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

[secondnature]

No. It takes time. If you do it there, the host loses a lot of themselves. This is about saving as much of them as we can. It means we have to coordinate a plan that gets us out of there with the hosts after we finish our main mission.

[It won't be easy. But after the plan to take out Zarkon, he has a feeling they can put something together.]

[signifies]

And protect them from anyone who might have other ideas.

I'm in.

[secondnature]

Exactly.

You said you had a way to detect them. What is it?

[That's been the missing piece for Audentes the entire time. Keith can't help but feel relief that they've possibly found a solution after so long.]

[signifies]

I can see through bodies. If someone's infected, I might be able to tell by scanning them.

[secondnature]

That should do the trick. That'll keep detection on us, too.

[signifies]

I'll keep an eye out for them when we're on board the ship and let you know.

[secondnature]

I have an old file on them. Do you want it?

You don't happen to have a way to temporarily put down the hosts, do you?

[signifies]

I would, thank you.

And no, I don't. Does someone else? We can work as a team.

[secondnature]

[A minute or two later (he has to dig to find it), Keith finds the file in question to send over.

Once that's handled, he replies:]

Rhys can stun them. But we might need multiple people who can stun and then medicate them long enough to keep them under. Back in Woodhurst, we had a lot of medics working on a cure. I bet they can put together something for us to inject the hosts. Something safe.

[signifies]

Thanks.

We'd have to find a secure place on the ship to keep them while we round them up... do they have any way to alert each other psychically?

[secondnature]

That's why the Mother needs to be put down. She's the alert system.

[signifies]

[ He's not down with this instant kill. ]

How will we know which one is her?

[secondnature]

If she's using the same host, we'll know which one she is.

[signifies]

All right.

I'm Kal, by the way.

[secondnature]

I'm Keith.

You're new?

[Keith somehow has managed to know a lot of the faces, despite not ever being very good about that before Audentes. And names, for that matter. Still, he's asking partly because he's not ... sure ...]

[signifies]

Yeah. I got here last week.

[secondnature]

Got it.

Thanks for helping us out.

[signifies]

No problem.

I hope this works out.