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.

[chemveil]

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

[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.

[jetting]

Pass on theme songs.

[adrii]

Right people, maybe, but not resources.

[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.

[philiip]

What if we did a monthly poll?

[dochenka]

Good work to everyone.

[jetting]

Still a no, P.

[philiip]

Biannual?

[jaxsons]

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

[jetting]

Only if the choices are “no” and “hell no.”

[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.

[jetting]

I’ll give a thumbs up.

[murphyy]

thanks.

[jaxsons]

Always can depend on an Eli McLeod Thumbs Up.

[philiip]

Biennial is my final offer, and we won't even tell you when the poll goes live.

[jetting]

It’s a small base. You know I’ll still find out.

[jetting]

If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.

[philiip]

Espionage will run it. You'll never know.

[jetting]

No matter what, it still results in music being played.

[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.

[dochenka]

Were you hurt?

[philiip]

How effective, quantitatively?

[murphyy]

you c nah, barely been touched.