@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]

Well, I think the gangs are a dead end in and of themselves, but their wider networks are of use and likely to tie back to individuals of means.

[ organised crime and the wealthy patrons invested in their activities. ]

We can't afford to ignore any avenue, not when we've already been too slow and uncoordinated on the uptake.

[ two months without solid leads, eight since he's seen jemma — it marks the longest he's ever been without her since they met. ]

[selfimage]

Avenue is a word for it, perhaps.
I'd say resources, because our displacers seem to have plenty of those.

[ that's what the underground is, it's a resource; just like Pulsar is a resource; just like the place they meet is a resource. there's something else here, and he can feel it, more than just a wild experiment. if he was just a little more than he was now, indulged in his heightened perceptions, he might be able to tell.

for now, he can't. it's just frustrating. ]

Less the answers, for now.
I doubt if we had them, we'd be able to do much with them.

[retravel]

[ avenue, resources, angles, it's about accessing and connecting as much as they can, for Fitz. they need to keep searching and talking.

even if what they have at present just isn't enough. ]

I suppose we can cross the bridge when we come to it.
For now, it helps to know where others are looking.

[ and Loki's movements are always of interest. ]

[selfimage]

Don't be a stranger, Leopold.

[ his voice almost carries with the text in with a whimsy, troublesome tone. ]

[retravel]

Yeah, yeah, you know where to find me, Odinson.

[ he's Tired. ]