Audio; un: belova + un: felix

[laviny]

Hey good news everyone, Bracken didn’t kill us.

Although I'm fairly certain it would have been Fyna that would've done most of the killing... she sounded really disappointed when she didn't get to take us out.

Okay, yeah good point. I think she was mad I didn't flirt with her.

I said I was sorry. Next time the bartender shows interest I'll make certain to leave you to it.

[There was a pause as if one of them might get on with the post's actual intention and then suddenly Yelena breaks the silence with a blunt counter injection:]

You did not. You have not said sorry once this whole time.

What? Oh, god, really? I am sooooooo forgetful about those sorts of things. Remind me later. I meant it. Really, it was implied.

Right. I will believe it when I hear it. Well, I just- Whatever. Anyway... We found Zandr and the orb. He has it.

Right. Business. Bracken and Fyna--the two mercenaries monopolizing the ghost matter weapons on the black market--introduced us to Zandr after we convinced them we're here to help. He-

He's contracted it so ghost matter doesn't kill people while he does science, but he'll give it to us when he is done. So we need to help him figure out his science things.

[Another pause stretches on for a little too long before Felix makes a low grunt of pain as Yelena prods him (literally) into saying the next segment.]

Just making sure you were finished... He said anyone who knows their way around particle alteration would be useful to figuring out the solution to the ghost matter problem. He wants to get completely rid of it. So, time to get your thinking caps on, dear doctors and gentle scientists, you've got useful shit to do.

He told us which planet his lab is on but he has things to set up before we go to him. He will tell us when and how to get to him...

...so we're not caught being stupid about it and can get to him safely.

Don't do that. Do what? We are not finishing each other's sentences. It’s creepy. Don't do that. Fine, whatever. Did we cover everything? Yes. Or they will ask questions and we will answer.

Do you all have any questions? We are helping them now, like Dr. Wizard Strange said. [And that was final as far as she was concerned.]


[[ooc: hey, here we go! all this comes from their search request here. this post is up for a free-for-all discussion of information in the comments. replies may be from either Yelena or Felix or both.]]

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audio; un: felix

[swordandshield]

Nice lead. [As close to thanks as he's ever going to get.] Kill people. They kill people. Yeah, that's what they're doing. Keeping the weapons out of the hands of criminals and non-Federation members.

The scientists here seem to think it's always been around. Ping Newton, it was in his recording.

[recklessenough]

[ The genuinely childish side of Lockwood wants to get his back up at what sounds like another patronizing comment. The mature side of Lockwood tells his other self to sit down, shut up and take Felix's comment at face value. They'd worked as a team, which was how it was supposed to work and now the whole team had important information.

And they knew where the orb was.

And ... they seemed to have more questions than answers.

Lockwood genuinely tries to keep up with all the scientific double talk, as well as more information coming in across the devices. Eventually he is forced to set his device down and go make a cup of tea, before he picks up again. Giving up on trying to trace all the nuances, he asks the question that keeps cropping up. ]

Where's the money?

That is how things like this always play out. [ Something he is slowly coming to realize about his own situation back home. ] Someone, somewhere is using ghost matter, and the suffering attached to it, to make money and or hold on to power. Has anyone on the team tried to follow the money?

[swordandshield]

Not money.

The Federation use the devices to subdue powered individuals in other regions of this galaxy. So power. The weapons are being used to hold onto power. [Law and order, but let's face it that's the same thing where governments were concerned. Especially in Felix's mind.]

The mercs are probably supporting Zandr through bounties and other work. The Federation is the only one using the ghost matter weapons you're so concerned about. According to our Intel, the Feds don't sell the weapons to anyone but keep it for their own forces that go up against powered criminals. Supposedly.

[recklessenough]

There's always money. [ His tone holds way more jaded world weariness than one might expect from a seventeen year old kid. ]

It may be behind the power, but somewhere there is big money at play. Someone is getting rich off those suffering from the struggle with ghost matter, and I'm willing to lay odds that more than a few someone are playing both sides against the middle.

[ Does he have experience with that at home? Is he maybe a little bias? Maaayyybe. But he also genuinely believes he's right. ]