Mission 007 ~ [Dictated] - Forwarded to Midnight on the 18th

[noblefive]

[Have a loud clanking echoing over the journals, Paradisa. It sounds like someone's hefting large lumps of metal about.

Then, a gruff voice sounds]

Well, it's about damned time.

[That voice is a certain SPARTAN-II who has realaised he can now put his armour back on.]

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UNSC Filter

If anyone's awake, someone mind giving me a hand? The castle's finally decided to let me put my armour back on, and you guys are the closest I have to UNSC Techies.

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Filtered to Naomi-010 and BB

You guys settling in alright?

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Filtered to Agent York and Delta

Hope you're not getting too lonely out there.

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((OOC: Loss end and open! Go nuts. Open to people complaining. It's like 1am or something.))

Comments

UNSC Filter

[helljumper]

[Yeah, it isn't much of a surprise that he'd be one of the few who were up.]

If no one else has volunteered, I can.

UNSC Filter

[noblefive]

That would be much appreciated, corporal. Considering you have experience.

UNSC Filter

[helljumper]

Always glad to help. What's your location?

UNSC Filter

[noblefive]

Room 328. Door's open.

UNSC Filter -> Action!

[helljumper]

Got it. Be there in ten.

[Or around there, seeing as elevators could sometimes be a bit of a wild card, but it wasn't long before there was a rapping of knuckles on the door, and Rookie's helmet was peering in.]

Chief?

Jorge

[encryptedlock]

It's a little quieter than the castle.

The meditation hasn't driven me nuts yet, though.

Agent York

[noblefive]

So it's a choice of going nuts by myself, or nuts by the castle.

...I think I know which one I prefer.

Jorge

[encryptedlock]

Hey, I just said I haven't been going nuts. Quiet's not always bad, you know.

Agent York

[noblefive]

There's a difference between me and you, agent. All this peace is unsettling. It really doesn't sit right.

You got a lot more patience than me.

Jorge

[encryptedlock]

...Let me guess. Before now, you haven't had a day off in ages, have you?

Jorge?

[lonenoble]

Oh really? Took that long?

Yep. Noble Six

[noblefive]

Yeah. Sorry if I woke you, but I couldn't sleep and thought I'd give it a try.

Jorge (That ? was a typo)

[lonenoble]

Glad to have it back, then?

Noble Six (Ah! Sorry!)

[noblefive]

Once I get the stuff back on.

Jorge

[lonenoble]

I'm sure you won't have any trouble finding an assistant.

[Someone may still be a bit miffed with Jorge over the pony thing]

UNSC

[youfallback]

I'm still awake. Had a few projects to work on.

Position?

UNSC

[noblefive]

My room. Assistance would be appreciated, agent.

UNSC + action

[youfallback]

Be there in two minutes. [And heading there! At two minutes, sharp, she's knocking on his door.]

[noblefive]

It's open!

[The door is, indeed, open. It reveals Jorge sat on his bed with varying parts of his armour on, but the big bits still lying on the ground at his feet.]

[youfallback]

[Carolina moves into his room, glancing around at some of the mess.]

Makes me grateful for mine. [Freelancer armor is an offshoot from SPARTAN's but is way lighter, fortunately, and much easier to put on.]

Jorge-052

[valkyrie_in_mjolnir]

Settling in all right. I'm building a gantry in my room to help with the armor.

I can key in your specifications if you'd like.

Really missing Devereaux right about now.

Naomi-010

[noblefive]

If you could give me the specs to build one myself, that'd be great.

[A pause]

Who's Devereaux?

Jorge-052

[valkyrie_in_mjolnir]

[Just the briefest hesitation ...] Sent. It'll be there on your CastleNet account when you are ready for it!

She was an ODST I was working with before coming here. She'd been helping me in and out of my armor.

[She pauses another moment, and BB, already knowing what she was going to say from being inside her head, was politely quiet.] Do you ... do you remember Serin at all?

Naomi-010

[noblefive]

[Another pause] Received. I'll get on it now, thanks.

[Serin...? Why mention her? Jorge pauses, thinking about her.] Wasn't she one of the failed SPARTAN Experiments. We were told she died.

Jorge-052

[valkyrie_in_mjolnir]

She almost did. ONI took her, saved her. She works for them, now. [And I work for her., but given OPSEC she wasn't about to reveal that quite yet.]

[BB's politely silent. He knows this isn't easy for Naomi, and he's agreed to take over if she doesn't feel up to finishing. This is Jorge, though, and she feels this news is best shared Spartan-to-Spartan.]

[Just as Serin had talked with her for two hours.]

Do you remember anything from before the program? [Reserved, a little curious. Naomi couldn't; it'd all been trained away, washed out with the indoctrination.]