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un: gorgug, text [ during january mission ]

[tinflower]

[ Hello, John. It has been a day or two on the train when you will receive a message on your earpiece: ]

Hi

[ Just that. Hi ]

un: reese | text

[aimsforknees]

Hi.

[tinflower]

Are you John
?

[aimsforknees]

[ ??? ]

Yes.

[tinflower]

[ He got the right guy!

... ]

And you take care of a dog?

[ Let's double-check, actually. ]

[aimsforknees]

[ What is with this conversation. ]

Yes.

[tinflower]

[ ....!! ]

Okay. And my username sounds familiar if you say it out loud?

[ Triple-checking--!! ]

[aimsforknees]

[ John supposes it's possible someone could be impersonating him, so it's only fair to test in return. Is that what's happening here? ]

Yes, Gorgug, we have met. Can you describe the circumstances of our first encounter?

[tinflower]

[ It takes him nearly a whole minute to answer. ]

You showed me how to ice skate.

[aimsforknees]

[ Well, that's settled. ]

What do you want?

[tinflower]

[ He answered correctly, right? He did? Should he ask? Maybe not... ]

I wanted to ask how you were doing

[ Another text: ]

With the mission

[ And then, after four seconds: ]

If that's okay?

[aimsforknees]

[ John doesn't do very much texting at all, he's used to just having Harold in his ear. That being said, he thinks Gorgug's texting style is a lot like how he talks. It's... a little endearing. ]

Not making much progress. This train doesn't like to give up its mysteries. You?

[tinflower]

I'm not good at mysteries... my friends are investigating and I've been put to work fixing things on the train. I'm trying to look into maintenance logs for clues.

Maybe a King is a word for something other than royalty?

[aimsforknees]

I'm in administration so if you need any assignments let me know and I'll coordinate something for you.

Any leader could call themselves a king and not be royalty in the sense of a true monarchy.

[tinflower]

[ Oh! ]

Thank you.

I was thinking if there's anything else people use the term for on the train. Or it could be a codename for something?

[aimsforknees]

Could be a codename for anything. I'm not a train expert, but there could be something to do with whatever keeps the train going, or something in the sealed car.

[tinflower]

I'll tell you if I find anything in the maintenance logs. There was stuff about an old legend and a king, but that's about a person too.

[aimsforknees]

Tell me more about the legend.

[tinflower]

It sounded like a saying? I don't know much yet. My friend's checking out the library since he has spare time.

I'll get back to you about what he finds?

[aimsforknees]

Thanks. Let me know if I can help.

1/2

[tinflower]

I will.

[ And there's nothing else... ]

2/2

[tinflower]

[ Until about five hours hour. ]

so the king stuff is like a belief? that a king will save them once things get too bad. i don't know where the rumour comes from or if there's books about it

maybe if we ask around we can see how widespread it is? i don't know if that would help us

[ He lost his ability to capitalise. rip. ]

[aimsforknees]

[ RIP indeed. John is enough of a boomer old enough that he squints at the lack of capitalization and inconsistent punctuation, but maybe that's just what the kids are into these days. How's he supposed to know? ]

If that's the case I would guess the king is a thing instead of a person. Maybe it's hidden in the sealed carriage. Some of us are going to break in.

[ Is it wise to tell Gorgug his plans? On one hand he has no clue how good Gorgug is at keeping secrets, or who he might spread it to. On the other, there's too much ground to cover to be silo-ing information like this. And Gorgug has been forthcoming with his help multiple times so far. ]

[tinflower]

do you need anything to break in? have you got enough stuff to work with?

[ Gorgug, internally, chanting: break-ing IN, break-ing IN, break-ing IN ]

[aimsforknees]

We're good. I'll let you know if anything comes up.