[Because of the lack of descriptors, verbs, and adjectives Nate doesn't know if it's a full question, or a statement and a question, or something else entirely.]
no offense buddy, but you're going to need to give me some more words to work with
it's fine, it's just hard to read emphasis in text
[Also, Nate is like...notoriously bad with texting. And technology in general. Oddly, the specificity has him even more confused. It's a pretty personal question, but maybe he's just following up on Nate's previous statement.]
used to move around all the time. didn't spend more than a couple months in one place, usually.
[Oh. Oh, Jesus. How did he ever give that impression? Flat text really does do a disservice to tone, but if he squints Nate can see why what he said comes across as the words of a man who was stationed and re-stationed and re-re-stationed.
His keen intuition tells him that the guy on the other end of the line is drawing on personal experience, though, and Nate isn't sure that describing his adventure capitalist life will come across super well.]
no, but i've seen a lot of action
[Fuck, that makes him sound like a merc.]
the travel was partly work, partly because i didn't have a home to go back to.
[Well, he can't say he didn't see this one coming.]
currently marine salvage. formerly treasure hunter. [Nate wants to make the distinction.] i wasn't starting coups in foreign countries, i was retrieving artifacts and rediscovering lost cities
[Okay. All right. This is where they are now. Nate can smell the dubiousness the same way he can smell a vendor selling caldo de castilla across a crowded market in Peru.]
it's not a legal one, if that's what you're implying
[ Archaeology without the permits. Maine thinks about that for a moment. Pieces together 'action,' 'treasure hunter,' and 'illegal.' Know what he comes up with? ]
Grave robbing?
???
[ Complete with several extra question marks, because just. What? That can't be right, can it? ]
okay actually that's a lie, i did find sir francis drake's sarcophagus on a dive once and opened it, but that was because i was trying to prove that he hadn't actually died off the coast of panama
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no shit
two, since i got here
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How's it move?
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wish i could tell you the logistics, but that's above my pay grade
the gods move the city whenever they need to, which is whenever they feel threatened or unsafe
we're just the portable buffet
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[ So he hath decreed. ]
Back home. Moved a lot?
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[Because of the lack of descriptors, verbs, and adjectives Nate doesn't know if it's a full question, or a statement and a question, or something else entirely.]
no offense buddy, but you're going to need to give me some more words to work with
like a noun or something
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Habit. [ Then: ] Sorry.
[ Communication was always easier face-to-face. Back when he could talk, that is. Lately, face-to-face shit is just ... frustrating. ]
Meant you.
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[Also, Nate is like...notoriously bad with texting. And technology in general. Oddly, the specificity has him even more confused. It's a pretty personal question, but maybe he's just following up on Nate's previous statement.]
used to move around all the time. didn't spend more than a couple months in one place, usually.
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Enlisted?
[ ... Which is still just one word, but he really doesn't think it needs anything else. ]
text; im sorry for him
His keen intuition tells him that the guy on the other end of the line is drawing on personal experience, though, and Nate isn't sure that describing his adventure capitalist life will come across super well.]
no, but i've seen a lot of action
[Fuck, that makes him sound like a merc.]
the travel was partly work, partly because i didn't have a home to go back to.
text; shhhh it's glorious
Your work: mercenary?
[ Look at that! He included a noun and everything! ]
text; hhhhhHHHHHHHHH
currently marine salvage. formerly treasure hunter. [Nate wants to make the distinction.] i wasn't starting coups in foreign countries, i was retrieving artifacts and rediscovering lost cities
text; :) :) :)
Treasure hunter's a profession?
[ SOUNDS FAKE BUT OKAY. ]
text; >8|
it's not a legal one, if that's what you're implying
it's archaeology without the permits
[Or the standards.]
text; i'm so sorry
Grave robbing?
???
[ Complete with several extra question marks, because just. What? That can't be right, can it? ]
text; 1/???
i have never purposefully dug up dead guys to steal their coffin trinkets, no
2/???
3/???
there, anyway
4/4
but is it technically grave robbing if there are no remains?
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Yes.
[ Sorry for your life, Nate. ]
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