➔ initiative announcement 005;

[initiatesnpc]

➔INITIATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT

ATTENTION ALL NETWORK USERS AND HOLD RESIDENTS:

We are aware of the increasing unrest and surfacing symptoms you and several of the city’s residents are facing. Currently, our analysts are working as hard as they can to determine root cause and formulate the best course of action to counteract it.

Our findings to date include symptoms of dizziness, fainting, brief and partial transparency, and other perception issues.

Until a legitimate and potentially unifying cause can be found, we cannot insight cannot be offered in regard your varied conditions. You are advised to remain as calm as you can, however, and encouraged to step up and offer detailed reports of what trouble you may be facing. The more information gathered on the problem, the better.

If you are experiencing pain of any kind, you are encouraged to visit our Initiative medical staff for an examination to determine the best treatment. Be aware, however: There is no precedent determining the affects of pain-relieving drugs on a person currently suffering the symptoms shown thusfar. You alone must determine whether or not it is a risk worth taking to alleviate pain.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation thus far; we will not rest until we have gotten to the bottom of this.

Comments

[birdhousesoul]

And if we don't trust your analysts? Nothing's amiss with me. Now that you've given me a conveniently vague and alarming list of symptoms to watch out for, I might perhaps begin to imagine I'm experiencing some of them, yes? Looking to your analysts for reassurance, and incidentally, while I'm there, how about some sort of an examination, no more intrusive than necessary, to be sure? Right.

You are the most suspect when you try to sound helpful.

[initiatesnpc]

You have right and reason to be suspicious. However, if you do not have the symptoms listed, this is not about you. Our immediate concern is for those who are, in fact, suffering and in need of aid.

[birdhousesoul]

On the contrary, anything that affects one of us in body affects all of us in spirit. We're tired of being told what does and does not concern us.

I'm a healer. I can help people, if I have half a chance of figuring out what's wrong. You've refused to give me samples of the poison you used on our people, and you're saying that we should content ourselves with the so-called aid you offer. This doesn't show me any concern on your part. This shows me that you want to rope people into your facilities for testing, without oversight or accountability of any sort.

[trollonetrollall]

Work.

Faster.

[initiatesnpc]

The research is being done as fast as possible; jumping to conclusions too soon could result in grievous error.

[checksum]

Have you considered sharing your work? You have a lot of very intelligent people here who are at least as motivated, if not more so, by the prospect of solving this.

It would also help establish a pattern of transparency, an area where things still feel to be lacking since the resolution of the last incident.

[initiatesnpc]

Unless our analysts' efforts fall short of our needs and deadlines, there is no current plan to broaden the circle of users privy to information being gathered and analyzed. Keeping the number of persons small narrows the chances of gossip and error.

[danno_williams]

Partial Transparency? Partial my ass.

[initiatesnpc]

If you have found your condition worsened, it would help our efforts to know just to what extent it has changed.

[danno_williams]

Uh, I'm completely invisible now.

So, fuck you very much with your pedantic PC bullshit.