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Satsuki Kiryuin | Saretha Kaiser [StE AU] ([personal profile] purestambition) wrote in [community profile] raisetheearth2015-10-02 01:12 am

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[Saretha sits, calmly, observing the camera as she has many times before.]

Network. It's been awhile.

[Saretha may have never lost her Numbers, but she's not exactly been talkative on the Network of the last many months. She's kept up with Raye and certain others, but... most of her attention has been on business matters. On reconstruction and charity and public talks. Even if you haven't met her before, at this point in time, you have likely seen Saretha Kaiser at some point.

She's made damned sure of it.]


I will cut straight to the point - last week, a select amount of Numbered were contacted by an individual claiming to be from Thunder Corporation.

[No, she. Really didn't tell anyone she was doing this, besides alluding to her intention there to Lazarus.]

This person, a scientist evidently, does not appear to be Numbered. In fact, the claim in the private message is that he had created a means of contacting the Network one-way.

Much like they were able to harness the energies of the earth for Project Jump, he further claimed that they are developing a means of tracking us. Anywhere. He indicated that he used this same method to find people to leak information to, and that Thunder Corporation's means of tracking us was about to "run out", but I don't know how reliable that is.

[She leans into the camera.] I am aware some of you have been contacted by them in the last week, as well. It is a strange coincidence, is it not? If you are new or naive enough to not know better, did you question how it was they found you?

Thunder Corporation has always been our enemy. They plagued Locke City. They helped unearth the snake that nearly destroyed that city, setting off a chain of events wherein we nearly helped seal our own fates by killing the Guardian Animals that litter this planet. They allied themselves and ushered in the off worlders who nearly slaughtered us all. The Vermini, and their larger iterations, were known to migrate around their hidden activity...

For us, as Numbered, they have never done anything but seek to undermine us, work against us. They cannot kill us in the streets, but they can do the next best thing. Their wealth, their influence, their alliances, those are what keeps them afloat.

The scientist in this message continued to warn us, saying that they are responsible for what has occurred lately - the green slime, the dinosaurs, something in New Zealand... that slime evidently is the snakes, somehow - before he was promptly taken. Seemingly murdered.

Before then, he said something else was coming. That they have... "broken" something.

Now... it is quite possible this is all a ruse. Something, combined with the approaches, to try and set us against one another. The timing is damning, but it could also all be true. To be honest, I cannot say which is which - only that I have little doubt they are up to something which cannot possibly end well for us.

We cannot attack them outright. That will only hurt us more. We must investigate, look into just what they are doing. That way we can reveal the truth, and perhaps drag them into the daylight.

As a private Network message, of course... I have no means of actually showing it to you. But there are those who can corroborate my words, should they wish to speak out, should my own words not be enough.

[She leans back, tilting her head up.]

Tread carefully. We are stepping back into very dangerous territory, all of us.
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[personal profile] solvethepuzzle 2015-10-03 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[It really is dangerous ground. Every single thing they do is a risk. What he's already done . . . no, allowed is a tremendous one that he isn't quite sure he should have. And he can't talk about it. He'd already decided, for now at least, not to. It's a terrifying thing for him to do.]

[And on some level, so is this.]
I offer up myself as another who was contacted through this informant, and can corroborate that this communication did indeed occur and this is what we were told.
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[personal profile] switch_over 2015-10-03 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, at least someone decided to speak up about all that. I was starting to think I'd have to do it.

[...Which she really had no intention of doing.]
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[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-10-03 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
And here I figured everything was settled now that no one wanted to blow us all up anymore. Serves me right.

You're right about that.
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[personal profile] mangata 2015-10-04 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ A method so chosen to show off the short hair and lack of eyepatch. There appears to be some kind of urban landscape around her. ]

Ah, of course. Was there anyone who really trusted them, given what they've done in the past? I suppose it is worth noting that they are still quite wholly ruthless.
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[personal profile] twinkletwinklesuperstar 2015-10-04 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm... yeah. There was something kinda... off about him but he still didn't give off the whole supervillain vibe, y'know? Actually, I think he was a fan.

[There's a thoughtful pause for a beat, before she adds.]

Oh, I said no in case you're wondering. Offer wasn't good enough.
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[personal profile] brotimaeus 2015-10-04 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, great. Just what we all needed, right?

[He rubs his face for a moment, frowning.]

Hope no one's been stupid enough to think they can trust these bastards. They could sell us all out without even meanin' any harm.
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[personal profile] charcoalfeather 2015-10-05 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.... of course it was all a lie.

[Rakka shook her head.]

I can't believe they would ever make an attempt on us like that....
Edited 2015-10-05 06:21 (UTC)
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[personal profile] dictator_ko 2015-10-06 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, fine. But I'm a pretty good actor. [Or at least she thinks she is.]
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[personal profile] oncedevil 2015-10-06 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I was hopeful. Considering we went to all the trouble to shove ourselves out in the middle of nowhere to avoid everyone.

[A heavy sigh.]

So much for the war being over.
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[personal profile] solvethepuzzle 2015-10-07 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Nathan isn't all that much younger than Saretha, really. But so many aspects of him belie that. Even without his lack of stature, childlike features, or the toys he's surrounded himself with over the past year, he still sounds young and there is a fragile impression about him.]

Possibly, though it is interesting so far that there appears to be no overlap in who was contacted by the informant and who was contacted by a recruiter. And still the question of why that is the case, should that hold. It seems like more than chance.
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[personal profile] twinkletwinklesuperstar 2015-10-08 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Uh huh. I'm always happy to meet my fans, but this whole... [vague gesturing] thing kinda ruined that.

[Completely contrary to Saretha's stony, even expression, Kirara grins. It's an easy, very nearly flippant expression.]

He started out okay, but then he started in on all this stuff about how I'd never have to work again blah, blah. Which totally sounds way too good to be true, first of all, and just isn't my style. I happen to like my job.
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[personal profile] charcoalfeather 2015-10-08 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
....Because so many of them don't know what we had to go through with Thundercorp.

[Yeah, that made sense... but something hit her.

Her. they came after her too. But why?

She didn't know, and that was the most troubling.
]
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[personal profile] speedpariah 2015-10-08 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, of course. I'm prepared to do what's in the best interests of everyone. Even if it means making hard or pragmatic decisions. If I do learn anything, I will inform you. But at the same time, if there's anything you can bring to me that could help there, I'd be better served in doing so.

But then, it seems you have already graciously deemed to do so, so I must commend your sense of leadership.
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[personal profile] switch_over 2015-10-09 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
That much I knew. I'm just a little surprised it took it so long to get out. I guess I just expected you people to act a bit faster.

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