@leo.fitz

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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

[warfares]

And yet he allowed himself to be caught on camera.

[ it's not a disagreement, merely a statement of fact. this is what troubles him, really. it certainly suggests something deliberate but it could just as easily be that the nurse just got cocky and was punished for it. ]

Do you believe the rage effect was intended?

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Maybe that's why he had to go.

[ an agent who becomes cocky is a dangerous one. ]

I believe that even if the fire was intended, the outbreak may have been incidental, a byproduct of the monster carcasses being stored onsite.
I'm not inclined to suspect the underground of being involved beyond self-interested trade on the black market, but Connor and I will be investigating a lead there, regardless.
What do you think?

[warfares]

The fact that someone would stockpile carcasses is probably the only thing about this that wouldn't surprise me.

[ desperate times leading to desperate measures, or perhaps just for the sheer novelty. ]

The smell must have been spectacular, particularly with this heat.

Nothing I've heard so far seems to indicate the involvement of the usual gangs. If anything they seem offended that the media is trying to connect them to the fire.

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It should be said the fire originated in the nurse's apartment as well, while the carcasses just happened to be in an adjacent flat.
Must have been absolutely minging.

[ a pause to consider that intel. ]

Same on my end. If it's to do with the underground, I'd be more inclined to suspect the well-to-do types and the folks at the top of the crime families, not the gangs.