// net.work

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. ]

[As much as Hermann would prefer to type this all down into a text format, some things are better said than written.

The voice of a soft-spoken man with a posh British accent comes online. Although there is a bit of grit to his voice, almost as if he were yelling at the top of his lungs for the past decade.

He clears his throat.]

Pardon the intrusion. I know many of you are…preoccupied at the moment. This will only take a couple of moments of your time. I’ll do my best to be as brief as possible.

My name is Dr. Hermann Gottlieb. I’m an engineer and physicist with the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. While I don’t have an immediate solution to our…current predicament. [A pause. While others can’t see it, he is clenching a fist to keep his nerves in one place.] My hope is that we take this opportunity to take pause and inventory of our current and unique team.

[Another pause for him to take a breath. Almost there, Gottlieb.]

Kurt Gödel once speculated that there cannot be a universal mathematical theory to prove every phenomenon. That there is no single method to determine what can be proven and what is true.

[He bites the bottom of his lip. Hopefully, some people are following along.]

Let’s consider the statement “This statement is unprovable.” If the sentence can be proven, then this becomes an attempt to prove a falsehood. Our only option then is that the sentence is unprovable. Hence, we have a sentence that exists as both unprovable and true.

This does not prove mathematics to be an incomplete art. No, far from it. What it illustrates is that there is no one theory to explain the numerical truth value in “This statement is unprovable.”

[A beat.]

…Numbers do not lie. On the contrary, they have a way of revealing an infinite amount of truths about the universe. Which makes the human language even more fascinating. Existing in a state of truth and contradiction. Using them to create bonds with one another or… put distance from each other.

As a team, we should…at least attempt to know each other better. So that we can all play to our strengths and cover our vulnerabilities.

I believe you’ve all been acquainted with my colleague, Dr. Geislzer. He’s reminded me of one activity for us all to partake in: Two Truths and a Lie. A simple game, really. Make three statements about yourself and leave it to the group or individual to determine which is the lie.

Hopefully, this should serve as…a refresher. To refocus ourselves on the events to come.

…Thank you.

[So yeah! Hermann is proposing a game of Two Truths and a Lie as a team-building exercise. Feel free to treat this like a meme thread where you thread jack and all that fun stuff! Or just make fun of Hermann for being so long-winded.

He’ll probably have a hard time actually engaging in the game he’s proposing so he might need a little encouragement in that department!]