[Permavoice - Screened from all known baddies/The Organization/Paixao natives]

[shout_geronimo]

[his voice is quiet, his tone still, but despite this, the anger is quite obvious by the way his words tremble slightly. He takes a deep, slightly shuddering breath before he speaks]

I assume that most of you have seen the new information that's come to light. I'm not sure when this started, or exactly why this started, but one thing is inescapably clear: this all needs to stop. All of this. The experiments, the disappearances, the arrests. All of it. And we need to stop it ourselves. I'm sure some of you already know what I'm going to suggest, and some of you might already be ready to suggest it yourselves. Maybe some of you did, before I got here.

We need to stand together. We need to be strong enough and brave enough to weather the storm that's ahead of us. The longer we stand idle, the longer this goes on, and the more people get hurt - and I, for one, am not willing to let this slide. We have to gather together, and I think you all know exactly what I'm talking about.

Oh, I'm angry. I've never done that before, not as this me. I honestly have no idea what I'm going to do now, or what's going to happen. [a shaky laugh emerges]

Anyway, who's with me? We can have meetings and get into group hugs and everything. [despite the lightness of his words, it's clear he's deadly serious about gathering an army, even though he - barely - refrains from saying it]

Comments

[shout_geronimo]

Flying jesters? Really? [INTEREST GET]

I'm good at being sneaky when I need to be.

[trademark_skull]

He can also change shape, so who knows what form he might be in if you find him. [Man, describing NiGHTS really isn't easy.]

So then you know what's outside of it?

[shout_geronimo]

Right. I'll keep a lookout. Have to say, I've never heard of shapeshifting flying jesters before.

A bit, yeah.

[trademark_skull]

It's the first time I ever seen someone like that before too. I'm not really sure what he is exactly.

... [Wanting to ask something else but, maybe this wasn't the best place for it.]

[permalocked]

[shout_geronimo]

Maybe I'll ask him.

Something else on your mind?

[permalocked]

[trademark_skull]

... The next floor is somewhere out there, right?

[shout_geronimo]

It is, yeah. Why do you ask?

[trademark_skull]

... I guess it's nothing. [If they were going to be working together, then of course they would find it.]

[shout_geronimo]

[gently] It's clearly not nothing if you thought to begin asking. What is it?

[trademark_skull]

... NiGHTS wouldn't have been caught if I didn't ask him to show it to me.

[You could probably figure the rest of the not!angst out]

[shout_geronimo]

I see. But it's not your fault. We'll find NiGHTS. I'll help you.

[trademark_skull]

... He's probably still somewhere in the city. I'm just not even sure where.

[It's not like the map is gonna conveniently show where they keep prisoners or anything.]

[shout_geronimo]

He might be. Trouble is, there's a lot of ground to cover. He could be anywhere, and that includes places none of us have been yet.

[trademark_skull]

There is that too.

[shout_geronimo]

Don't worry. I'll look for him. We'll find him if we have to scour every inch of this place.

[trademark_skull]

Y... y-yeah. Of course we'll find him.

[Let's just hope that NiGHTS is still in one piece by then.]

[shout_geronimo]

[gently, sounding entirely sure of himself] Your friend will be fine.