004 ⌥ AUDIO & TEXT

[femshep]

...If that fog ever comes back, just do me a favor and shoot me first.

[And that's all she has to say there.

But a few people will be receiving text portions locked individually to them, most of them reading the exact same:]


BCC: Telford, Kirk, Thrace, Hunt, Vegeta, Hart, Rhade
MESSAGE: If you've got time, I'd like to have a word with you in person.

TO: Claire
MESSAGE: Training sometime in the next 48 hours. When's good for you?

TO: Fox
MESSAGES: Still alive over there?

Comments

To: Shepard

[hunt4commonwealth]

Tell me when and where and I'll be there.

Should I consider this confidential or can I bring my first officer?

[femshep]

Old diner, two miles east of the Flop. Bring him--needed to talk to him too.

[Sorry, guys, she's not cooking for you. She's seeing if she can't harvest whatever powered the stoves (something like propane? she's not sure exactly what level of technology the city had before it fell), and so she might as well just have them come to her.]

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

I'll consider other methods of incapacitation first. I kind of like you.

[Nietzschean humor. Just ignore it.]

I'll accompany CAPT Hunt.

[Private]

[femshep]

[Then Shepard must be part Nietzschean, because that's definitely in the same vein as some of the jokes she's cracked.]

How reassuring.

[Humor doesn't carry well over text, but take my word that it isn't malicious sarcasm she offered right there.]

Roger that.

[audio]

[waspromisedcake]

This is sarcasm, right?

[radars]

...what fog?

[video]

[game_over_man]

Awww, did it frizz your hair or something?

[video]

[femshep]

Mostly.

[femshep]

[Long confused pause.] Is that how it hit you, then? Memory loss?

The fog rolled in last week. Chemical fog--if I had my crew here, we'd have ran more tests on that shit than you could've counted, but for now the exact chemical composition is pretty much an unknown.

Let's just say it messed with a few people's heads.

[video]

[femshep]

No. But I did put about 200 holes in the buildings surrounding a large rock.

And something about 'mobbins'.

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

Mostly? I don't think I'm supposed to shoot you for acting weird. If you try to kill me, sure, but not just for being weird.

[video]

[femshep]

Just... yes, it was sarcasm. [That's easier than explaining the intricacies of how much she'd rather be incapacitated somehow than tripping balls and putting bulletholes through invisible slugs. Not that she didn't enjoy it at the time.]

Hey, I was meaning to get ahold of you too--we're definitely due for another training session sometime soon. You busy?

[video] he is in unrelenting jerk mode. :(

[game_over_man]

Someone need a refresher about where the safety switch is?

[video] it's okay, she can keep up

[femshep]

You looking to find out?

[video]

[waspromisedcake]

I'm never busy.

[That wasn't entirely true. Sometimes she went on little errands for Edmund in exchange for goods, but they never took up too much time.]

[video]

[game_over_man]

[Snerk.] Babe, I've stood in front of fuckin' Vasquez.

[Who carries a gun nearly as big as she is.] You're questioning the wrong dude's testicular fortitude.

[His testicles are entirely....uhhhh, fortuitous?]

But I'm willing to give you a, you know, refresher course. [Wink wink nudge nudge.]

[Private- audio]

[buckingauthority]

What's up? Sounds ominous.

[video]

[femshep]

The last thing I took down was 82 feet tall and pissed. And that was an average Saturday.

Keep trying, though. It's nice, to know there're people out there more sex-deprived than my pilot.

[Private- audio]

[femshep]

[Avoiding the question, over the network anyway.] Where can I meet you?

[video]

[game_over_man]

[You are making it really hard for Hudson to operate his Innuendo Skills. Y u gotta b like that?]

Sounds like you need to get out more. Because that? That is not a good time.

[He clutches a hand to his chest. Do not make him clutch his invisible pearls. You wound him!]

Hey, what can I say? Uncle Sam issued me some bonus libido.

[Private- audio]

[buckingauthority]

There's an abandoned semi-intact row of apartments about a three clicks north of the flop. Think you can find it if I text directions and leave you a little sign?

[video]

[femshep]

'Good time' is all just a matter of opinion, anyway. [Because honestly, Shepard's at her best when she's got something to shoot to protect the general public, and that was one such time.]

[Private- audio]

[femshep]

On my way.

[gavehislife]

I'll be around the ship again sometime tomorrow if you need to meet up.

[Private- audio]

[buckingauthority]

[Kara sends the directions via text. The apartment she's scoping out is a floor up and pretty structurally sound. But she's picked it for the view. The living room area looks out at the Alien ship.

She limps down to the ground floor and piles some debris into a makeshift arrow to indicate where she is. Shepard may notice the big weird painted mural on a concrete wall nearby too. It's what Kara painted when she was hopped up on fog-juice.]