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Mordin Solus ([personal profile] testsonseashells) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2014-02-02 05:02 pm

text | FAQ 3.0

Version 3.0

Have found this network because of a string of numbers that you cannot forget. Aside from being able to connect through standard electronic devices, number can establish connection by being punched into fax machines and on sheets of paper, as well as being scratched onto walls. Memory of number is usually accompanied by alteration: discovery of a new memory, item, or physical change. Network members have dubbed these "Echoes" or “Pulses”; will likely continue into foreseeable future. Network not visible to those without connection; observing civilians will see blank pages or device equivalent.

If skeptical about this, write network number on piece of paper. Will understand afterward.

Essential information:


Police once untrustworthy in past; suggest caution in future dealings. Conspiracy once present within police leadership to eliminate network members, led primarily by Detective Jason Sherman and Police Chief Simon Edwards. Small number of policemen are connected to network themselves, and not all were under Sherman's influence, but suggest you err on the side of caution. Corrupt police willing to execute teenagers (video evidence). Network members Raoul Light, Mikasa Bito and Candy Rodriguez disappeared recently, haven't been found since; general suspicion is that police were responsible. Additionally, police were using breed of dog with ability to detect Network members. Recommended you avoid these as well.

LSR clinic can provide safe medical help and will not report anything to the authorities. Located here and run by myself, Dr. Mordin Solus ([personal profile] testsonseashells) and Dr. Aaron Strider. Strider not currently connected himself, but aware of our existence and sympathetic to cause. Can examine physical echoes and provide treatment options, if necessary. Assure you full confidentiality.

Echoes and Network numbers persist only within Locke City and small zone of Las Vegas; can disappear randomly even within city limits. Leaving Locke or designated Vegas area will cause all memories of the network and any Echoes to disappear. Evidence is here. Returning to Locke or Vegas area generally causes Echoes to return.

Thunder Corp working with police; appear to be furthering other goals of those who command Sherman and Edwards. Responsible for pink additive in water during summer.

Thunder and police working with alien known as Tiny; established contact with Tiny here; claimed to have controlled Earth in past and are now returning to repossess it. Tiny compared enemy forces to gardeners, us to rose thorns.

Complete timeline of significant events:


2013

NOTE: all events occur in Locke unless otherwise noted. Events occurring elsewhere have location appended in square brackets.

March 31st: pink aurora shines in sky of Locke City.
April 1st: first network post; likely date of network inception.
April 3rd: small black organisms called vermini infect local animals, cause them to become highly aggressive.
April 5th: Paul Ben killed by Simon Edwards (again, video evidence); evidence suggests family killed and house burned down by Vincent Albero.
April 9th: network member Jack Sears framed for murder of Ben and family.
April 10th: vermini determined to have stopped appearing since Monday, April 8th.
April 11th: Thunder places first snake statue in Dead District.
April 20th: group of network members attempt to scout Dead District in response to sightings of “werewolves”; encountered and fought off rabid humans exhibiting canine features in bulletproof vests; reports faded shortly afterwards.
April 27th: snake statue in Dead District demolished by network members.
May 6th: Hugh P. Thudson Gallery of Fine Art opens new exhibit featuring three statues made of same material as Thunder's snake statue. Third statue, of impaled wolf, has inscribed link which leads to webforum.
May 9th: Forum goes live (cached copy); force behind police and Thunder claimed their superiors owned Earth in past and they were tasked with reclamation. Recommend you search page for “garden”.
June 15th: Proud, architect of statues, revealed to have obtained material from local mine. Mine investigated by network team. Man claiming to be “Sage of Earth” discovered. Claimed we had been selected to defend Earth from invaders; asked us to find one of “Seven Gems of Earth” further within mine and “forge the seal” in order to halt invasion. Later revealed to be lying. Mine collapsed; attacked by vermini-infested bats and larger creature dubbed “vermedi”.
Mid-June: Vermini appear for nebulous period; difficult to locate precise dates.
August 2nd: water tainted with pink fluid which induces laughing
August 18th: tainted water leaked to media; company forced to halt actions. Hacking of Thunder email accounts reveals Sage to be fraud; Thunder searching instead for something called “Target 1”.
September 15th: Water supply officially clean. Thunder denies responsibility.
September 21st: pink aurora reappears, accompanied by low buzzing sound heard only by members of network. Buzzing grows stronger with proximity to Tuning Towers. Civilians also undergo short periods of unfocused haziness and docility.
September 26th: Team follows captured vermedi to abandoned jail functioning as storage facility outside city. Discovers names of vermini and vermedi, as well as fact that creatures called Vermaxi also existed. Thought to be at least twelve feet tall. Report.
October 15th: Animate snake statues found in Dead District. Aggressive.
October 23rd: Majority of Dead District leveled by bombs. Blamed on eco-terrorists.
October 31st: Vermaxi attacks Halloween party hosted by network member Rachel Roth. Network members forced Vermaxi to flee.
November 11th: Network members Octavia Serket and Alan Hunter break into Tuning Towers. Arrested, broken out by team from network. Now laying low within city.
November 16th: Surya leads expedition into sewers; team discovered vein of pink rock below city and excavation machinery within Tuning Towers basement.
November 14th: David Proud discovered within subway tunnel, carving more animate statues. Was mentally unstable, afraid of entity he called “No One”.
November 27th: Proud captured after excursion into sewers.
December: New gang called Blood Keys appears on perimeter of Dead District. Found to be heavily augmented with cybernetics. Highly aggressive. Faster and stronger than normal humans.
December 3rd: Pair of network members attempt to investigate vein of rock below city; attempt caused recent earthquake. Buzzing stopped.
December 6th: Network police reveal motives of corrupt policemen here.
December 11th: Blood Keys stage attack on LSR clinic. Casualties include one patient, non-network. All Blood Keys killed.

