@leo.fitz

[retravel]

Hi everyone,

It's time again for the irregularly scheduled update on the shadowy conspiracies surrounding our spacetime displacement.

If you don't already know me, I'm Leo Fitz, one of the arrivals from the first transport. Prior to being here, I was an engineering and technology operative at SHIELD, an American extra-governmental military counter-terrorism and intelligence agency. Myself and several others have been investigating the circumstances of the fire and the nurse's death, with the generous aid of Gaby, El, and Morningstar's contacts.

Debris samples from the apartment site collected by Kylo (@kylo.ren) and I contained the expected signs of fire damage as well as a significant oddity: Residue left by an organic material. While the residue was too insubstantial and damaged for a full chemical analysis, it showed matching markers to the samples of the smaller creatures of unknown origin (designated 084s), previously tested by Kylo through Morningstar.

At great personal risk, Katelin (@katelin.philips) and Marcos (@marcos.diaz) also questioned the morgue attendants. In doing so, we learned the following information:

1. Our nurse suffered blunt force head trauma, noted as his cause of death prior to the fire reaching his body. Such an injury occurs most often by accident, as in the case of a car crash, or when an object is used to bludgeon the skull, as in the event of a homicide.

2. I'm inclined to classify this cause of death as suspicious, and it seems the local authorities agree, with a group of individuals in possession of NAFD Forensics identification having carted off the corpse before we arrived. Additionally, records of the nurse's collection and autopsy have been scrubbed, much to our morgue attendants' surprise and alarm.

Further investigation shows that all of the nurse's data has been wiped, as if he never existed in the first place.

Maybe this only confirms our suspicions of foul play and establishes a concrete link between the fire and the creatures. To me, it guarantees that we are dealing with an organization capable of using, coercing, and erasing individuals, even those who have proven useful to them in the past. Everything we do in pursuit of answers is a risk, so please be careful as we work together to solve this.

— Fitz

Comments

@noctis.sky

[fessus]

Hey Leo, I'm Noctis

[ Pleasantries first and foremost, amazing. ]

Think there's any chance of backup records? With everything this connected you'd think they'd have extra data stored somewhere, or at least a satellite trail. Maybe that'd be useful, but I'm not a computer expert so I can't track it. I wish.

Anyway if you need any more people looking into anything lmk, just not the super tech stuff, like I said.

[retravel]

[ wow someone interested in helping... how wild... ]

Good to meet you.
Even those of us with prior experience in the area can't keep up with these advancements, unfortunately, but your idea may still be worth pursuing. @daisy.johnson, thoughts?

[ deferring to the expert... ]

Course there are plenty of skills beyond tech that we need. What's your background, if you don't mind my asking?

[evite]

we haven't found any evidence of satellites linking to cloud storage
but i haven't seen any evidence against it either

[ she knows what you're doing, sir. ]

if we can get eyes on the roof we might be able to spot the link pattern

[retravel]

[ pls forgive me agent johnson ]

Connor and I are going on a space holiday, so we might be able to get even higher than that.

[ fitz who the fuck are you and what in god's name are you doing ]

[evite]

[ she's so goddamn flabbergasted by the idea of a goddamn space holiday that she can't even think about how betrayed she feels that he's going without her. (it'll come later, the annoyed feeling. she wants to go to space too, damnit!!!) ]

we'll talk about how space holidays are not a thing you just randomly drop into conversation LATER

[ ie in person, when she can smack you around a little ]

but how long will you be gone?
and how high are you going?

[retravel]

[ OOPS ]

Oh, I didn't mention it? Maybe we need a shared calendar.

[ In the flat, he's suddenly super interested in his implant interface mmm-hmmm. ]

We're going to Lunar, so...high.
Just a week and a bit.

[ three days travel both ways... ]

[fessus]

Yeah like when game accounts are backed up in different servers bc you switch from playing on one to another. Happens all the time. Could be something automatic like that?

[ Any decent ideas he has are accidents, always. ]

I fight but I'm used to it being in a pretty small team. So I do a lot of recon and infiltration too, which I'm good at.

