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• Stocke uses <swordpacts> and <moirae> interchangeably; the former especially for Devil's Nest business. Any of his friends/fellow Nest employees probably have his number.

• He's careful to use randomized names on the network the rest of the time; watch out for that if you want your character to contact him about something he said! (~~Basically just come up with an excuse for them to recognize his writing and all is good~~.)

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> i'll be coming along too
> he said he prefers to meet people in person
> easier to gauge them that way
> can't really argue with that logic

> oh, and while i didn't name names
> he might be someone who knows you
> just as a forewarning
> you know anyone that runs a general store in bavan?

[There's a very long pause before there's a response - hours long, that is. Did... did Stocke already run off to see this guy by himself?]

[...he did, didn't he.]

[Eventually, though:]
i know him
recognized the name on the network

[Wow, rude, buddy. Always sneaking off and doing your own thing when no one is watching.]

> yeah?
> he mentioned he knew you and heather, too!
> so i guess maybe i was worrying for nothing
> you ready to go and check things out?

[Well, actually, about that...]

[...]

already done

[Damn it, Stocke.]

[DAMMIT STOCKE, INDEED!]

> wait
> whayt
> you alreaady
> WHAT THE HELL?

> so THATS why it took you so long to respond!
> i thought you fell asleep or something!

> well?
> what did you find out?

[He can't stay too mad at the resident spymaster for doing his job, but geez...]

[Stocke decides to... refrain from answering that with "when have you known me to sleep."]

as i said , i know him
he's tried to seek me out before for something related

he's genuine
or a really good actor

[...]

but he leaves too many things he values out in the open

[Translation, Stocke doesn't think he's acting. He'd have to be playing an impossibly good long con, one without any payoff worth the game. At least, anytime soon.]

he was missing shade's blood and lich bone
now he's missing only the bone

> nah, i get the feeling he's the real deal
> i still wanna meet him in person though
> its hard to get a feel for someone strictly through text

> still, if you know the guy and you figured he wasn't lying
> then why'd you ditch me, huh?
> i thought we talked about you quitting this lone wolf crap before?

[The real answer there is it... legit didn't come to mind as ditching Rosch. He's used to doing stuff like this on his own, and was even long before Ryslig.]

didn't think this was what you meant
it wasn't dangerous

[Rosch is just being particularly tetchy because of pack instincts, that's all.]

> i didn't really think it would be dangerous!
> but that's not the point!
> i said i wanted to go with you!
> but you ditched me anyway!

> prophet's tears
> you can be a real pain in the ass sometimes

[More like a lot of the time.]

[...]

i was already going as soon as i said i'd take a look

[Read: he never actually saw that message until he got back. What, Rosch, did you think he was a slacker?]

[Sometimes, one can be a little too efficient in their work.]

> you could've waited for me!
> or told me to catch up!
> or just said you were going without me!
> you gotta learn to communicate with your pa
> with your teammates!
> it makes me worry when you don't respond in a timely manner!

[He was totally going to type "packmates" there.]

[Also, is Rosch suggesting that they basically howl at each other across the city to keep in touch? Maybe.]

[...]

rosch
you were used to me vanishing for weeks at a time on specint business
[Sometimes without warning even then, were it urgent, though he'd tried if he knew he'd be disappearing for that long.]
is this truly that much worse ?

[He doesn't say it. Doesn't even think it, exactly. But maybe there's a sort of feeling there, a - this is who he is. This is what Heiss made him, what being a living shadow made him, but more than that what he made himself. That's not so easy to change.]

[Going out of his way to tell someone he's gonna be gone for a time as short as a few hours - that's not something that even comes to mind. It's not a conscious decision.]

> being -used- to something and -liking- something are two very different things
> i got used to you vanishing for prophet knows how long because there wasn't any other way you could go about the whole damn specint business, otherwise
> but i -always- hated the way heiss pulled you out of the army for his little pet project
> at least when we were in the same unit, i could keep an eye on you and watch your back

[Is Rosch purposefully avoiding answering Stocke's question of "is this truly that much worse?"]

[Yes. Yes, he is. Because it's bad enough thinking about the physical changes this place has inflicted on him. But the psychological ones, too? Because admitting to feeling uneasy when any of the Nesters aren't close by feels like admitting to a weakness of character on Rosch's part.]

[And admitting weakness doesn't come easily to Rosch.]

you never made a secret of not liking it

[...]

but those were trips into a warzone
this wasn't

[So he's really not getting it.]

> i KNOW that
> you think i don't know that?
> i just

[There's a long pause while Rosch struggles to find the right words. You can do it, buddy.]

> when you just up and leave without saying anything
> i feel like i'm being left behind
> like i'm being -abandoned-
> and the rational, human part of my brain tells me it's stupid
> and it is
> it's really REALLY stupid
> but the part of my brain that's a wolf keeps thinking that when you go away
> you're never gonna come back
> and it makes me uneasy and i hate it, okay?
> i hate the fact that i can't stop that feeling even though it's CLEARLY STUPID and unfounded

[Except maybe it isn't totally unfounded, given how Stocke already disappeared once before when he was ready to go through with the ritual.]

[Is this a werewolf thing? It's not a werewolf thing Stocke remembers, but then he'd always been more solitary than Rosch...]

[...]

i can't stay in the nest forever to ease your instincts

but i'll try to warn you if i'm not going to be around for a while

[By which he means... not a few hours. That's still too much. But if it's longer than that, and he knows it will be -]

> stocke, that's not what i'm saying, and you know it
> thoughts and feelings come from two different places, rowan always said
> and i don't have to let my feelings dictafe my actions
> it's MY responsibolity to deal with my feelings
> not yours

> but still
> i'd appecirte the heasd's up if youre going out for a while
> or at least let me know WHERE youre headed
> so in case something happens

[Something like getting captured or having a run in with any of the god followers. It's good to have a dedicated tracker among the Nesters is they ever need to form a search party.]

i'll let you know

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