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text; callsign: DI481O [1/3]

[salamanca]

[ This text is sent late into Morning 3/early on Day 3. ]

Jet? It's Ben. [ This is the name Lalo would have given Jet upon introduction. ]

Are you alive? How is Kokichi? Is he safe? Please message back and tell me you're both alive. Please.

text; callsign: DI481O [2/3]

[salamanca]

[ There are a few more messages along this vein; panicked texts asking if Jet and Kokichi are okay, if Jet was able to successfully track the drone, etc., blowing up Jet's personal messages. ]

text; callsign: DI481O [3/3]

[salamanca]

I am so sorry. I failed you both. I won't make any excuses. If you never want to speak to me again, I understand. I can't even face myself. I certainly can't ask for your forgiveness, and I won't. The only thing I can ask for is that you let me know you're both okay. Please.

(near the end of the hour rest he took)

[metalicarus]

[Jet doesn't have time for this and besides, the empathy part was rarely his bag, that's what Francoise, GB and Joe were for.]

Jesus Christ calm down. I'm working on it. Almost to him.
I'll let you know if we make it out, but do yourself a favor and stop being so pathetic. You made a mistake. You owned it. Learn and move on. If you don't hear from us, assume we died and do better.

woohoo!

[salamanca]

[ Damn, Jet! Ice cold. If that had been a real mental breakdown, Lalo's feelings would be hurt right now.

As it is, he's just impressed; he decides then and there that he definitely likes Jet. It's not like what Jet is saying is fundamentally bad advice anyway. It's solid, actually.

He lets several minutes pass before he responds. ]

ok

[metalicarus]

[It's a couple hours later when he texts back.]

Found the kid and I think that Martin guy who got captured. Can't open the doors without a password.
Any guess?

[Time to see if this guy actually wants to try and help or if he's going to wallow some more. He'd seemed competent enough during the last day he'd known Ben...but first impressions could be wrong and some people just didn't do well under too much pressure.]

[salamanca]

[ Lalo debates how helpful he wants to be, but decides that ultimately, seeming slightly pathetic is good for getting people to underestimate him; but seeming extremely pathetic might get him left out of the loop, which he doesn't want.

He waits a few minutes to respond, like he's trying to pull it together, then... ]

I don't. But I know who might.

You remember Sol, right? From Miss Shaw's message earlier? Callsign SU818C.

I'm going to message him now. See if he wants to help. Might not be such a bad idea for you to try too.

SU818C | text | day 003

[glencolans]

sry
idk wat its supposed 2 b :(
ill ask som ppl but idk if theyll now nything
im rly rly sry
wish i new more

[metalicarus]

It's fine.

[It's not, but he's not heartless.]

Advice on breaking these drones?
Weak spots?

[glencolans]

idk!!!
martin said he put som wtr on one nd it broke
so ig that works???

r they like
in the room w u?
r they movin around or

[metalicarus]

Yeah, that's what he mentioned to me too.

And yes, they're on their platforms. Charging, I'd guess, or waiting for their programming to kick in.

1/2

[glencolans]

ok
ok ok ok
uhhhhh
they gotta b chargin from sumwer
i didnt think the island had power at all so
mabe u cut the power nd they stay of

2/2

[glencolans]

ooooh wait wait wiat
frnd says uh
"the island drinks of the earth
nd its blood from the sky"
she thinks thats how the power grid works
idk if that helps at all sry

[metalicarus]

[No, no it does not. He sighs to himself and presses his fingers against his eyelids a moment.

Except...maybe it does? In a messed up 'soothsayer' kind of way.]

Sounds like they're saying the electricity comes from the rain. Like a water-based generator. Could be underground.

Doesn't really help now, but it might later.
Thanks.

RE419S | audio | time this however you want/whatever makes sense!

[aluminumandash]

[ After talking to Martin about Ben's secret fucking rescue plan, Rust tries to raise Jet on the walkie before he gets to Ben. ] Jet? This is Cohle. [ His voice is an urgent rasp. ] Got a favor to ask.

[metalicarus]

[He winces to himself, both for a small tangle of terrain he's traversing and for the sound of Cohle's voice.]

Hey. You sound like shit. What's up?

[aluminumandash]

[ Bulldozing along: ] You're on the way to de Guzman, yeah? Ben.

[metalicarus]

Working on it, yeah.

[There's definitely an 'and?' quietly in his tone.]

[aluminumandash]

Can you give me your impression of him? What's he wearing, how well-provisioned, is he [ —packing— ] armed, is he injured and how bad. Discreet, like.

[metalicarus]

I was told he was thinking of going of to recue you on his own. Something I'm meant to dissuade him from. You wanna at least tell me why it sounds like you're trying to case him?

text; callsign: LO431Y; Night 018

[lonelynotforsaken]

[After a very concerning conversation with Cohle and Ben, Martin decides some back up is in order. Jet might not like Cohle, but Martin expects that won’t matter at the end of the day.]

Hey, Jet!
How are you holding up in the storm?

[metalicarus]

Doing alright. Finding some things here and there, but not as much as I was hoping.
Haven’t fallen through the floor yet.

How are you holding up over there?

[lonelynotforsaken]

Good to hear!
Or read.

Everyone's alive.
And no injuries, yet.
No flooding, either, which we were really worried about.

There's something else going on that I'm kind of concerned about, though.
I guess I'm looking for a second opinion as much as help.

[metalicarus]

You got it
What's on your mind?

[lonelynotforsaken]

I messaged Cohle on the radio to see how he was doing and ask where he was.
And the message I got back was weird.
It started with an apology???
And then we had this strange conversation where it seemed like he was trying to talk to me in code.

And then I think Ben took his radio and started responding, instead.
But he didn't say it was him.
Just pretended to be Cohle.