[video] dos;;

[falla]

[ She's so not ready for making a video and putting it up here for the Transports to see...but this isn't the sort of thing you can just convey over text. This is actual important information she needs to share with them, frustratingly vague as it seems to be. ]

Hello Ex-Exsilum.

[ Perfect start. ]

My name is Charlie, Ch-Charlie Dyer. I was w-with the rescue g-group on the compound.

[ She stops there and takes a breathe. While she had some time to clean herself, she looks...well, beaten up, Even with long sleeves and jeans the darkening purple creeping up her neck and the cut over her left eyebrow make it obvious she got in one too many unfair fights. ]

I found something. It was be-being guarded, so I knew it w-was important. [ She holds the diamond storage device up for a moment. ] Had the Initiative p-people crack it. It has...um...

[ She puts the device down and picks a paper sheet up. ]

"A system of sch-schematics that show the breakdown of an un-unnamed event over the Island of Exsilium, including m-models tracking the presence of some element o-or another for fifty, one hundred, and two hundred years."

[ She puts the sheet down. ]

Wh-whatever it is, they're l-looking at us. B-been looking at the island f-for a while. Maybe th-this makes more sense to so-someone else here? A-anyway, that's that.

I n-need to sit down...

Comments

voice;

[hejhej]

[normally, lisbeth skips over most posts by people she doesn't recognize on the network. however, she'd been scouring the network ever since she'd found those files on a little side trip she took during the diversion mission.

but when she sees this woman's post, she furrows her brows. schematics, an unnamed event, tracking - hot zones, fallout zones. her breath catches in her throat.]

I found something similar.

text;

[falla]

[ She's done talking. ]

Let's compare notes, shall we.

permatext;

[hejhej]

I found schematics about strike zones - but when I looked at the files again once I got home, their wording changed.

Hot zones happened to be in that wording.

permatext;

[falla]

The wording changed?

I think this is information related to an event that happens every fifty years or so. I never bought that they would leave us alone for so long. They must be doing something every now and then.

[hejhej]

how are you sure it happens every fifty years?

[falla]

Maybe not exactly, but there are reading for 50, 100 and 200.

It could be also geometric, alright. Makes more sense.

You said strike zones? Heat signatures...strategic impact zones with certain element to cause more damage.

I hope I'm over thinking this.

[hejhej]

I know someone who might be familiar with these kinds of things. I'll take my files to him and I'll let you know what else he discovers.

[kneecaptain]

They say anything about a Black Code?

[falla]

No, nothing about that.

Have you found something too?

[falla]

I'm sending you this files, let me know what comes together.

[kneecaptain]

Just a field guide.

It looks old, but as far as I can tell it's up to date.

[ A pause, and then maybe a bit softer. ]

You okay?

[falla]

A field guide of what?

I'll survive.

[kneecaptain]

Like— an instruction book for soldiers.

Surviving's a lot trickier than some people make out.

[falla]

None of this sounds good.

I have experience.

[kneecaptain]

It doesn't.

And yeah, so do I.

[falla]

While I knew they had to be looking at the island more often than not, the fact this confirms it somehow doesn't make me any less tense about it.

I've already gotten patched were it counts, the rest is a matter of time,

[kneecaptain]

The Black Code is a nuclear strike protocol. So yeah, I'd be tense.

[falla]

Oh fuck.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah.

[ Just one sober syllable. ]

[falla]

Not to sound desperate but we need to get the hell out of here. All of us, Transports and Exiles alike.

[kneecaptain]

You think they're planning on going through with it?

video - permalocked from the UE

[acts_of_claudia]

[Claudia throws up a quick encryption before she replies]

Shit. I heard them talking about something like that. They were saying they were going to turn the place into a permanent hot-zone.

[She sighs, raking a hand through her hair. She looks like shit since she hasn't slept much since her captivity and bonus broken arm... typing with one hand is a bitch, man.]

[falla]

I'm surprised they have waited so long.

video;

[falla]

[ Only because she looks like crap, Charlie lets the video on. ]

They have m-maps, coordinates, they probably know wh-where to hit t-to make the most damage.

[Video]

[sawhatyoudidthere]

[Oh no, Charlie. There's a sweet but sad smile on her face.]

Charlie, do you remember me?