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[riptide is pale. very pale. his optics are wide and the usual deep yellow glow of them is so intense it's almost white.
his grin is uneasy and forced.]
Hi! Just a quick note - who deals with the Ingress junk mail? Can I ask you not to leave body-- [he stops, inhales.] --just be more careful where you leave stuff, yeah? And, uh. Personal request. If anything comes through for me, space it. I don-- I don't want it. Ever.
[he looks about ready to shut off the video but stops.]
...Rodimus, don't look in the blue crate in the cargo bay. Just leave it.
his grin is uneasy and forced.]
Hi! Just a quick note - who deals with the Ingress junk mail? Can I ask you not to leave body-- [he stops, inhales.] --just be more careful where you leave stuff, yeah? And, uh. Personal request. If anything comes through for me, space it. I don-- I don't want it. Ever.
[he looks about ready to shut off the video but stops.]
...Rodimus, don't look in the blue crate in the cargo bay. Just leave it.
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[THANKS INGRESS FOR TAKING AWAY HIS MEMORY... riptide involuntarily winces at the fact the name immediately slips from his head again.
he sighs.]</small. I don't know, but I don't like it. I haven't felt right since it brought me back.
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[ Snake repeats the words as if he's trying to figure out how they sound coming out of his mouth. There's a testing quality to his tone, as he puts the puzzle pieces together. As far as he can tell, that can only mean one thing.
He can't keep track of everything, though he might try, and people tend to keep nasty things like death on the downlow.
He frowns, fixing Riptide with a stare. ] What happened? [ How do robots even die? ]
DANG HTML
[horrendously traumatic and riptide is probably never going to be over it. fun times!]
Then I woke up in Cryo. Actually, I have no idea if it was the Ingress, I just kind of assumed because it was weird and kind of inconvenient and the Ingress is pretty good at doing stuff like that.
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At Riptide's speculation, Snake slowly nods. ] I don't really know how the whole revival process works, but that sounds like a safe bet. [ It's something he'd rather not think too hard on, the idea of people being brought back from the dead enough to get under even his skin. ]
Has this Tarn killed anyone else?
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I don't know if you saw any of the announcements about him, but everything they said is true and more. He's the type of guy who's committed war crimes so horrific you wouldn't believe it.
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[ Easier said then done, especially with a giant robot, but there has to be something they can do to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again. Allowing a war criminal to run free throughout the ship is insane. ]
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[riptide trails off. guess WHEN megatron said that.]
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[ Snake shrugs one shoulder, a "what-can-you-do" kind of motion. ]
Listen, I know you probably don't want to make waves, but if he comes after you again? I have experience taking out giant robots. Not sentient ones, they were piloted, but still.
[ So there. The cat's out of the bag. ]
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He's just...
...Stay away from him.
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On the other hand, he doesn't want to underestimate Tarn either. ]
So what, we're just gonna keep letting him get away with this? There's got to be another option.
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[he doesn't feel positive about it.]
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[ That doesn't mean that it's impossible, but Snake can understand that Riptide doesn't want to meddle with something that's more likely to get people killed than fix the problem. ]
Then let me put it this way. Is there anything that can be done to keep further deaths to a minimum?
[ It doesn't matter if it's a temporary thing, Snake doesn't want people to die needlessly if they can prevent that. ]
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[riptide runs through the djd names mentally, scowling ever so slightly when he gets to tarn and draws a blank.]
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[ Snake assumes that Riptide doesn't use Tarn's name as a way of showing disrespect. He has no reason to think there's anything more to it.
He can sense that Riptide doesn't really want to talk about this anymore, though, so he figures he'll check in with Megatron, much as the idea exhausts him. ]
Look... [ Snake meets Riptide's eyes, as much as he can manage that over the MID. ] Don't let this place get to you. I don't know what point it was trying to make with the mail, or if it was trying to make a point at all, but you shouldn't make yourself nuts over it.
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[it's just hard when it's his friend and he tried so hard to save them both but just couldn't bring himself to go back after megatron got him.]
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[ Snake runs a hand through his hair and then down the back of his neck. There's not much else that he can do for Riptide, and he's hit with that moment of clarity that he's trying to console a giant robot.
Whatever. ]
Hang in there, all right?
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[look into his big soulful yellow eyes, snake. look at them. he's upset.]
Thanks.
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Not sure there's anything to thank me for.
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[ Pause. ]
I'm... not really the best at talking, so you're probably better off finding someone else. If you don't have any other options, though...
[ He shrugs. ]
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[how much are you regretting snake]
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All right, I think we're done here.