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[Here's a familiar face that hasn't shown up on the network in a while now. Santo is hanging out in front of the monitor, still flexing his hand and making sure that he can move it without any problems. He's still to afraid to try to reassemble himself.]

Hey, nerds! Long time, no see!

Do you wanna know what really sucks? I'll tell you anyway. It's being totally unable to move, so you're stuck on a couch for weeks without any TV to watch. I mean, come on, there's aren't even any old episodes of Law & Order to kill time with.

None of you probably get that though, since you were off having adventures and saving turtles or whatever. Lucky jerks.

Anyway, I've been bored forever now, and really need some kind of entertainment. Anybody wanna spar and see if I die when I break apart? Come on, it'll be fun on a bun.

Or, you know, tell me a story about what's been going on here. Or something from your home. I'm totally good for anything. I mostly just want to make sure everyone isn't dead, so check in, guys. You know... The important ones... Which is everybody, cool?

[He starts to shut off the feed, but then stops for a moment, looking a bit unsure.]

Oh, and... Witch- I mean, Wanda? There's something I need to talk to you about. I kind of meant to do it a while ago, but... Yeah, forced to become a couch boulder.

[OOC: And with this, Santo is officially off hiatus!]

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Bart, my man! You made it out of turtlegeddon.

And I know you're fast, but are you sure that you're that fast? Because, I'm just saying, being a ghost is going to suck if you mess it up.

I did! I didn't even get to chant "Attica, Attica!" or dig my way out with a spoon.

How many pieces are we talking about here?

For real? That's lame, man. So, what, you were just living life in slow motion like the rest of us? That must have sucked [But he obviously isn't that sympathetic.]

Like, a million little pieces. Most of it if stone shrapnel too, so... You're good at dodging too, right?

Honestly? Given how it all ended up? Man. I got lucky. I don't know if I'd have made it through three days otherwise.

A million? [He may be in over his head, but it's the challenge that he wants.] Dodging's normally no big thing, but the shrapnel's going to be a pretty complete 360 array, right? I'll just vibrate through'em. Safer that way.

So. You game? Wanna bet on if I pull it off before you pull yourself together?

Sounds like you definitely lucked out if you're power aren't so seriously tied to you that you're stuck in crazy amounts of pain the whole time... That seemed to be more of a mutant thing here, though.

And a million might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I can totally make the blast out of boulders or pebbles or whatever you want, really. Yeah, I don't think I can really direct them... Unless you want me to throw my fist at you or something.

It takes me a minute to pull myself back together, so that bet hardly seems fair. How about if you can do it before the last piece hits the ground?

I missed them. Don't get me wrong. But I can't whine about it. Not when there's guys who went through hell without them. It would've felt like months in that cell if I'd had my speed. I have to try to stay in the moment with everyone. Like now. Like always.

However you want to do it. Go with what's easiest for you to put back together. Why not start with the fist? That way, you check if you can get it together and I check that I can handle vibrating through it and hopefully neither of us die in the process.

Deal. What're we betting? Bragging rights?

Yeah, we should probably test things out before we get into serious trouble. I'd totally rather just go all out right now, but if we're not back to a hundred percent, it'd be kind of dumb if we both died trying to play a game.

And that's a given, dude, but we gotta up the stakes higher than that. We need something worthwhile and/or humiliating.

Truer words. Besides how many people would kill me if something only SORTA went wrong I think I'd prefer the whole thing blow up in my face.

Got anything in mind? Nothing that puts me back in hot water with the kedan.

If things go wrong, I'd feel really bad for killing you... You know, assuming I'm not dead too. We can start small so that I just punch you in the face first.

Oh man, that limits things so much.

[Trying for jovial but... missing it somehow.]

Hey, at least you wouldn't mean to kill me.

Look. I got out of Sing Sing today. I'm not about to go back. Insert: you'll-never-take-me-alive joke.

[Santo catches that, but he's used to people trying to kill him so he gets it. He'll let it go.]

Never, dude. Maybe injure or maim a little bit. But I'm pretty big on the whole no killing thing. It'd totally ruin my rep.

What did you do to land in there, man? And how'd you get out?

Don't even get me started. I'm not crazy about how the kedan run things - oh, I'm sorry, 'decide to work with us' or whatever they're calling it. I'm sure they gave it some official-sounding reason.

[Like trying to steal government property, but Bart doesn't agree with that presentation of the events.]

But what it boils down to is that we didn't listen. They let us out after a few days.

Sounds like you got lucky, bro. I was in there for a while, and word on the street was that my group was going to be executed.

Not that I have to worry about that or anything, but if this crazy chick didn't pull us all out, it would have been a pretty bad time.

I'm just gonna. Add that to my list. Apparently I need a list now.

Yeah, pro tip: Don't go into those mines when the Emperor tells you not to go into those mines.

She's apparently pretty big on setting an example.

You mean the tunnels under that warehouse outside of Keeliai?

Yeeeeeeeeep. Those are the ones.

You got arrested.

For going in the same tunnels they sent us to.

THE ONES THAT WE GOT ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO GET BACK TO TO FINISH INVESTIGATING???

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