TEAM DAQUIRI LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM DAQUIRI

After that strange Retrospec post, you may be wondering how to contact this "technician". Luckily, your phone or whatever device you have handy to check the network chooses that exact second to go haywire... Team Daquiri roster: Baren Kumou, Bucky Barnes, Futaba Sakura, Hitori Togusa, Iwatooshi, Izuku MIdoriya, John Steinbeck, Koutarou Takamura, Lalli Hotakainen, Mikleo, Yu Narukami. On whatever device you use to view the retrospec application, you may note the following scrolling on the screen instead of the usual options: ALERT: CRITICAL TIME-SPACE ANOMALY ACTIVE. SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... DESIGNATED ADMIN CANDIDATE: EMPLOYEE #91962 M. MAHONEY PLEASE INPUT AUTHORIZATION CODE. The prompt does not seem to be for you, however, as the text prompts continue to scroll, this time with some input. > ********************** ACCEPT ADMIN STATUS Y/N? > y DESIGNATE PROGRAM TO RUN. PLEASE BE ADVISED WE ARE SYSTEM CRITICAL. > run subroutine designation echolocation-alpha CONFIRMED. EMPLOYEES ACTIVE IN AREA: 2 > list employees EMPLOYEES ACTIVE: M. FITZWILLIAM LEVEL 0 ACCESS, INTERN M. MAHONEY FULL SYSTEM ACCESS, ADMIN > search for alternative assets CONFIRMED. SENDING ALTERNATIVE ASSET LIST. Names scroll by on the screen. and look, there goes yours! It seems like someone is manually picking and choosing from a list of every Retrospec user who didn't disappear into the void, and several names queue up. > initialize support team CONFIRMED. TEAM DESIGNATION? > daquiri CONFIRMED. TEAM DAQUIRI MISSION PARAMETERS? PLEASE BE ADVISED SYSTEM ENERGY LEVELS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. > make contact with sysadmin > contact point entrance 1 > temporary access level 1 granted CONFIRMED. MISSION PARAMETERS SET. TEMPORARY ACCESS LEVEL 1 GRANTED. The screen clears itself, and instead of the familiar retrospec logo, there is simply TEAM DAQUIRI as a designation. the application will refuse to show anything other than a map, with one point highlighted in red. it is, of course, up to team members to decide whether or not they approach the access point. Team Daquiri's access point is in the Retrospec Basement. Team members will find they can access the Retrospec building and utilize the elevator to reach the Basement level so long as they approach it in a group of two or more team members. Only Team Daquiri team members can enter the Retrospec building at all at this time. Please see the Objective 1 toplevel for more information on what they can see when they enter the door! This is the Team Daquiri Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Daquiri is as follows: WEEK 1: Objective 1; CLEAR: Maurice; Miss Gracie WEEK 2: Objective 2; IC mission briefing; CLEAR: J. Wiseman WEEK 3: Objective 3; IC mission briefing 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work. NPC interactions will be rnged from your team roster once per week, and toplevels for those will also be posted, although all team members can hear/see these interactions!

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Re: WEEK THREE WRAP-UP

[standalonehuman]

Ex-fucking-scuse me? Accidentally telepathically blasted to the people physically present. Most of Togusa's questions had surrounded the people that Retrospec had let go. There's not much Maurice could have said that would have gotten to Togusa faster than that.

Breathe. "You mean- the people you've released? Tim Drake, Luke Triton, Gentiana Illyria." Focus. His voice is barely staying in control. Teeth grit tight to keep himself from yelling. "What do you mean re-written?" They'll never answer, but damn it, Togusa is asking anyway.

[recollecters]

[ as stated, there will be not further response on this, thank you! ]

[wordcarvings]

Don't mind Koutarou, he's just going to take hold of Togusa's hand as a reminder that he can't go too far. He's not going to say anything for the time being, but he'll be right there beside him, to keep an eye on him and the conversation.

[standalonehuman]

Good timing, Koutarou. That hand was about to curl into a fist when it gets grasped by Koutarou instead. He blinks and looks down at his friend's hand, and it diffuses all that anger in a moment. Dont start anything, Hitori. The look on his face melts into something conflicted, stricken.

"I said I'd stay by her side." For Koutarou only. "We could weather anything Retrospec threw at us. And then they can just- flip a switch and change her like that. Change you. All of us."

[wordcarvings]

Koutarou has his moments. And somebody needs to calm him down somehow.

"I know. It's infuriating." Koutarou is angry at them for that too. He's had co-workers and some friends suddenly forget everything. And Hitori has been hurt. "But getting angry will not make them answer any questions."

[standalonehuman]

Togusa effortlessly slips into Japanese, "I know. I cant help it but I know." Overtones of guilt. He knows this is a problem for him, one he needs to do better about. Dont make things worse.

"The soul slips put of place. What crap. The soul, the ghost. That's the part they can't touch." It's the one thing he's clung to this whole time. "No matter what changes they make to our bodies." He turns his hand, keeps a tight grip on Koutarou's so he can see the inside of his wrist. The change is subtle, the slight darkening of Koutarou's veins. Even after Koutarou showed him, he might never have noticed if Koutarou waan't so pale. "To our minds and memories. No." The very concept goes against what Togusa has known to be true.

[wordcarvings]

“But that you try is good.” Without trying, once can’t change when one wants to. And a lot of people want to change but do nothing to do so. Koutarou was stuck in that sort of life before, he knows how hard it can be to try properly.

Koutarou glances down on their hands, and he probably sees the slight change in color his veins has taken better than Togusa. He’s certainly been stuck looking at them plenty of times. “Yeah, I suppose so. No matter what we’re still who we are, at the core.” But are they? He’s ‘remembered’ some weird things, that really does make him wonder. He doesn’t want to change, though. He’s finally at a point in life that he likes. And he doesn’t want Togusa to change completely, either.

[standalonehuman]

Togusa closes his eyes and nods. Maybe he needed the confirmation out of Koutarou, the idea that someone agrees with him, rather than this nonsense that Retrospec is trying to sell them. He squeezes Koutarou's hand once. "We've got a job to do. We've got to get back out there and clean this mess up. I just hope that Retrospec will hold up their end of the bargain. Bring everyone back." He really doesn't want to think about what he would do if Retrospec failed them.

[wordcarvings]

Well, it is nonsense in the end. Isn’t it? It has to be. It better be. “If they don’t... I don’t know what we could do. But we have to try.” There are far too many people at risk of not being returned, if they do nothing at all.