Just a Passing Assassin...

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 Spiral: How do we get back when we’re done?



Steady: One of the operators watching missions will spawn the door. Speaking of…

She puts a finger to the back of her ear.

Steady: Anyone live right now?

There’s a rumble in your ear before sound clear as day begins to play.



4D: I’m here! Actually needed to pop in and tell you something anyway. Your friend Fiddle went up ahead to do some prep and recon.

4D: Location is near a small practically abandoned beach town. Your rescue target was investigating an urban legend there, possibly bumped into it and got dragged out of radius for one of us to zip their consciousness back.

4D: Hopefully their memory loss hasn’t been too bad, the longer you’re dead the harder it is to retrieve you intact….



Steady: Yeaaaah, don’t want to be dead.

4D: We never actually got a flatline but… they just vanished. Blipped out and became unresponsive. Been a good day and a half so… you know.

Steady: Don’t personally like that.

4D: Anyway, the place is ready for you two whenever. Just through the gate~

Spiral: Speaking of, how does the transition through go? Is it smooth? Do we just walk through the door and we’re there?

Steady: Pretty instant, just watch the landing.

4D: Mm! While the object detection is good about spawning the door in relatively safe areas, sometimes they pop in at an angle.

4D: Careful where your foot goes.



Steady: Personally I like to do superhero landings when that happens.

Steady: Sometimes I mess up.



4D: I’m a naked terminator pose person myself.

Steady: Naked what…

4D: Not sure? Don’t remember much of my past life but that’s something I got vividly around.

Steady: Feel that. Something about that reminds me of one of the few snippets I got. Was at a sort of event where a lot of people were in costume.

Steady: Me and some.. Friends? I think they were friends. We took a ride out to go to this place and we were all dressed up as characters we thought were neat?

Steady: One of them was fairly simple, barely really counted. She was just dressed in a white shirt and pants and put a little makeup on. Really tired look.

Steady: ‘Nother one was wearing a brown wig with ears popping out the top. We had a whole conversation about double ears I think since she had them on the side…. Also had this blue dress she spent an eternity working on. Was really proud of it though. She actually brought a costume for each day but that one I remember vividly…

Steady: There was a guy in a red coat and blond wig too.. Got a lot of attention for other people at the event, way too much cheek pinching. Someone threatened him with a paddle more than once? A lot of wig work actually…

Steady: I had one too! Really spiky with a big old sword. Had to make it out of foam since the think would be too big to carry. It looked pretty good actually! I mean I had help but… the paint made it almost look real in the end!

Steady: We were so broke after all that though but it was fun mostly.



Steady: Think my mom hated that we blew all our money that summer on stuff like that. I had a job though so I figured I’m allowed. Plus city food is soooo good...

Steady: Anyway sorry for derailing so hard, got too excited there.

4D: None of us mind listening! Does make me weirdly nostalgic too though… wonder if I had something like that…

Spiral: Yeah it’s fine, honestly nice having some friendly company through all this.

Spiral: Thanks for being so chill, today’s been a lot.

Steady: It’s no biggie..



Spiral: Quick note, can we use these for fun? Like can we go somewhere to hang out?

4D: Good question! We have hours in the evening for it actually. People have checkpointed a good number of places that they like.

Steady: Or because they met someone cute there.



4D: Folks on top hate that second one but I’m not going to snitch~

Steady: You better not~

4D: Anyway we should really get going soon…

4D: You all good to go?

Steady: As ready as I’ll ever be.

She looks directly at you.

Steady: You good for it?

You give her a nod of confirmation.

Suddenly she grabs you by the hand and pulls you with her through the door with her.

You nearly tumble but she manages to catch you with ease.

You guess she can’t have you eating shit on your first day.

There’s an instant shift, a feeling of sea breeze in your face. You scan your area. It really is a small place, practically nothing there but a few homes bathed in sunset. One stands out as being significantly higher up than the rest. Between it, a restaurant by the road, and one other small home there’s an absence of light coming out of any windows.

Fiddle seems to be nowhere in sight.



Steady: Alright rookie, we’re here. Since it’s your job I’m gonna let you lead but I’ll try to nudge you to the right place if you stray too hard.

Steady: How do you wanna start us off?



You're a little overwhelmed to be honest but... they're all counting on you and they've got your back. Trust your gut.