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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: 2023-03-28 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)
quark_assassin: (Paranoid | Side-Eye)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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.

Date: 2023-03-30 01:34 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Studious | Skeptical)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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.

Date: 2023-03-31 11:08 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Explaining | Lecturing)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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.]

Date: 2023-04-01 09:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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?

Date: 2023-04-03 03:43 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Paranoid | Side-Eye)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[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?

Date: 2023-04-04 04:20 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Eyeroll | Huffy | whatever)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[Dustin sigs melodramatically through his nose. Sounds like he has a few more people he needs to contact for follow-up questions...annoying. Why does he have to go talk to people, all of a sudden? Why can't anyone just write shit down so he can consume it at his leisure? It's starting to feel like all of the worst parts of his recent journeys on Earth after he ran away from home - the parts where he had to follow up on vague leads from the internet by tracking people down and - ugh - communicating with them. The horror.]

[He tucks that unenviable task away for now, backtracking to some of the other questions that Cayde might be more equipped to answer.]


The storms aren't a recent phenomena. If they started soon after the Atroma visited Agra 10, that would imply their "broadcast"-- [ said around a set of quotes made with his fingers, accompanied by a sharp tap-tap of his chopsticks ] --has been going on for...hundreds? Thousands of years, possibly. I find it hard to believe that that level of infrastructure could have been overturned by, you know. Us.

Date: 2023-04-06 02:28 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Studious | Skeptical)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[Dustin demolishes the remainder of his ramen by the time Cayde finishes answering. He carefully stacks the now empty second bowl into the first, frowning and furrowing his brow at them while he sets his chopsticks down across the rim.]

Do the Agrii think that the Atroma are responsible, if they assume that they're all dead?

Date: 2023-04-07 04:12 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Obstinate | Sarcastic)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[Dustin nods, looking marginally less anxious about Colonel's presence now that he's not guarding his food from her.]

Even for the, you know. [He arcs an eyebrow.] Really obviously staged kidnapping and ship battle? I guess they could assume that wasn't the Atroma either, but did anyone get an answer from the Agrii about who they thought set all of that shit up and hacked their ship afterwards?

[It's important that Dustin get a read on the Agrii's opinion about this - he's still trying to work out how he's supposed to feel about them, given everything else Cayde's revealed in this conversation.]

Date: 2023-04-11 04:12 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Judgement | you get just one eyebrow)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[Dustin rolls his eyes, although he looks more disappointed than exasperated with the way his gaze flicks down to the countertop afterwards.]

Of course.

[That sounds more like the Agrii he's become accustomed to: Dangerously ignorant and optimistic, wholly reliant on the "Heroes" that they stole away to save them. The fact that this role was inspired by similarly exploitative media from the civilization that evidence suggests nearly wiped them out is deeply ironic.]

...You realize that, even if we do somehow fix... [Dustin gestures vaguely at the ceiling.] ...All of this shit. There's no way they'll be able to take care of themselves. They're just going to run into another crisis, probably something minor like "we've run out of crystals for the power plant" or whatever, and it'll either kill them or they'll kidnap another group of "heroes" to fix it again. We've not saving anyone by doing this except ourselves.

Date: 2023-04-12 06:13 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Obstinate | Sarcastic)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[Dustin scoffs, his expression flattening.]

Understatement. That's like saying a toddler can fend for themselves because they retain a lot of information. From what I've seen of their "applications," and how they treat any corrections of them, they wouldn't last a season.

Date: 2023-04-13 07:26 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Studious | Skeptical)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
I'm not.

[Dustin glances up, his brows raised.]

I'm saying that it would be negligent to leave them alone here, even if we do something about the storms. Maybe they would let us go back, but...all of the work we did here for them would be pointless. They need oversight. At least until they've had a generation or two to figure out how to live on their own again, planet-side.

Date: 2023-04-17 03:41 pm (UTC)
quark_assassin: (Sulking | Defeated)
From: [personal profile] quark_assassin
[Dustin holds the look, deadpan and unimpressed, but finds that he can't maintain it for very long. His face falls with a long sigh.]

I...guess I'm on that list. I can't let all the work I've put in go to waste like that.

[There's a couple of dull thumps as Dustin agitatedly kicks his feet under the counter.]

Besides, what the fuck else am I gonna do? Go home? [ scoff ] Not a chance in hell.

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