned as she is by the age of cell phones and social media, the comment about her being far away hadn't registered as anything more than a standard Internet insult. The gravity of the statement's implications beyond her.

Now though, her heart is pounding. Terrified. ]

Private [3/3]

[somethingintangible]

Anyway I apologize again. I am not trying to be rude. Please accept my condolences. I know you are a detective and you don't need me to tell you things.

I'm just not any good at explaining some stuff respectfully.

HE412T | text

[timaeus]

[At least Dirk's much less stressed about this situation than Maddy is.]

I appreciate it.
Being cool is something of a family business.
I take this shit seriously.

text!

[somethingintangible]

[ Give her a break! This is the first supernatural murderer she's had to deal with before! It's a new situation.

Not the first murderer, but the first supernatural one. ]

haha
how much do you make from being cool?
wish that was my family business
my mom just does nails

lmao sorry

[aluminumandash]

are you fucking kidding me

[timaeus]

Hey, nails are pretty cool.
It's not like I've personally had an opportunity to monetize it yet, anyway.

[This iteration of Dirk hasn't, at least. Let's not talk about the multi-billion dollar a year "ironic" puppet porn enterprise in another universe.]

My Bro had that shit down to a science, though.
Or more accurately, an art form.
He was a world-famous director and made a fortune through his various ironic endeavors.

[glencolans]

You don't count yourself among them?

[somethingintangible]

YOU'RE among them shut the fuck up cunt

[glencolans]

You must feel very strong since you're so far away.

[somethingintangible]

[ Yeah, pretty much. She'd be much less brave, face-to-face. But since she is far away, this feels like an Internet slapfight to her, and she responds accordingly: ]

you a ho

[aluminumandash]

Nah Im a smart son of a bitch.

You wanna make this personal you know where Im at.

[ But kindly wait 5-6 hours so he can torture a guy first! ]

[glencolans]

Are you?
You're the one that ended up in chains.
After failing to realize that I killed her, no less.

[aluminumandash]

Whatd I miss?