IC Contact for eudio

[agoodsoul]

This is Dennis, leave a message or whatever. I'll get back to you.

Comments

late night text; /pops dis post's cherry

[slapdash]

do you think i'm an asshole?

gasp

[agoodsoul]

no?

why?

yet another late night text

[slapdash]

hes gone

[agoodsoul]

who's he?

[It's a good thing he's usually up late anyway.]

text; two days after last contact

[macmillan]

[ He said he'd call, but. ]

Hey.

[agoodsoul]

[He sees the text and who it's from and for the first time he doesn't want to look at it right away. He's still sore over a few days ago. He didn't expect Joe to call either. Just that part of him that's used to being burned perhaps. So he doesn't reply right away, lets it sit a good chunk of the day.]

hey

[macmillan]

You probably shouldn't talk to him.

[agoodsoul]

whore you talking about? there are a few hims i talk to joe

text;

[eggcel]

dennis the menace

anyone ever call you that?

anyway I've moved into a swanky new place with harry

come over and I'll give you a tour

[agoodsoul]

youre the first ever
totally

yeah? long as there aint no weird sex dungeon in it im game

text;

[pillz]

joe macmillan

[agoodsoul]

[Dennis hadn't forgotten about Kavinsky, but he's still surprised to see this. He stares at his phone, wondering if he should even reply. Replying in any way would validate his guess or however he figured it out... but not saying anything could do just the same.

Fucked either way. There's a little curl of dread pooling in his gut as he types a reply before hitting send.]

what do you want

[It's meant more in a way to brush him off, sound like it doesn't bother him.]

text;

[tstop]

hey, easy bake.

[agoodsoul]

hey ruthless

text;

[eggcel]

[ Eggsy's hatched a plan. Operation Make Dennis think About Having a Threesome With Him and Joe. ]

fancy some netflix and chill tonight?

[agoodsoul]

[The last time Dennis netflixed and chilled with someone he lost his butt virginity to them.

... but a movie does sound nice.]

once i get off work yeah
got any movies mind? hould i bring anything?

text;

[slapdash]

Hey. You can stay here in Eudio if you want. Just have to fill out the right paperwork with the Administration.

[ He told Dennis he'd find out and he did. ]

[agoodsoul]

[It's great to see this name and number on his phone and he'll reply immediately.]

i cant believe you remembered that
thank you jim
ill have to work out some time to go do that

howve you been? we need to have a pint sometime

text;

[macmillan]

Do you remember Ned?

[ Hi. ]

[agoodsoul]

[Hi.]

pie maker who looks a tiny bit like look
its the ears

why? did you kill him?

[He's joking... but please tell him you didn't.]

text; post letdown

[macmillan]

Hey.

[agoodsoul]

[Man he doesn't want this to be weird and awkward, but it's gonna be.]

hey joe

[Added a few seconds later.]

whats up?

text;

[tstop]

i did it.

[agoodsoul]

that could mean a lotta things ruthless

phone call; 4/1

[macmillan]

[ bitch your phone is ringing. ]

[agoodsoul]

[bitch

He can't believe Joe right now. He answers the call with a frustrated exhale, not even sure why Joe did this in the first place. He could have just answered him before.]

Why'd you do that?

[macmillan]

[ Over a series of ten days, Dennis receives five messages, all printed on plain white paper, folded neatly, and tucked into five individually sealed envelopes. Each envelope has a number written very small and very neat in the top right hand corner in black ink.

The first message, in an envelope marked with a '2', reads:

ALIR M AEW SPHIV, M QIX E QER. LI PSZIH QI, ERH M PSZIH LMQ, FYX LI RIZIV KEZI QI XLI GLERGI XS XIPP LMQ, LI RIZIV KEZI QI XLI XMQI XS JMKYVI MX SYX. LI AIRX EAEC.

M QIX E ASQER. WLI PSZIH QI FIJSVI M PSZIH LIV, ERH JSV E ALMPI AI PSZIH IEGL SXLIV EX XLI WEQI XMQI. M XSSO WSQIXLMRK JVSQ LIV, WSQIXLMRK WLI PSZIH, FYX M LEH RS GLSMGI. WLI HMHR'X YRHIVWXERH ALC, GSYPHR'X WII XLI PEVKIV TMGXYVI, ASYPHR'X YRHIVWXERH XLEX M AEW XVCMRK XS WEZI LIV. M VYMRIH LIV AMXLSYX IZIR XVCMRK. WLI PIJX QI.

