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

[rebells]

And if she didn't particularly care whether we lived or died, but could easily go whichever way gave her the greatest benefit at any particular point?

[banded]

You don't know her.

That isn't how she is.

[rebells]

You're going to need to back up that assertion with some evidence.

[banded]

I spoke to her. A couple of times. I can tell when someone's lying, and she never lied to me about any of her beliefs.

[rebells]

That's an ability of yours?

In any case, the easiest way to deceive is with a healthy dose of the truth.

[banded]

You really don't know her.

That's fine. But she wasn't deceiving us.

[rebells]

Is she a friend of yours? You're taking this quite personally.

shit i lost this tag, sorry!

[banded]

She doesn't have to be my friend for me to not want to see her wronged.

[But yeah, it's Scott. He probably considers her a friend.]

np np <3

[rebells]

And yet you're not doing a very convincing job of defending her.

[banded]

I told you that she doesn't lie. You twisted that to be bad. I told you she's good. One of our teammates risked his life to save hers, and that wasn't a coincidence.

We had an opportunity to make an ally out of this, and now we look like we might be just as bad as them.

I don't know what ... more you need me to say.

[rebells]

Ah, look, an actual argument.

Or more like a suggestion of one, but I'll grade you on a curve. I'm very generous.

[banded]

Do I actually need to convince you that she deserves to be free?

[rebells]

'Deserves' is a loaded word.

'Should' will suffice.

[banded]

Putting someone in a dungeon when they did literally nothing wrong.

It's both "should" and "deserves."

[rebells]

You don't think being a part of Zymandis is definitionally "doing something wrong"?

[banded]

Everything she believes is based on a lie told to her by the people she believes saved her from a dying world.

Some of Zymandis is bad. Like really bad. I know that. I'm not stupid.

But some of us were concerned about Audentes learning about their goals for a reason. That's because they were told that life could be preserved through their method of attacking the timelines. Like ... burning a field so that there can be life after that.

It's not something I agree with. I'd never agree with that. But we'd be stupid to ignore that spun correctly, it can make sense.

And Zymandis is a lot more organized than we are.

[rebells]

[This reply takes a while to come.]

I think we're approaching this from diametrically different perspectives.

[banded]

Yeah, possibly. Or maybe I actually know her.

[rebells]

Self-righteousness isn't a good look on you, you know.

You said you'd spoken to her "a couple times."

[banded]

Assuming the worst of someone just because they've been led astray isn't a good look, either.

[rebells]

I haven't assumed anything. Accounting for the worst is a necessity in an organization like this one.

But go on as you are. I can see you're not interested in actual conversation.

[banded]

I thought we were communicating fine.

Up to a point.