hadriel | VOICE ; forward dated to the 23rd, late evening

Hey everyone, this is Peter. I'm, uh... Just lemmie-- Okay, I'm gonna preface this with "I'm fine", which... probably still sounds concerning to anyone who knows me. Uh, with good reason, but I promise that I really am fine.

Okay? Okay.

So... okay, you know those freaky tentacle snails that attacked those guys a little while ago? Yeah, they're still around. I ran into a few of them outside the city, and by 'ran into' I mean 'was totally ambushed by'. Like, I was just minding my own business and they jumped out all "Blahhhhgh!" and I was like "oh snap!!", so yeah, we fought a little and I got bit and, y'know, it hurt. And I know the one guy was all "hey call for back up if you see any" and I totally would have if I'd had a chance, but I didn't? I mean, not because I didn't want to, it's just like, in the moment I was a little distracted by trying to get away from the things, and I didn't have my web shooters on me because they're possessed by demons right now? So I wasn't gonna even try to catch one of those guys without my gear, so I left. My toothbrush tried to stab me this morning, I'm not dealin' with this on top of that today. I'm done, I'm tapping out!

Anyway, if anyone else ends up fighting these guys, go for the eyes if you can. They're kind of hard to hit because of all the tentacles, but if you can take their eyes out it slows them down. They're still dangerous, though, like, they will absolutely still try to fight you, so just like, don't stick around if you can help it. In fact, just don't go outside the city by yourself. Don't go anywhere by yourself. Y'know, buddy system up if you can. I don't know how many of these dudes are still out there, but I have a feeling that they're not going away any time soon.

Oh right, I did manage to break a chunk off one of their shells. I don't know how helpful that's gonna be? But I've got it at the lab if anyone wants to see it, assuming you can pry it away from Newt. I also got a photo! It's... not a very good one, but uh, I'll put this somewhere, I guess.

[attached photo: A City Boy Seconds Before Being Chomped By A Tentacle Monster.]

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What the hell. You took a selfie?

[There's concern, exasperation and, oddly, a note of admiration in her voice. It is kind of impressive.]

How far outside the city?

[His tone implies a What the hell, kid?, but he'll save that for later.]

Y-- no?

[Oh she's not gonna buy that is she.]

Yes.

But it while I was escaping.

[No, no she isn't.]

You know if that thing had eaten you, you'd have deserved it, right?

[DON'T YOU JUDGE HIM no go ahead and judge him he deserves it.]

Not super far, out towards the lake?

Well now, that seems a little harsh.

But you're absolutely right, yes ma'am.

So I'm guessing they didn't want you to figure out where they're hiding. You should map out where you were, it might be close. And now there's a blind one, should be easier to catch.

[He's not going to patronize Peter because wow does he not have room to talk about being reckless and it's not like the kid did it on purpose. He just made the best of a bad situation.]

[Yes, yes she is.]

Pretty good selfie for being chased by a monster, though. How fast was that thing?

[ This look.]

Is that before or after they attacked you?

[He is basically a robot dad and you're twelve, Peter. What do you want him to do.]

Shit. Not that far at all.

[And he's betting the second people hear, someone is going to head out there to take a look for themselves. Probably someone who can teleport, or at least move a hell of a lot faster than a rusty synth. He'll make some phone calls when he's done here.]

How many of them were there? And how'd they catch you off-guard?

[How well can a weird squid thing hide behind trees and hills?]

[Now, we don't have time to unpack all of that-]

Holy crap.

[-but there's something about that blurry, almost-hilarious image that has Nate wondering where he's seen a shelled creature like that before. It comes to him with a weird, déjà vu sensation, almost as if he's handled a similar material. He takes a few frantic seconds to dig around in a drawer before he lays hands on something he pulled out of Hadriel's lake over a year ago.

It's a little bit of a long-shot. He might be able to better confirm it with the kid in person.]

Are you okay? Where are you?

Not as fast as me, but it probably wouldn't have had a hard time keeping up with... uh. Normal people, I guess. These guys are quick.

[I mean okay that's fair.]

There were four, And uh... okay so, normally I've got this like-- I can feel when something's coming? But since literally everything in the city is alive and screwing with me right now, I just-- I didn't notice until they were right up on me. And that's on me, like, I just wasn't paying attention.

Good to know.

[No, really, it is.]

How many were there? Did they coordinate when they came after you?

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I wasn't about to try following them without my gear. And also not without backup, I think that's the important one. But yeah, I can definitely map that out, take people back to the spot if they want. Shouldn't be too hard to find again.

[I mean he did get bit, there's still probably spider-blood all over]

[Totally innocent grin!!!]

Haha, um... during?

I'm fine-- Like, I prefaced this with that! I'm fine!

And at the lab. Fine and at the lab.

[Instead of the clinic where he should be but SCIENCE WAITS FOR NO ONE]

Just making sure they don't have some kind of cloaking device.

[Because that's just what the city needs: invisible weird squid things.]

Get that bite checked out. You gonna be okay?

There were four. They seemed to have a pretty good idea of what they were doing like, in relation to each other, as far as I could tell. It seemed like their only goal was to make me dead, like, they came at me all guns a'blazing like right off the bat.

...They didn't actually have guns, like, in case that was confusing.

I want to say some shit, but I recorded myself ATVing away from a moose and put it up on Vine so I have no place to talk.

[He has to ask. It's an adult thing.]

Okay, uh- look, I have something that might corroborate...something. About the tentacle monsters.

[Vague, but he's half-talking, half-making his way to the lab.]

I'll be there soon.

I mean, if they do, I wouldn't be able to tell you just from this encounter alone. Things are weird right now.

[Not encouraging, is it.]

The bite's fine. I washed it, got a bandage on it. I'm okay. It'll probably be healed by tomorrow.

I know it was stupid, like, it was stupid. You can totally say it.

...Aren't moose like, really dangerous?

[Not encouraging at all. Neither is Peter's answer, but that might just be Nick being a worrywart.]

All right. Any other weapons you saw on them, or was it just beaks and tentacles?

Oh, really? Awesome! I'll clean the blood off this--

Uh, just. Ignore the blood thing. See you soon.

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