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MONEYBAGS

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CHARACTER

Sampo Koski

CIVILIAN NAME

Brughel Poisson

TEAM

REDEMPTION

HOUSE NUMBER

12

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Comments

@poker

[stonehearts]

Ah, Sampo. It's been some time since we last talked, friend.

[lovebombing]

Hey fam!

How's life been treating you?

@hottie

[transmit]

[ apropos of nothing: a social experiment, of sorts. ]

< @ HOTTIE HAS SENT K5000 >

[ what being free from debt arc does to a man ]

[lovebombing]

[The idea of money being sent to him is exciting, of course, but...]

[Even he knows nothing comes truly free, so he immediately fires back with:]

what do you want

@absinthe

[abstractart]

hey, man, you still around?

[lovebombing]

[???]

[????????????!!!!!]

[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Buddy! Is that really you? Where have you been??

SEPTEMBER, OCEAN with siffrin 🧙‍♂️

[lovebombing]

[Sure enough, a certain blue-haired menace can be found at the pier. He gives Siffrin a hearty wave and a smile when they approach, gesturing to sit next to him so they can overlook the ocean.]

How are you doing, my fine fellow? Life treating you well?

[siffriend]

[ Yes, there is Siffrin, with a bag of half the cookies given... let them sit and nab out one of the little delights.

A nod!!! As if Siffrin hadn't lowkey told him to back off earlier. ]

I've... settled, more or less. Your guide really did help.

[ Now Siffrin can do all kind of neat things with his implant! Even if he doesn't. ]

What about you?

hummingbird drone, while ⬆️ is happening

[transmit]

[ Elysium's back earlier than usual and Siffrin isn't in for once… and that suits him just fine for the engineering he's about to do over the next few hours. It's more or less done, having found time to work on it for the past however long they'd managed to stave him off—and whether it'd been because Siffrin's trap had actually worked or Sampo had achieved what he sought out to accomplish, he doesn't think too deeply about it.

… What he has been thinking about, however, is whether Sampo's room is still the same, full of boxes save for the kitschy little snow globe and presumably, the bird with the red scarf. Even if he'd wanted to add to it, they didn't really know anything about each other, did they? Likes, dislikes. And yet, that's not exactly accurate, either.

Rather than leave this next… item… up to chance that no one would steal it, he leaves it with his hummingbird drone. Whenever Sampo returns to base, it'll attempt to perch on his head and drop a pouch down from its beak. Inside, he'll find a keychain of a dagger with a button on its handle, attached to a professional grade carabiner.

Elysium has Sampo, huh? Well…


Press it twice in rapid succession and it emits a wavelength that only a transceiver its attuned to can pick up. Something like an SOS signal. If you hold down on it, it's capable of broadcasting messages. The tech LILITH has is advanced, but it's not always reliable.

The last mission had a lot of us separated. We're lucky to be on the same team, but even that isn't a guarantee. Who's to say that'll be the case next time?

- E.

It goes both ways. For the record, and because I forgot the first time, he writes in neat and clear print. ]

1/? nothin going on here don't mind me

[transmit]

[ a regular message, first: ]

test
> YOUR MESSAGE HAS FAILED TO DELIVER. TRY AGAIN?
> Y

[transmit]

[ a not-so regular message casually boosted by his arts, next: ]

test
> YOUR MESSAGE HAS FAILED TO DELIVER. TRY AGAIN?
> Y

[transmit]

[ … ]

< @ HOTTIE HAS SENT K5,000 >
< @ HOTTIE's TRANSFER HAS TIMED OUT >
< @ HOTTIE HAS SENT K10,000 >
< @ HOTTIE's TRANSFER HAS TIMED OUT >
[ in lieu of words, attempts to transfer increasingly ridiculous amounts day by day. until this reaches a fever pitch on the 13th—— ]

spares you. fin

[transmit]

I didn't get to say it before


But you have me, too.

Until there's a body I won't give up on you.



Sorry I didn't say it earlier.

[ whenever he ends up receiving this clusterfuck of messages, maybe he'll notice that there's nothing for the 14th-15th. maybe he won't. he's been through a lot, after all. a mystery. ]

AFTER THE KIDNAPPEE MESSAGES but while comms are down 8)

[redsoil]

I will have you back.

[ Unlike ⬆️ that guy above, there's nothing romantic about this declaration. It is practically an admission of war, especially from the god of such.

He and Sampo have a Vibe going on, and that vibe is a solid business arrangement and — well, stern-and-severe Set is learning to be more fun from the guy. He's angry his clown has been taken, after all. Unforgivably angered. So angered, that he'd lost his own mind to the Lord of the Forest in an effort to FIND Sampo ( and ok a few others but dont count them ughhh ). ]

I would never invest in a man who I did not think would do anything to survive the trials before him. So, if I must: I will tear this entire village apart to find you, Sampo Koski. And then the kaiju, as well.

You do the same, and do not be shamed for it.

