TEAM COGNAC LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM COGNAC

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 Cognac roster: Allen Walker, Aradia Megido, Fai D. Flourite, Fuuka Yamagishi, Grell Sutcliffe, Laurent, Mafuyu Kurosaki, Mako, Mohammed Abdul, Pitou, Prompto Argentum, Roronoa Zoro, Tsurumaru Kuninaga. 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? > cognac CONFIRMED. TEAM COGNAC MISSION PARAMETERS? PLEASE BE ADVISED SYSTEM ENERGY LEVELS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. > make contact with sysadmin > contact point entrance 8 > 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 COGNAC 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 Cognac's access point is in the Recollé Subway System. Team members will find they can travel further in the subway system so long as they approach it in a group of two or more team members. Only Team Cognac team members can see or enter the subway system sublevels at this time. Please see the Objective 1 toplevel for more information on what they can see when they travel further down the tunnels. This is the Team Cognac 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 Cognac is as follows: WEEK 1: Objective 1; CLEAR (M. Mahoney); Maurice WEEK 2: Objective 2; Team 1 IC briefing; Team 2 IC briefing 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!

Comments

[livingdeadgirl]

I- I couldn't! I literally couldn't do that until just now!

[Of the three of them, Ami herself is the one most freaked out by this turn of events. Her mind's starting to jump to what this means. She doesn't like fighting, especially not like Zoro and Mafuyu seem to. And more importantly, she doesn't want to like fighting. That's not the kind of person she is!

... Right?

She tries to shake that line of thought from her head.]

A-anyway, what are you trying to do? [She may not have been at the Team 1 briefing.]

[stopbleeding]

It's gonna become a thing.

[helpful. he gives Ami one last pat on the shoulder before skidding down the crater.]

You find it yet? Maybe we should hit it with its arm.

[buncho]

[ ...Okay, yeah, Mafuyu pries the golem's fingers apart and hefts the arm up over her shoulder and starts bludgeoning the golems' body with his own arm.

With the spikes and impossibly hard rock covering, it starts to crumble, kicking dust up into the air and maybe stop Mafuyu from shattering their last sigil because she's not paying attention to what she's smashing, she's just getting revenge for her beloved burger place. ]

[livingdeadgirl]

[Yeah it's pretty clearly dead if it's suffering such a rapid loss of structural integrity. But then again, if Mafuyu can lift that arm she's got to be really freaking strong. Ami hesitantly follows them into the ... crater (holy shit, it left a crater) and hefts the nearest chunk, which happens to be its head, which fell off at some point.]

What are you guys looking for?

[... Huh, its mouth is hanging open a little. And there's something gleaming inside ... Ami pokes at the jaw a little, but she's understandably leery of putting her hand inside its mouth.]

Is this it?

[stopbleeding]

[zoro scrambles over to see it.]

Isn't this just it's tooth? [It is not a tooth. It is a jagged gray crystal that is Definitely the sigil. zoro moves aside so mafuyu can get a glimpse of it.]

What do you think? Tooth or sickle?

[He means sigil.]

[buncho]

[ Mafuyu reaches inside its mouth and yanks out a tooth. One of the regular teeth; she sticks this in her back pocket just in case she needs another weapon, one can never have enough weapons. Then she wrenches out the actual sigil tooth and holds it up to show the other two— grey, sort of translucent. ]

This is it! I think this is it— the last one! Now we can go tell Maury!

[livingdeadgirl]

[Come on Mafuyu don't break our perfect record of no lost limbs...

Ami drops the head off to the side and leans in for a closer look at the sigil tooth. This rock is shiny, it must be important to our quest.]

So that's good?

[stopbleeding]

Yeah. Maury wants it for some reason.

[It's so... ugly.] The others glowed. You sure it shouldn't glow?

[buncho]

Uh.

[ Mafuyu takes her— actually, she reaches over to use the hem of Zoro's shirt to buff the golem spit off the tooth, is it glowy enough now?? ]

He said after we get all of them, it'll blow up all the other monsters in the district or something! Let's get back to the subway— there's probably a mailbox nearby and he can mail us the rest of the sigils.

[livingdeadgirl]

Oh! That's good.

[NO MORE MONSTERS sounds like a win to her tbh!]

Huh. And I assume that that somehow takes less than three to five business days?