[ network | accidental video ]

[equalsdeath]

[ The video clicks on to a weird angle, like someone just dropped it on the ground. It's recording a pretty barren looking desert (hi future california) and, because THIS IS TERMINATOR, a guy standing there bare-ass naked with his back to the camera

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[agrise]

[ Pinged by a man crawling out of a coffin.

Naturally. ]

"Shinra" and "AVALANCHE" are the terms you're misspeaking.

[ ... And then he thinks about it for a minute.

If this man is with AVALANCHE and has one of these communicators, then presumably this isn't some misplaced Turk gadgetry like he'd initially assumed; more likely, one of Strife's little crew dropped it when they passed through before.

... Useful. ]

This is AVALANCHE, obviously. [ ... Cough. ] Tell us where you are, and we'll come and find you.

[existenta]

[JUST. REALLY?]

[agrise]

[ What. B| ]

you were pinged by bare-ass naked don't lie

[equalsdeath]

What the--

[ DROPS COMMUNICATOR oops ]

[ fumble fumble ]

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. If you're asking for security authorization codes, I don't have any. I'm human, I'm one of yours, I need help and an evac.

I don't know where they bur-- where this is. Outside of San Francisco somewhere.

yeah well the only ass he's seen since lucrecia bailed is his own and. well.

[agrise]

San Francisco? [ ... Sounds like some sort of keyword to confirm Hojo's identity. AVALANCHE's own little language, probably. ] -- I don't have time for this oblique terminology. Use Universal location names if you want to be found.

hojo your head shouldn't turn all the way around like that

[equalsdeath]

Univer-- look, goddammit, I said I don't know where I am. I don't have exact coordinates unless this piece of scrap has GPS--

[ oh. ]

[ LMFAO LOCATION PING. ]

OH MY GOD

[provictoria]

WRIGHT, what HELL are you doing! [DON'T YOU PING LOCATIONS TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THINGS SCRE]

LMFLA;FJKDSL

[equalsdeath]

[ LDJFSLFJ SHIT ]

I didn't do that on purpose! I don't know what the fuck these buttons d--

[ CONNECTION TERMINATED. ]

[provictoria]

[Silence. Connection Terminated. He's coming to get your stupid undead ass personally before someone else does B(]

actually he just sits on the photocopier. c:

[agrise]

[ Silence.

He does receive the location ping easily enough, and the map comes up quite as it should. It's as detailed as a map should be, seemingly undoctored, but there isn't a single part of it even passably comparable to Gaia.

Then the device is perhaps broken? But no, his own map comes up just fine, and he sends Wright a little ping of his own location to test it.

Interplanetary?

Jenova? ]

btw

[provictoria]

I don't know who you are or how you got on this network, but your "assistance" is no longer required.

[So pretend you never got anything or else.]

:|

[agrise]

I doubt you have grounds to be concerned. You won't be receiving my "assistance" any time soon.

[ Connor can have a location ping too, lest he's in any doubt. ]

voice

[prevoyant]

No, you're actually extremely wrong.

[ and she realizes how that sounds, so she adds a little ]

Uhh. Sorry.

voice

[agrise]

Am I.

voice

[prevoyant]

Yes.

[ :> ]

voice

[agrise]

[ ... This is the long, awkward silence where he figures out they're not even on the same planet, whoopsies. ]

So it'd seem.

Then you're useless, aren't you?

[ Connection terminated. ]