Fifth | Audio

[strategic_guile]

[The feed cuts on and a voice starts up almost immediately.]

Soooo... [He pauses.]

I was gone for a week, like the Initiative said I would be, but I get back and it's been more like- [Hums a little, as if he's calculating it] -six weeks give or take, according to the network date here. It looks like everything caught on fire while I was gone, too. Go figure.

Not only that, but there's a flood of newbies, too, as well as people I missed from the last one. Anyone willing to give me an update? Or link me to where another thread that explains it would be fine, too.

Anyway, I'm Blaine. Good to meet the new people, and for the old crowd, I'm back.

[Feed cuts off]

[[Action available for Roommates or people who would seek him out to speak in person. All responses will be in Audio unless it's text.]]

Comments

[trustycrowbar]

Hm... Wherever the idea actually came from, it's not a bad one. Even if they're not willing to speak to us directly, having go-betweens that happen to be Transports means there'll be some amount of cooperation between the two.

[Something he'd been trying to explain the need for for MONTHS.]

[strategic_guile]

I think it's actually more of a 'We'll listen and believe another transport more readily' instead of whatever puppet the Initiative sends out themselves.

The information we're being given probably won't change. Just how and who says it.

[trustycrowbar]

Truthfulness of the message aside, it's still an improvement. It still allows an extra filter for the bullshit in the form of a singular Transport with a working brain, whom the other Transports might actually listen to.

[strategic_guile]

I've never talked to her, so listening is still up in the air. [Smiles.] But I'll at least give her a shot. Do you know anything more about her?

[trustycrowbar]

Other than she refers to herself as "Queen Medusalith," no.

[strategic_guile]

Well, not gonna put that ticky mark in the box of confidence then.

[trustycrowbar]

Well... [a rather bitter chuckle] you're a special case in which you're smart enough to tell the difference between authority and competence. Others aren't so lucky.

[Yes, Blaine. He just called you SMART. You believe that?]

[strategic_guile]

Authority and competence don't meet up nearly as often as they should. I'd like to stay alive, so figuring out who has both should be a priority of ours.

[He's just gonna take that compliment as is, Gordon. He's always been a 'special case', as it were.]