[ AGGREGATE INFOSHARE ] AUDIO | UN: 354.204-S

[bijective]

Pardon the interruption, but perhaps now is a good time as any to parse through our current intelligence. I’ve offered a simple template of questions to get the ball rolling, so to speak—

- What/Where/Who have you investigated?
- What do we know from said investigation?

I believe these should be clear-cut to answer. Now, I may lack the proper rigorous experience like the lot of you. But it would be to our benefit to double-check the unmarked areas within this town.

[ ooc: assume this is around the second week into the mission. before all hallow's day and all that jazz. the goal is to see if there are any opportunities for potential search request baton passes and piecing what we know so far! so go forth! thread hop. be merry. ]

Comments

[gusurules]

It is not unknowable. It was clear in it's communication. We offered it aid and it decided to attack and threaten us. It enjoys the chaos it is causing and does not with for it to end.

[dr_unconscious]

I'm not going to put those kinds of words in its mouth.
If it even has a mouth.
Its orb speaking apparatus.

[Even if it...explicitly said them...listen, ]

See, that's exactly my point - we're making all kinds of assumptions about what this orb wants and what it's getting out of it, but it's so far from being human that I'm not sure we can.
Or even humanoid. Or living in the technical sense. What does something like this really feel like it needs to survive and be happy?

[gusurules]

You are also making assumptions: that it cannot be understood, that its motivations are mysterious, that the words it has spoken and the actions it has undertaken somehow have different meaning to it than it does do us despite the clarity of them.

It spoke mind to mind. With both words and visions. They were not vague.

[dr_unconscious]

Ok, I'll admit that visions are a different animal.
It gave you direct intent that it wanted to hurt us, for its amusement?

[gusurules]

I have already told you what it said. The visions were related to it's wish to remain.

[dr_unconscious]

Then that sounds like self-defense. Or self-preservation.

[gusurules]

No.

[dr_unconscious]

[Clayton can recognize that this conversation is becoming unproductive for both of them, even though he wants to stubbornly continue arguing. He pushes the message away with a lot of effort and leaves Wangji on read.]