2014

January: Blood Key activity down after clinic attack and various other incidents.
January 10th: Network cop reveals that cops are being modified with animal DNA at a farmhouse outside of town. Additionally, death of network member Miki Kaoru caused by corrupt policeman.
January 25th: Meeting to plan excursion to farmhouse interrupted by snake statue attack; network members fought them off, but David Proud killed in chaos.
March 9th: Network attack on farmhouse commences; alien, residing within farmhouse destroyed after fleeing to Locke. Event presumed to trigger emergence of enormous snake statue capable of spawning smaller ones. Rampage caused hundreds of casualties. Snake statue eventually destroyed by network team.
March 9-22nd: Most major charges against Network members dropped. FBI begins to investigate events of snake assault. Public begins to discuss events witnessed during attack.
March 23rd: pink aurora shines in sky above Las Vegas. [VEGAS]
March 29th: several innocuous items, such as toothpicks, become animate and perform minor acts of mischief in Locke.
April 4th: Vermini found in Las Vegas. May have been there longer.
April 12th: Aliens identifying as Geoff Benwick, Badri Barkley, and Meredith Chownyk; claim that farmhouse alien, dubbed "Tiny", renegade of species; apologize for damage and promise cooperation.
April 13th: Animate items disappear.
April: Arrests and trials of Sherman, Edwards, and other police officers in Locke begin.
April 22nd: Body of Frederick Abbott, 25-year-old college graduate, found in Mandalay Bay Resort's lazy river. Clipping of heliconia flower, also known as "lobster-claw", placed in bullet wound. [VEGAS]
April 30th: Body of Angeline Strauss, network member, found in Bellagio; two katana wedged in gunshot wound to heart; note attached reading "Don't waste this gift." Body found on raft of lobsters and crabs strung together. [VEGAS]
May 2nd: Vermini sightings and encounters increase within Vegas boundary.
May 31st: Animate car causes two casualties before being stopped by Network members acting in concert with Geoff Benwick.
June 1st: Benwick open to questions in City Hall until June 4th, following animate car incident.
June 5th: Body of Thomas Lowry discovered floating on gondola in Venetian Resort's Grand Canal. Heartshot with small mirror wedged into wound; gondola bent and cut to resemble lobster's claw.





Resources:

List of safe public servants. Some connections may be expired.
List of researchers and material suppliers. Some connections may be expired.
Spreadsheet for tracking alterations. Not hosted on network itself, but still fairly safe.
Isaac and Miria Dian ([personal profile] originaloddcouple) willing to provide safehouse at
[ADDRESS]. Useful for those with conspicuous physical alterations.
Tony ([personal profile] sayhitobianca) willing to provide false identifications if necessary.
FAQ version 2.0
FAQ version 1.0

Will keep this updated as necessary. Can notify me if you feel anything missing.


centurian: (human ✮ you're bullshitting me)

[personal profile] centurian 2014-03-01 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Wow, thanks for that, Mordin. One day he'll have a conversation with this guy without getting various echo-pulses. Today is not this day. ]

Yeah, they were called Destroyers. Apparently, they can be taken down by giant giant snake-bug things, which unfortunately doesn't exactly help out current situation.

Unless, a giant snake-bug appeared out of nowhere and started attacking that alien in the farmhouse. Then, we might be in business.
centurian: (human ✮ yeah no)

[personal profile] centurian 2014-03-02 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, this one had definitely been eating its "Thresher Maw" Wheaties, because it looked like it took the guy out without breaking too much of a sweat.

[ and because he's genuinely curious... ]

How do you manage to say so calm about all these echo-pulses? Is it a salarian thing? Because very time I get one, I still feel like everything I know about the universe is crumbling around me.
centurian: (human ✮ really?!?!)

private

[personal profile] centurian 2014-03-03 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Makes sense, I guess.

I think I remember something about that. ...If you don't mind me asking, you said you got some physical echo-pulses back.

Does that include... the whole lifespan thing?


[ Okay, that sounded insensitive, but there was really go good way around it. ]
centurian: (human ✮ you're bullshitting me)

[personal profile] centurian 2014-03-03 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Not to worry about it, Mordin.

After all, I wouldn't want to lose the newfound friendship of the one guy who actually seems to know what's going on with everything. ;)


[ But seriously, his lips are sealed. ]