tpayne 001 📑 after the mission

[stayonscript]

A resounding success (if a bit of a nail-biter) from our agents on the ground in Finland tonight — the node has been deactivated. Now forgive me for jumping straight into business. If I'd had a single moment of free time I would've organized a ticker tape parade for you all, but as it is celebrations will have to wait.

The Veil Taper Protocols are almost ridiculously effective. We're seeing excellent levels of mental stabilization in the population. The only observed side effect thus far is some short-term memory loss. This is a landmark shift in the paradigm of our efforts against the Architects.

Although there's still some polishing to be done, I think we're ready to begin to set our sights on grander goals. And I'd like to think very big indeed. It'll be easy enough to evacuate a couple thousand people to our existing strongholds, but eventually we'll need to deal with a large city — New York or London, for example. I think we should begin planning for this sort of mission immediately even if it may be a ways off yet for us practically speaking.

On a less serious note I'd also like to discuss Bishop's choice of theme song. Not that I have anything against Rage Against the Machine, of course, but I see a lot of room to play in the aesthetic space. Maybe The Runaways next time?

Comments

[arasch]

He is so predictive in music.

[stayonscript]

Some things never change.

[chemveil]

How far away do you think that big city business is?

[stayonscript]

The technology could be ready with one more trial mission. What we'll really need is strength in numbers.

[reidings]

Proud of the work we did tonight. A bigger city is going to be a lot of work but I think we have the right people to execute.

Maybe you can have a chat with him about the music? Respectfully of course.

[adrii]

Right people, maybe, but not resources.

[jaxsons]

Me and my team always do our best, but yeah: We need better resources for the big cities. We can't free them from the Veil and lead them to a worse life.

[stayonscript]

I'm happy to take him a list of suggestions. Do you have anything you'd want to put on there?

[jetting]

Pass on theme songs.

[philiip]

What if we did a monthly poll?

[jaxsons]

C'mon, Eli. We all need a hype song every once in a while.

[griiff]

Aw, I thought we agreed your was Eye of the Tiger!

[agueyegrey]

But then how will you know when you're supposed to be revvin' up your engine, and listen to her howlin' roar?

[adrii]

I think we should cut Bishop out of music choices entirely.

I think there's still some tweaks we can make to the protocols to reduce after effects, but this was a good start.

[loculus]

I almost missed his choices, it's like a game of Russian Roulette with my eardrums.

[stayonscript]

If you want to tell him he's lost his DJ privileges, be my guest. I'm catching flies with honey.

I agree. If there are any changes my team can make on our end, of course let us know. If it's down to adjusting the neuroclast I'm afraid the burden falls to you.

[dochenka]

Good work to everyone.

[murphyy]

thanks.

[oneirophrenic]

Congratulations to everyone involved.

I don't disagree that we should be thinking about scale. But is it not overambitious to set our sights on the largest metropolitan areas while a nontrivial portion of the population still suffers psychological collapse when a node is destroyed? Even a small percentage of London or New York is a great many people.

[adrii]

I hate agreeing with you, but here we are.

[stayonscript]

That's what the polishing is for.

[philiip]

How effective, quantitatively?

[adrii]

0 fatalities
250 experiencing some sort of memory recall issues
15 experiencing catalepsy
335 experiencing headaches/seizures/mild brain bleeds from the severing

[loculus]

That was the most exciting Welcome Back party yet.

[stayonscript]

I'd hate for you to be bored on your first evening back.

[cjacobs]

Impressive work.

[stayonscript]

Thank you. I'm very proud of my team.

[smonk]

It really was a resounding success. I'm glad we pulled it off.

[stayonscript]

It's very gratifying to see the fruits of our labors.