CAPTAIN HOLIDAY ⥛ contact

[mmnpcs]

❝ Holiday here. Leave a message with your name and what you need. I'll get back to you. ❞

[ As of October 15th, calling this line will deliver this message instead: ]

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[qismet]

I don't know him personally. I believe we met once.

[ Sal is quiet for a while. Maybe too quiet.

But no, he's still here. ]

I don't know all the details. What I do know is... sparse. Things I've overheard during Parc's conversations.

But it's true, then? All the imPorts went home for a time?

[ He sounds saddened by it. ]

[shuckit]

Mostly. Some heroes where unaccounted for. Hold on a sec.

[ he doesn't have his notes directly in front of him, but he doesn't need them, just a moment to sort through his memory, picture the notes page in his head and read straight from it. ]

Liana Greenwood (Rocket Gal), Hernan Soñè (Nova Man), Eric Strauss (Sidewinder), Song Ki-duk (Sunwing), Deepali Bhatnagar (Shakti), Biance Medina (Ironess), Liam Lawson (Siberian), Veronica Conway (Nitestar), Benjamin Braunstein (The Shield), Richard Peter Wayne (Black Arrow), Phillip North (Thunderfist), Eleni Wang (Athena), Joshua Kirby (The Eagle) and Adelaide Watson (Liberty Girl).

All labeled missing. Some we've followed up on. Lawson, we know, is around, but his family isn't talking about it. Not sure, beyond that. [ Something Kate had felt a particular level of guilt over, and Thomas's voice is a bit more solemn in regards to it. ] Some of the Hornets mentioned Lawson in particular.

[qismet]

[ He talks slow and quiet now: ]

Ah, I remember the cemetery now. Some of those graves... yes. I'm sorry, sometimes my memory is not as it should be.

... Joshua. [ It comes out pained. ] He hasn't been located?

[ There's another pause before he gathers himself. ]

I recognize some of these names. Soñè, Strauss, and Ki-duk are imPorts. Is it not possible they were sent home in 2010? It might account for their disappearances, though the others...

This is troubling indeed, Thomas. I was not close with them, but I knew of their work. Wayne, North, Wang... all good people. Medina as well. And from work experience, people who are missing usually have a good reason to remain as such, or...

... something may be terribly wrong.

[shuckit]

The Eagle? Not that I've heard of. Someone else might know.

[ he makes a mental note to ask Kate about the name later. ]

Possible. They were all on a list Ananke gave to Annie Leonhart, an imPort. [ annie and kate had been more focused on that search than he had. there was something about north at one point, but thomas doesn't remember it coming up to much. another thing to ask kate. ]

What would they need to hide from?

After the death ray incident, native heroes accused the military of setting up the situation, sending the imPorts in as some kind of plot, then more accusations were sent back to the native heroes accussing them of sending out imPorts to investigate it, seeing as Continuum would bring them back if things went screwy. From what I heard, native heroes started going into retirement, and some of the public took it as an admission of guilt. Might have something to do with that?

[qismet]

If you hear anything, will you please tell me? I am not sure how much longer my form will hold, or if I'll be able to see you again so soon. I can feel-- [ His voice fades suddenly, the rest of his sentence impossible to parse. ]

--ut... can you... --mise me, Thomas? That you will try.

And I'm afraid I can't... --ive you any answers about ... incident. I'm sorry, Thom-- but I don't be-- I'll be of any help --ere.

thanks a bunch for threading this with me!

[shuckit]

[ halfway through, quisma's dramatically fading and cutting out, and thomas has the urge to physically reach out to try to grab him back, as if it would actually help. just as he's talking about his form being unable to hold. an urgency fills him, and he rushes out the last of what he can say, hoping it actually gets through. ]

We'll figure it out - I'll find you again, I promise, just hold on! Keep Holiday holding on.

np!

[qismet]

--ank you, --mas.

Be care--

[ The warbled voice fades entirely, leaving Thomas with his own thoughts again. ]