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archeologue ([personal profile] archeologue) wrote in [community profile] resort_link 2015-01-18 09:58 pm (UTC)

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I don't know the precise coordinates. Niko had that information and it was left with him. All I can say is that it was somewhere in the jungle. We teleported in and from there we hiked about five hours, so probably 10 to 15 miles or so. I couldn't say which direction; the canopy was too thick to see the sun.

[It's bits of truth mixed in with misdirection. He doesn't know how the teleports work, if they can record where you go like a train ticket recipe. But if they do, he can't let himself be caught lying and claim they were in a desert or a tundra. But they'd hiked for seven hours, not five. If they stick to the smaller radius, covering all that ground first in all directions, that might buy him enough time for Niko to actually die.

He's starting to wish now that he'd turned off the darts and let the Orions go after him and make sure the job was finished. This was too precarious. It was simply that, if Niko dies from the elements, or starvation, or spiders in the dark, Belloq doesn't have to feel as culpable.]

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