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[Alia appears on the video. She's in a bathroom, wearing a low-cut red dress and wiping make-up off of her face with the steaming hot water in the sink. When she speaks, though, it's all business.]
So, I've done some poking around. Jorgmund employs multiple wireless networks, some with secret nodes, and different security features for each. I guess that they don't want the sanitation crew using up all of the bandwidth that the President would be using.
I'm dispersing my findings via a briefing document hosted on my robot network to reduce load on Lone Star's network. Each of you gets one copy that will delete itself after you've read through it once, so remember at least part of it. Just scroll to the bottom or restart your comm unit to purge. Some of this comes from gossip I've overheard.
[She pauses, then leans in and dabs at a little black speck between her teeth with a paper towel. Peppercorn. Alia continues like she hadn't stopped.]
Others from more solid surfaces. I've seen a few unsecured medical and financial reports and a good bit of security investigations. Some things just required a bit of finger walking, totally unsecured, others were a little more technical work. I'll spare you the explanations.
[It's all done up in a series of quick slides. There's a load of text afterwards, but everything else is either graphs or images, designed to be as easy to understand as possible.
ITEM 1: Murders. The information here is mostly from official sources. There's been at least eight murders being blamed on the redheaded killer. Alia's written one off as being an accident and another as a copycat, but she's also linked this in to sixteen other deaths in the past two years, most of them ruled as accidents, deaths due to Incursions, or suicides. She's even included one that seems to have died of an asthma attack. She's highlighted a pattern: they come in bursts. Three to five victims each time.
No two murders have been committed the same way. Often, extinguished candles are found near the victims. The candles are home made, from fat. Alia doesn't list what kind.
ITEM 2: Every burst targets higher level workers, like she's going up a promotion chart. The first two to four victims are usually executive level workers or secretaries, and then the final one in that spree is someone... minor. Someone Jorgmund wouldn't miss. The final one in the spree almost always comes around two weeks after the first few, and then the killings stop for a few months. It's only the latest one that's gone out of control, but if it follows the same pattern, Alia predicts that it'll end shortly and the killer will go to ground or... whatever happens during her 'rest' periods.
Included in this one is a... actually, fairly detailed map of the Rig. There's still blank chunks missing, but she's charted out a lot of it and highlighted where each person has died. They're, unfortunately, scattered across the Rig, though Alia notes that, according to forensics done at the time, some bodies were moved from an unknown location. No way for her to trace the killer to any specific location from there, but some of them died in very high security locations.
ITEM 3: No physical traces of the killer have ever been found.
ITEM 4: Jorgmund is playing it down to prevent a panic. After the last spree, someone was black-bagged and disappeared, but Alia notes that, in the interrogation video she observed (and decided to leave out), he gave every impression of being innocent, but died in mysterious circumstances that lead to quite a few Security personnel being demoted and a few outright sacked.
The suspect is listed in Alia's list of victims.
ITEM 5: A receipt for services rendered by an exorcist. Notices that gun ownership by executives has increased 300% and private individuals ordering security doors spike with every spree. Only among the executives.
ITEM 6: Gossipy e-mails on cost of benefit analysis on Catra, Dave, Setsuna, Tenten, and Wash. Wash and Dave are mentioned as being solid investments. Setsuna is as well, something about her relationship to a fairy in R&D being the deciding factor in that. Catra and Tenten are down as totally disposable, but Catra's status is in doubt what with the revelation of Adora's new abilities and questions about whatever relationship the two might have.
Alia's findings of fact are brief and easily understood. The mass of paperwork behind them outlining the evidence and how she came up with them aren't. There's a 'skip to the end' button that automatically destroys the file and displays the Met game.]
It goes without saying, nothing interesting on my cameras. After that last recording of Planker, he sat there for 3.7 hours, then went to bed, slept for three hours, woke up, got dressed, and went to work. From the sound of things, we can expect a new obstacle course soon. If you've any questions, I'll try to answer them, but I have work to do in the lab.
So, I've done some poking around. Jorgmund employs multiple wireless networks, some with secret nodes, and different security features for each. I guess that they don't want the sanitation crew using up all of the bandwidth that the President would be using.
I'm dispersing my findings via a briefing document hosted on my robot network to reduce load on Lone Star's network. Each of you gets one copy that will delete itself after you've read through it once, so remember at least part of it. Just scroll to the bottom or restart your comm unit to purge. Some of this comes from gossip I've overheard.
[She pauses, then leans in and dabs at a little black speck between her teeth with a paper towel. Peppercorn. Alia continues like she hadn't stopped.]
Others from more solid surfaces. I've seen a few unsecured medical and financial reports and a good bit of security investigations. Some things just required a bit of finger walking, totally unsecured, others were a little more technical work. I'll spare you the explanations.
[It's all done up in a series of quick slides. There's a load of text afterwards, but everything else is either graphs or images, designed to be as easy to understand as possible.
ITEM 1: Murders. The information here is mostly from official sources. There's been at least eight murders being blamed on the redheaded killer. Alia's written one off as being an accident and another as a copycat, but she's also linked this in to sixteen other deaths in the past two years, most of them ruled as accidents, deaths due to Incursions, or suicides. She's even included one that seems to have died of an asthma attack. She's highlighted a pattern: they come in bursts. Three to five victims each time.
No two murders have been committed the same way. Often, extinguished candles are found near the victims. The candles are home made, from fat. Alia doesn't list what kind.
