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

[unburdening]

How are we working against circumstance? I thought we're using the same program they are. [ well -- ] Almost. They're destroying worlds; we're not. What gives them the upper hand?

[selfimage]

The universe is collapsing while they destroy it—they're helping it along. Us? We're biding our time to find a solution.

Which one comes first?

[unburdening]

[ "there was never a solution," clarke said of praimfaya, and maybe she'd been right. they couldn't have stopped the end of the world.

but if the universe collapses, there's no bunker or space station that'll save anyone. not his sister, not his friends, not countless people -- it's a fear that hooks around his heart and squeezes. ]

So we have to stop them. There's no other option. [ failure is never an option, but it's all the more critical now. ] That makes it even more important we know what we're doing.

[selfimage]

[ if the multiverse collapses, there's no where for anyone. ]

We're very quickly running out of chances.

[ he says that all too casually. ]

1/2

[unburdening]

Yeah, tell me something I don't know.

2/2

[unburdening]

[ he pauses, thinking hard, then decides to make this one-on-one.

because when he looks at that dossier, the objective for the mothership, dread starts to set in; because when he closes his eyes he sees white walls and white floors, an entire people inside of a mountain, turbines constantly cranking to keep radiation out; because he can hear maya asking him, "what'd you expect you'd find here?" ]