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

[cachemoney]

[Neither does Fiona, to be fair. What are they gonna do, beat her up?]

Not to be a Negative Nancy, but what if we don't get rid of Zymandis in our lifetimes? Does she just rot?

[banded]

We go back to the drawing board after this mission.

You're right. We might fail. I've failed thousands of times on a lot of stuff, but we push her release out to that, and if we don't manage it, then we just break her out.

[He'd be down for it now, but it's not really a good time to make their fellow agents dislike them when they're going into dangerous territory.]

[cachemoney]

And after we break her out? If the majority of our team doesn't want her free, I doubt they'd be happy to see her join ALASTAIR. Even if she wants to.

[banded]

[It's obvious that he hadn't thought that far ahead. The question makes sense, but Scott just keeps thinking about how they need to get her out. Anything after that ...

Hell, he hadn't even wanted to force her to join ALASTAIR. He wanted her to be free.]

We need to ask what she wants after all this.

[It's a way of evading the question, but the reality is there: he doesn't know. He just imagines she's none too keen to remain locked up.]

[cachemoney]

Sooo, we might have to talk to her before we let her out after all. Just, you know. To let her know we're GOING to let her out?

[Probably it's more important to let Mavahari in on the conversation involving her own fate, but hey, what does Fiona know.]

[banded]

Well ... yeah. So.

I mean.

We've got to let her out.

[LOOK HE HADN'T THOUGHT THAT FAR AHEAD]

[cachemoney]

[Scott...........]

I like the idealism, but maybe we should work on the planning part.

[banded]

None of us have any control over who gets sent where, right? That's someone else's jurisdiction?

[He's planning. Sort of.]

[cachemoney]

You mean our missions? Yeah, I think we just get assigned by whatever the Timeline machine says.

[banded]

Huh. All right.

I have an idea. I'm not sure if it'll work, or if they'd be able to do it. But once we get back, assuming we get back, we can see if we can send her somewhere. We'd have to line it up with whoever ... pushes those buttons. (Is there someone? Would we need to talk to the machine person?)

I'd prefer not to have to get her out via brute force, but after this mission, there won't be a reason to keep her. So I think we can bypass all the debates then. Assuming, of course, we get back. If I can't just get her to be let free, I'm pretty strong. Like really strong. I might be able to bust her out.

[cachemoney]

(I think there are technicians...)

From what I understand... there's no one holding us back from doing this. There's no one in charge. So basically the only thing keeping us from collapsing into total anarchy all the time is how much trust we put in each other.

I'm not saying you have a bad idea or I'm not 100% behind you. Just think about how going against the rest of our team will affect that trust. And if that's the choice you really want to make.

[banded]

If doing right by her means getting the whole team against me, I'll deal with the consequences.

I don't think I'm going to be able to change anyone's minds when we get into the Mothership. I'd like to try, but I know everyone is just going to look at those agents and see bad people. Just like they did with Mavahari when she had actually done right by us.

That's not to say I won't try. I will. I have to. But what they've done to her has really hurt my trust in them. I'm still new around here. Right now, I see people taking the path that's easiest because when you want to be the good guys, sometimes you can make it so that anyone even slightly opposing you is bad.

I'm not even sure that's normal for this team. But right now, it seems like it is.

So, like I said, I can deal with that choice. I've made harder ones. Giving her the life she deserves isn't that hard of a decision.