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[fifthreturned]

Hey, guys.

[Tranquility sounds tired, worn out, a little defeated.]

Thanks for coming for me. That's not how I would've wanted it to go down, but... well, I'm here now. And at least Delight started fighting for us again there at the end. Everything she did, as bad as some of it was, was to try to keep us safe in her own misguided way.

I'm gonna miss her.

Anyway, we're kind of in a crappy position now. The Null are almost certainly gonna track her essence, the parts that ended up here. So we've gotta move, but we're running out of options and time. They've killed one of us already, and they were going to kill me. We've gotta decide how we want to play this. Your lives are on the line here, too, just as much as ours. Maybe more.

Wherever we go, the Null are gonna find us sooner or later. It kinda comes down to whether we want to try to strike against them first, or whether we want to find a more defensive location and shore up, wait for them to come to us. We have a few different options in terms of locations, some of which we've been to before and some we haven't. Thanks to a bunch of you guys, I have a lot of information about where the Null forces are, which places will be less safe or more safe, so take that into consideration.

There's a file attached to this with the info I've collected from you, and from what we already knew. Take a look at it - or don't, I'm not the boss of you - and let us know where you want to go.

Poll #21535

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50

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Where should we move to?

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the Null planet
10 (20.0%)

the jungle planet
31 (62.0%)

the ice planet
3 (6.0%)

the desert planet
1 (2.0%)

the island planet
5 (10.0%)

[Each character's phone will download the world information file as soon as they read Tranquility's post.]

Comments

[volitaunt]

[ Nate you adorable bastard. In a different situation, with different people, different things to worry about, and not, y'know, a wife involved, Poe might actually hit on him. He hasn't considered doing that in... at least a year. Not since John Sheppard. Before John there was no time to even think about that kind of thing. It wouldn't have even crossed his mind.

Poe shakes his head. There's no point in thinking of it here, either. ]

Bullshit. [ HE DOESN'T BELIEEEVE YOU NATE. Okay he totally does, that reaction can't be anything but genuine, but that doesn't mean Poe won't give him a hard time about it. ] How about handsome and reckless? You've got to get that one.

[ Okay maybe he'll hit on Nate a little. Wrong time? Wrong place? Yeah well it's starting to seem like there'll never be a right time or place, sue him. ]

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[Nathan Drake, a man notorious for either mistakenly assuming someone is flirting with him when they're not, or not being able to tell when someone is actually hitting on him, accepts Poe's words with uncharacteristic humility. He spent the better part of their expedition getting harassed by a couple people for having nice hair but he usually doesn't get that kind of attention back home.

When he concedes it is with a crooked grin, more good-humored than they were at the start of this conversation.]

Okay, that one I have heard. Though it's usually preceded with "Nate, you're an idiot and you're gonna get us killed."

[God knows Sully has given him enough grief for his split-second decision making.]

But I, uh. Thanks. I think.