@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

[retravel]

[ the wife loves jane austen and if she ever sees this, YOU'RE A DEAD ANDROID MARKUS ]

You let a man pick your bow-tie once, and then comes hubris.

[saviorexe]

[HE’S INNOCENT]

Credit where it’s due. It was a nice bow tie.

[retravel]

[ don't get cute now ]

Smartened me up a bit, I suppose.

[saviorexe]

Only a bit? Don’t make me threaten you with yet another shopping excursion.

[retravel]

Well, now I know you had ulterior motives in helping me.
Gonna replace all my blue button-downs with something more modern or do I have to worry about being taken for a time traveller from the 1800s?

[saviorexe]

The people have spoken. You’ve seen the demand for it — who am I to disappoint them?

@katelin.philips

[covertness]

what are your thoughts on waistcoats?

[retravel]

Don't remember you being interested in what I wore to the ball at uni.

[ just a little cover story joke for u ]

[covertness]

[ good thinking, fitz!! ]

just because we weren't going together doesn't mean i didn't notice the outfit

[retravel]

Markus might not believe it, but I did used to be a bit more adventurous with my patterns. Don't think anyone missed the green and blue tartan suit, [ rip colourful fitz u died at the bottom of the atlantic ] unless they were too busy looking at you.

[ what's that? A HOT PLATONIC POWER COUPLE ]

[covertness]

no, i don't think anyone missed that

[ u flatter her ]

[retravel]

Probably too blasted to remember it after the fact though.

[ oh to be young and drunk ]

[covertness]

oh, definitely
but i think there are one or two pictures floating around somewhere

[saviorexe]

[...Okay. Well—]

Modern or Regency era?

[covertness]

i suppose for this scene, regency
but now i'm curious

[saviorexe]

I’m no historian, but intricate filigree, detailed embroidery. Silk or cashmere, with sharply cut lapels. No better look for an aristocratic dandy.

I suppose I have nothing against them, if that’s what you were asking.

[covertness]

and how do you feel about modern ones?

[saviorexe]

Plainer. Solid colors instead of patterns, usually. More understated, and cut differently.

But I like them. I’ve eyed a few during my time here.

[covertness]

i could imagine you in one
especially while you're playing

[retravel]

[ A LONG PAUSE. ]

A modern one doesn't sound terrible.

[saviorexe]

The modern ones are plainer in comparison, but you’d look smart.

Fashionably, I mean.

[retravel]

[ !!!

that's almost a compliment. ]

Then I'll consider it.

[ to impress markus... ]

[saviorexe]

All right. Good.

[Bless.]

Sorry to derail your post, by the way.

[retravel]

As if you were the conductor of this disaster.

[ deadeyes daisy and loki. ]

But I'm glad you and Connor are having fun.

[ :') ]

[saviorexe]

[Wow. Don’t you :’) at him.

Squints at this text floating in his vision.]

Meaning?