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[After days and days of being shut in her room both prior to and following the snake statue incident, Audrey is finally done reading back through the network. Classes have naturally taken a chunk of that time, what with finals and the like, but her social life? Pretty much non-existent for a week or so.

What comes over the network now is video from her webcam. It shows Audrey sitting back in her desk chair with a heavy sigh and sitting down a pen with a distinctive clink to the side of her laptop. It appears to be afternoon dipping into dusk, the light spilling across the background of her room coming through window blind slats. Evidently her desk is set up against a window. To the left side of the screen is rows of black bookcases and to the right one can make out the barest edge of the foot end of a bed.

Her eyes, for the second, look off to the side of her laptop where she laid that pen. Her arms cross under her chest - she's dressed down to a plain shirt at the moment. There's a distinct frown settled on the young woman's lips, her brows furrowed. It's clear she's thinking on something, something to do with whatever is to the side of her laptop right then.

Finally, she speaks. At least she knows the webcam is on.]

There are a few things I'm not quite clear on, even after reading back through the network.

[Her brow furrows more there.]

And I don't think it's anything anyone can answer for me right now.

[She seems agitated and uncomfortable. She shifts in her seat, her expression darkens.]

In the rules of a debate, all parties must know the issue they are debating about. A debate can't even begin if that one issue isn't clear. Neither party can move forward, neither party can make arguments or reasonings without knowing what the issue being argued for or against is.

This isn't about police, the Thunder Corporation, snake statues or monsters or anything like that. We're lacking two very basic concepts in order to reach a fair conclusion and in order to have hopes of argument and logical reason.

Who and Why.

After seeing the statue and after the hunts, I can't believe this is simply the work of the police or the Thunder Corporation. So that means there must be another who, doesn't it? Perhaps several of them.

And why. We're all remembering things and feelings things that seem to make no sense so one might conclude it's all simply to awaken those things somehow. If that were the case though, this whole process would be more friendly than hostile, wouldn't it?

[That all said, Audrey is apparently done eyeing a stern hole into the side of her desk and with a big sigh uncrosses her arms and slowly melts into her seat.]

I've thought about all of this way too much.

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The assholes who killed Paul spoke about an invasion that they want to smooth the way for. There's two of your whos right there.

I don't know what's causing these stupid flashbacks though. Not anything from that side.

[Audrey leaves her webcam on for now but she leans forward to type out her reply in the chatbox that's popped up. By this point she's not even phased by the things anymore.]

I must have overlooked that then. My apologies, I'll go back and review later. Then technically there must be three whos.

At least.

And likely three groups. Those invading, those making way for them, and then whatever the heck is causing what's happening to us. Who knows how many people are involved?

[Audrey's expression tightens at that.]

Then we have to figure this out before the invasion. Or at the very least develop some idea of what we're up against.

If we could figure out any way to do that... [[which is the most frustrating part. Where are the helpful quest giving NPCs who explain the plot?! Even tv shows had some sort of exposition at this point!]]

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It would be the "best case scenario". Unfortunately that isn't likely to be in this case.

Yeah.

Kind of annoying, really. We don't even have any hints...

In that case, I would think the best place to begin is with what information we do have and investigate from there.

[She pauses in her typing there. She only vaguely knows this person, chiefly from network posts and the few times they've spoken. He seems level-headed though.]

This would be much simpler of course if we with access to this network could form some sort of collective group. Has this been tried yet, to your knowledge?

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A little deep thinking is probably exactly what this mess needs.

[ Because running in guns blazing went so freaking well, didn't it. :| ]

[A faint smile rises, full of chagrin.]

Maybe. I'm likely not the best one for the task though. Still, I can't seem to help myself.

Has anyone done any basic research on the Thunder Corporation yet?

If not, we should. I can cover information that can be found online but that is likely to be very basic.

I don't believe so. If they have, they haven't mentioned it on here, likely for a good reason. Perhaps my father may know something about them. It almost feels like too many of us are going in too many different directions really.

face='courier'>Or everyone was too focused on the police to think to look into them. A business is going to have information online. The only time they do not is if they are very small or not legitimate and that fact alone would be telling.

I'll see what I can find.

[Reasonable to assume they shared contact info from the last log? If so, Tamara will send over what she finds via email which is all given here complete with documentation of URLs where she found it all.]

[Definitely reasonable! It takes Audrey a few more hours to look over this new information and by the time she is in contact again, it's text alone. It's much too late in the evening and she's feeling far too rough for the camera.

She's learning to make a mean pot of coffee though.]

They seem like a rather mundane company, don't they.

It's almost certain that Thunder Corp and the cops are a front for something much bigger.

I dunno what we're dealing with, exactly, but it's huge, and it's mean.

The Thunder Corporation, the cops, this invasion and likely something else... something bringing up these flashbacks.

[Back to that frowning, back to those furrowed brows.]

You're right though, it must be something large. Large enough to have this sort of impact on people. And large enough to make the rest of us... remember things? Or hallucinate them perhaps.

These aren't hallucinations. Or, well, I dunno what they are, but something here is real. Lots of us have gotten physical changes as well as these... visions.

What sorts of physical changes?

If this is really what everyone's saying it is, I don't think there are any strict rules we can try to apply to it. Not when it's so one-sided.

[ Rules would make this a lot less messy, in theory, but that's a grace they don't currently have. Breaking it down logically isn't really his forte though, and it shows.

Being not nearly so composed, Banagher's got several hours worth of notes and papers dispersed around his desk and all over his laptop keyboard. Quietly, an airy piano tune drifts in the background, through a closed door. ]

...You look exhausted. How long have you been at this, anyway?

Maybe not strict rules, no. Even basics though will help in forming some organized way to figure this out.

[Audrey pauses at the question, glances past the laptop presumably out the window behind it, then presses a hand against her forehead.]

I'm not sure. Since I came home the other day, I think.

That long? [ Brushing some of his classwork aside, he folds his hands into the crooks of his elbows and leans forward, gaze imploring. ] Don't you want a break?

[ Then, not wanting to discount her efforts, he amends: ]

I know this is important. For all of us. But it's not going to hurt to remember yourself now and again.

[She can't help but find some amusement in that last bit. She can appreciate the concern and her expression says as much but there's something almost sarcastic to her tone of voice.]

Believe me, I think of myself plenty.

[Too much, honestly. Too much for her tastes anyhow. The next bit comes out quieter.]

That's why I started reading back through everything after all.

[ Guess who is Not Deterred. ]

Still seems like you're trying to help everyone, to me.

[Her brows raise a bit at that. She doesn't precisely look surprised though, more curious.]

And what if I'm simply doing so for my own good? Perhaps I'm attempting to find information not to inform others but to protect myself through others.

[ Banagher backs away, a little chastised. Not necessarily because he hadn't thought of it, or that it might be true, but... ]

I didn't get that kind of impression from you at all.

[ And he still doesn't.

But he gets that blurting out "You didn't feel that way" might not be his smartest move, so he refrains. ]