@ren.amamiya & @kyna.medina

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@ren.amamiya
Hey. With all information going around, Kyna and I wanted to throw something else out there.
It has to do with Riverstone and those experiments that people just came back from. While that was happening, the two of us and a group of others went in. We got some information.

- Riverstone used experiments as a front. Meredith Ling has been looking for a way in with us for a while. They want to control us.
- That means Riverstone has known about us for a while, too.
- Meredith Ling has a grudge against "the man that messed everything up" during Project Spinetail. We couldn't get a name, but I'm pretty sure it's James Henries. (Thanks, @marian.hawke.)
- Half the building was shut down. Everyone was gone except for the guards. I think they were expecting more problems from us.

[since, you know, they had caused quite a lot of problems in the past.]

@kyna.medina found some info about the monsters, and a contact that's been helping out had some follow up. I'll let her talk about what she saw.

@kyna.medina
the samples i found were all easy access, either in unlocked drawers or left out. they must be working on this stuff pretty actively, or they expected us to find it. the parts were:

- angler teeth. it looks like the tests were all trying to figure out their composition.
- multiple vials of arachne venom
- samples of basilisk lungs (trying to harness the venom, i’m thinking)
- quills from the giant boars
- slugs. as in, a lot of fucking slugs. let’s hope they’re not trying to figure out how those things control people, but considering our luck, they totally are.

a contact at riverstone said they’re studying the monsters to develop cures to prevent their effects and see if the world can benefit from them somehow. after they lied to us about the reasons for the tests they ran on us though, i’m not buying it.

i took plenty of pictures, so if you want them, they’re here.

[Kyna includes a download link. There are indeed a lot.]

@ren.amamiya
This is a lot, especially for people who just arrived. There's Sweets' document too. It's here.
I know we all have our own ideas on how to keep going from here, but we wanted everyone on the same page. We've been used by a lot of people, and I don't think we want to be used by Riverstone, too.
They want us for a reason.

@kyna.medina
edit: by the way, riverstone knows that we were poking around. there were four of us, and we were escorted out. we’re probably not welcome back in new beijing anytime soon, but we were the only ones affected by it.

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@ren.amamiya

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We wouldn't be posting this if we weren't confident.

[rehandle]

If it's evidenced, I'd like to hear more about it.

[ Very narrowly avoids adding passive aggressive quotation marks to underline that he's having to repeat himself. ]

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[ he sees your passive aggression and raises you one direct teenage sassy remark. ]

You could come out and ask.
It's not like I'm not going to tell you.

[rehandle]

Oh, you needed it in question form. My bad.

Please, Ren, would you share with me your evidence?

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Don't be so condescending and it'll be clearer next time.
The head of security was there. He's close to the Ling family.
I used my power.
That's where we got it.

[rehandle]

You hadn't provided any evidence of one claim where you'd backed others up with plenty. Forgive me my curiosity.
But thank you.

He said exactly what you've told us here? That Riverstone want to control us?

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Yeah, those words exactly.
"Buying our loyalty down the line" was also used.

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Buying loyalty and assuming control seem like two contradictory ambitions. The former would assume a need to pander to something beyond your control in order to pacify and bring it on side.

In your opinion, did what he said suggest that they felt that if control is unachievable, allegiance will have to do? Or that one might be a step to securing the other?

[ We'll get to the fact that Ren used his power on the head of Riverstone security later. What's one more power out in the open given what prompted this little excursion in the first place, really. ]

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I didn't have much time for further interrogation, so that's what I got of their intentions.
It'll need some follow up.

From how it went, I'd guess that they're looking at steps.
The experiments were the first part of it.

We're easily divided.

[rehandle]

Can't argue that.

Thank you for the clarity. You left New Beijing safely?

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Yeah, but we won't be going back for a while.

[rehandle]

Did they make any specific threats?

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No, but traveling became hard in New Beijing.
We didn't want to use the gate after that, so we took a train to New Tokyo.
We were randomly searched, which wasn't random.

[rehandle]

Ok.

This getting out ought to make them think twice about trusting us to trust them in future. That's something.

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They were forced to deal with us, too.
So yeah, it's something.