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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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It's the principle of the thing!
[Okay, wow, there's some volume now, and he's sitting up in bed, suddenly breathing hard (despite the fact it looks painful), and the breathing hard is clearly panic and agitation. His heart monitor can be heard suddenly picking up, beeping fast, like a computer that won't boot.]
You can't just create living things for sick experimentation!
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.003 seconds of thought later, and she's concluded that calming him down won't be her job. They've had zero interaction so far and no one is rational in a panic attack. He'll need a familiar face, even just one of the nurses, or a dose of tranquilizers.]
It wasn't anything more than idle speculation.
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[Yeah, not calming down.]
[Special K, the nurse, runs over, "Hey, hey, buddy, hey calm down" and while his voice quiets down just a little, he starts arguing with her, too, voice shrill.]
Don't tell me the calm down!
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Train of thought, deleted. Alia frowns. She's not exactly fond of having missing patches in her memory.]
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[ Robbie sounds pretty even and cool-headed, but not patronizingly forced calm. ]
Nurses are overworked and under appreciated, remember?
[ He actually thought that was a really nice sentiment when he saw Wash’s drug PSA. ]
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[And it's someone who's given him gentle encouragement and held his elbow while he stumbled along holding onto his wheeled IV stand, walking to get the swelling down.]
[He looks up at her apologetically, expression soft. The next word is even softer.]
Sorry.
[He still looks like he's close to having his bones rattle out of his skin and the beeping is only slowing down a little.]
["It's okay. Maybe it'd be a good idea to turn off the comm and rest."]
I don't need to, I'm fine. It's fine.
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[ Robbie waves at the camera, although he’s not sure she’s paying it any mind. ]
If it’s okay, I’ll just talk to Wash until he zonks out. I sanitized my hands and everything.
[ He gives the screen his best smile, and really he can look quite young and clean-cut with the right expression. ]
I promise to keep his heart rate down. Just funny stories about our buddy Grif.
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He and I aren't friends.
[A pause.]
Or at least...I can't remember it. But Grey had some interesting information about the time I lost.
You may as well tell me what your version is like so I know what I'm getting into.
[He recognizes the distraction for what it is.]
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Starting off with the usual prerequisites about alternate worlds and time travel.
[ He stops and spends his hands wide. ]
You two seemed like old friends to me. You know that arguing vibe friends get after awhile, like if your friends can’t give it to you straight, who can?
[ Robbie considers it one of the best parts of friendship. Friends will always call you out in your own best interest. ]
Grif’s... Grif. Like he mocks the word dude, so that’s a huge minus, but when shit hits the fan, you count on him to be right there - complaining about it.
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The last I saw him we weren't exactly close. Mostly, I just thought he was irritating.
[A pause and he admits something of the truth. Part of the truth, but not all of it.]
But what I remember of him was probably at least a few years ago.
I...had an injury. One that led to brain damage.
Exposure to the Stuff stabilized it somehow, but I - I'm missing a lot of time. Time I apparently spent with that group of sim troopers.
Sounds like it'd be nice if I could actually remember it.
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Oh shit. I didn’t know. That sucks, Wash.
[ He sits on the I’m sorry that he almost lets slip. It never makes anyone feel better, and he doesn’t want to linger on it to the point of pity, as he himself hates being pitied. ]
You said the Stuff stabilized it? Maybe if we get you exposed to more stuff, it’ll bring more back.
[ It’s not an unreasonable idea. If it’s worked so far, there might be a way to use this nightmarish reality to benefit one of them. ]
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[ It's actually a lot more firmly stated than her usual deadpan tone. Former child guinea pig is 100% not down for more guinea pigs. ]
I think you should keep a log if...more happens, though.
[ She's still pretty sure it's not going to be enough data to make any definitive conclusions, but near-death experiences seem to be more the norm here than the exception. ]