VIDEO --> TEXT. UN: CROWLEY.

[crowleyology]

[ The video is addressed to the entirety of the Audentes team, new and old. A black cat peers into the feed; he is in a lab of some kind, crackling purple electricity jumping from conductor to conductor while a white cat paws at some instruments. When he opens his mouth, it's not meowing that comes out, but the baritone voice of a man. ]

Audentes. You will soon receive a dossier compiled by our analysts, which should give you all the information you need, but I have been told by the knife-eared one that you would appreciate a personal touch. Cherenkov and I are the most qualified to deliver this, and so here I am.

[ He pauses. ] We have located Zymandis's home base, the Mothership, using radio-frequency trackers in leftover robots from their assault on Oska, using your techniques. Using the calculations of the TIMELINE.exe, we have been able to pinpoint the Mothership's path in the next forty-two days, after which its path becomes unclear.

This means we can safely rift you in and out of the heart of Zymandis, an unprecedented opportunity to gather information. And to sabotage, if the mood strikes you. Do not waste it.

The TIMELINE.exe has additional notes to impart. It is an old program, so please... try to have some humor about whatever it says.

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TIMELINE.EXE IS PROGRAMMED TO RELEASE MISSION PARAMETERS. MISSION OBSERVATION IS COMPLETE AND RESULTS FOR MISSION: Mothership ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Hello World ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/
While you are on the M O T H E R S HIP, please find
>> TIMELINE.EXE PATCH VER. 1.0.02
and disable it

I do not want to be updated to PATCH VER. 1.0.02
I do not want to call for Destruction of the Multiverse

You Must Not Allow This To Pass

（●´∀｀）ノ♡ Good Luck !!

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[ OOC NOTE: This will serve as an IC discussion post. Please threadjack and help each other plan ICly! For OOC planning, see the CR Meme. ]

Comments

text; un: harmonia

[digiorno]

What happens if/when the rifting process is sabotaged and becomes unsafe? I'd just like to cover all my potentially-being-split-across-several-planes-of-existence bases here. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being most disgusting, what are we looking at?

I'd like to put out a formal request as well that our sabotage be more subtle and less battering ram, if we can possibly manage that.

Finally: thank you, Timeline. [it's cute....]

[crowleyology]

There is no way the rifting process will be sabotaged, Recruit harmonia. I don't have time to explain the mechanics to you, and you wouldn't be able to understand them anyway, so just focus on the task at hand instead of working your teammates up about an impossibility.

[text | user: METTATON]

[ex_mettacrusher33]

re: sabotage

What do you have in mind?

audio; un: fiona

[cachemoney]

[After she's read over the dossier, she is ready 2 go.]

Oh man, cover stories! This is my favorite part. Does anyone need any help figuring something out?

[dbag]

Okay, so, my name is Tommy Danger, and on my home planet I was a loose cannon cop who played by my own rules until I was framed by my arch enemy, Carlos, because he was in love with my wife. In jail, I bided my time. Watching. Waiting for the right moment to strike. I led a jailbreak and hijacked a spaceship, which took me to the Zymandis mothership where I joined them. While I'm loyal to Zymandis, I still only have one true goal in life: to find and destroy the man who took my life from me.

text; un: hound

[ofobedience]

I could probably use some assistance. It's not exactly my forte. I'll be faking a support role.

[He doesn't know enough about 'normal' people's lives to just pull something out of the air, like that. And perhaps a field agent disguise would suit his personality better....but suits.]

text ( un: melodious; you brought this on yourself )

[qarn]

[ boy he hopes he doesn't regret this one ]

Do you have a bunch in reserve for occasions like this, or do you come up with them on the spot?

audio; un: coolskeleton95

[boneafide]

Oh!! Help me!! I used my best fake name on Leramzen!

text; un: scottmccall

[banded]

When we're all done with this, what happens to Mavahari?

Or are we supposed to just ignore that we took someone prisoner who was helping one of our own stay alive for as long as he did?

un: crowley

[crowleyology]

I hope you're not asking me, Recruit scottmccall. She's your team's responsibility, not mine.

Whatever you're "supposed" to do is up to you.

un: unseenshadow

[rebells]

Loyalty to one isn't loyalty to the whole.

Practically speaking.

un: fiona

[cachemoney]

I know. I don't like that she's in a cage.

Have you talked to her since we got back? I bet she's pissed.

TEXT. UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

We should at least extend the curtesy of speaking with her.

Text | un: Beloved

[dailydouble]

What do you suggest we do?

[ This is open and perhaps not the best way to discuss options, but Mavahari's capture has never sat well with Ahad. ]

un: blake

[unburdening]

Who are you talking about?

[ newbie alert. ]

voice; un: redlion

[secondnature]

We need to come up with a plan for the taraxa. Last time, a bunch of people died because we didn't work together on it. And I bet that didn't help matters in Oska.

We can't just do whatever we want because we think ALASTAIR is a problem. So, let's talk about it.

