IC Contact (post return to game)

[pale_blue_arrow]

You've reached Brendan Frye. 'm out right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you soon as I can manage. Send a text if you wanna have words 'nd it's urgent. Thanks.

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[pale_blue_arrow]

[He sighs, slightly annoyed.] Stop takin' shots at yourself, it's making me feel all paternal and you're what, thirty?

What'd've helped is if the government agent who dropped me had warned me. About the fucked up gang-esque politics here or the being here before thing or - any of it.

[h2no]

I'm not taking shots at myself-- I'm stating a simple fact.

[he cocks his head, tone and expression completely neutral; he means it.]

They're no good at that. There's some notes complied by imPorts that've been here for a while about it all. Do you want that file? It's pretty good.

[pale_blue_arrow]

Said ever guy devoid of a spine, ever. [He yawns, involuntarily. After the beating he took back home, he still feels like shit.]

That'd be great. Notes, information, anything that gives me some clarity. I may not know why I'm here but I'd appreciate not feeling in the dark about everything.

[h2no]

[he ignores the poke, instead just pulls out his comm with a sniff and pings brendan the notes and faq.]

Kaneki upkeeps them both more than anyone. Have you spoken with him at all?

[pale_blue_arrow]

Nah, not yet, but somebody else recommended I get ahold of him. He somebody else I knew that I don't know now?

[h2no]

Not that I know of, no. I didn't know everyone you knew, only the ones that you spoke of to me.

[manabu, again, comes to the forefront of his mind, but archie doesn't mention him.]

Kaneki's just... the guy everyone knows. He's been here a long time-- not the longest, but a long time.

[pale_blue_arrow]

This is gonna be a chore, figuring out who I did and didn't know and how close we were and all that. At least it's summer, so I've got the free time to do it without cutting class.

'm almost afraid to ask, but who's been here the longest and how long've they been here?

[h2no]

Ah...

[he frowns.]

Tony Stark, at about a decade. He's an outlier, though. Lotta people I know at a few years, I'm almost at two. Along with intermittently being Ported in and out.

[pale_blue_arrow]

...ten years. Well, damn. Never thought I'd be sayin' this, but considering what'll happen if I go back home, another ten years to live sounds like a Godsend. Probably not gonna happen, though. I know how my luck runs.

Does everybody lose their memory when they glitch in an' out, or is that a one-off?

[h2no]

He seems to be an outlier. Most people range from a month to a year to more. There's no pattern to it unfortunately.

[he closes his eyes briefly. there's a lot in that statement that's upsetting, for a bunch of reasons.]

Any amount of time you get to be here, away from there, is... [he trails off.] It happens fairly often. I don't know whether to say that's fortunate or unfortunate...