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[fingersloophole]

The people here...the Scorched...what are they? Human? Is there any reason they act violently?

The excavation seems to be moving along. I just wonder if I'm the only one who thinks some things that are buried should remain so.

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voice;

[sandrocker]

[politely ignoring the latter part of his post.]

Why do you think that?

voice;

[fingersloophole]

You don't think some things are better not being dragged up again? People bury negative things...for a reason.

voice;

[sandrocker]

That's true, but I don't consider books and trinkets negative things.

voice;

[fingersloophole]

They aren't. Not yet at least. But to balance things...there has to be some negative.

[yetsleeping]

...some of them are human. And some um, aren't?

What a strange question.

You're one of them - are you human?

[fingersloophole]

I'm not so sure anymore. But I meant the natives.

[lestrangestone]

The Natives of Anatole seem as dull and easily controlled as the mundane people of anywhere.

[Less lofty. More displeased.]

The Scorched are ...less easily defined. It seems to vary by many degrees.

[fingersloophole]

So in other words, it's just blind luck who you encounter as far as the natives go.

[He sounds thrilled too. Really.]

Has this place ever given us a shiny new toy without a shitstorm to go with it?

[lestrangestone]

[Scoff.]

Surely you will not let this transgression go unpunished?

[Intense glee and emphasis on punish.]

These rabble grow more reckless by the moment. And some things are worth the storms that precede. Perhaps this discovery will be one of them. In any case, it is interesting to watch unfold.

[fingersloophole]

Of course the transgression will be punished. Quite swiftly. [The glee doesn't disturb him. Hm.]

We can hope, I suppose, that the end is worth the means to get it.

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[wellsuited]

Sir! Who was it?

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[fingersloophole]

I hardly want vengeance, Elena. But I do want information. Which is why this is on a volunteer basis.

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[wellsuited]

Still, I should know who it is, right?

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[fingersloophole]

A Native. He had...[He switches on video feed to show pins. Turk-issue pins, with the ShinRa logo faded and bits missing.]

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[bulletsforbaby]

Sure. Who is it?

[Hesitation? Nah.]

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[fingersloophole]

Native. I don't know much else except what he was carrying. [And Reno gets the same video shot as Elena of the Turk pins. Efficiency, not laziness!]

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[bulletsforbaby]

[...]

Holy shit. So, what. You wanna find out what he knows about Shinra? How he got those?

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[fingersloophole]

Either of those would be appealing to me, yes. I know of one Turk here before...who else has come and gone?