veilbreak | tpayne 001 📑 after the mission

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?

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you should take him up on that drink.

i said i would. just […] later.

good.

but it's just a drink.

sure it is.

don't think it's that kind of invitation, lo.

for now. we'll see!

be real.

why wouldn't it? you're hot and charming.

[...] i'm charming?

you're friendly and approachable, you're direct, you're competent. you're not socially inept. that's most of what charm is, in my opinion.

well.

you won't be down on yourself on my watch, casper murphy.

i'm not down on myself. i'm just self-aware and shit.

what do you think you're being self-aware about right now?

that nothing's gonna happen there.

if you want something to happen, it could.

[...] it'd be a bad idea anyway.

it would not, but tell me why you think it would be.

hooking up with anyone on the ship is a bad idea. we're too closely quartered here.

life's too short to worry yourself about things like that. the majority of us have chips that could be turned back on at any moment. we could die tomorrow. fuck whoever you want and fuck the consequences.

Edited 2026-01-19 02:19 (UTC)

[...] guess that's true enough.

besides. we are doing a lot for the world here. i think we are entitled to have a little fun, no? and maybe we fuck someone we aren't supposed to or it blows up in our face in some spectacular way, but who cares? what is a little awkwardness in the grand scheme of things? it doesn't matter, really. we all have more important things to worry about.

sure, but we're also living like sardines in here.

unless you are hoping he asks for your hand in marriage, i think a little no strings attached sex is harmless.

cala.

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