@hottie. sometime during the aftermath

[transmit]

[ regardless of what does or doesn't happen: ]

Procedure for the Containment and Disposal of Infected Individuals to Prevent Originium-Related Transmission:

1. Pre-Mortem Isolation: Ensure the individual is fully isolated during the final stages of life to minimise environmental exposure.
2. Post-Mortem Handling: Immediately following death, cremate all body parts not affected by Originium shard assimilation.
3. Shard Inactivation: Activate remaining Originium shards by applying heat above XXXX°C, then immediately freeze to neutralise their activity.
4. Disposal: Bury all residual materials, including inactivated shards, beneath soil in accordance with contamination control procotols¹.


¹: In the absence of formal guidelines, any undisturbed area with sufficient soil is acceptable.

[ truly, how romantic. ]

[lovebombing]

[This is an absolutely normal wonderful message to get. It's like someone telling him about the weather! He can just read, nod, and mark as read.]







[Except he fucking WON'T what the FUCK]

Where are you


Elysium where are you

[lunarchivist]

Sampo,

How are you? Are you recovering okay?

[Awkwardly expressed concern...]

[lovebombing]

[Oh. Whoah. Dan Heng? DAN HENG OF ALL PEOPLE? This IS a surprise. He takes a moment to answer.]

If it isn't my friend Dan Heng!

What's up fam?

Your ol' Sampo is doing alright

All things considering

You?

forward-dated to at least the end of the month

[transmit]

[ … not quite a Christmas delivery, but the absence of one from Elysium on the day itself might suggest a thing or two. Maybe he truly didn’t have anything to give—What’s better than the gift of companionship? is probably what he’d teasingly say if confronted about it. Or maybe, well…

It’s a little complicated than that.

Anyway, sometime after Elysium has left and Sampo gets around to tidying up the corner of the room he’s made his own (if he ever does), he’ll stumble across a small box tucked beneath a pile of his other engineering projects. Inside, he’ll find an assortment of parts: a plain silver chain with a clasp, fit to act as a necklace, and an ear cuff adorned with a gleaming blue sapphire.

Both pieces are unmistakably designed to hold something at their ends. And yet, that something sits unaffixed to anything in particular. That something is, unsurprisingly, a feather. ]

25th December

[queenofkur]

[ A wrapped package can be found at Sampo's door after the Christmas Party. Unwrapping it reveals a toy set. It may look questionable, but it absolutely is not.

There is a message with the gift, written on a Christmas postcard: ]

Dear Sampo,

While this is a questionable gift I hesitated to send, the merchant assured me this is the most "skibidi" thing they had and that any enjoyer of the word skibidi would love it. I hope this is true, as I have found myself struggling to accept that this is an acceptable gift. Thus I leave you to be the judge of that. I shall go back to that merchant and exact divine punishment upon him if I found he lied to me.

Merry Christmas!
-- Ereshkigal, Goddess of Death and Queen of Kûr

🎁 delivery, 12/25

[wheft]

[ im not even going to sugarcoat it. sampo will find a small, nicely wrapped box on his doorstep come christmas day, containing a physical set of balatro cards. yes, balatro has withstood the test of time in this world, for better or for worse.

Think you might enjoy this. I don't know how to play it though, so you're gonna have to learn that all on your own.

Thanks for the gifts you gave me a couple of times already. Happy holidays.

- Ishmael ]

sometime closer to the end of the month.... @stardust

[siffriend]

[ ...

(Ugh.

You really can't believe you're here...

...

But... Elysium had offered up a gift, and... in the lack of anything to give -- you do have something, or you did, but you still don't-- you can't now-- this is good enough, you think. Maybe.

...)

Siffrin inhales softly, then: ]

outside

[lovebombing]

[He really should be more drunk for this.]

[He REALLY should be more drunk for this.]

[But the snake has to bite its tail at some point, right? He can't keep running. Elysium wouldn't want him to. Ugh. Fucking Elysium.]

[It takes a loooong time for him to have any sort of reaction to this, as if expecting Siffrin to just up and leave, but eventually, he's opening the door just a crack, green eye all that's visible.]

....Siffrin?

late gift delivery! Can be backdated to like more around New Years or something haha

[lunarchivist]

[There is a small box wrapped in paper made to mimic the starry night sky. Or a galaxy. It’s set in front of your door, whenever you may pass through. Inside it is a snow-globe! Which seems to have a little city that almost looks like Belobog, with little lights that glow when you turn on the switch at the bottom.

There is no note or indication who it’s from, but there are…likely very few people here that could commission something like this. Happy late holidays, Sampo.]

@TYPHON

[redsoil]

Are you still sulking in your room? After all this time?
Come out with me.

If you do not come willingly, I will engage in efforts you will be publicly humiliated by.

[ he thinks sampo is still sad about killing someone ]

[lovebombing]

Oh

Hey pal! Buddy!





Can I take a rain check just this once pretty please I don't need humiliation here :(