[Vincent's voice is level, but there's a tint of emotion in it. He's...concerned. And for once it shows.]

I agree that it's time to take a headcount. If you're missing anyone, let me know, with a description if possible, and I'll go looking. It's safer that way.

That said, I think...

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--e had a good reason to scream, don't you think? Good reason to be disgusted, good reason to hate what you are.

[The voice is eerily similar to Vincent's, but there's a note of difference to it. It's...a little higher, maybe, less of a rumble, less of a whisper. Anyone who spoke to Vincent at the masquerade will recognize it as what he would ( Read more... )

Tseng.

[That doesn't sound like Vincent at all, in spite of being broadcast under his userID.]

Your charge from SCIENTIFIC Research has fainted.

[Those familiar with what this sounds like--hello, Chaos--are likely to be confused by the bizarre lucidity in that layered mess of echoing voices. If anything, he sounds...sad.]

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...I'd like to put out an APB for a twenty-six-year-old man. Average height, slim build. Red hair, blue eyes, dark blue suit. Red tattoos under his eyes. He's bleeding badly.

[He sounds very detached, running on automatic. Letting old training take over.]

His name is Reno. If you find him, please have him taken to the infirmary.

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Reno. Due to the arrival of your original director, I'm dropping rank.

Report to him from now on if you have anything to say.

[That means "Go play with Veld and leave me alone."]

Everyone else, thank you for your company.

Someone wake me when we make port.

[Vincent is a creeper with nothing better to do, and customarily listens to almost every transmission that passes over the network without a lock in place. Thus, he's already aware that a certain someone has shown up on the boat.

He is not happy in the slightest.]

[Locked from Veld // 56% Unhackable]

...Captain.

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