piper90 | Jorgmund Emergency Announcement Part II

[That horrible alert sound goes off on all their communicators, and after three minutes, Richard Washburn shows up on the screen. He clearly hasn’t sleep, although he’s just as clearly doing his best to hide that fact.]

Good early morning, hires. Unfortunately, it seems like there’s been very little forward progress on identifying which of you is the shapeshifter, and just as little progress finding the body of whomever it’s impersonating. We’ve spoken with some of our foremost scientists and they believe with a significant degree of certainty that this Stuff creature can only impersonate child-friendly figures.

Some of you have petitioned me and have made compelling cases that no child would ever want anything to do with you, and as such I’m clearing you for release for an internal mission to find the body of the person who was replaced by the impersonator. The following people are cleared to leave…Mr. Price, Mr. Winchester, Agent South Dakota, Agent Washington, Ms. Burnham, Ms. Kerrigan, Alia, Agent Tucker, Mr. Loken, Ms. Haynes, Guts, and…Mr. McDonald.

Hopefully they’ll be alive still.

For the rest of you, it’s been pointed out to me that there are ways you may be able to examine each other and determine who among you is a shapeshifter, and that you may need to demonstrate powers or look at each other in person. As such, while the living quarters as a whole remain locked, you are all released from your dorms and may mingle with each other.

The higher-ups have gotten impatient with this entire thing, so if you haven’t identified the imposter in the next…[he checks his watch]…two hours, my hand may be forced and I may need to utilize your collars to see if we can use discomfort to force the creature to reveal itself.

Please continue to keep me updated.

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So your back up plan is to zap all of us and see who isn't writhing around in horrible pain? Because there's no way the monster has a torture device implanted, right? Because that's the only way that plan makes sense.

I'm ready to be disappointed by the answer to this by the way.

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Is your only criteria for "child-friendly" really whoever themselves claims not to be?

[ Skepticism!! ]

[Cure Passion's eyes narrow in utterly transparent anger, the ceiling of the rewards lounge visible behind her head.]

Our lives are not such a renewable resource that risking them any more than we already are to try and stop it ourselves, which is as much to prevent it from hurting any more innocents on the rest of the Rig as it is for our own sakes, should even be crossing your superiors' minds! This isn't going to make any of us want to help!

[She bares her teeth in frustrated anguish.]

Why, Mr. Washburn? Why?!

[She certainly doesn't seem angry about just the threat he's claiming he'll be forced to follow through on, when she screams at him for an answer. But she doesn't have it in her to go on, when the rewards lounge is still ahead of her, needing to be checked. She just ... shuts off the transmission, on her end, without turning off the ability of anyone else to respond ... maybe he actually cares enough to respond.]

MacDonald?

The women among us will try to keep our feminine frailties from slowing down such a paragon of detective abilities.

All the creature has to do is writhe around on the floor with the rest of us for that method to be useless, but, in your infinite wisdom, of course you've considered this eventuality.

Just give me my omnicom and we can settle this. The scanning function might reveal this creature.

So, what, your backup plan is just to torture us? Come on, even Hordak could come up with something better than that.

I have a question.

Great.

[ That's all she will dignify this with. She's irked she's not out there. ]

[Dan steps out of his dorm into the hallway, because now he's getting all claustrophobic, having been locked in. He talks into his communicator.

He doesn't like drawing attention in this sort of situation in any capacity, especially when it means pointing fingers at people, but with Sam on his way out the door to go hopefully rescue someone, he's the only one here with ghost-hunting experience that he knows of.]

Alright, so I looked over all the footage on our communicators from the last few hours, and here's what y'all proposed so far. According to Brainiac Five and...Kokichi...[he likes Kokichi but he's fairly sure whenever Kokichi's lips are moving, Kokichi's lying], the breach was two hours ago before the alarm went off.

We don't know if it can imitate powers, so anyone who's got one should show it off just in case. If you can't, you're suspect.

Anyone who's got an AI, maybe explain how that would work? I don't understand it.

Anyone who's got someone to vouch for where they were two hours ago, we're probably clear.

Dr. Malcolm pointed out that none of the minors were attacked by their roommates, so either this thing learned self-control or this thing weren't rooming with nobody young.

Kerrigan here. You all getting this? [She's in a bathroom, judging by the furnishings visible behind her and the hollow quality to her voice as the tiles reflect it around the room. She doesn't wait for anybody to confirm they're watching before going on.] We're in the "Rewards Lounge" [if sarcasm could kill she'd be up on murder charges] and my team's searching the first suite. Found a decent-sized sack it looks like someone was trying to rinse black monster gunk out of. Might have been Santa's sack. Do we know if the Santa costume had one?

[She holds it up to the camera. It's burlap, wet, and stained with black goo.]

There was some of the same stuff near the entryway to the area. It looks like the bathroom lock's been messed with, but I can't tell how recent that is.

[Everyone gets treated to the back of Kerrigan's head as she crouches to look at the mechanism.]

Is that Washburn guy still around? Alia needs gloves, now.

[Can Guts make demands of Jorgmund execs? He apparently doesn't have enough reverence for authority to stop himself.]

Uh, dude, just for the official files and stuff? Not an Agent. It's better for everyone if we keep that title stream uncrossed and don't look at each other during.

Also if the higher-ups wanna come help us root around looking for an imposter to speed things up, they can be my fucking guest. We're not twiddling our thumbs here.

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