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kromer "how bigs that dick sinclair" limbuscompany ([personal profile] gripper) wrote in [community profile] citynet2023-06-16 09:47 pm

@Kromer || audio

( Kromer's decided she quite doesn't like this place. It doesn't seem like her opinion is an unpopular one, looking at other posts that have cropped up, so that's great. Wonderful when all of humanity is on the same page.

smile.

A whistle comes through the phone first, then her voice. It's a little on the grating side. )


Testing, testing.... Looks like this works! How wonderful.

( It might also be a little familiar to certain people, too. )

What an interesting situation we've found ourselves in. ( "interesting". ) It looks like some of you are already starting to get to know each other a little and make allies, huh? Ahahaha...

( ...... )

Since everyone else is posing questions, let me do a few too. Did you get a waste-of-time text before you left the train? What did you answer? What is your "business"? What Nest are you from? And finally, of course, the most important question of them all...

( Kromer pauses deliberately, relishing in her own dramatics. )

Have we any heretics among our number? I'm looking forward to hearing your responses.

[ ooc: a reminder that her opt-out is here! i'd highly encourage at least glancing at it. ]
icanfixer: (13a)

@DONQUIXOT3

[personal profile] icanfixer 2023-06-17 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's hard for one of their number in particular to forget kromer, but it isn't like she made a great impression on any of the other sinners; don quixote doesn't see what she does as justice either, not in this life, and the ID presses against her mind like a cat before she shuts it out. ]

Keep thy lips shut tight, villain! Thou hasn't impede upon justice here, but mine eyes shalt keep a close watch on thee!

[ kromer does not know nor care but please. she sounds serious. she won't on sight the woman but she's on thin ice. ]
icanfixer: (12a)

[personal profile] icanfixer 2023-06-17 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ ah... ]

Um, nay, it is not. [ not technically... ] But, ehm, thy questions are somewhat provocative! With the heretics bit, and all. There is nary a person who wouldst call themselves that.

[ ye... yeah!!! she can bring issue to that!!! ]

To answer thy query, I... said I was here to deliver justice upon the unjust, though I do not know how I had come to be upon a train not mine own in the first place.

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gradenine: (pic#16478099)

text; un: keter

[personal profile] gradenine 2023-06-17 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ nest? so op is from that hellish city too, huh... this only fortifies roland's theory of their situation being some experiment of some wing, but - ]

don't think anyone's obligated to post their answers to that in the open
also, why do our nests matter? you some kinda big shot from a wing or something?
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gradenine: (pic#16478093)

audio

[personal profile] gradenine 2023-06-17 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ squints... that still sounds pretty suspicious? but roland supposes that anyone who isn't the brightest bulb in the box can be fooled, huh.

there's a pause, as if to consider kromer's words. but then a male voice pops up, incredulously so: ]


The one who what?

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halbird: (and never again.)

/3

[personal profile] halbird 2023-06-17 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ for all the anxiety that being Kidnapped can give someone (Him. that someone is him), the afters of the confusing beginning are almost terribly mundane. or, quiet? scrolling through the network, not having to stab someone, though the uncomfortable feeling of it all still pricks at him instinctively, as it does—

—until it all culminates and builds into a wave that crashes into him very, very suddenly. his stomach sinks as the memories grip him in tandem with that voice, and for a moment he isn't here. he's in a bloodied house. he's in his burning hometown. he's on a mountain of bodies and, certain as her bad haircut, he saw her...

so, it's not.

it couldn't be.

(ignoring the irony of that statement in context) ]
halbird: (out of the egg.)

■■■■■!

[personal profile] halbird 2023-06-17 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ yet the more she talks, the more he listens. his hands turning white as he holds the phone with increasing intensity. the familiarity of everything strikes him in clear echoes, amplified by the curse of her whistle.

the fear

the hatred

the anger

the guilt— ]
halbird: (you should always have doubts.)

3/3 i hate you also text, un: vogel

[personal profile] halbird 2023-06-17 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ —the fact she hasn't changed, at all, which is the least surprising thing about all of this. but, ah, he has. he has.

even more than he had back then.

even if he isn't certain it's her, given the facts.

even if his fingers still tremble as he cobbles together a response through his racing mind.

he has to know. whatever she is... whether it be this city messing with him or not, he can't run. he can't. ]


Is... this a joke?

[ the great thing about text is that no one has to know it took him a little longer than it should have to get that out.

except he knows. right up to the answer to that question he asks, He Knows. ]
halbird: (from  my true self.)

what is hate but another side of love

[personal profile] halbird 2023-06-17 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ yeah, that sure is it. his gaze lingers on the screen, the thousand things he can say coming and going with the myriad of emotions, letters piecing together, falling apart.

she doesn't switch, but... sinclair does. he makes sure to let out the ragged breath building within him before the moment he shows he doesn't have to hide either. because— ]


You...

[ —she's dead. she died. her being here and tugging at the things within his mind, as usual, doesn't change the way that conclusion settles within him. it doesn't. ]

Kromer... [ how that name comes out as it always does. taut, threatening to snap in two. ] You should be. You are.

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ex_sink985: (underneath these titanic plates)

@blackwater / video.

[personal profile] ex_sink985 2023-06-17 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Pick one.

[ It's not great video? He doesn't seem to understand the camera. However he does realize he should clarify maybe. ]

One question.

[ She posed too many. ]
ex_sink985: (black water runs deep)

[personal profile] ex_sink985 2023-06-18 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
I did. It asked for personal information at first, then posed hypotheticals. It would only proceed if I used the characters on the screen to respond to the questions in real words.

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nutbuckets: (pic#15862812)

audio;

[personal profile] nutbuckets 2023-06-17 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I got that text!

Dunno what nest I'm from, and I don't know what a heretic is either, sorry.
nutbuckets: (pic#15862807)

[personal profile] nutbuckets 2023-06-20 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh uh, sure, why not? I don't got no secrets or nothin'.

[Should she? Why is everyone else giving her trouble about this?]

I just said 'you tell me' because I don't got a clue why I'm here.
killed: check with them before taking any icons made by them please! (pic♯15570416)

text; un: summer

[personal profile] killed 2023-06-20 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ thinkin abt him a heretic ]

Yes, I received it. It's labeled as an orientation, but it wasn't much of one. It was a simple questionnaire, but is it really a waste of time? You can learn a lot about a person by how they answer simple questions, just as you can learn a lot from how people respond now.

It's unfortunate, but I was a bit disorientated upon arrival, so I'm afraid I don't remember all the questions it asked, but I don't have any business here. I'd like to know what business it has with me as much as anyone else.

I'm not a religious man. Does that make me a heretic?
killed: (pic♯15570431)

it's fine he needs a woman to put him in his place tbh

[personal profile] killed 2023-06-23 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ boy that does sure sound like an unfortunate cult but who is he to judge ]

That is to say, a person modifying their body is blasphemy? Is that common where you're from? I've only ever seen it in patients who were in need of prosthetics, and I would say they would have preferred not to need them.
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