maskormenace | 002

[This communicator has been hacked.

Attached to the broadcast is the alias LUNATIC, a name some of you may have come to know by now, though most of you will not have. Not to worry, of course. There will be plenty of opportunity in the future...]

I have been watching.

[The speaker's voice has been manipulated to sound both artificial and faintly hollow.]

There are sinners in your midst. [You know their names, don't you? Perhaps some of them even spring to mind: Lucifer, The Manipulator, Annie Leonhart, Reiner Braun, Bertholdt Hoover...and so on. It's possible you even sympathize with some of them, though it's clear the speaker does not.] You answer their crimes with rewards of friendship, forgiveness...and freedom.

Foolishness.

[What follows is clearly exasperated, but spoken in such quiet tones that it forces listeners to be all the more attentive.]

As expected, heroes...your idea of justice...is weak.

But that is why I have come.

[The speaker pauses, perhaps for dramatic effect, for when he begins again there is a certain zealousness to his tone.]

My name...is Lunatic.

[Do not mistake him for a hero.]

I will strike down the evil that has arisen. For the wicked ones...there will be no escape. The time for them to atone for their atrocities is now.

They will hear the voice of Thanatos.

[Those listening closely may hear the crackling and hissing of flames in the background...it grows louder and louder before the communication is suddenly cut and the line goes dead.]

[OOC: Please note that icon links have been broken. This broadcast in no way reveals the connection between Yuri and Lunatic.]

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[There's a quick, quiet beat. Chilton's unease may be self-evident, but his ambition so frequently conquers his self-protection -- a grand feat in of itself.

And this individual is much too interesting.]

When are you free?

I'm about finished here, if you're eager. And if you're not...then I'll allow you to decide. You have a better idea of the appointments you keep than I do, I would imagine.

Ah -- not right now, in this moment. Perhaps later in the month? [Which might afford Chilton more time to observe, more time to analyze and profile.] You are intending to remain in Heropa, yes?

You know the answer to that, I think.

I go wherever there is a need for justice.

Yes, but you can't be everywhere, surely.

Or can you?

No, that is beyond me at this time.

You will be unable to contact me directly, but I will keep my eye on this network. When you are ready, you need only say so.

-- All right. I accept your highly ominous terms of contact.

It is hardly ominous to want to protect my identity, and unless you have a better means of communication, this will have to suffice.

I have an office number.

[It's supplied meekly; he has a cell phone number, too, a much more private line. But giving that out right now doesn't strike him as prudent.]

I'm listed.

I will find you when the time is convenient, in that case.

[He disconnects.]

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