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[golisolation]

WHO: Guzma and Rupert
WHERE: Out in the desert in Nevada, at Rupert's weird shipping crate
WHEN: A few hours after this post.
WHAT: Meeting up to discuss the clues they've been given for the MYSTERIOUS puzzle
WARNINGS: It's Guzma and Rupert, let that be the warning.


[Maybe most people wouldn't just jump at the chance to meet up with some mysterious dude who openly announces he doesn't give a single shit about any of the other imPorts, but Guzma's not like most people. With a similar distaste for the general imPort populace, it really isn't a red flag to him. Not that he doesn't assume this could end badly for him, or that Rupert's intentions couldn't be something other than he's presented.

Guzma knows better than to trust at someone's word. He doesn't trust that easily.

So, when he arrives (after giving his grunt a thrashing for his idiocy), he's on the back of Scizor. Only one of his many Pokémon that'll serve to guarantee his safety. Hopping off of Scizor's back, he keeps the metal mantis out as he inspects the shipping crate. Three knocks to announce his arrival, huh?

After an exchange of looks between himself and Scizor, he knocks on the large steel crate, the loud hollow sound reverberating as he waits for some signal that he didn't just waste his time coming out here.]

Yo! Big bad Guzma is here!

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[golisolation]

I feel ya man, ain't no point wasting each other's time playin' games. Don't need our tan to turn into a burn, right?

[So, when Rupert hands over his communicator, Guzma does the same. He had already pulled it up, so when Rupert takes a look, he'll see that just like him he got two messages. The oddity is that Guzma's were in a reverse order:]

the message will soon come

dot marks an end
clock

[And the second:]

1st letter

V

s-e•-:-g-r
o-g•-s•
w-f•-h-a
o•-h-o
t-a-’-t-e
g-c-o-s-r•-r-a
c-h-h-h-m
c-o

[Guzma's brow furrows a bit as he looks Rupert's over. Still just jibberish to him, but the differences in the clue is interesting. But so too is the similarities. Clock in both.]

Eight pieces total, clock. As you can see, mine also says clock, but somethin' about the dots. One of my boys let his clue slip, but I think it said somethin' about "wise" and the eight pieces thing.

Makes ya wonder why there's some repeats, huh?