RE419S | audio/text sent to everyone but DI481O | Night 23

[aluminumandash]

[ Hours—several—after Q&A with the anonymous callsign's come to an end, Rust breaks his walkie silence for the first time since the storm. He sounds raspy-voiced but keyed up, intent. His drawl's more clipped than usual, but he doesn't rush. ]

Bout a week ago, the man who's been calling himself Officer Ben De Guzman pulled a gun on me, knocked me out when I fought back. He then cuffed me, took my shit, and up till today had me leading him around that fucking cabin to the Northeast. Ah, this included forcing me to help put together a bloody arrow, leave it out for the guy living there like some kind of a fucking love note.

His callsign's DI481O. [ He repeats it for good measure. ] Mid-forties, Mexican, six feet. Muscular build. He's got a mustache, a grey streak in his hair. He dies, he'll come back in jeans, a button-down workshirt, red bandana. He'll have sustained a gunshot wound to his left leg and he'll be limping. His gun'll have four rounds, but I don't think I gotta tell anyone how easy it is to pick up new weaponry around here.

Most of what he said on here was bullshit. As you mighta gathered.

His name's Eduardo Salamanca. He's cartel, top of the fucking food chain. Drug manufacture and distribution, wide-scale killing on his say-so. This is a powerful man used to getting his way. He's also— [ The merest pause, a huff of breath. ] obsessive. Vengeful. Prone to fixate on people he sees as having wronged him or diminished his status. Capable, too. Not a hunter, but he can survive alright on his own.

[ Another, longer pause. When he comes back some of the weariness from the past week bleeds into his voice. ] I'm gonna type all this up for you. Ah, anyone who can write it down, please do. Tell anyone you know who might not be on the walkie.

Um, I took a print of his boot—I'll see if I can't get that out there. Anyone who's talked to him recently, I'd like to hear from you. You think he might come after you, I'd like to hear about that too. I've also got some questions.

Whos hurt/how bad?
Anyone familiar with Salamanca's name?
Anyone turn up something from his world during the storm?


[ OOC: True to his word, Rust will painstakingly type up a text version of this, which will take him a good twenty minutes.

He will ALSO be monitoring Lalo's walkie for a conveniently unspecified period of time, so if you want your char to look shady, now's your chance! Reply here with a message for Lalo and Rust will intercept it. (Or ignore this if your char is too smart for such ploys!) ]

Comments

[lonelynotforsaken]

[Yes. Missing his boyfriend. The only reason for that callsign. Yes, good. At least it just makes him look pathetic instead of like he's aligned with a horrible fear monster entity. Used to be aligned... Mostly used to.]

I guess we should maybe pay more attention to the callsigns and if they might mean something. I really thought Ben was- Eduardo was a police officer.

[...]

Although, 'diablo' would work for a cop, too.

[obeir]

[ K doesn't think it's pathetic at all, it's endearing, sweet. He can easily relate to that sort of romanticism and longing. But maybe one day he'll know the truth... ]

I'd say it's even more fitting for a cop than a cartel member, but I know my experience with human cops in my home universe influences that. I hope they're not as bad in other places.

[ Thoughtfully: ] Easy to guess who "Meow" belongs to. But I couldn't find Ellington's — the talking cat — radio anywhere. So if any messages start appearing from that call sign, probably safe to assume it's being used by someone else.

[lonelynotforsaken]

I mean... they're both usually awful sorts of people in different ways? At least cartel people are open about it. Except when they're lying through their teeth, I guess.

Also, that-that's adorable. Like the cutest thing I've heard all day? Meow for the kitty? Gosh! Oh, do you think if we get a talking dog they'll be 'BO012K'? Or something like that? That would be so sweet!

[obeir]

I wonder if everything was a lie? [ Because he really didn't have that impression, personally. ] Or mainly just the cop part. Everyone here seems to hate cops, so that's a strange thing to lie about being.

[ What the hell Martin, that's adorable too. ] We can only hope. Matching onomatopoeic call signs, that'd be very cute. [ He sounds amused. ] Now I'm a bit disappointed I didn't get some variation of "beep boop". [ You know, stereotypical robot sounds. ]

[lonelynotforsaken]

I don't know about... hate. Mistrust? But it's not like he could have known that. There are a lot of people who're really pro-police, too. Or would trust the police. Especially over, like, a cartel drug lord? If you gave me a choice to trust one of them with a kid like Kokichi, I'd probably lean toward the police if I didn't know anything else about the two different people.

Maddy and I were talking about maybe being able to change our callsigns in the future. You could maybe make that a reality? BE980P? That's more like bep-bop, but if we've only got six characters to play with and it has to follow the format of the other callsigns.