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Dante Rantanen

"Hey, you've reached Dante. I'm not in right now--you know what to do."

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[redarm]

[-- Oh he texted Dante. Shit.

..oh well, he comes by the apartment enough that he's going to see it sooner or later so he'll just upload this photo:]

Noah Robin Campbell shared a photo. 5/01 near The Towers

[darkinferno]

[i always knew you were the spawn of satan okay no, no, delete, this is not the time to be making really shitty jokes at Noah's expense, even if it's always a good time to be making jokes at Noah's expense.

It's probably a good thing that he's seeing this from his phone and not in person. It gives him an opportunity to figure out a better response than "what the FUCK."]

i haven't heard of anyone getting extra limbs but as far as i know you and yin are the only ones who are missing any in the first place

that being said i DO know someone who woke up with a bullet wound in his chest, all scarred over like it was pretty recently healed. the top of it looks like it might be something similar

is that scarring or is it... ATTACHED like that?

[Also, why the fuck is it red, but that's another question he'll get to soon enough.]

[redarm]

[It takes him a bit to respond, mostly because other people are calming him down. So, at least the capslock is gone when he sends a text back.]

its attached like that, i think. red part feels different than the rest.

a bullet wound? the fuck?

[darkinferno]

[Wow, his amazing bedside manner isn't helping calm Noah down on its own? Rude. Also unsurprising.]

people are getting all sorts of great "presents" nowadays

still, there are a couple doctors on the network that've offered helping people out when stuff like this happens. might be worth giving them a call to get everything checked out and see if they can figure out what the hell it actually is and if they can get it off

i'm assuming you want it gone at least, if you're cool with a devil arm then that's cool too i guess

anyways, docs' names are grell sutcliffe and lucian trevelyan [And he attaches their contact information here!] they both seem like decent people so far

so is it actually usable? or is it just there to look freaky and demonic

[redarm]

yeah a few people recommended them too. Ill track them down and go. maybe they can figure something out.

[He'll just traumatize some newbies along the way. nbd.]

it barely moves, not enough to be usable. just a demon arm for the demon child i guess.

[Dante's not the first to describe it that way. He's honestly not sure how to feel about it. He had joked with Yuri that maybe he was secretly some kind of demon back when he received Timcanpy. But having this sort of arm? Made it was lot more real than what Noah liked]

[darkinferno]

[It's fine enough for him to have made the joke, but when Noah makes his own "joke" about being a demon child, it makes Dante frown. It doesn't sound so funny when he's the one saying it.]

maybe it's something you've got to learn to use

a little while ago i got in a fight and was able to use this slick move to get the jump on one of the guys i was fighting. but i haven't been able to do anything like that since

but i'm pretty sure if i work at it i can figure out how to do it. maybe it's the same for you and that arm

[redarm]

[Probably because Noah's a terrible comedian. For a guy who grew up in the circus, he makes a terrible clown.]

...why the fuck do you get a new slick move and i get a creepy useless arm?

[LIFE IS NOT FAIR OKAY]

but yeah maybe. theres something something weird about it than just the look, so maybe there is more to it.

[darkinferno]

because they like me better than you, obviously

[Not true. After all, Noah hasn't had any memories about dying and ending up alone trapped in some sort of hell, has he...? Maybe they like him better, if they're not giving him those sorts of memories.]

what's weird about it? it doesn't have scales too, does it?

[redarm]

bullshit.

no scales, but its fucking heavy. heavier than any prosthetic ive worn.

[darkinferno]

weighted down, huh...?

[Why would Retrospec send him a weighted down arm? ...okay, Dante, hold up, stop making assumptions, it might not be Retrospec and sure, it's just a complete coincidence that they get this weird app and then start remembering all these weird things and then people start getting presents mailed to them by said weird app and then people are waking up with bullet scars and new arms come the fuck on obviously it's Retrospec's fault, who needs proof?!]

in those flashes you've been getting

did you have that same kind of arm in them?

how many have you gotten by now?

[redarm]

the flashes?
ive gotten about 3 of them.
and i dunno
the guy i saw had an arm.
but he wears gloves so i cant tell what his arm looks like.

[darkinferno]

[So there goes that way of figuring it out... Dante frowns. Too bad.]

damn

well, who knows? maybe at some point you'll be able to find out if that's what it is or not

in the meantime, you'll just have to do the best you can. who knows what'd happen if you tried to get rid of it?

[redarm]

yeah i guess
it might start crawling back in the night.
like some zombie movie.

[darkinferno]

[Now see, that's a good joke!]

the blood sacrifice must be made, noah

[redarm]

yeah?
wanna volunteer?

[darkinferno]

i don't think it works like that, they've clearly already marked you for it

[redarm]

hey ive seen lots of horror movies
theres usually some way to pass it off onto someone else.
so i glady pass it off to you.

[darkinferno]

sorry

i'm too genre-savvy to let that happen

[cannedlaughter.m4a]

[redarm]

does that mean you wont sleep with my cousin?

cause people who have sex are always the first to go.

[darkinferno]

that's not my call

i told ari we'd take things at her speed

if she wants to i'm hardly gonna say no, am i?

[Really, Noah? You really wanted to get all the details on whether or not he and Ari are having sex yet?

Enjoy that mental image there.]

[redarm]

[Well it's nice to know Dante is a gentleman. And that from the sound of it, they haven't had sex yet. And that Dante is not going to pressure her. He's actually glad for that.

But on the other hand]

gross.
but okay whatever.

[darkinferno]

don't ask if you're not ready for the answer

[redarm]

yeah forget i asked

[YOU WIN THIS ROUND DANTE, he's signing off from his messenger. gross.]