@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

[saviorexe]

I did question the neighbors the last time I went digging for answers.

I was provided with little more than a physical description, which you’ve seen mentioned here. Other than that? Dead ends.

[deployed]

I'd have thought he was friendly with at least one person in that building.

Unless that's part of their job. Keep to themselves, don't get attached to people. It'll make our attempts that much harder.

[retravel]

Organisations interested in human experimentation and homicide tend to keep it in the family, so to speak. And they often target isolated individuals for recruitment.

[deployed]

No loose ends. That's bad news for us.

We could try to track down his family members. Even if he's estranged, they might be able to tell us something. If they exist.
Purging his records wouldn't wipe out anyone else with his family name, right?

[saviorexe]

That’s a possibility. But that would make his “salute” something of an anomaly, wouldn’t it?

[Out of character and reckless, so to speak.]

Not that this helps us one way or another. There’s always the option of going back and focusing on the apartment with the monster carcasses, if we want to take this down a different path.

[deployed]

Not everyone obeys orders 100% of the time.

Do you really think there's anything more we can get from the carcasses?

[saviorexe]

No, not always. But if that kind of punishment is what they dole out to flippant individuals, then he was either very foolish or had a death wish.

Maybe not from the bodies themselves. At least not in any capacity that I have the resources for. But if there are connections to be made in a burgeoning market where parts and being tossed around from individual to individual, I think that might be worth poking around in.

[deployed]

Or he thought he could talk his way past the consequences. Some people, they don't think anything bad is going to happen to them until it does.

[ though it's a lot of deep thinking for someone who wasn't really—

someone who bellamy shouldn't be feeling any real guilt over. ]

We could ask around. Even if that leads us to front or a decoy, it's another step closer to tracing back to the source.
It'd be better if we could get someone who lives here to be the go between. Someone to work on acquiring some on our behalf.

[saviorexe]

I intend to ask around, but I think it might require an interesting spin to any given argument to... convince someone who lives there to be as inquisitive as one of us.

It’ll be hard to explain exactly why.