text, un: lucina ( backdated to a day before their escape )

[tolight]

Hello, Audentes. For those of you I have yet to meet, my name is Lucina. I come bearing news.

I have spoken to a Zymandis agent. They are here, alone, and the jewelcomms are what notified her to our presence; she was willing to answer my questions, and in return, asked the same of me. The following is what I learned:

They seem believe that the Timeline is ill; the multiverse no longer has the energy to sustain itself, and will eventually meet its demise. Given this, their mission is to destroy everything, so that the Timeline will be reborn stronger. [ Those familiar with her should know there's a certain level of anger in her tone, text or otherwise. ] At least, this is what their Timeline.exe has told them— not only so, the original Timeline.exe, as well as its "update", were created by the same individual: Theodor Arbatel, their "Leader".

If anything requires clarification, I will try my best to answer them.

( ooc. the thread is here for the curious. while i've gotten a lot of info the thread is currently incomplete, so there may be delays in getting to questions from characters!! otherwise feel free to threadjack / etc. )

Comments

[tolight]

I don't believe she was lying, either. As suspicious as the circumstances are.

[araigneedusoir]

It makes you wonder how long she's been here, to be so...open with her 'enemy.'

[tolight]

It's difficult to tell... Significantly more than us, at the bare minimum. [ But even then, it's not a good one. ]

She did seem to be rather comfortable here, whether or not that was her intention.

[araigneedusoir]

I doubt anyone would be intentionally comfortable in a prison, unless it wasn't their first time.

Or they had a reason for being here.

[She's probably overthinking this.]

[tolight]

[ Join the club, Widowmaker. ]

Do you believe her stay here was ... planned?

[araigneedusoir]

If so, that's quite a daring plan. Depending on what the ultimate goal was, given the factors they had to have taken into account.

[tolight]

Granted, it would depend on how the Zymandis see us, as well.

But still — given our past run ins with them, the sudden shift in her demeanor is... alarming.

[araigneedusoir]

If I had to guess, we're either a threat or an annoyance.

It is, but I suppose she saw an opportunity.

[tolight]

To gather information on us. [ And potentially report back. ]

... What would you propose should be our next course of action?

[araigneedusoir]

[There's a small pause as she considers an answer.]

Use the information you were given to our advantage in any way we can. I would suggest bringing up the name to ALASTAIR whenever we get back in contact with them, see if they know anything else.

[tolight]

... There will be a lot to tell ALASTAIR, once we're free. [ That's not a bad thing, necessarily. ]

Hopefully they do have more information for us — or what we can provide them will be of use.

[araigneedusoir]

Indeed, we've wracked up quite the list of things.

All we can do is see. If not, as you say, they can update their archives.