[retravel]

Definitely know what you mean. Could show us how sophisticated their erasure protocol is, if nothing else.

[ daisy seems keen on the idea upthread so TECH THINGS ]

Now those are valuable skills. Have you been here long and.or reached out to Morningstar?

[fessus]

Cool, glad we're on the same page.

[ Finally, another decent person... ]

Thanks. That's a negative on both though. Should I change that?

[retravel]

I like Morningstar. Took me a while to come round, but I'm a convert now.
They've helped us selflessly despite the risk to their organisation and the mixed reactions among us anomalies, they've a proven record of informing us when relevant information arises (as when the nurse was fleeing back to the apartment), and they have a network of contacts that can only improve our ability to investigate.

But it's up to you. Joining means helping out when they need it, not only when it suits our wider aims.

[fessus]

Oh wow you had a whole pitch ready to go lol

Sounds like they've really got things together. I mean they got you and you seem pretty organized, that's a plus. What kind of stuff do they need help with usually?

If it's going to help people out then it's kinda hard to say no. And I want answers just as much as everybody else does.

[retravel]

[ flattery（˶′◡‵˶） ]

Odd jobs, mainly. We've yet to prove ourselves, so nothing too daring, unless we discover the lead on our own.
Gaby can tell you more and sign you up, if it seems helpful.
In my personal opinion, if you feel confident in your recon and infiltration skills, I think we could use a man on the inside of the NAFD.

[fessus]

Sounds like I should be talking to her then. I didn't really wanna commit to anything when I'd just arrived and was figuring stuff out but things have settled a little.

The NAFD?

[retravel]

I took my time as well.

[ which wins noctis points. knowing your limits and feeling things out -- that's clever. ]

NAFD = New Amsterdam Fire Department. It would seem they've taken in-house control of the 41st Street apartment fire investigation and the suspicious death of our nurse inside it.

[fessus]

[ Noctis being clever: miracles do happen. ]

Oh. Yeah makes sense to have eyes inside, but don't you need some major qualifications to get a job like that? Or no? Something tells me it's more than just showing up with a stolen uniform.

[retravel]

[ BLESS ]

Reckon there's a course to be done, like anything else, but it shouldn't be too tough to get your foot in the door. They put out a message asking for civilians who helped on the day to sign up already.
Would've volunteered myself if I weren't pulling triple duty. Not exactly my specialty, either.

[ being the science guy. ]

[fessus]

Seriously?

[ Meet one of the most easily influenced do-gooders ever, a man who happily stopped in the middle of a war to search for frogs because someone asked not even very nicely. ]

Guess I can look into it, especially if it's gonna help out. Is there a contact at the department who put out the request or should I just head over?

[retravel]

[ how was that... so easy... ]

New Amsterdam's Fire Chief was the one who welcomed civilians to train and join up.
Has El already established your cover in the city?

[ what's your story, kid. ]

[fessus]

Sounds like that's where I need to start then, after I talk to Morningstar. And I'm working as a waiter if that counts but I haven't talked much to El otherwise.

Oh, right, you should join my guild. Should help us all bond more and keep in contact. El's into it.

[ What. ]

[retravel]

[ hmmm suddenly concerned this person is a Youth™ ]

I'll take a look. Not a lot of free time on my hands these days.

[ HE JUST SAID HE HAS THREE JOBS BUDDY ]

You free for lunch tomorrow? Could talk about your guild and go over some notes.

[ mainly the latter... so he doesn't do anything stupid. ]

[fessus]

[ This sounds like a You problem though? ]

I thought you didn't have free time.

[retravel]

[ SIGHS DEEPLY ]

I'm making time for you. On my lunch break.

[fessus]

[ Well... That's sweet. However. ]

How long does it take you to eat lunch normally? Your whole break?

[retravel]

[ this feels like entrapment.

after a pause. ]

I see where this is going.
We can budget 10 minutes for your elevator pitch.

[ and guild sign ups... ]

[fessus]

[ ......... is that weakness I'm detecting. ]

Nah that's cool I think I only need twenty seconds or so. I'll show you how to set up your account later.

Are you buying the food?