(BACKDATED) DAY 36

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[ Hello, friends - have a polite knock on your mental doors. ]

( Sam and me did some more digging on Ngozi trying to work out her angle in all of this. Pretty sure we can rule her out as a secret H+H1 fanatic - whatever's making her act extra shifty seems like it started around the first bombing at the warehouse.

That's about when Ven started acting awfully cagey too. ) [ But they couldn't get past his security to find out what he was hiding thanks to the second bombing.

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( Anyway - I've got the holo-things and articles on a screen out in the living room if you wanna take a poke at them. )

(( OOC: More detailed info is here! ))

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( Hi - ) [ sorry for the short introductions, give him a sec - ]

( Ahtaliah Ven's company is Ven Diagrams, they're one of the big producers of all that personal tech Opians got. One of his warehouses was bombed about a month ago. He put out a reward for any information about the culprits, but then took it down and never mentioned the reward again. Half of us went to break into his headquarters to find out what he might've found that he didn't want to share. They had to leave in a hurry - that was when the second bombing happened.

Ngozi's the Public Security Commissioner for the city. Back at the vigil for the Regal Street Bombing Sam Alexander picked up with his power that she was holding something back about the investigation. )

[shiro2hero]

(And... now you think the commissioner isn't connected to this H+H1 anymore? What did he pick up, do you know?)

(Do we think the bombings had anything to do with the original break-in?)

sorry for all this info dumping sjkgb

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( Sam figured that she wasn't being completely straight whenever she mentioned that they didn't know who the bombers were, but he couldn't tell if it was because she was lying or something else about the way she was wording it throwing off his powers. He was pretty sure she wasn't being honest about working hard to catch the guys, though.

Don't think so. The target at Regal Street looked like it was supposed to be Kun-Kun, this Bout It Out player that's been forced into the pro-synth spotlight. )

IT'S OKAY, HE ASKED

[shiro2hero]

(Maybe someone was threatening her to keep her quiet about their identities. For whatever reason. I'm just throwing things out here -- I haven't been here long enough to say anything for certain.)

(Forced into?)

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( Honestly, we haven't made all that much progress in a month. We could use fresh eyes looking at all of this.

He made some pro-synth comments and the media latched onto it. After that a hacker leaked a bunch of stuff about him giving money to Mind Life under a false name.

That's why the rest of us went to the match at Regal Street - we were trying to talk with him and get in with Mind Life. )

[shiro2hero]

(I'll do what I can, then.)

(Trying to find out why he'd be donating money or just find out about the group in general?)

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( About the group in general. We thought offering Mind Life some support might've helped balance things out. )

[ The level of 'support' differed between Hosts. ]

[shiro2hero]

(Did you ever manage to get in touch with them?)

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( Sam Alexander and Lexa were working on that. They'd be able to tell you more. )

[shiro2hero]

(That's the second time someone's pointed me to Lexa. But I still haven't met her yet.)

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( She's - ) [ Lexa's features form in his mind, a portrait ] ( Lexa's been here as long as I have.Over a month on Concordia, and about another month or so with the Nest before that. )

[shiro2hero]

(Got it. Now I know who I'm looking for.)

(How long have you been here?)

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( Thirty-six days on Concordia.

What'd you think of the Station? )

[shiro2hero]

(I didn't see enough of it to make an opinion. They dropped us off here pretty fast.)

(... I don't mind it here, though. Weird mind-links aside.)

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( I think they used to have a lot more of us, that's why there's a rush. ) [ Getting people straight from the pod to the mission. ]

( Takes a lot of getting used to. )

[shiro2hero]

Used to... Something happen before we got here?)

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( I don't know. But there's a lot of leftover stuff back at the Station. )

[shiro2hero]

(The station is where we woke up. Right? The place with the white pods?)

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( Yeah. Did you meet Catheway or the Prince? )

[shiro2hero]

(I... didn't, no.)

(I wasn't in the best frame of mind for looking up information.)

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( Hard to concentrate with all that noise in your head? )

[shiro2hero]

(Among other things, yeah.)

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( Well, if you've got any other questions, I don't mind answering. )

[ Best he can. ]

[shiro2hero]

(Thank you. If I can think of anything else, I'll let you know.)