meadowlark | @clarke.griffin

Thank you to Yalena for getting us sorted. [Sort of sorted. Sort of.] Now that we've arrived in New Tokyo and we're stuck inside for a little while, I think we should talk about some new changes that we're facing. I can't be the only one.

But first: a good number of us are here unwillingly, but we have to wait until we're fully prepped before we can go anywhere. Heading outside in these temperatures while unprepared could cost you your life. We all hate being trapped somewhere. I think that's pretty well-established. We also hate having to do anything or be anywhere when we didn't ask for that to happen. At least it doesn't seem like we were drugged, though it wouldn't hurt for Katelin and I to take some blood samples to confirm that. We'll have to store them until we get back.

As for the changes in your lives: have you noticed any? For instance, apparently I'm a lab tech at Giles Bell. I tried to set myself up for a new internship there that I could get easily, but I got ... elevated. Or hired beyond that? I'm not sure what the right terminology is here. Has anyone else noticed this? Or had it happen to them? I got permissions to take leaves from both of my jobs. And no, I'm really not prepared to work as a lab tech. I don't even know the first thing about setting up gels.

As a bit of a personal request ... does anyone think we can make pancakes in the small kitchen here? I have a craving for them. I've not really had cakes of the "pancake" variety before, but I want them now. And if you think we can, can you make them?

[This last bit is Loki's fault.]

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Agreed. We'd need a trained team of individuals, ideally composed in part of people whose abilities weren't displayed during the raids or have evolved since then.

I believe the UNA was able to record and analyse our movements using a kind of combat diagnostics software. They started anticipating our actions, both natural and unnatural. All of us who fought them have showed our hand, at least in part.

Do you think you could adapt the electro-shock device you were talking about into some kind of projectile? It won't entirely remove their advantage ㅡ their armor will likely have at least one back-up ㅡ but it would up our chances, and with the right team it would be enough.

[ hopefully. ]

[ it's a reminder to give that gift to peggy, too, as thanks for all she's done for him (and all they might be able to accomplish together here). ]

That's a good shout.
I can, and I will, as soon as we're back.

[ taser discs should be easy. hell, he'd make trick arrows, if they still had a hawkeye. ]

[ how very like keith "what about giant robots" kogane to bring a rogue but super interesting theory forward. ]

I think it could.
We say realities are separate, but that's a bit misleading (and that's on us scientists, for terming it so). In the multiverse, realities and timelines may resonate or overlap. Our jumping around could prove connective. And if we're flowing into this world, it would be possible for other things from our homes to do the same.

[ like said instability. ]

Excellent.

Then we'll discuss this again once we've returned to New Amsterdam.

See you in the snow.

So, by that logic, the instability already existed even before I "went home"?

Is that right?

I absolutely do not like shoveling snow, but we are here to help so help I shall. Bundle up!

I'm so glad I shared this with you.

[Imagine a soft, yet amused huff on her end.]

The one time I have a little fun with things.

I still think it's a good idea. Not being held accountable to contracts or jobs will make it easier for you to be flexible.

Fun? In my house?

I wouldn't call it an idea. It was on the cusp of being one, but I can't take active credit for this.

Might make things a little messy if Markus and I manage to get our licences for the safehouse business cover and I'm still collecting Cooltalk followers like I'm the latest Mario Kart on pre-order.

[ does he understand his own reference? did it make sense? arguably no to both. ]

[Clarke did not get that reference.]

Isn't that a sign that you already have enough of a following to make money? Between that and Markus' personality, you should be fine.

[But seriously: what's a Mario Kart?]

[ it's alright, neither did he ]

I'm not sure all of this is the kind of attention we want in potential customers.

[ don't read the comments clarke, we don't need to tally the thirst follows ]

I don't know.

[It's a hole in her inquiry.]

Given the lifetime assignment, I assume so, but they don't have contact with their family once they join up.

It's a good question to follow up on.

[Meaning: she will.]

Right, yeah, I reckon it's been unstable for a while now, long before we woke up on that first transport.
But it could be more unstable now, for the reasons you've said, or it could be our links to places like your home, even before your most recent trip there, have been contributing to the instability all along.

Yeah, we were primarily focused on trying to produce the most food we could handle. Some of our systems failed at some point and things weren't good, though ... fortunately that was before I was born.

Or as fortunately as anything like that could be.

The good thing is that we're lucky here. Things aren't as limited as what we know, so ...

[It is a good thing that she has not picked up on that yet.

Yet.

Clarke is definitely a person who would read a comment section just to make herself mad.]

Can we really afford to be picky right now?

Don't I always?

[His penchant for 932982743 layers now comes in handy.]

I suppose not.

UN records are above our pay grade.

[ rip his ego ]

But we might be able to come at the flagging system sideways by building a dummy system of our own and seeing where it leads. Even high-level government creeps rely on public and commercial data to figure out what people do on the daily, and that we can access. If we cross-reference it with everything we've got on the people they targeted in the raids, we should be able to narrow down what they're looking for.

Edited 2019-04-27 23:48 (UTC)

[he understood 1/3 of that but he has some ideas about that 1/3]

Perhaps if they know their records are safe they'll be careless in their speech.

If the people now in government could record what they hear at work, we could all look for patterns there as well.

One of the things I did when I went home last time involved going into someone's head to see their goals. There was a lot in there that didn't make sense, and there were people locked away in our lions that needed to be freed. Well, not my lion, but the other lions. Their life essences—the quintessence, I can't remember if I mentioned that to you before—was in there. Somehow in reaching her mind, we were able to find these minds. That's not the important part.

The important part was the stuff we saw in there. The symbolism. The desires. It reminded me a lot of where we just were.

What if there was something we were supposed to see? A clue about the instability? There had to be a reason why we were there. With everything that's happened, this is the first thing that's specifically involved us.

That's not the first time I've had something strange happen in an unconscious state. The other one was just weird ... in a different way.

[Filler Game Show Episode.]

[ maybe it still has more of a hold over him than he realized, that he promptly latches onto it despite the surrounding bits of contrary evidence, the sheer unlikeliness, the fact that it isn’t even the most immediate thing she mentioned. ]

The ARK? You were on- that’s not- Catherine Chun’s ARK?

[ Ah, touche. ]

That you do. I'll be seeing you outside, then.

Do you think you could replicate what they did?
Um, not the marijuana.
But I like the idea of a small garden.
I've never had a chance to farm anything, if I could grow berries than I can make you the waffles...

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