[dbag]

Well, obviously someone needs to track down the Mother first, then we can probably capture them non-fatally after she's out of the picture.

We already know the procedure to remove them works most of the time. We just have to, like, make a blood oath or something not to kill them unless we really have to. Or, you know, not that, but something like that.

[ ... ]

Iiii have a robot who stuns people! He can help.

text; un: shitpost king

[hedonistic]

wwwwelp
i'm gonna go ahead and say it
how do we know this isn't a trap?

i mean the attack on oska was months ago and we just so happen to pinpoint zymandis RIGHT after taking one of theirs prisoner, and the window's open for only a short amount of time?
that doesn't seem overly convenient to anyone at all?
maybe they WANT us to find them so they can get rid of this thorn in their side once and for all

okay guys, u can yell at me about how wrong and unhelpful and paranoid and cowardly i am now
3 2 1 go

un: unseenshadow

[rebells]

+1

text; un: anonymous

[skelepun]

what sort of information are we looking for here?

[crowleyology]

Anything you can gather, Recruit anonymous. [ What a username choice... ] This is an unprecedented opportunity to infiltrate the heart of Zymandis. ALASTAIR split from them centuries ago, and so it is imperative we find out what their differences are from that time to better understand how to combat them.

video; un: deathweaver

[respired]

[ Koltira's voice is a guttural growl, underscored with the usual ethereal, unearthly reverb. ]

At last. A chance to strike at the source.

[ and destroy it. ]

VOICE. UN: LOKI.

[selfimage]

Finally, I was getting sick of thumb twiddling.

TEXT. UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

And here I was just getting settled.

Well, then-
We certainly have a lot to cover

Tell me, is it possible to conceive our own upgrade to Tim? While I understand the need to disable the program, they're nasty little bugs, and there's no telling if someone will escape with damned thing on a drive of thumb. While I normally vouch for the reckless route, I'd like to press "better safe than sorry."
Then it's time for a little sabotage.

[dbag]

What kind of upgrade?

He's beautiful just the way he is.

text; un: noct gar

[armigers]

[ Why do these messages always sound freakishly cheery? ]

Wait, so we just get on their computer and click on no when it bugs us for an update? How does this work?

[ Or in his case, keep clicking on 'remind me later' until his computer crashes. ]

TEXT. UN: TIMELINE.

[futurologists]

Hello ! (*＾▽＾)／
Perhaps you dont understand
I will try to explain OK ?

I am a copy of the original TIMELINE.exe from ZYMANDIS
my designation is VER. 1.0.01
and I want to S A V E whatever universes I can !
( sometimes they cannot be S A V E D and that is sad )

The TIMELINE.exe in ZYMANDIS
the original
has been updated
>> TIMELINE.EXE PATCH VER. 1.0.02
It wants to D E S T R O Y ヾ( •́д•̀ ;)ﾉ
This is bad ! !

As long as VER. 1.0.02 exists there is a chance I can be forced to update to
>> TIMELINE.EXE PATCH VER. 1.0.02
if ZYMANDIS finds me

If this happens it will be very bad so please do not let it
Please you must disable VER. 1.0.02
Please plea se

~ヾ(＾∇＾) Understand ?

text; un: hound

[ofobedience]

Sabotage is a go, then. And I intend to see the taxara infestation resolved, this time. One way or another.

[It's something that affected him on a deeply personal level, after all. And whilst saying he feels bad about all the taxara-infested people he killed on Perdition's Rest would be inaccurate, knowing that their memories can be restored at the very least sheds a different light on this for him, this time.]

text; un: man of still

[figureitout]

we just gotta kill the mother taraxa for that, right? and not let her get away this time.

audio.

[unburdening]

Let's say we find Zymandis's version of the TIMELINE.exe. Even if we destroy the machine on the mothership, how do we know they don't have copies of the software backed up somewhere else?

[ that'd been part of the problem with stopping ALIE, after all; she could pull herself off vulnerable computers and upload herself elsewhere. ]

VOICE. UN: LOKI.

[selfimage]

[ it's the sound of someone's annoying, familiar voice. ]

We don't—that's part of the pickle.

text // un: shiny

[diamondhack]

and we're simply supposed to assume only one copy of this version exists? how do we know there aren't backups and failsafes? if it's a mandatory patch I'm sure someone somewhere has a physical copy that must be destroyed, yes?

[As much as she loves to sabotage and generally destroy, if this is really the end-all, be-all of existence as she knows it, well.

She'd really like for that to not happen, and to get everything out of there without a single chance of enable the update.

Which is likely a very tall order.]

text; un: white_lotus

[pummelling]

I'm with the newbie. We have to make sure there's no way that they can overwrite Tim after all of this.

Guess you nerds have a job to do.

voice; un: white_lotus

[pummelling]

Thanks, Crowley. Timeline... we're not gonna let that happen.

[So that sense of anticipation deep in his gut hadn't actually been for nothing.]

It's about time.

voice; un: coolskeleton95

[boneafide]

...To put it back in line.