@leo.fitz ― 4 NOVEMBER 2511

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Hi everyone,

If you don't already know me from the safehouse or the guide, I'm Fitz, one of the arrivals from the first transport. Prior to being here, I was a weapons and technology expert at SHIELD. Now, I’m a Pulsar engineer and, more importantly, an agent of Morningstar.

Recently, @ojiro.juniper approached me with the clever idea to kickstart some research and development efforts. We’re working on a way to bankroll this, and we’ll let you know how that develops in due course. For now, regardless of where discussions have evolved on the nature of organisation and leadership, we need your assistance with some big endeavors, both for the Displaced and Morningstar.

1. As some of you may know from the raids, Morningstar has a cache of unidentified weapons in its local store. We don’t know what they do, how they work, how dangerous they are, and so on, but I want to find out. So, let's discuss a plan: Any thoughts or ideas for how to approach the cache and suss everything out safely would be welcome.

Reckon we’ll need at least one colour-coded spreadsheet. [ ***NOT JOKING ]

2. We could use a team of engineers for ad hoc projects. Presently, I’m exploring tech that could counter both the UNA and the creatures that keep popping up, as well as give us more freedom to act whenever trouble comes our way — all by my lonesome.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, whether or not you have the technical know-how to get to work immediately, or you want to learn on the job, let me know. Can’t pay you in anything except snacks, but I can assure you they’ll be bug free.

3. Hi, this is Ojiro. In addition to the above, I also need an engineer for personal reasons, and I will pay you. I need someone with a lot of experience with tech as advanced as the standard here, preferably lots of hands-on engine work. Message me if you're interested!

Cheers.

― Fitz

[ Check out here for more deets on the cache and here for some OOC knowledge of what Fitz is working on personally. He’ll share details of the latter strand of work with any individuals wanting to form a geek squad c: For #3, interested applicants can just private message Ojiro on this post! I'll be throwing together a plot engagement incorporating what characters ICly suggest in the coming weeks! ]

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@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Katelin and I had a few paths in mind, and Jyn brought another to my attention. Katelin hasn't shown up to work in a few days. [So. It's just Clarke, who was never as advanced as anyone else here. Could never really be.]

So far, if anything's happened to our makeup, it's not obvious in our blood as is, but we haven't done any testing involving power usage.

So, what we want to do:

1. Test blood while someone's power is active, especially if it appears to temporarily alter their genetic makeup.

2. Perhaps do thorough tests on our blood versus everyone in this world. I think it may be especially telling with people like Markus and Connor.

But I can't do it alone. I don't know how.

[saviorexe]

Wanting to take more of my blood, Clarke?

[Can you hear the vaguely teasing intonation? But more seriously (and noting the bit about Bobbi, worrying in its own right, has she left, too?)-]

I wouldn't say no to either. And we both know that I have a personal vested interest in #2.

[AKA sign him up???? Anything to help unravel the mystery of his android-to-human transition pls]

[strove]

I know.

I'll come calling once I have someone who can back me up. Right now I would just sit around with a vial of blood with no idea of what to do with it.

[saviorexe]

I'm not much help in that regard. But once you do, let me know.

With new faces coming in, there might be a chance someone has the knowledge you need, if you don't have anyone in mind already.

[Since they're skirting around the issue of Bobbi not having shown up to work, according to what he can read here.]

[strove]

I could reach out and ask. Hopefully my intentions make sense.

[Clarke remembers her first request for blood.

And the fact that people felt they needed to say no even if she wasn't forcing it on anyone. Thanks Thor and Loki.]

[saviorexe]

Framing it as wanting to know what's been done to us, specifically in regards to how our powers manifest? I'm sure that won't be a hard sell, Clarke.

[strove]

It usually isn't.

The hard part is where I've struggled to find answers for months myself because I sent off for tests without knowing what to ask.

[saviorexe]

[He wishes he could help, but he's not very scientifically minded, either.]

True. But it sounds to me like you'd have a control sample and something to compare it against. Easy enough to say that you just want to see if there's a difference between the two.

[Right? Right? Maybe? Look, he's just here to encourage.]

[strove]

I need more of a knowledge base to know what I'm even looking at. Saying, "yes, it's different" doesn't tell us how it's different.

