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[jacked]

[That's a really nice view of a kitchen ceiling popping up on your comms. Forgive the 90's kid for his lack of experience in smart phones - or maybe don't, because it might just be he's too lazy to hold the thing up while he's talking. Or it might be where he's busy rifling through every food cupboard he can find, his talking punctuated here and there by the sound of food packets being investigated, shaken around, crinkled.]

Not that I want to disrupt all the great work you people've been doing here, but those two assholes you think are in charge - you checked they're human? Might wanna label it some post-traumatic shit, but recent experience has given me a healthy distrust of taking anyone as they appear. And it'd explain this situation better than any of the vague mysterious bullshit you've been going with so far.

[There's a pause, then the sound of a box of something or other getting torn open, and yeah, when he talks again he's obviously doing it around a mouthful of food. It's been a rough couple of days, and he's hungry. It's also good for covering up any glimmers of actual concern in his voice as he carries on.]

I'm missing some people. Yeah, you heard it all before. But you see a short bug-eyed freak called Casey running around, do me a solid and point him my way.

[[ooc: backdated to early on the day after the jump!]]

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voice

[endeavors]

I'm - er. I think they're human, yeah.

voice

[jacked]

Yeah, you're sounding real sure on that.

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[stacked]

My money's on demon, not gonna lie.

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[jacked]

Demon.

[What the fuck.]

voice

[doggedly]

While I'm making notes on that really descriptive description of your bug-eyed freak, d'you mind telling us what all that noise is? What are you doing?

voice

[jacked]

[Just for that, he feels like being extra descriptive on his answer.]

Eating.

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[sugarbear]

This is a public service announcement, or something, just in case any of you get any funny ideas. I'm six foot four.

[ He will kill you. ]

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[jacked]

Hey, man, I'm sure no one's interested in infringing on your height issues.

voice

[cobaltblue]

What, so being not human makes a person less trustworthy? Is that what you're getting at?

voice

[jacked]

Sure, sounds like.

voice;

[thebreakingwave]

I'm sure you're going to hear this over and over, but it really shouldn't matter if they're human or not.

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[jacked]

Shouldn't. [A disbelieving beat.] Look, man, I don't know where you're from, but on Earth, someone not being human - yeah, it matters.

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[faithlessly]

Definitely not human.

[ and even if they are in every sense of the word... well, humans make the worst monsters. ]

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[jacked]

'Least someone's talking sense.

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[coffeeking]

I doubt they're human. But that doesn't matter. The point, as you so eloquently put it, is that they're assholes.

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[jacked]

Second one trying to tell me that doesn't matter. They really scrambled your heads that bad?

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[testgasm]

oh so if they're weird and psychotic and murderous they must not be human

is that right

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[jacked]

[Gross, making him stop what he's doing and read.]

Weird and psychotic have been good signs on it, yeah.

[andblockbuster]

I'm still iffy on the human, but definitely convinced they're part of a pagan death cult.

[jacked]

It's not gonna count as pagan if they aren't human, man.

[slipperysoul]

I'm not sure any of us have actually gotten close enough to check.

[jacked]

Yeah, everything's stacking up great on the collective investigative front.

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[gothchicklit]

If they're not human, what do you think they are?

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[jacked]

I don't know, all these options everyone else is talking about. Starting to feel like I woke up on the spaceship and went for the too obvious choice.

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[surrogates]

[ Zeke, wrong thing to imply. ]

In our defense, those of us who maybe have gotten close enough to try didn't have them appearing from seemingly thin air to shoot people before. [ A beat. ] How are you defining non-human, by the way?

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[jacked]

Like them apparently being the only originals around wasn't incentive enough to check that shit.

[Just saying.]

I'm defining it as how I'm getting apprehensive about the fact you people need it defined.