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[tacticalvisor]

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Meanwhile in the ruins of Thera

[gr1m]

[Very, very abruptly, there is just the mental image of a couple skeleton scientists shut in a room within the medical wing of the lab. They are being attacked by clipboards, stethoscopes, scalpels, and just about everything in said room.

There is a weird thing, the few palm-sized emotion shards in sight on the counter and table are glowing and hard to missbecause this is Reaper-Vision. Someone is already bored down in Thera and making his own entertainment.]

[tacticalvisor]

[what the hell

reaper he is trying to FOCUS on his own job here. 76 promptly tries to wall this imagery off with the first thing he can think of - a literal (mental) wall - and firmly tries to ignore it]

[gr1m]

[That grin is both unseen and unfelt, Reaper just laughing to himself in the medical wing.

Nothing may be seen anymore but there is an extremely persistent sound.]

[tacticalvisor]

Ass.

[Did he say that 'out loud'? U FUKKIN DORK]

[gr1m]

Spooky spooky spooky spooky

Scary scary scary scary~

[So. Damn. Amused.TAKES ONE TO KNO ONE]

[tacticalvisor]

[Whatever Reaper thinks, that's absolutely not a trace of humor coming through. That's 100% grump!!!!!111one HE'S ANNOYED AT BEING BOTHERED WHILE HE'S ON A MISSION, NOT AT ALL CHUCKLING BECAUSE come to think of it]

Don't you have something better to be doing than screwing around?

[Those were people once. This is...kind of obscene. Kind of.]

[gr1m]

[He helped someone rip a book out of a skeleton's hands. The dead can fuck with the dead.]

What? Collecting emotion shards? I have been, along with some old books.

The shards are rather easy to find. Just look at them.

[Mental wall down, and Reaper is pointedly looking towards a shard and

they don't stand out like that for anyone other than him do they...]

[tacticalvisor]

[No.

No they don't.]

Your gear's making it easy to find. Unless you're gonna share it with the class, how about you let me do my job.

...Or tell me what the hell's going on with all those projectiles.

[If Reaper's being helpful, he...won't say no to it, but he's a little wary. That may just be default when it comes to engaging Reaper, though.]

[gr1m]

I don't have any gear that- [You know what? Forget it.

He frankly thought they just looked like that, sort of like the crystal in his amulet did after a few drops got in there.]

Haven't been in the Medical wing of the lab I take it.

[tacticalvisor]

No. We're sticking t- [aaaand he slams on the mental brakes because no. Truce or not, he is not going to give away his team's location to someone who's made it absolutely clear he's not on their side, and especially not after the kind of shit he's pulled. The irritation that bleeds through seems to be mostly self-directed, 76 angry with himself for even half-slipping. He moves on quickly, though-] -to other places. Didn't think you were one for helping out with this kind of thing.

[Since, y'know. He's not really sure there's any money in it?]

[gr1m]

I've been keeping away, Jack. [The only acknowledgement he gives to that slip. He already knew where they were.]

I'm bored, and it's something to do.

[It's... strangely honest. All of it.]

[tacticalvisor]

[...

He should consider that an olive branch. Affirming the truce. But all he can think of is how, despite their conflicts, he never would have thought things would have gone the way they did. Maybe he should have, though...

76 keeps a firm lock on those emotions - his wall around himself to keep in as opposed to keep Reaper out, as it were.]

The sooner they get enough shards, the sooner you can find something else to amuse yourself. [Other than distracting him]

[gr1m]

So we were told.

See how well that went with coming here in the first place. [Not that Reaper sounded surprised there was a catch to it. There was always some sort of catch, more so when it was an invitation like that.]

Of course, it wouldn't be my first experience with someone lying to get what they wanted.

[tacticalvisor]

[Part of him wants to roll his eyes, another goes he kind of has a point, the rest goes did you just think Reaper had a point-]

If they're lying, we'll deal with them.

[gr1m]

Have fun with that.

[... Reaper not interested in dealing with someone possibly lying to them, and not including himself in that 'we'.

He knows who 'We' is with 76.]

[tacticalvisor]

[It included you until you pulled yourself away

76 sends the equivalent of a grunt, attention moving back to his own hunting. He's wasted enough time.]

[gr1m]

[It included him until he was left behind.

For a brief moment there was something, as if Reaper was going to say something else, before simply letting it go.]

[gr1m]

[A c t u a l l y

some hours later—]

Do the shards seriously not look like this to you?

[He has a heart sized one in his hand and Reaper Vision is weird when it comes to the emotion shards.

It kept bothering him, that one thing about the conversation.]

[tacticalvisor]

[oh for fuck's sake Reape-

well. 76's response is to try and focus on what he's seeing, which involves a rather large shard, and...they are't normal, per se, insomuch as he hasn't really seen many like them before, but there's only so much to them other than their 'natural' glow.]

[gr1m]

[It gives him a long enough pause that it might seem like he's not even there anymore.

Of course that's not 76's luck right now.]

... Weird.

[tacticalvisor]

May as well take advantage of it.

[He thinks it's weird too, but he's not going to ask further about the gear thing. If Reaper can get them faster, well...sure. Let's go with that for now.]

[gr1m]

Yeah.

It's not just them.

[But he's leaving it at that, but this is definitely something he has to occupy his thoughts for a while. The implications are... rather strange and just.

Usually only souls look like that to him. He thought the amulets were just weird like that and now. Hm.]