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hadriel2017-10-04 12:01 pm
firstreturned) wrote in hadriel2017-10-04 12:01 pm
THREE ❢ VIDEO
What a nice welcome after such a long time away. You creatures never disappoint with how angry you get.
[Rage is back, back again. Go ahead, tell a friend. She's giving a nonchalant smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes -- it's hard to be pleased about being well fed when you've just spent six months scouting in enemy territory.
In fact, her face goes to neutral as she picks up again.]
First things first: We don't know for certain how the Null were able to find us, but we did discover at least part of the problem: there's a mole in the cave.
[Her voice goes cold when she makes the statement, and it pretty much stays that way for the rest of this post. Also, no, she wasn't trying to make a pun or a clever reference to the city being underground.]
This is the only way for the Null to consistently be able to chase us through space. [And not just because Fear sucks.] Hope and Sorrow's investigation should turn up more information about that. Would that you'd all voted for me, but like my brethren, I'll defer to your decision.
Second, it would seem your strangely shaped bodies have inspired our pursuers. We found them experimenting with bipedal robotic bodies that move the way you do. By the way, that doesn't exactly help anyone's case here. Clearly, they're finding you useful to a large extent.
[She's suspicious as hell, in effect.]
Finally, the Null's objectives have changed. They've constructed prisons capable of containing us no matter the form we take, and not only that, but they'll be able to use us to power their operations. I know some of you will see this as justice, but before you jump to such a predictable conclusion, consider this: our interference aside, the power my siblings and I gain from you is used to keep you alive and comfortable. We're able to coexist. What the Null want is our absolute confinement for their selfish purposes. Think for a moment about what that means. You all seem to like Delight. How would you feel if someone locked her up in a small space to do whatever they want with her?
[She's angrier now, more emotion in her voice and face. The silence after that question is short, but it's long enough for her anger to cool again.]
The mission was too dangerous for us to obtain more information than that. Given we're actively being betrayed by someone here, I wasn't inclined to share any of this with you, but I suppose it isn't fair to leave all of you in the dark because of one person or small alliance's actions.
[She leaned much more heavily towards not wanting to tell the residents, but Delight would tell them, and Rage is the last person who wants to disappoint Delight at all.]
Consider this a gesture of goodwill.
[With that flat, clipped sentence, she cuts the feed.]
[Rage is back, back again. Go ahead, tell a friend. She's giving a nonchalant smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes -- it's hard to be pleased about being well fed when you've just spent six months scouting in enemy territory.
In fact, her face goes to neutral as she picks up again.]
First things first: We don't know for certain how the Null were able to find us, but we did discover at least part of the problem: there's a mole in the cave.
[Her voice goes cold when she makes the statement, and it pretty much stays that way for the rest of this post. Also, no, she wasn't trying to make a pun or a clever reference to the city being underground.]
This is the only way for the Null to consistently be able to chase us through space. [And not just because Fear sucks.] Hope and Sorrow's investigation should turn up more information about that. Would that you'd all voted for me, but like my brethren, I'll defer to your decision.
Second, it would seem your strangely shaped bodies have inspired our pursuers. We found them experimenting with bipedal robotic bodies that move the way you do. By the way, that doesn't exactly help anyone's case here. Clearly, they're finding you useful to a large extent.
[She's suspicious as hell, in effect.]
Finally, the Null's objectives have changed. They've constructed prisons capable of containing us no matter the form we take, and not only that, but they'll be able to use us to power their operations. I know some of you will see this as justice, but before you jump to such a predictable conclusion, consider this: our interference aside, the power my siblings and I gain from you is used to keep you alive and comfortable. We're able to coexist. What the Null want is our absolute confinement for their selfish purposes. Think for a moment about what that means. You all seem to like Delight. How would you feel if someone locked her up in a small space to do whatever they want with her?
[She's angrier now, more emotion in her voice and face. The silence after that question is short, but it's long enough for her anger to cool again.]
The mission was too dangerous for us to obtain more information than that. Given we're actively being betrayed by someone here, I wasn't inclined to share any of this with you, but I suppose it isn't fair to leave all of you in the dark because of one person or small alliance's actions.
[She leaned much more heavily towards not wanting to tell the residents, but Delight would tell them, and Rage is the last person who wants to disappoint Delight at all.]
Consider this a gesture of goodwill.
[With that flat, clipped sentence, she cuts the feed.]
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The Null have the ability to locate us by way of energy signatures. It's imprecise, but with enough time, they would be able to find us, provided we remained stationary.
You were here when the city was split in two, yes? Fear had to move us again almost as soon as we arrived at the new location because the Null were nearby. [Her glare and voice harden.] It's not possible for them to locate us that quickly by energy signatures. Someone told them where we were going.
So no, it's not as simple as that.
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[He'd been here for that event, although it wasn't too long after he'd returned and so he'd still been kind of readjusting; it makes a lot of sense in hindsight, though, how she's explaining it.]
But it does still uh, narrow things down; at least one person who was giving the Null info was there at that time. Do you um, know for sure if there aren't like... Multiple spies?
[He imagines she isn't sure of that, but he's just being certain they're all on the same page. It also means that he's suddenly concerned about the investigation--more concerned than he already was--because if someone's been hiding their involvement in working with the Null for that long, then they're probably not going to be an obvious person of interest for the gods to focus on investigating.]
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It's possible there's more than one person betraying us, yes.
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[Because that part's strange; most of--if not all, who knows--them had no idea Fear was moving the city at all until the city split happened. How, and who, would not only know about that but also know where Fear's target destination was, and then be able to get that info back to the Null?]
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[He's actually not really sure where to start helping on this.]
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