@mako.sato

[browbeater]

a couple of questions:

these id's, do they double as work permits? if being stuck here is a potentially long term problem, i'd like to get a job closer to what i do back home.

for the people who lost abilities back home, have you seen anything about how those got taken? or anything about how to get them back? just curious.

and finally, has anyone else noticed we're being followed?

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@ren.amamiya

[variate]

Yeah, there shouldn't be any trouble getting a job.
What did you do back home?

[browbeater]

good to know. i was a detective. while security's alright, i'd rather do something closer to that.

biggest problem's just getting used to the technology.

[variate]

[ the police!!!

time to snoop ]

What makes you want to be a detective?
The tech you get used to, eventually.

[browbeater]

feel like i could learn something from how they do things here. and there's probably some part of this whole situation, why we're here, and how we get home, that having extra tools would help with.

[variate]

Yeah, probably.
I've had bad run ins with the cops. We usually avoid them.

[browbeater]

here?

[ he knows there are bad cops, so he wouldn't be entirely surprised. ]

[variate]

Somewhat. Our situation isn't really police-friendly.

@dick.grayson

[dickism]

I can't help you with the abilities, but who did you notice following you?

[browbeater]

not sure. they looked like they were part of the crowd, but i kept seeing the same person in a few different places.

so either we had extremely similar agendas, or they were following from a distance.

[dickism]

I've noticed the same thing. Interesting that they're already following you when you're so new.

@lance.sweets

[lifetothefullest]

Yeah, unfortunately they've been stalking us for the past few weeks. Presumably it's the UN's new task force.

[browbeater]

should we be worried, or...?

[lifetothefullest]

In the long term, probably, but in the short term probably not. They're very capable of being dangerous, but right now it seems like they're more interested in observing and asking questions than being outright threatening, although that can easily change.

[browbeater]

what do you know about this task force?

[lifetothefullest]

It's run by the UN, and its supposed purpose is to investigate and understand some of the recent worldwide events that have happened. The field team seems to be mostly made up of people who were Shrikes in the Aerie, which was basically an alternate universe everyone here ended up in a month or two ago. Shrikes were the highly trained secret police force there.

[browbeater]

great. that doesn't have terrible implications or anything.

[lifetothefullest]

Definitely not.

Right now a few of us are working on identifying as many people as possible just so we're aware of those they are, but beyond that we're not really sure what to do just yet. Nothing they're doing is illegal, just creepy.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

The abilities seem to do with the gods. I'm not sure how. I didn't lose anything.

But there are people here who lost a lot. Some were even turned human when they were machines before.

I'm not sure how it works, but that seems to be it.