CliveRosfield | Text

[herofhopeless]

I haven’t been able to find my brother, Joshua, since the fog came. Has anyone seen a man, a little over 6 feet tall, light brown hair that’s a big longer, blue-green eyes, wears a lot of black and red, has a very formal and convoluted way of speaking? He’s kind, curious, intelligent. He would have done his best to help anyone who may have needed it during the mission.

Please, if anyone has seen him, call me, text me, yell my name from the top of a building, I don’t care. I just need to know that he’s okay.

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UN: FleurDeParis - Text

[repaintress]

Where have you looked? We should focus our efforts on locations that are isolated or where someone might be trapped. Presumably if he were somewhere ordinary, you would have seen him. Do we have a list of such locations and of people you could send to look?

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[herofhopeless]

I started with common locations for him. Every bookstore, library, and cafe. The apartments, the hospital.
All of Garreg Mach and as much of both Abysses that I can get to.The rest of Bramble Valley and the parts of Purple Windy I can get to.
I haven’t asked anyone yet. Dion would help. So would Yuri and An Zhe. Sleipnir might if I asked. Maybe Cid. Alex and Sophie maybe?

UN: Peintre

[betenoir]

You should establish a protocol in case this happens again. Though now is not the time. How good is your hound at following a scent?

[repaintress]

So you need someone to check places you can't get to. Do you know of anyone with abilities that would allow them to reach areas you cannot? Does Joshua have any such abilities?

Sophie and Alex would help you.

[herofhopeless]

Joshua can fly if he Primes but I think someone would have seen him if he did that after the mission. Maybe someone who can get to high places. Dion can jump obscenely high. He can get higher vantage points than I can.

I'll text Sophie and ask if she can find him telepathically.

UN: definecat | Video

[definecat]

How do you misplace your brother? I may not always know where mine is, but he's chill.

[herofhopeless]

Very good. He's with me now, but no luck so far.

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[herofhopeless]

We got separated at the beginning of the mission and I haven't been able to find him since.

[He does not want you to see that he hasn't since the 3rd and that he is on the verge of his third panic attack, so text it stays.]

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[definecat]

[Sleeper prefers video because it's a lot easier than trying to use the virtual interface to type.]

Yeah, it was...rough. Do you need searchers or company more?

[Because if their almost-uncle isn't looking after himself, they may have to sit on him.]

[repaintress]

Maybe not. People were busy, disoriented, and looking after their own loved ones.

It is a wise idea to ask Sophie.

I'm not ambulatory enough to join a search party, but I can take a post in one of his common spaces in case he returns to it while the rest of you look. When is the last time you saw him and where?

[herofhopeless]

Fair point.

Sent her a text. I'll let you know what she says.

The library would be the best bet for places he frequents. I last saw him the day before the mission. We had breakfast together.

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[herofhopeless]

Searchers.

[He definitely needs you to come sit on him, but he will never say it.]

[repaintress]

I will sit at the entrance and ask anyone who enters if they have seen him.

[betenoir]

Then I defer to others on this matter. They have offered enough suggestions without more being tossed onto the pile.

Now, Clive. When was the last time you ate?

Video

[definecat]

[Sleeper narrows their eyes at the response, clearly not believing it.]

I think I'm going to ignore that unless you're willing to give me proof that you're taking care of yourself. Leave the wild flaming goose chase to those with more talent for tracking.

[Because they're pretty sure that Clive went straight to blaming himself.]

text || un: gaia

[hammerbearer]

I'll be sure to look for him. Have you by chance seen Popp? Seems he's been missing a while. And he isn't responding to his device.

Popp's about my age. He has short, dark hair, fairly simple clothes and generally wears a headband. Oh, and he'd have a bracelet like this.

[ After a moment, a picture of her own wrist is shown. Leather chords are braided around multicolored scales of a very dark green, a light green, and a blue-grey. ]

text | un: bahamut

[oblige]

You will be the first to hear of anything I may find.

[ He'd still like to hope, though this may well be the second time the Phoenix has vanished since he was first summoned into all of this.

Text; un: hound

[cantilevers]

[He understands that loss himself fairly recently. He knows what has to be done.]

Where do you need help searching still? We should form groups and sweep all of Etraya to determine his location.

[un: SleepNear // Text -> Voice]

[quibblingfunctionary]

[The text message only contains A Link

A moment later Clive will get a voice call.]

…Clive?

[herofhopeless]

Thank you, Clea. Please, call me immediately if you hear anything.

[herofhopeless]

[When was the last time he ate?]

This morning.

[It was a protein bar he found in his coat pocket.]

Video

[herofhopeless]

[A wise choice, Sleeper.

Clive stares at the video for a minute or so before sighing and changing over to video. 'Exhausted' would be a nice way of putting how he looks.]

Company. Company would be nice.

[No point in lying. He gets the feeling Sleeper would just show up anyway.]

[herofhopeless]

He was one of the people who was going with you to watch Barnabas and Dion spar, right? I haven't seen him, but if I do, I'll tell him that you are looking for him. Where are the places he likes going? I can stop and check while I look for Joshua.

[Clive saves the picture, just in case.]

[herofhopeless]

Likewise. Can you look up high? I thought it might be obvious if he had Primed and flown somewhere, but Clea made a good point about people being distracted with the end of the mission.

[Clive distinctly does not want to think about the fact that there is no way Joshua wouldn't have come to him or Dion after the mission first thing.]

[herofhopeless]

[The spike of relief he feels just as seeing the username is short-lived but very much appreciated.]

I've checked the library, every bookstore and cafe, the apartments, the hospital, all of Garreg Mach, as much of both Abysses that I could manage, the rest of Bramble Valley, and the parts of Purple Windy that I can get to. I've had Torgal with me searching, too. Neither of us have found anything. Not even a trace of him.

Clea is stationed by the library in case he shows up. She says she can't move around well and I don't want her pushing herself. I asked Dion to look in high places, I'm getting ahold of Sophie to ask her to look for him telepathically.

[And Clive is flagging. He hasn't slept for going on three days, has barely eaten. A couple of minutes pass before Vander gets a second text.]

I don't know what else to do.