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[lazyinlove]

I know lots of people are missing. But there's this girl who usually breaks our kitchen appliances and makes fun of people and stuff. She lives here, but I think she

isn't.

Here, I mean. Her name is Jules. I mean Julia. So if you

I don't know. We're looking for her.

I'm Stanley, by the way. So that's who's looking. And other people too. She has family.

[Not the way he'd hoped to introduce himself to the network at large, but it's important. It's always important not to let people disappear silently.]

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[collectedloot]

What does she look like?

[cesar]

Halt your search.

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[controlledvariable]

[She's keeping an eye on the network because of, well, everything, but she frowns when she sees this and takes a moment to double check.

Stanley probably doesn't want to hear this from her, but people can't always get what they want.]

she's not registered to the network anymore, so she's probably gone home.

i'm sorry.

[lazyinlove]

why?

[lazyinlove]

that's how that works?

[lazyinlove]

brown hair, great smile, dorky accent. She's probably in her 20s, she seems pretty young. didn't get around to asking yet.

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[itstotallyaliens]

Good luck, Stanley. I hope you find her. ... Let me know if you need any help.

[lazyinlove]

I never took a picture of her or anything. I don't have one to give people. She must be with everyone else but how do we find them?

[cesar]

Because your interruption may disrupt the effort instead.

[lazyinlove]

huh?

[cesar]

[ He hesitates. What? Was he speaking Latin? ]

You will only hinder us if you continue your search.

[lazyinlove]

[Close to it, dude.]

who's "us"?

[cesar]

[ Modern-speak is hard. ]

You and I and the Initiative.

[lazyinlove]

I'm going to hinder myself?

Dude the initiative hasn't said shit, what makes you so sure they're working on it? We're probably pretty expendable to them. Individually..

[cesar]

I know it firsthand.

You are making yourself expendable by rushing in without a plan. The Initiative is studying the situation to preserve as many lives as possible.

[lazyinlove]

says who?

I'm not rush in guy okay you don't have to worry about that. I just want to know what the fuck is going on.

[cesar]

I need no authority to tell me so when I saw for myself how the Initiative searches for the missing.

Once we have located them, we will devise a plan.

[controlledvariable]

yeah, if you look her up there should be a note next to her responses that say she's gone

[lazyinlove]

[Give him a minute. There's a nice, long delay here. Because that system sucks. That's just...brutal.]

oh. got it.

[lazyinlove]

yeah sure let me know what you cook up toto

[Meanwhile, Steph has just informed him that searching is a moot point. Sorry if he spills a little sulk on you dude.]

[controlledvariable]

i only talked to her once, but she seemed nice.

is there anyone that needs to be told?

[lazyinlove]

yeah

[controlledvariable]

do you want help with that?

[She's trying really hard to be nice to Stanley, after everything.]

[lazyinlove]

wait no one does that?

[Oh...god...]

[controlledvariable]

from the initiative? no.

[Although... that might be something to bring up to the DITR, keeping a track of the network and alerting people when friends and family go home.]