video;

[vata]

[Someone's proud of herself. From where she's set up, fiddling with a handful of tech— tech that might just look familiar to anyone familiar with Winston's work in stabilizing temporal distortion— Sombra's grinning like a cat that ate the canary: bright as the circuitry hardwired into her head.

After a moment longer spent working one more panel loose, her attention flicks up, nose crinkling along with it:] Anybody out there got any good ideas for celebrating around here?

Not talking about a beer with some music. I mean really kicking it off.

The kind of letting loose that comes up after you take care of a real...infestation.

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[nishizono]

i have handmade bombs
if that's what you mean

[vata]

Wasn't really, but I like the sound of it.

How much punch do those bombs of yours carry?

[nishizono]

not enough to destroy a building because that's against the rules

i could adjust it for a trade

video;

[nyx_it]

Nice tech.

What kind of 'letting loose' were you thinking?

[vata]

I know, right?

[Smug grin widening by degrees, she's not exactly preening in the moment, but it's rare— even here— to find someone with an eye for good hardware.] I'd say it was all me, but...I'd be lying.

[As for the rest....] I don't know. I've thrown a lot of one-woman parties over the years.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in good company, but it gets a little boring after a while.

Now? I'm in space, mija. I figure now's as good a time as any to shake things up. Figure out what everyone else does out here for fun.

[nyx_it]

That means I've got to ask. You wouldn't happen to want to share where you came by it?

[Got to ask, but prepared to bargain for an answer, if need be. That's just how life works, right?]

[Fun... what do normal people do for fun?]

Friend of mine liked to take time out in zero-g chambers. The kind with laser light shows attached.

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

how abut some other substances

[vata]

Getting warmer.

You got anything that hits like a truck?

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

sure

got any requests?

not here

[frostedplum]

[ Okay, after a quick call to Lena goes unanswered, Mei is worried that Sombra has Lena's actual chronal accelerator. Time to call Jack and form a plan.

You won't get away with this, missy! /shakes fist ]

[vata]

[Good luck getting Jack to pick up the phone, amiga....]

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[mylawn]

That doesn't belong to you.

[vata]

[There's a visible glitch in Sombra's expression; features twisting into something less pleased. It's possible 76's tab might be in someone else's possession. A mistake, or an intentional misdirection.

...it's also possible Gabriel Reyes never finished the job.]

Thought you were supposed to be dead.

[mylawn]

[There are a lot of ways he could play this--never died in the first place, secretly Ana using his communicator--but he thinks the most effective way to approach this is to let Sombra draw her own conclusions]

Did you check to make sure?

[tinkerhell]

[God damn it.]

[mylawn]

[ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ]

[sketchycharacter]

it's good you're not talking beer because i'm not giving you any more for free

[Yeah he has no idea about the subtext that's in place here.]

[vata]

Hey, it wasn't free. I brought you a gift.

[sketchycharacter]

oh yeah, just what i always wanted
what's that thing you have there?

[AUDIO]

[kickeminthepistons]

[She doesn't recognize that tech. Naturally, that means she wants to get a better look at it.]

[So, um... hmm. How to befriend this woman?]

I'm not much of a party person, buuuut... some of the vehicles around here are really fun to take for joyrides.

[vata]

Yeah? How fast can you hotwire one of those máquinas?

might have helped if I didn't mark the notif as tagged by accident

[kickeminthepistons]

How fast? [She has to consider that for a moment.] Uh... not as fast as the cars back home, actually. It can take me a good 15 minutes, sometimes, y'know?

But that's because I'm used to tech that was engineered by other humans. You get under the hood of these, and it's like... oh, right, we're the aliens around here. There's lots of little differences.

( text )

[sleepdarts]

I'm surprised that your friend hasn't given you some ideas.

( After all, she knows Gabriel. Knows his kind of celebrating )

[vata]

He hasn't come back yet. Last I heard he was supposed to be paying a friend of yours a close visit.

[She knew he'd need time afterwards; there was no expectant waiting on her end, no pressing him for answers. Now, after Jack's sudden return from the dead, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what he's been doing.]

You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?

[sleepdarts]

Perhaps I do.

( Not at all in that hahaha Gabriel had failed his task. Sort of )

Does he often not return?