PHONE CALL: Rupert

[guestservices]

[As Rupert's doing whatever a Rupert does, he'll hear the phone ringing all of a sudden. He may want to pick up...?

OOC: The two of you have 16 comments before the line automatically disconnects, commencing from when Rupert picks up the phone (i.e. 17 total, the first tag of Rupert going HEWWO? into the phone will not count towards your 16).]

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[agleam]

[!!]

Hello? Who is it?

[preowned]

[ very excitedly, and very quickly, ]

Rupert! I was hoping it would be you. Surprise!

[ he cannot see it, but he will have a sense that tsurumaru is waving at the phone like a fucking idiot. ]

How are you? Are things going okay on that end?

[agleam]

[excited and relieved, as soon as he places that voice:]

I'm really glad I got to talk to you! Everyone mentioned you'd been calling, so I hoped I'd be here to answer sometime. Uh, we dealt with the cannibal situation we've been having over here, so you guys don't need to worry about that any more! And I got the tickets Jason and Bradley sent, so that's good, too.

What about you? Is there anything you think we need to know over here that you haven't said in public?

[preowned]

... how was the cannibal dealt with?

[ fucking help. did they snipe qi rong. ]

Oh, I actually have a favor to ask of you. It seems like the big meeting we had yesterday was apparently riskier than we thought, and if we ever want to do something like that in the future, we are going to have to... run interference. I will send a letter with more details since I am concerned about being overheard. But what I am going to need you to do is have people on your side send letters to people here spreading the information. [ a pause ] Please keep my name out of it, if you don't mind. But I'll send it today, so hopefully you'll get it by tomorrow or Wednesday.

[ he has no idea what the schedule is for letters help ]

[agleam]

Uh, he's dead. Or he was? And then he turned into a weird ball of light and we locked him back in the place we found him, and none of our stuff has gotten wrecked since then, so.

[it's fine]

Oh - I can do that, sure. I'll look forward to the letter, and I'll bring it up with the others once I get it. You're okay, though? When you say it's riskier than you thought... It's okay if you can't give me any details, but I just want to make sure you guys are safe. Well, as safe as you can be. As for the letters - the last one that I got where you asked me about tickets and healing arrived on Sunday, so hopefully that'll help you know how long it's taking them to arrive.

[preowned]

I see! Well, that's probably fine.

[ it's fine? ]

We are okay. The concern is more for the future, since the chances of us being able to do that again without proper setup is very low now. [ but hmmm ] Okay, then possibly tomorrow at latest then.

[agleam]

Yeah, it's fine. He was the worst, but it's handled, so!

[he sounds a little concerned as he continues.]

That's a shame... Well, hopefully it's nothing too dangerous to talk about one on one. I'll look forward to it! Oh, I was going to tell you in the next letter I sent, but about what you asked me - it's two to three tickets for healing. The more tickets, the stronger the healing. The three that Jason sent me already got used on someone, and I got one more from Bradley. Clementine said she got the one you sent her, too.

Is there anything else really important we should go over?

[preowned]

You are probably going to get a few more, at least. So hopefully that will give you some wiggle room.

[ hm... ]

Besides what I just said, not really. We haven't really learned anything new since yesterday... For some reasons the list of flowers that Kazunari sent to Mikazuki was censored. [ HMMM ] And the only other thing we couldn't really discuss, Dimitri should know about, so he can tell you guys if he hadn't already.

[agleam]

Oh! Well - now that the guy I was telling you about is gone, we can send flowers again, so I'll let him know to send them that way this time. As for the next part... If I'm thinking of the same thing you are, Dimitri brought it up with all of us, yeah.

[a beat]

Oh, and if you have any important questions you need answered, someone here might have an item that can help with that. We don't think it's very strong, so a smaller question might be better - and if nothing comes to mind, we have a few things we're considering asking.

[preowned]

Oh! I think I have one of those-- the thing I was going to ask about more or less got confirmed already, so I am stumped... but I'd also be willing to use mine on anything you guys might need.

[agleam]

We have more than one, I think, so if you don't have anything pressing you need to ask just yet... Once we ask what we're planning on, we'll make sure everyone knows so whoever you talk to next can tell you the information we got.

[preowned]

Mmhm, that works.

[ there's a pause. ]

I know I should probably use this time to talk about important things about the hotel, but I really do have to say-- I do miss you.

[agleam]

[his voice gets a little softer, but he sounds fond as he continues.]

I miss you, too. I'm really sorry. I feel like... [a beat.] I feel like I let you all down, I guess.

[moving on quickly,]

But - two more weeks on the contract, right? So we'll find a way to see each other soon. Don't let me see you before then, though!

[preowned]

Don't worry, I will do what I can. Or, at the very least, if anyone targets me I will be as annoying to them as possible.

[ it's what they will deserve ]

If more people go on an excursion this week, then maybe we will be able to learn more... if so, we can try to let you all know as soon as we can.

[agleam]

Well, hopefully they realize that and stay far away.

[a little bit amused, despite the subject matter,]

Yeah. If the same happens over here, I'll definitely write and try to let you know what we find out. [...] I'm assuming someone told you about the recording Sieghart found when he first got here on one of your other phone calls?

[preowned]

[ a pause ]

No... no they did not. Last week was the cannibal crisis, and the week before was the first time we got to talk, and the line cut off a lot sooner. What did he find?

[ he cannot blame clem because when there is a cannibal ruining your lives after escaping a closet, other things seem minor in comparison. ]

[agleam]

Oh - good, I'm glad I asked. Uh, we heard a record of someone talking, we think it might be the person in charge. Basically, they were saying there's something here that might be able to consume us all, and also that they're pretty sure there's no way for us to get back and fulfill our contracts. I mean, everyone who's died.

[...]

Anyways, nobody that I've talked to here so far is going to just accept that, so we're going to keep trying. Hey, tell everyone that I miss them, okay? And if the record does turn out to be true, I'm really glad I got the chance to meet—

[comment seventeen bye]