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Do you really plan on letting yourself get killed by crazy Jack?

[Zach knows he sounds and looks worried. He can't quite help it - he doesn't want to, but the one insane discussion he's had with Nathan left him a good, fun impression, and he doesn't want the only person with a sense of humor around here to get brutally murdered. Especially when the only person he's spent any time with was the first one to get strangled.

He doesn't want to care, but he sort of does.]

Nathan.

[She's not even going to explain. HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID.]

Two things
Don't get yourself killed, man.
Also, how is it downtown? Find anything interesting?

[Tifa doesn't sleep... ever, really, or at least not reliably, so that night of insomnia along with the emotional whiplash of whatever was going on with the network has left her physically exhausted and emotionally drained. Her braid is more disheveled than usual, and there are obvious dark circles under her eyes. She went back and listened to all of the messages she'd received last night, including Nathan's, and it's shocking how disjointed and surreal their conversation sounds now, without those hallucinations.

Logically, she knows Nathan is fine, just like Angel and Rhys are fine. Still, she's using video in the hopes that he'll mimic her and she can see for sure, just to crush that last bit of doubt. She's too tired to keep her guard up when talking to him, for once, and there's a vulnerability in her voice that she's usually far better at hiding.]

Nathan? How are you doing?

[England has already dealt with two difficult conversations tonight. What's one more?]

Beg pardon. Have you got a moment?

[It's taken Zach quite a while to gather up the courage to contact Nathan, after the network glitch. He's still reeling from all of it, but at least the events of the day - meeting up with people, that whole discussion about what to do with Jack - took his mind off things a little.

But at night, he still can't sleep, and Zach tells himself it's fine, since Jack needs constant supervision. Only when most of the house is quiet and asleep, Zach is full of restless tension, and his mind trails back to Nathan, getting murdered by - Hermann, of all people. The only one that would have been worse would have been Woody.

So Zach hunkers down in a corner of the bedroom, and starts a private message for Nathan. He can only hope nobody hears him, but he can't bring himself to make it text.]

Hey, so...I just wanted to - apologize. The other night was weird as fuck, and I guess you didn't really get what was happening on my side, right? It was just - it was not pleasant. But I know it didn't really happen and it didn't happen for you so I probably have no reason to apologize but. I don't know. It was fucked up.

[The message comes after lockdown has finally ended. There's not much leading or pretence about it, mostly because he doesn't think Nathan would appreciate it.]

Oi. You all right?

[ He aims the camera on the tablet down the firepole. ]

Hope you don't get sick easy. [ That's all the warning Nathan before Zell slides down the pole at a fast rate. He only slows down when he's close to the bottom. ]

How's that? [ Turning the tablet upwards to aim up the pole. ] This is the first place we found after the aquarium. Pretty cool, huh? [ Yes, he's excited about going down a firepole. ]

[ He's absolutely going to copy this message and send it right back to you, Nathan. ]

ok man what the hell

did you make that spam thing up or??? did you get it from somebody else???

charlie is like losing his shit over it and i don't know how else to make him stop so like

did you do this or what

Good morning, Nathan-san. I'm messaging you with a status update.

I've made it to the early residential zones. I have just restocked my food supplies at the convenience store and I intend to enter the maintenance tunnels again via building 12, as indicated on Dr. House's map. However, I'm also participating in Stephen-san's seance tonight, so I have decided to take shelter in building 62 for the event. I'm hoping that I'll have a better chance of getting a response there.

What is your status?

@zachtastic; video

Night 87; audio; @lockhart

text; @zd

Day 92, Afternoon; @lockhart; video

night 93, @SceptredIsle; text

@zachtastic; video; day 93 - night; private

@SceptredIsle; voice; day 130

@zd; video; morning 126

@duster, text, day 141

@makeme; text

@Aigis; text; morning 395