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Cayde-6 ([personal profile] deal_me_in) wrote2017-05-31 09:52 pm
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"Hey! You've reached Cayde, but either I'm busy or I'm busy. Either way, go ahead and leave a message...or don't. Obviously I won't get back to you if it's the latter."
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-17 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin watches Cayde with narrowed, intense and curious eyes, even as he starts more aggressively scarfing down his bowl of noodles. There's a bit of heat to them, but it's not unpleasant enough to slow him down.]

So, non-spacefaring species similar to the Graq? [Said around a mouthful of ramen, which he pauses to finish chewing and swallowing before he continues.] What did they look like?
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-18 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin lets out a small, frustrated huff at Cayde's roundabout storytelling methods, but the moment passes quickly. Sundance's demonstration drags his attention away at once, enough to get him to stop eating for a few seconds, even, so that he can hear what the projection is saying over the sound of his slurping.]

...Rock...bird? The ship, I would guess. [Dustin tilts his head slightly, like a dog hearing a whistle.] If they weren't spacefaring, then...what were they doing on Agra 10? There's no way the population in Sh'Ka didn't know about space travel - the city has a spaceship hangar. Unless it - or the connections to Temba - weren't built concurrently...

[Dustin cuts himself off only because he's scooped another clump of ramen into his mouth, chewing pensively while the gears in his brain churn behind his eyes.]
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-20 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

[--is all Dustin can manage at first, because while Cayde was talking, he's polished off all of the noodle parts of his meal and is in the process of guzzling the broth out of his bowl, as much for the sustenance as he is for the warmth. He places the empty dish and his chopsticks back down on the counter with a soft clatter and quickly wipes his mouth (and his now slightly runny nose) on the back of a coat sleeve.]

--Yeah, I gathered. [Dustin turns his attention to the knife. He glances up once at Cayde, as if silently asking permission, then gently leans forward to get a better look at it from all angles.] The stoneworking methods present in the ruins suggested a sort of active melding rather than carving or casting, although the fact that the rock shows minimal signs of metamorphosis from the process is still odd. A property of the local bedrock or their spit, maybe.
quark_assassin: (Studious | Skeptical)

[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-21 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, on the sundial. I've seen it.

[With formal permission given, Dustin picks up the stone knife like he's handling a precious artifact, turns it over once in his hands to weigh it and see the underside, then sets it back on the counter and pushes it towards Cayde. That's all he needs.]

[But as mentioned - sidetrack.]


Right. Do you know who was doing the shooting? What they wanted?
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-22 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin nods along, his eyes periodically flickering back to the spinning knife as its movement distracts his attention. Still, he doesn't seem so sidetracked that he doesn't follow Cayde's story.]

Yeah, I get it. [Kind of nasty, actually, if this is the last population of the Agrii left - essentially setting them up for extinction. Dustin's pensive expression turns into a troubled frown.] What evidence do we have to suggest that the Atroma were responsible?

[He's heard this name before, but it's only ever been just that: A name. "The real enemy" with nothing concrete to back it up. He's inclined to believe that a third party is involved in all of this, he's just not sure who it should be, or why.]
quark_assassin: (Studious | Skeptical)

[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-24 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin's head tilts again, this time with confusion. Cayde is jumping pretty far ahead here.]

...Very little. What do you know?
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-28 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin's eyes migrate from the knife to Cayde's bowl of noodles. He's focused, yes, but also...still very hungry. Is Cayde going to eat those? Does Cayde need to eat those?]

[Good thing for both of them, the thought of that ramen going to waste doesn't seem to distract Dustin at all from Cayde's explanation - which is good, because this is a lot to take in. Non-consensual interdimensional gameshow? Temba, used as a pitstop that immediately caused planet-wide turmoil? The Atroma supplied their escape and some of the critical technology that the Agrii have for them now? Who is "The Soldier?"]

[A few moments of silence pass as Dustin processes, trying to determine what the most important thread of information to tug on would be.]


...Cal Kestis, you mean?
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-29 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin had been mostly unaware that he was so openly ogling Cayde's food, so when the bowl is slid his way he looks genuinely surprised by the gesture, gaze flickering several times between the Hunter and his abandoned noodles before he hesitantly pulls it close, hovering overtop like he'll bite anyone that tries to take it away.]

Got it.

[Note to self: Follow up with Cal to access that recording. Dustin isn't thrilled about how this information-gathering venture is starting to snowball into the laps of more people, but at least it's all been people that he's identified as either "trustworthy" or "interesting and probably competent" in Cal's case.]

Tommy was part of that team, too. He mentioned that the ship experienced some kind of storm-like phenomenon, and that it affected Ga Re in a similar way. [The whole reason why he's talking to Cayde right now, that.] Does that line up with what you observed? You said there were power fluctuations, just before the attack.
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-30 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin takes advantage of Cayde's exposition to start scarfing down this next bowl of ramen. With the way he haphazardly twists and scoops noodles into his face, it's like he hasn't eaten in the past week, let alone five minutes ago. Then again, the boy is thin enough that Cayde wouldn't be remiss in thinking this is, in fact, the first decent meal he's had in several days.]

[Mumbled around a half-chewed mouthful of noodles: ]
And? What did you get out of the boarding party? That you haven't already told me, anyway.
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-03-31 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin nods slowly. Getting spit on by a Graq was already something he'd made a mental note to avoid, but it's nice to know that this is still a priority even if the end result isn't immediately disfiguring or fatal.]

What kind of condition was Ga Re in? The rest of the Agrii?

[Tommy had made it sound like Ga Re was in rough shape, but had been unable or unwilling to provide more details. Details Dustin has determined are Important.]
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-04-01 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin has enough time while Cayde is explaining this next bit of the story to finish the rest of his soup, but this time, he doesn't. Part of it is the fact that he's actually getting a little full; more of it is that the events being detailed give him enough pause to slow down and think things through more thoroughly than before.]

[The Agrii gave them the option to go home.]

[Somehow, Dustin has gone this entire time assuming that, even if they fulfilled what they were abducted here to accomplish, the Agrii would be so reliant on their assistance that they would refuse to let them leave - and have the complete and utter mental authority to enforce their compliance on the matter. He'd been bitter about it. And now here's Cayde, telling him that Ga Re was ready to send them all home before they had ever "fixed" a single storm. It flies in the face of all the assumptions Dustin had built up about these people, and he's not quite sure how to puzzle through it all at the moment.]

[So he doesn't. Instead, Dustin focuses on something that definitely makes him mad, and he's pretty sure should make him mad.]


Fucking typical. [He snorts, derisive, and angrily mauls a clump of noodles wrapped around his chopsticks.] So it's all just for their entertainment, then? The Atroma? All of our suffering and the Agrii's tasks are some drama that they can watch on a Saturday night with a bowl of popcorn?
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[personal profile] quark_assassin 2023-04-03 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dustin doesn't seem so sure - or maybe he sees Colonel edging closer and that's making him a little nervous. Either way, he guards his bowl closer and starts eating it with a bit more gusto.]

How were they defeated last time, exactly?

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