meadowlark | @leo.fitz

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I just thought it's possible we're part of the same experiment as the monsters, and they're the ones doing it. The DNA is the same, after all. They'd want data, if so.

That's true. Even if they already know about our predicament, they'd want to be seen as investigating it like the others. Can't rule anything out.

[ a beat. ]

And Giles Bell is rather murky in their operations, aren't they?

Worth looking at, at least. Especially because of the kind of resources our kidnappers would need.

Yeah, they've gotta be well-to-do. Were you in the first transport?
I haven't forgotten that crisp back armour, multiple weapons, or their willingness to die fighting Morningstar.

[ well-equipped and devoted. reminds him of HYDRA, naturally. ]

Yeah, I was.

I'm still not convinced the UNA isn't involved somehow because of it. That intel about a weapons shipment had to come from somewhere.

[ finally. someone else who still suspects the UNA. ]

I agree with you completely. We can't rule them out, and we can't assume Gaby/El have enough intel to do so either.
Morningstar is right to segment and anonymise information, but it means we lack the complete picture of what brought us to them in the first place.

It sounds like you know a lot about this.

[ evaluating morningstar's methods? 'segment and anonymise'? he sounds like resistance, even if he's not. ]

So where do we start?

[ we, she says, and he thinks that, yes, they could be a formidable we. ]

Don't know enough, but thank you.
We need people in the NAFD, [ though he just recruited Noctis for that, with frightening ease. ] in the NACDC (though that would require a background in medicine and/or biochemistry, I imagine), [ hold for a pang in his chest, missing one jemma simmons, who infiltrated HYDRA and could do the same here. ] and Giles Bell.

[ he and Daisy are with Vyonation, others are with Pulsar — but no one has found a spot at Giles Bell yet. ]

Giles Bell.

I could look there. My work hasn't been going well, and I have mechanical skill. Their research all seems scattered from what we know, but everyone needs machines.

[ MECHANICAL SKILL, be still his heart. that's one potential for Giles Bell, too. they're on the right track. ]

They absolutely do. That's brilliant.
What's your mechanical background? I've similar interests, so.

[ so maybe they should link up, if she's as capable as she is clever. ]

Spacecraft. Speeders. I didn't build them. I just repaired them, scavenged parts. I know the systems in and out though.

And I know a bit about droids.

[ she had him at space. ]

Not shabby at all.
Have you looked into the crafts here at all? How do they compare?

Less impressive by far. I've been working out of a mechanic shop, getting familiar with the systems. They're combustible, not what I'm used to (ion drives), but it's pretty straightforward.

We should link-up. Trade tips. I've been working in more corporate engineering projects, with some robotics on the side.

I haven't gotten my hands on any of the robotics here yet. I'd love to see what you have.

Definitely can do. You heard about the botfights yet? Bit dodgy, to be honest, but they've got the best tools. Off the books, too.

I haven't heard anything about fights.

Can you show me?

[ the thing is: fitz loves to be the guy who knows where to go and who can help others find their way. he can feel her enthusiasm for the tech, even over this text conversation.

so, why the hell not? ]

Yeah.
I normally get a heads up the day before. I'll give you a buzz when I do, and we can go together.

Please. I'd like that. I haven't had anyone here I can talk to about this because just the word gets strange looks.

Been there. You're saving me from the same, hoenstly.

[ and he knows what it's like on a larger scale, thinking back to the boy he was before the Academy. ]

So, all sorted. You and me. Bots. First chance we get.

@leo.fitz

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

private.

private ->

no subject

no subject

that icon is ILLEGAL

ISN'T SHE SO CUTE

TOO CUTE