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

[pummelling]

Well, ALASTAIR's full of surprises.

[And bad life choices. don't forget the bad life choices.]

I've got a running suspicion that we're the rookie team, which makes this that much more worrying.

[diamondhack]

ah, fantastic, I love working with people who don't know what they're doing.

[pummelling]

don't be so pessimistic. we've made it a couple years with minimal casualties on our own end.

[He's rounding up by a few months, and conveniently not including details about how that one legendary Greek hero they had got gnawed to death by zombies...]

[diamondhack]

define minimal.

[It's all a nice game of words until the words need to get backed up by technicalities]

[pummelling]

[not counting dear departed george, who wasn't ever really audentes...]

just one.

[And that's all she gets. The gory details-- the state of the corpse, the smell of blood and rot-- are still fresh in his mind, as if a bitter taste still quietly searing the back of his throat: it stings, recalling much more than that to someone who wouldn't have met Patroclus.

The way that loss had reverberated through the team had been more than enough.]

And we won't let it happen again, if we can help it.