No, we did it the boring way. Our medical people developed a vaccine and a cure, which we distributed. Nothing exciting. Just tedious.
They found the asshole responsible for it in the sewers. It appears he was a Zymandis agent and everything that happened in Woodhurst was test of his virus' effectiveness. Anyway, he's dead now.
We're on Tera Felis because travel to Oska is currently closed. It's a sort of emergency backup "home base".
I remember the culprit, but I'm pretty sure I shipped off to that other mission just as the vaccine efforts were ramping up. I'm glad that bastard's out of the way.
[Using a city as a testing ground, it seems, is too much for Jin to forgive.]
Asher explained a little bit of that to me. Something wrong with Oska?
It's just a shame he died so quickly. What a waste of good potential information.
[What kind of self-respecting organization lets a chance for some good old fashioned torture just pass them by like that.]
It's currently under attack. From what I understand, civilians from a previous mission infected with Taraxa were brought back to Oska to see if it was possible to remove them without killing the host. Well, a few of them got loose and shut down some security systems and now there are a lot of robots making a mess. Travel was shut down to prevent enemy reinforcements from coming in. We'll be going back in a few days to help with the defensive efforts.
You can read about most of this on the network. I can get you Cassie's post, it has the most relevant information on it. The rest of it's pretty whatever.
Did anyone think to question him before the group took him out?
[HE WOULD'VE..... looked the other way for torture......... c'mon, jin, join in on the torturegang]
What on
[sorry, he's processing... this is a hell of a lot to take in. Uruz's words ring in his ears, stark in their irony: Anyone can free up a hand to swat at a fly, can't they? But they have to find us first, that's the trick.]
I'll look. Doubt it's worth it to get in on those discussions now [even if the drama is Delicious] so I'll just read them.
No clue. I wasn't there, so I don't know if the information they got was from his notes or his mouth; I can't go down into places like sewers.
[Y'know. What with his murderstand. Sewers are honestly the worst possible place for them to be; they're too dark, too cramped, too literally full of shit.]
Debates on morality rarely are. Although it's useful to know who stands where, I suppose.
What. The team dissolving into bickering about murder, or Oska coming under attack?
Nonspecific comment of agreement. Do you think anyone reads these conversations?
I'm not really surprised about either of these things. Safety is a relative concept and these sort of arguments are bound to happen when you've got a hodge-podge group of people whose best descriptor is "misc. (mostly) supernatural weirdos".
Who's got time to comb through everybody's gossip? [any nosy people would give up once they ran into the wall of asher texts......] I think we're safe. If you're that concerned I can talk to you in person, np.
We're the largest of the teams I've encountered so far, too. We have about eighty people, don't we? Noor, the team I was temporarily reassigned to, was much, much smaller-- including myself and the other ALASTAIR members who'd been rifted in to help. Eighty supernatural weirdoes make a hell of a lot more noise than twenty.
It's fine. I don't really want to talk about it in person either.
[Things Fugo never wants to talk about: Purple Haze. The best way of coping with things you don't like about yourself is to never verbally acknowledge them unless absolutely necessary. Right??]
The number fluctuates, but it's never over eighty. Sometimes I wonder if, given how people come and go and we're occasionally offered side missions, if this team is meant to be temporary until a better fit is found on something smaller.
[He's... actually never considered it in that light before. Jin furrows his brow, and answers--]
So like a feeder team? I know that we're relatively new, just from what I've heard from people who've been here longer than me, but that's not entirely off base. My mission was completely specialized: two teams, one fully composed and one made of agents on side missions, and we were maybe half the size of Audentes altogether.
Something like that, yes. There are advantages to big teams (namely numbers and a wider array of skills/knowledge) but, in my experience, smaller specialized teams tend to be more effective at this sort of work.
[As attached as he is to everyone here... even his old Special Forces team, where they also all hated each other for the first month and a half, was more put together than this.]
Imagine if we failed in Woodhurst. Or what might have happened if we were unable to find a cure and had to kill anyone who was infected, including our teammates.
Morale would be totally shot. Everything would fall to pieces.
Anyway. One casualty there was difficult enough. I'm just glad the team wasn't hit harder. Hopefully whatever our next mission is... after this dander-filled break... won't be nearly as perilous.
