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[Osprey sits in front of the camera, the shot zoomed in to only show his head and shoulders.]
This is an open inquiry to the Initiative, and to any transports who may have relevant information. I, and at least one other transport, have begun manifesting symptoms that are... problematic. We seem to be losing visibility in the extremities.
[He holds up a hand in front of the camera, and the fading is obvious - his fingers are almost impossible to see.]
I'd hoped to avoid having to cause issues again, but if there is no response from the Initiative within a fairly short timeframe, I will take action again. I won't be shooting anybody, but let me be clear - I'm a better digital counter-security expert than I am a physical one, and we both remember how your physical security handled me.
[He pauses for a moment.]
I'm sorry. I didn't mean that to sound threatening. But I am not in a comfortable state of mind here. A prompt response would be greatly appreciated.
This is an open inquiry to the Initiative, and to any transports who may have relevant information. I, and at least one other transport, have begun manifesting symptoms that are... problematic. We seem to be losing visibility in the extremities.
[He holds up a hand in front of the camera, and the fading is obvious - his fingers are almost impossible to see.]
I'd hoped to avoid having to cause issues again, but if there is no response from the Initiative within a fairly short timeframe, I will take action again. I won't be shooting anybody, but let me be clear - I'm a better digital counter-security expert than I am a physical one, and we both remember how your physical security handled me.
[He pauses for a moment.]
I'm sorry. I didn't mean that to sound threatening. But I am not in a comfortable state of mind here. A prompt response would be greatly appreciated.
[Video] Private
You are a fucking idiot. Not only do you threaten them, you tip our hand that we suspect this is their doing when we have no solid evidence. Did you hear that? WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE. It's highly unlikely that they didn't do it but it's possible.
Now if they did do it they're going to clam up and we'll never get anything out of them. Jesus Christ you moron. This just made any investigation five times harder than it had to be.
Did you even think before you got online and started issuing threats? Probably not or you would have WAITED for more solid irrefutable evidence before throwing it in their faces... now people just think you're a nut. Not like they didn't think that after what you did last time. But now? Now you look even worse.
Way to jump the fucking GUN!
Re: [Video] Private
Not only that, but for all you know it's just the two of us effected, two people might be a coincidence.
Jumping the FUCKING GUN.
Private voice
Obtaining useful data is no harder now than it was before my announcement, at least from where I'm standing, although I acknowledge that not everyone has my skillset and toolkit available.
Besides, what would you have done? Inquiries on the network are open game - it's not like they can't listen in on our little exchange here, they control the hardware and software platform. The clinic would be limited help - my biometrics don't see a thing wrong, which makes this being a biological problem highly unlikely. The Initiative has all the cards, and I wanted to give them at least one good faith chance before I went and picked another fight.
Private voice
Giving them an ultimatum and then threatening cyber-terrorism if they don't reply the way you like it is NOT a fucking show of trust.
Not effecting any investigation? What planet are you from? Have you done ANY undercover work at all? The key to undercover work is that they don't know that you're looking at them. Now they know.
So anything we might have heard while training, or wandering the main building, or just fucking hanging out...any tiny tidbits that someone might have slipped and said in our presence is now not going to happen. Because if they did it, they know we suspect and will be watching their fucking mouths.
So what would I have done? I don't know, arranged meetings in person between people that were affected to figure out exactly what we have in common. Otherwise known as a victimology. Then had unaffected friends keep their ears to the ground or even affected people with like gloves or something to get what intel we could.
THEN tip our hand and wave a sword at them and see how they react and if it matches up with what we've managed to figure out on our own.
That's called proper police work. Thus endeth the fucking lesson.
Private voice
[There's a pause.] I'm sorry. That wasn't called for. But irrationality comes with the meat, so you should be used to it.
Back to the topic at hand, though - digital security is not as nimble as physical or psychological security. If I can get data, I can get data. If I can't, it won't have mattered that I tipped my hand. They don't have access to my personal toolkit to tailor defenses against it.
If anything, you're the one who's blown our chances at investigational groundwork. By posting this rant, you've tipped your hand, not that it wasn't already compromised from your initial post.
Re: Private voice
Number one, I didn't blow anything. We were already blown way way way WAY blown thanks to your little rant there. And also? Meat? Unless you're a fucking computer we're both meat dumbass.
TWO, as far as we know, the Initiative IS made up of PEOPLE. So, an epidemi-whatever perspective is not going to fucking work. People are about as far from a computer as we're going to get. People are irrational, driven by emotion and sometimes just plain stupid. If you know what you're doing people being stupid is your best weapon in ANY situation.
They're acting like criminals right now, so, I don't know about you, but investigating them like criminals seems like a good idea.
Private Voice
Two, you're the one assuming the Initiative is actively responsible for this. I don't believe that's a valid assumption. I do believe the phenomenon is related to whatever they're doing to pull us here and then throw us through time, though, which means they have a knowledge base likely to provide greater insights. So unless you've got an expert on temporospatial physics hiding somewhere, we're going to have to work with their experts, and trying to work nicely beats the alternative.
Re: Private Voice
Natively digital intelligence? Isn't that just a fancy word for AI? Huh, weird. And here I thought running into Tony Stark was...
Wait a second, that's who we need to go see.He's not a temporospatial expert or anything but if the com... err, my sources are right he'll at least have SOME idea of what might be causing this.
Private Voice
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