[well that makes him feel more comfortable about how similar they are to him. he's better organized than this at least.
but it usually is all about the goal, and he's not here to be jerked around for that.
and he'll leave that question rhetorical, because yes. he has. and he'd like to see he's worked with a more ridiculous band of shounen protagonists and all assorted, and he has, but there were just not as many of them...]
I'm starting to wonder if that temporal anomaly wasn't an accident. Actually, I suspected it before I even knew ALASTAIR had a real enemy.
Are you suggesting that it was some kind of targeted attack? By... this ZYMANDIS group?
[tch.]
That explains a lot. [Real convenient, real convenient. Dismantle the organization from the very recruit level, plant seeds of doubt and disorganization in the teams directly: he can't absolve ALASTAIR of blame, not when they didn't have a backup plan in order, but if Urahara's fashioning his tinfoil hat right about now, so is Jin.]
There's so much that we don't know about ALASTAIR or the ZYMANDIS unit that I don't even know where to start.
[it's okay, he wears this bucket hat so no one can see his tinfoil one. it pays to be paranoid, okay.]
It might be. It started while everyone was away on Zeta-12, and only escalated once we were back. It could easily be coincidence, but I'm not willing to stake my life on it.
It was too convenient.
[he sighs] And I imagine that's going to continue. If Lloyd-san doesn't know more than he lets on, then it's possible even our version of ALASTAIR doesn't know everything about their own organization. We'll just have to stay vigilant about getting answers and planning accordingly.
If you keep me in the know, Urahara, I'll do the same for you.
[It's the least he can do when Urahara's been so forthcoming LAUGHS thus far.]
Could you tell me more about what happened on Zeta-12? I've read what mission retrospectives they provided to us, but if there's something I wouldn't have gathered from them-- patterns, stuff ALASTAIR missed-- that's something I wanna know about.
Well, there's no use in keeping information private when we're in this situation.
[that's not a lie- there really isn't. he withholds information because he can control how people will react to limited information, but this is a grander scale of chessboard than he's ever worked. he really can't afford to keep anything to himself.]
Zeta-12 was straightforward- keep a clutch of infant creatures alive as we brought them by foot to a sanctuary. If it was your first mission here, and you hadn't heard anything about Nalawi or Anwick then you would have imagined that all missions might be just as simple. Fortunately, I'd heard about Nalawi from Evan-san, and investigated the others on my own.
As far as I can tell, Zeta-12 was an anomaly. The only dangers were what you would expect from a harsh wilderness planet, and there were no unexpected hitches to impede our progress.
Which means that we're supposed to be mixed up in 'unexpected hitches' as a rule, yeah?
[He's only heard whispers of Nalawi and Anwick; the tones that Spider-Woman and Loki had spoken of the missions in were those not of a job entirely well done.
Political messes are far from unfamiliar territory, and yet...]
Babysitting sounds like a cakewalk when you look at everything we had to deal with here. Especially with so many voices. [yours included jin you hypocrite] There has to be a better way to put up with so many curve balls.
[He's met enough of his teammates who are in this for the money, for the fun of it, or who simply don't care-- not to mention the people who aren't especially enthusiastic about being here in the first place. (Chihiro and the other young children of Audentes: they really shouldn't be here at all, exposed to so much danger and uncertainty.)]
Then you'd like to unify ALASTAIR under a banner. Or at least Audentes.
Something like that. [it's a start, anyway. a way to get the pieces in order, much as he hates to admit to thinking of it in those terms.] We're here because we have no choice and there's no love loss from me, much less anyone else, in how ALASTAIR conducts their affairs even if I agree with what they're doing, but if nothing else, figuring out what's going on and how it applies to us is a more sensible goal than ALASTAIR's.
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but it usually is all about the goal, and he's not here to be jerked around for that.
and he'll leave that question rhetorical, because yes. he has. and he'd like to see he's worked with a more ridiculous band of shounen protagonists and all assorted, and he has, but there were just not as many of them...]
I'm starting to wonder if that temporal anomaly wasn't an accident. Actually, I suspected it before I even knew ALASTAIR had a real enemy.
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[tch.]
That explains a lot. [Real convenient, real convenient. Dismantle the organization from the very recruit level, plant seeds of doubt and disorganization in the teams directly: he can't absolve ALASTAIR of blame, not when they didn't have a backup plan in order, but if Urahara's fashioning his tinfoil hat right about now, so is Jin.]
There's so much that we don't know about ALASTAIR or the ZYMANDIS unit that I don't even know where to start.
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It might be. It started while everyone was away on Zeta-12, and only escalated once we were back. It could easily be coincidence, but I'm not willing to stake my life on it.
It was too convenient.
[he sighs] And I imagine that's going to continue. If Lloyd-san doesn't know more than he lets on, then it's possible even our version of ALASTAIR doesn't know everything about their own organization. We'll just have to stay vigilant about getting answers and planning accordingly.
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[It's the least he can do when Urahara's been so forthcoming
LAUGHSthus far.]Could you tell me more about what happened on Zeta-12? I've read what mission retrospectives they provided to us, but if there's something I wouldn't have gathered from them-- patterns, stuff ALASTAIR missed-- that's something I wanna know about.
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[that's not a lie- there really isn't. he withholds information because he can control how people will react to limited information, but this is a grander scale of chessboard than he's ever worked. he really can't afford to keep anything to himself.]
Zeta-12 was straightforward- keep a clutch of infant creatures alive as we brought them by foot to a sanctuary. If it was your first mission here, and you hadn't heard anything about Nalawi or Anwick then you would have imagined that all missions might be just as simple. Fortunately, I'd heard about Nalawi from Evan-san, and investigated the others on my own.
As far as I can tell, Zeta-12 was an anomaly. The only dangers were what you would expect from a harsh wilderness planet, and there were no unexpected hitches to impede our progress.
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[He's only heard whispers of Nalawi and Anwick; the tones that Spider-Woman and Loki had spoken of the missions in were those not of a job entirely well done.
Political messes are far from unfamiliar territory, and yet...]
Babysitting sounds like a cakewalk when you look at everything we had to deal with here. Especially with so many voices. [yours included jin you hypocrite] There has to be a better way to put up with so many curve balls.
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Unless you're still getting a feel for how our employers function.
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[and therein lies the real problem.]
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[He's met enough of his teammates who are in this for the money, for the fun of it, or who simply don't care-- not to mention the people who aren't especially enthusiastic about being here in the first place. (Chihiro and the other young children of Audentes: they really shouldn't be here at all, exposed to so much danger and uncertainty.)]
Then you'd like to unify ALASTAIR under a banner. Or at least Audentes.
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