IC Contact

[tacticalvisor]

For network, messenger bird, or other such IC contact. Also works for actionspam as needed.

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[tekhartha]

[Zenyatta suspects it might be something like that- after all, he has one of the most distinct voices in Empatheias. But that's fine. He more or less expected 76 to be suspicious.]

Zenyatta. Is this a bad time for you, my friend?

[tacticalvisor]

I'm not your friend. [Just making that clear.] What do you want?

[tekhartha]

[Ah, of course not. He makes a small, dry sound that could be an aborted laugh.]

To ask how you have been. I have not seen you in many months.

[tacticalvisor]

[wat. 76's bafflement probably comes through a bit before it's bitten down on.]

I'm alive.

[tekhartha]

[Loud and clear. Zenyatta responds with a neutral hum, knowing better than to laugh this time.]

While I am pleased to hear that, I do not think that being alive is quite the achievement here that it was at home.

[tacticalvisor]

[It's probably a proof of how much this place has affected him that 76 even deigns to respond to that. Much less with the following;]

Alive and sane.

['Cause. You know. This Place.]

[tekhartha]

Now that is something worth celebrating. It has not been the smoothest of transitions, even for me.

[Positive though his experiences have been, there have been times where he's revisted emotions he thought he'd laid to rest a long time ago. The reality has been... enlightening.]

[wryly] I sense that you would rather not be having this conversation.

[tacticalvisor]

[No shit, sherlock. But that doesn't get quite formed in to words. Still, there's a hint of exasperation in his response.]

Don't you have better things to do?

[tekhartha]

[serenely] I consider checking on one of the few links to my home to be relatively important. Having said that, I did give you a reasonable enough grace period in which to avoid me.

tacticalvisor

[tacticalvisor]

[you little shit.]

Fine. You checked. Let's renew that period.

[look at him being rude. Don't you want to avoid him too?]

[tekhartha]

[Very hostile. But he wore down Genji, and even Reaper to some extent; perhaps he'll wear 76 down to... not friendship, he suspects, but good will.]

Four months. Time may be an illusion, but much could happen within that space.

tacticalvisor

[tacticalvisor]

Are you implying something?

[tekhartha]

Just that our time here is limited, and therefore precious. Until recently I had been sure that Genji had vanished altogether.

[... ah. 76 may not even know who he means. Absently, he adds:] My student, that is.

tacticalvisor

[tacticalvisor]

[precious his ass. He'd rather be out tracking down Certain People and instead he's trapped in a place where his frustration could literally kill somebody.

He answers without thinking, almost absentminded.] I know him. You're the Master he mentioned, then.

[tekhartha]

[Now there's a little surprise, though it piques his curiosity more than anything else; 76 may catch him turning the image of the old soldier and his student over in his thoughts, picturing a meeting.]

I am. I hope he was not overly effusive in his description of me. [... yet Zenyatta all but glows with pride at that, try though he might to contain it.] Did you meet him here?

[tacticalvisor]

Just a mention. [Enough to get him to wonder if he'd have to worry about space for said Master, but he didn't ask then and he won't ask now.] He stopped by the base. [he shouldn't be thinking of it as one, but there you go. ]

[tekhartha]

[Something else to surprise Zenyatta with! You're you're full of them today, aren't you, 76?]

You have a base?

[tacticalvisor]

[

Ah hell.]

It's just a building. [NOTHING IMPORTANT OR ANYTHING.]

[tekhartha]

[Zenyatta gives an appreciative hum.]

Excellent! It may only be a building, but it is a place in which we might be brought together on occasion. Does anyone live there?

[tacticalvisor]

[NO. NOBODY IS THERE. IT IS A SECRET CLUBHOUSE WHERE ONLY HIM AND WHOEVER ANA SAYS IS OK CAN COME IN!!111one



ana would absolutely say zenyatta's okay, wouldn't she. DAMMIT.]

Why?

[TACTICS CHANGING LET'S GET THE SUSPICION UP IN HERE SHALL WE. It may be slightly forced, but to be fair, it doesn't need much forcing in the first place.]

[tekhartha]

[Goodness. It's as though he just asked for the security number on his bank card- or, worse still, for him to remove his mask.

Zenyatta laughs. What else can he do? The sound reverberates through his thoughts like windchimes in church.]

I would simply like to know who I might be visiting. I do not think I could stay there myself, if that is what troubles you so.

[tacticalvisor]

You don't even know where it is.

[Joke's on you, he doesn't have a bank card. WHAT NOW, HUH.

Also they're both aware Genji could just tell Zenyatta, so he won't keep that thread up.]

Few people do. Not my place to say who.

[That, at least, he's sticking to. He can find out from Genji if he's so curious, but it's not going to be 76 who names names.]

[tekhartha]

[There's that hummingbird sound again, straddling the line between disappointment and calm acceptance. It's not so much disappointment in 76's secrecy in how blunt he is in his mistrust.]

Then I shall lay the matter to rest, for the time being. I suppose my path shall intersect with it sooner or later, as it will with yours. [a beat.] In four months.

[tacticalvisor]

[He can count the number of people he trusts on one hand. No surprise that Zenyatta's not on it, huh.

There's the equivalent of a mental grunt- not even an 'okay'. Just, yeah, he heard you. And doesn't feel inclined to give more of a response.

#whatanasshole]