...Nice to meet you. [Well, he wants to be on good terms with the guy, even if Stango and Sofia apparently don't get along very well.
There's a moment's pause while he checks the settings, making sure to the best of his ability that the line is secure. Then he asks carefully:] How much did Sofia say about why she was looking for me?
[He doesn't want to go over the nasty details, but if he's going to enlist Stango's help he's gonna have to be honest. Compromise: skim, obviously uncomfortable.]
He... caught me in a corridor, and. Had some kind of... knockout drug, and. Tied up to a chair and, uh. Absinthe. And.
He's... [Alex can't stop himself from shuddering; fortunately, he can't be seen, although it's audible as a faint shaking in his breathing.] ...pretty strong. [A brief pause, then firmly:] He's just some ordinary psycho.
[He's determined of it, partly because the only nonhumans he's knowingly encountered have been obviously physically different.]
If you go to sort him out, let me know. I want to help.
[And now, please enjoy this example of the mun referencing some unofficial stuff and making some other stuff up!]
Uh, you should have an orange button on a keypad or keyboard or somewhere, so if you press that and put in whoever's room number, floor number, hash and orange again it'll lock. Typing it faster seems to help. And it's harder to hack if you hit the keys in a regular rhythm, don't ask me why.
[Wonderland computers don't make sense; news at eleven.]
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...Nice to meet you. [Well, he wants to be on good terms with the guy, even if Stango and Sofia apparently don't get along very well.
There's a moment's pause while he checks the settings, making sure to the best of his ability that the line is secure. Then he asks carefully:] How much did Sofia say about why she was looking for me?
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[He fails to mention that Sofia also said Alex was gay. That's just weird.]
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[His voice is hard, because otherwise it would've wavered. When he next speaks it's back to faintly tense normality.]
Yeah. [Another quick check of the feed's security.] Diogenes Pendergast. He, uh...
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[He trusts Alex's word on what happens to him more than Sofia's.]
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...This is kind of a witness statement, huh?
[He doesn't want to go over the nasty details, but if he's going to enlist Stango's help he's gonna have to be honest. Compromise: skim, obviously uncomfortable.]
He... caught me in a corridor, and. Had some kind of... knockout drug, and. Tied up to a chair and, uh. Absinthe. And.
...He was a crazy asshole.
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[Not that he's necessarily opposed to taking that on.]
That's pretty messed up. You gonna be okay?
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[And flatly, ever so flatly:] ...I can deal.
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[He narrowly refrains from adding "right between the eyes".]
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[He pauses, then amends that to,] Well, not from you alone.
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...Yeah, I know.
[A long pause. He's not exactly accustomed to asking for help.]
I thought... 'cause you're a cop, I thought I'd ask if...
Do you know how to deal with him?
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[He's determined of it, partly because the only nonhumans he's knowingly encountered have been obviously physically different.]
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By the way, how did ya do that? Locking the transmission down, I mean,
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[And now, please enjoy this example of the mun referencing some unofficial stuff and making some other stuff up!]
Uh, you should have an orange button on a keypad or keyboard or somewhere, so if you press that and put in whoever's room number, floor number, hash and orange again it'll lock. Typing it faster seems to help. And it's harder to hack if you hit the keys in a regular rhythm, don't ask me why.
[Wonderland computers don't make sense; news at eleven.]
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