( When I was older, I met a man. He loved me, and I loved him, but he never gave me the chance to tell him, he never gave me the time to figure it out. He went away.

I met a woman. She loved me before I loved her, and for a while we loved each other at the same time. I took something from her, something she loved, but I had no choice. She didn't understand why, couldn't see the larger picture, wouldn't understand that I was trying to save her. I ruined her without even trying. She left me. )

( caesar cypher, offset 4. )]

[macmillan]

[ The second envelope, marked with a '1' and delivered two days after the first, contains a message that reads:

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( When I was young, my mother was the one person I loved the most. She was wild, but this world wasn't enough for her, or it was too much - I never figured it out. I wasn't enough or I was too much. She took me up to the roof to look at the stars, and one night she let me go. Catch a falling star, they say, but I was never a star, so nobody caught me.

She went away. )

( morse code.) ]

[macmillan]

[ Three days after, a third envelope, marked with a '4', reads:

01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00101110 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 00101110 00100000 01000010 01110010 01100001 01110110 01100101 00101110 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101100 01100100 00101110 00100000 01000011 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01101000 01101001 01101101 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01110011 01101111 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01101101 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101111 01110000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01100101 01111001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101110

( And then I met another man. Younger. Brave. Bold. Curious. I taught him as much as he taught me. I learned that it wasn't so hard to smile again, that it was easier when he was around. I learned that I need to open my eyes a little wider, to take a little more time to see the things that are right in front of me. )

( binary code. ) ]

[macmillan]

[ Another two days, and a fourth envelope is delivered, marked with a '3'. It reads:

( I met another woman. I married this one, because I wanted to do things right. I thought I was doing things right. I told her I loved her the moment I knew it. I gave her everything I could, everything she wanted, but it wasn't enough. It wasn't what she was after. I ruined her too. )

( pigpen cypher. ) ]

[macmillan]

[ On the tenth day, the final message is delivered, the envelope marked with a '5'. This message is handwritten in the same black ink used to number the envelope. The handwriting is... careful, precise, almost too neat like someone was trying to disguise their natural handwriting so as to not give themselves away too quickly.

But this envelope is damaged, the bottom left corner damp with water blown into the corridor by a brief sun shower. Some of the ink has run, but most of the message is still readable.

I love hi҉m҉, too.

But I don't wan҉t҉ to r҉u҉in him. ]

text; (also sent to eggsy)

[tstop]

hey! some guy was asking about the warehouse and wants to discus concrete i guess? i don't know, but i'm gonna go meet him. his name is tony stark and if i don't check in with you in an hour... i don't know. call someone?

[agoodsoul]

[Oh my god, Bliss.]

isnt that the cuddlr bomber
i talked with him a bit hes apparently a billionaire

where you meeting him i can like blend in with the crowd and keep an eye out like a spy

text;

[eggcel]

remember that girl I was talking about from home?

[agoodsoul]

one whos name you vandalized a building with
yeah

text ;

[etiquette]

Dennis, I hope this message finds you well. I was hoping you might join me for dinner later this week, along with Eggsy of course.

There's someone I'd like you to meet.

[agoodsoul]

later this week when? gotta make sure i aint working

and this sounds serious should i be worried? whats the dresscode for dinner

[tstop]

hey! i don't know if you're free, but if you are do you want to go to a party tonight?

[agoodsoul]

party? what party?

video call;

[gundogs]

[ Incoming video call from: Roxanne Morton. Do you accept?]

[agoodsoul]

[He doesn't recognize the number, so he figures it must be Roxy. He'll answer the call, attempting to look... cool? Collected? Like he's not nervous about speaking to this person who's friends with Eggsy from back home.]

... hey. Hello.

[He starts to say his name is this and that, but realizes how silly that is. Dennis stops himself, bites his lip then bursts into a little laugh.]

Sorry, I'm being daft. Course you know who I am.

phone call

[macmillan]

[ Ring ring, little fireman! ]

[agoodsoul]

[Of course he picks up, it's Joe. He answers, sounding pleased, but curious.]

Hey, what's up?

text;

[redhott]

hey so this is probably really random but
Eggsy told me you were a firefighter
and I was wondering if you guys could use one more?

[agoodsoul]

eggsy werent wrong
you a friend of his?

and we could always use more people but i dont do the hiring so im not the one to ask
lowly peon here