ITEM 2: Every burst targets higher level workers, like she's going up a promotion chart. The first two to four victims are usually executive level workers or secretaries, and then the final one in that spree is someone... minor. Someone Jorgmund wouldn't miss. The final one in the spree almost always comes around two weeks after the first few, and then the killings stop for a few months. It's only the latest one that's gone out of control, but if it follows the same pattern, Alia predicts that it'll end shortly and the killer will go to ground or... whatever happens during her 'rest' periods.
Included in this one is a... actually, fairly detailed map of the Rig. There's still blank chunks missing, but she's charted out a lot of it and highlighted where each person has died. They're, unfortunately, scattered across the Rig, though Alia notes that, according to forensics done at the time, some bodies were moved from an unknown location. No way for her to trace the killer to any specific location from there, but some of them died in very high security locations.
ITEM 3: No physical traces of the killer have ever been found.
ITEM 4: Jorgmund is playing it down to prevent a panic. After the last spree, someone was black-bagged and disappeared, but Alia notes that, in the interrogation video she observed (and decided to leave out), he gave every impression of being innocent, but died in mysterious circumstances that lead to quite a few Security personnel being demoted and a few outright sacked.
The suspect is listed in Alia's list of victims.
ITEM 5: A receipt for services rendered by an exorcist. Notices that gun ownership by executives has increased 300% and private individuals ordering security doors spike with every spree. Only among the executives.
ITEM 6: Gossipy e-mails on cost of benefit analysis on Catra, Dave, Setsuna, Tenten, and Wash. Wash and Dave are mentioned as being solid investments. Setsuna is as well, something about her relationship to a fairy in R&D being the deciding factor in that. Catra and Tenten are down as totally disposable, but Catra's status is in doubt what with the revelation of Adora's new abilities and questions about whatever relationship the two might have.
Alia's findings of fact are brief and easily understood. The mass of paperwork behind them outlining the evidence and how she came up with them aren't. There's a 'skip to the end' button that automatically destroys the file and displays the Met game.]
It goes without saying, nothing interesting on my cameras. After that last recording of Planker, he sat there for 3.7 hours, then went to bed, slept for three hours, woke up, got dressed, and went to work. From the sound of things, we can expect a new obstacle course soon. If you've any questions, I'll try to answer them, but I have work to do in the lab.
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The people getting their grind nubs kicked in here aren't exactly soft, and hoping your biggest baddest guy is just gonna be able to solve something like this?
Doesn't end well.
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That said, you're going to need a pretty fucking big gun if it's some sort of god or spirit of homicide or a murder tulpa or something along those lines.
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I've seen some absolutely ridiculous bullshit work out too and in theory fucking anything is possible if destiny or causality or something has enough of a grudge about it?
But considering our complete lack of pan-numbingly convoluted plans involving doomsday devices, time travel, and conditional immortality, I'm not feeling like we're quite up to solving this one with overwhelming force.
cw: mild ptsd stuff/neck and knee trauma
Which was pretty huge, considering we were at war.
There were originally close to fifty of us, named after the US states. The people in charge pitted us against each other, ranking us all - which, by the way, was stunningly bad at making us work together.
I ranked in the top ten, usually around five or six.
[tl;dr he's no pushover.]
And she eviscerated me. People with more powers would have more luck but if she can outfight most of us skill-wise and constantly heal, we can't bank on anything that comes down to raw power and skill.
Especially with limited weapons and a lack of access to explosives.
[The drugs mean he's still a little more forthcoming than usual and still slightly more prone to being vulnerable. So his voice gets a little creaky because the experience of being basically torn apart was not, in fact, without its trauma. He had been powerless and afraid, especially when she'd held him up by the throat against the wall and jammed his shiv into his knee with the cold satisfaction of someone pinning a new bug into their collection.
If I hadn't developed random powers...
[He just cuts off, so he can regain his composure. So he can try to pry his brain away from thoughts of the shredded, crushed, and charred debris he could've been if not for the new powers.]
[...So he can try to stop the image from morphing to something else, a vision of her shooting him in the neck instead, blood spraying both inside and outside his helmet as a man's shrill voice - familiar and unfamiliar - screams out "WASH!"]
[It keeps replaying over and over and being in a hospital bed hasn't helped make it stop.]
video;
[ Breq is mostly curious. She knows what she would do, if she were whole. If she were still a ship. She could use her ancillaries to trap her; to move in concert, to overwhelm this target with too many bodies, all moving too fast and much stronger than they looked, all with armor.
But she's not a ship anymore. She's just her. ]
If a fight isn't feasible, then we would need to make the situation as tilted in our favor as we can possibly manage.
Re: video;
[He hand goes to his bandaged upper abdomen.]
I even missed that she stabbed me in the gut until after the fight, when I started bleeding out. Her movements were a blur and I was riding high on adrenaline.
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[ That at least tells Breq this person is likely to be as fast as she is, if not faster. Which is very concerning. She works on making sure her expression is correct - sympathy and a bit of curiosity. ]
I'd like more information before I start suggesting anything, but I gather there isn't much more to go on.
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If anyone's actually hit her, I'd guess it's because she allowed it to happen.
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[ Although this sounds a bit like the Presgr to her. ]
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[ Ancillaries can't, typically. No one can. ]
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yknow despite getting my grind nubs kicked in
i assume that means teeth btw
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which honestly would be some pretty high tier long game trolling so i couldnt even be mad