[Jin debates on pressing him further. The realism's refreshing-- but all too sobering a welcome back after everything. It doesn't matter how close they'd gotten, if they'd made it out; there was no use dwelling on how close they'd come. But Fugo's right. And he's exhausted. For once in his life, he'd rather actually take a break instead of pick a fight.]
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They found the asshole responsible for it in the sewers. It appears he was a Zymandis agent and everything that happened in Woodhurst was test of his virus' effectiveness. Anyway, he's dead now.
We're on Tera Felis because travel to Oska is currently closed. It's a sort of emergency backup "home base".
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[Using a city as a testing ground, it seems, is too much for Jin to forgive.]
Asher explained a little bit of that to me. Something wrong with Oska?
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[What kind of self-respecting organization lets a chance for some good old fashioned torture just pass them by like that.]
It's currently under attack. From what I understand, civilians from a previous mission infected with Taraxa were brought back to Oska to see if it was possible to remove them without killing the host. Well, a few of them got loose and shut down some security systems and now there are a lot of robots making a mess. Travel was shut down to prevent enemy reinforcements from coming in. We'll be going back in a few days to help with the defensive efforts.
You can read about most of this on the network. I can get you Cassie's post, it has the most relevant information on it. The rest of it's pretty whatever.
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[HE WOULD'VE..... looked the other way for torture......... c'mon, jin, join in on the torturegang]
What on
[sorry, he's processing... this is a hell of a lot to take in. Uruz's words ring in his ears, stark in their irony: Anyone can free up a hand to swat at a fly, can't they? But they have to find us first, that's the trick.]
I'll look. Doubt it's worth it to get in on those discussions now [even if the drama is Delicious] so I'll just read them.
Damn. I was worried this'd happen eventually.
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[Y'know. What with his murderstand. Sewers are honestly the worst possible place for them to be; they're too dark, too cramped, too literally full of shit.]
Debates on morality rarely are. Although it's useful to know who stands where, I suppose.
What. The team dissolving into bickering about murder, or Oska coming under attack?
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[Yeah, Fugo, he knows. RIP.]
Oska getting attacked. Lol. What makes you think this team would actually AGREE on something in a million years? This is not an isolated incident.
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I'm not really surprised about either of these things. Safety is a relative concept and these sort of arguments are bound to happen when you've got a hodge-podge group of people whose best descriptor is "misc. (mostly) supernatural weirdos".
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We're the largest of the teams I've encountered so far, too. We have about eighty people, don't we? Noor, the team I was temporarily reassigned to, was much, much smaller-- including myself and the other ALASTAIR members who'd been rifted in to help. Eighty supernatural weirdoes make a hell of a lot more noise than twenty.
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[Things Fugo never wants to talk about: Purple Haze. The best way of coping with things you don't like about yourself is to never verbally acknowledge them unless absolutely necessary. Right??]
The number fluctuates, but it's never over eighty. Sometimes I wonder if, given how people come and go and we're occasionally offered side missions, if this team is meant to be temporary until a better fit is found on something smaller.
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So like a feeder team? I know that we're relatively new, just from what I've heard from people who've been here longer than me, but that's not entirely off base. My mission was completely specialized: two teams, one fully composed and one made of agents on side missions, and we were maybe half the size of Audentes altogether.
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[He misses being on Bruno's team. For a bunch of sad reasons. But also because the man ran a tight ship, okay.]
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[As attached as he is to everyone here... even his old Special Forces team, where they also all hated each other for the first month and a half, was more put together than this.]
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Well. Mostly. I don't think we've totally tanked a mission yet, which has got to count for something.
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Imagine if we failed in Woodhurst. Or what might have happened if we were unable to find a cure and had to kill anyone who was infected, including our teammates.
Morale would be totally shot. Everything would fall to pieces.
the gagtag wasnt that far from the real one
Anyway. One casualty there was difficult enough. I'm just glad the team wasn't hit harder. Hopefully whatever our next mission is... after this dander-filled break... won't be nearly as perilous.
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Get some rest while you can, Jin.
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Yeah.
[He'd rather not right now.]
You take it easy too, Fugo.