IC Contact: Atacalepsy

[tranquilforest]

My deepest apologies for not being home to you. Lin Xinyao will respond as soon as possible.

Comments

text, once the network is back online

[foundafamily]

[After a while of failing to send a message, Firo has all but given up on any message of substance getting through and resorts to a strategy of pure volume and button-mashing. Giving someone a chance to confirm that they've received a message is for squares, or something.

So Jing will receive 10 identical messages of the following in quick succession:]

You OK?

[And about 6 of the following:]

Whe?re

[Text]

[tranquilforest]

[She'd given up early on the devices - not being in the habit for long enough to rely on them entirely - but when the chimes of incoming messages echo even in the chill darkness of the underwater caverns she was drifting through rather aimlessly she takes some notice:]

So you did

travel here

after all

[It's really too bad that her relief can't be conveyed effectively through the text.]

[foundafamily]

es

yes

Here for a while

Where are -- ?

Everything ok?

[God, he wants to throw this stupid phone through a wall, but at the same time he wants to hold onto it like a lifeline. As long as he can make sure Jing and his other people are OK, it'll be more than worth the pain in the ass. A thousand times over.]

[tranquilforest]

[She's never really been the sort of person to complain and her relief overrides any impulse she might have had to do so anyway.]

w

everyone -ls-?

safe?

cold but

[foundafamily]

Don know. -aven't found ever--ne yet. Tryi--

Cold? H-w cold? Bad c--d? ?

[There's nothing too cozy in the way of shelter over his way, and he shudders to think about trying to deal with the kind of cold weather he faced as a kid on the street--with the added twist of being underwater.]

[tranquilforest]

dark and very deep.

but could w----

[On a lighter (???) note:]

a jail here.

[foundafamily]

R--lly?

[How... fun.]

Was wonder--- about that. Talke& to -
a girl her- and we tho-ght m--be they just got rid -- troublem--ers.

Stupid quest-on but you?re not there right?

[Just got to check these things in case that's why she mentions it.]