[audio / / @DragonSlayer] backdated to Monday evening

[multiple_man]

I fuckin' told him not to go off on his own...!

[Rudy's in a panic. He'd known this would happen if Too kept going off to 'work out what was going on here.' He'd said so.

Now he doesn't know what he's going to do.]

Somebody else is missin'.

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[gristle]

In the same sorta way?

[multiple_man]

Yes, the same way! He's totally gone, and his communicator — all on the ground in a pool of blood and fuckin' brains, man, like they ripped it out of his bleedin' head...

[gristle]

Okay. They're gonna like find him. Are you okay?

[multiple_man]

Are you okay? Are you really okay with all this? It's every day now, people goin' missin'. These bastards are huntin' us down. They're nabbin' us right out in the open!

[gristle]

I'm okay and I'm not. It just reminds me of home, honestly.

[multiple_man]

...y'know, it's not too different to what I'm used to back home, meself. People go missin' off the estate all the time. Not to mention the murders.

But this is Rudy Too. I can't lose him. I'm fuckin' hopeless without him.

[gristle]

Yeah, same with Derry.

But they're gonna find him. They can't not. I know they're looking really hard.

[spherenpc]

I'll come to you, where are you? I'm John, I'm working on DNA and stuff.

[multiple_man]

DNA? What DNA? Like you’re a detective, you’re tryin’ to find them? The missing people.

[spherenpc]

I'm a doctor and I'm doing this part of it, yeah. How did you become two people, and don't say something like 'it's weird' or 'you won't believe me' because I'm a freaking ghost, okay?

[multiple_man]

There was a storm. Back where I come from. Big crash of lightnin', and a whole load of people all got powers at once. I got him.

[spherenpc]

The same power or different ones?

[Trying to distract, go!]

[multiple_man]

Different ones! What has that got to do with it?

[HE SEES THROUGH YOUR CLEVER RUSE.]

[spherenpc]

Well, how am I supposed to know what I'm looking for if everyone's got the same?!

[SHE'S GONNA STILL TRY.]

So his are the same as yours though?

[multiple_man]

He fuckin' is the power. He... [Okay, he knows how this is about to sound.] ...comes out of me. I mean, he jumps out of me chest. He's like a sneeze.

Still, I love the little bastard. He's the one bothers to fold our shirts up after the laundry.

[spherenpc]

[To the ghost, this doesn't sound all that crazy and she just nods for a moment.]

Can you like sense him? When he's out?

[multiple_man]

Sometimes -- sometimes? If I concentrate, I can get a general sense.

[spherenpc]

What if you stop panicking now and try to do it? Do you think it might help?

[ragnarsson]

Who's missing now?

[Ivar sounds almost bored. Really, how many people is this now? Too many for him to keep track of or care about?]

[multiple_man]

He's my - he's -

[Rudy would've been in the same boat as Ivar, yesterday. Ever since this morning, things have changed.

And now he has to figure out how to explain... this.]

All right, so you know how lots of people here, they're not normal? They've got fuckin' sparkle-hands, or they're talkin' about bein' angels? They've got powers. I'm like that. I've got a power. He's another me.

[ragnarsson]

Duplication? Interesting.

[At least he seems marginally more interested now. He also doesn't seem surprised at all. He's seen too many people who can do extraordinary things to be surprised by much anymore. Heck, he's gotten powers of his own by now.]

What happens if one of you dies?

[multiple_man]

If one of us dies, then he's dead, is what happens. And I don't care if most people come back here — he's barely a real person! It might not work the same for him!

[ragnarsson]

Glad I don't have that power. Seems like more trouble then it's worth. I'd probably end up murdering myself if I had to spend time around me.

[He's cognizant enough of the fact that he is indeed a horrible person and no one should have to put up with him. Yet people do anyway. His brother and sister are a pair of saints to still like him at this point in time.]

[multiple_man]

[Rudy is way too easy to bait with this sort of thing at the best of times. Therefore: hey.]

We've had our disagreements. But he's a part of me! I can't cope without him, man. We gotta do somethin'!

[ragnarsson]

Who knows? This might be better for you in the long run.

[Probably not, but Ivar's just having fun trolling him now.]

[multiple_man]

If he dies? Is that what you're sayin'?

...who the hell even are you, man? What are we talkin' about here?

[ragnarsson]

King Ivar Ragnarsson. Ivar the Boneless to friends and foe alike.

[There's no small amount of pride in him. Ivar's was a name spoken even in the future, this he already knew. His legacy was secure.]