But maybe I can see if I can speed run some courses soon.

[Their lives are too busy for Clarke to speed run medical school, unfortunately.]

[saviorexe]

I think that might be a little too ambitious, even for you.

[POT MEET KETTLE]

MS is extending its range of contacts. Rebuilding, so to speak. [Slowly but surely.] Might be able to find resources in that vein, in the unlucky event you can't find a Displaced to aid you.

[strove]

I don't want to endanger anyone for our purposes, but I don't think it would hurt for you guys to find someone who can do that for you.

[saviorexe]

Believe me when I say that we're working on it.

[As a generalized statement, it works, too.]

[retravel]

[ Fitz has been pointedly keeping Bobbi's disappearance quiet, so he avoids more detail than strictly necessary. ]

I called her in sick. Bad flu.

[ That is to say, yes, she's gone. Team SHIELD follows protocol. ]

I like where your head is at. Anyone whose body has changed or seemingly been created fit-for-purpose is of particular interest. In theory, finding bodies capable of handling our powers would have been difficult, so I agree that Markus and Connor are of particular interest. I'm consistently surprised baseline humans have yet to exhibit any signs of bodily degradation as a result of our abilities.

This is more my partner's area than my own, but I've looked in depth at the biology of powered individuals, in particular, before now, so I could help identify potential lines of inquiry in Kat's absence:

Genetics is an inherently comparative field, so gathering samples from local volunteers and looking at the results side-by-side with our own is essential. Other DNA samples would be worth considering: Hair, nails, cheek swab, etc. And you'd want a large sample size of our lot as well.

If we can find a contact with the resources and skills, we could sequence our genomes on blood samples alone.

Checking our hormone levels could also be a good shout. Any differentiation from the norm could be telling.

[ THROWING BIO SPAGHETTI @ THE WALL. it helps that he was the mad scientist who gave a robot made human superpowers last time. ]

[strove]

Hormones. Good idea.

[In all of that, it is sadly the hormones that she grasps the best from what she knows about lab tests. Clarke has been learning on the job, but she's still insufficiently prepared. She sticks to technical things, preparing gels and has done well on that, but discerning data is out of reach.

It's where Katelin was helping.

Emphasis on was.]

I'd prefer to put feelers out among us and see if anyone has that skill. Hafid says he knows how to do anything, so maybe he's a secret geneticist and hasn't revealed it yet.

[This is both derisive and sincere, an even split. If he knows, she needs to work wtih him on it.]

I'm better at asking questions than answering them, so I'm afraid that some of our progress has been limited by my own skills.

And I can't do more without someone like Katelin at my side.

[retravel]

Been known to have them now and again.

[ Jemma would have more. He tries to ignore that line of thought. ]

That sounds like the right move.
I'll ask around the workshop, too. Hopefully, we'll have more than a single pair of trained eyes on this.

[ Fitz doesn't trust himself with that data, not yet. Better Bobbi — or someone else known to be good. ]

You'll get word if she returns.

[ She. Bobbi. 'Cause he already trashed their kitchen with his tantrum, moving to the acceptance phase shortly thereafter. Hope in this means you lose someone twice: First, when they disappear and again, when they fail to return. ]

[strove]

[Clarke doesn't want to draw attention to how she's floundering at work without Bobbi. It's hard to realize that as a very real thing, what with all the questions she asks and with none of the answers available. Incomplete as a student of medicine, hoping to make herself useful.

She's a leader, not a scientist or a doctor. It's where she's excelled, and that's had to change in being here.

And she feels bad for it, too. Bad that it isn't as useful of a skill. It's the same way she felt when they did the Nightblood experiments, when they took it to actual testing. The very same.]

I might need to catch a bit of that flu myself.

[That's all she'll say.

Besides, it can easily be read as "that'll sell it."]

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[ he waits a beat. ]

It’s not a bad idea.

[ and switching to private. ]

You can message me for assists, if you need them in the interim.

[ is this the sitcom ep where someone whispers cheats in their friend’s ear MAYBE SO ]

private to infinity and beyond

[strove]

I'll see what I can do, but you have your hands full.

Thanks, though.

[retravel]

[ NOT GONNA ARGUE W THAT ONE because she’s damn right ]

Of course.