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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."

Date: 2023-03-08 10:05 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Explaining | Lecturing)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[Dustin types So no one important, then before he realizes how Cayde might take that and, wisely, deletes it.]

Good.
Don't care, as long as it's edible.
Be there in 30.


[Already on the way, battling snow in the interest of intel and food.]

-> action

Date: 2023-03-10 04:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[It's not precisely thirty minutes later when Dustin finally arrives at the Deep End, thanks to the deep snow hindering his path south, even on the more well-trodden main roads connecting his workshop to the Residential Towers, but it's close enough that he doesn't feel like Cayde will care. Dustin certainly doesn't. He's much more concerned about the opportunity for people to show up that he's not expecting, and then having to contend with them once he gets there.]

[Thankfully, when Dustin peeks his head through the front door, it looks just as empty as Cayde promised. He takes a moment to drink in the surroundings before slipping inside, shivering against his snow-dusted coat.]

Date: 2023-03-12 07:21 pm (UTC)
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[Dustin doesn't answer immediately, nor does he look especially excited to be here. Too busy internalizing the interior of this place. Standard bar setup, large windows into the central lake - structurally dubious, but not nearly as much as the mattress-covered hole he noticed on the way over. His memory of the Tower's structure suggests that it should open up the side wall, but...huh. Dustin raises an eyebrow at the dartboard, then decides not to comment on it and slinks his way to the bar, towards the side furthest away from Colonel.]

Yeah, yeah. [He gives his coat one last brush off with his gloved hands before clambering onto a stool.] I'm late, weather fucking blows. Is the ramen ready?

Date: 2023-03-14 06:44 pm (UTC)
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[Dustin critically studies the ramen - or maybe he's just letting his face hover over his bowl so the steam can defrost his nose and cheeks. Maybe it's a little bit of both. The smell of hot spices carries from this distance, too, which Dustin isn't going to protest. His sinuses could do with being flushed.]

Whatever works.

[The chopsticks almost don't. It's not that Dustin's never used chopsticks before, but rather, the ones his muscle memory is attuned for are...factory standard. These very much are not. He fumbles with them for a second, looking momentarily peeved, before his fingers untangle enough to pinch a clump of noodles.]

[Back to business.]


Alright, I'm here. Continue. [Dustin shovels a small, but still larger than desired, bundle of ramen noodles into his mouth.]

Date: 2023-03-17 02:59 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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?

Date: 2023-03-18 05:11 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Studious | Skeptical)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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.]

Date: 2023-03-20 03:11 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Explaining | Lecturing)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
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.

Date: 2023-03-21 01:34 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Studious | Skeptical)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
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?

Date: 2023-03-22 03:10 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Paranoid | Side-Eye)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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.]

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

...Very little. What do you know?

Date: 2023-03-28 02:58 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Thinking | Element)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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?

Date: 2023-03-29 07:11 pm (UTC)
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[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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