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Dislinked ([personal profile] dislinked) wrote in [community profile] veilbreak2026-02-22 10:08 pm
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This evening, at 18:42, Singh discovered one of the Neuroclast subjects in Espionage HQ Sector B. E Watson was aprehended and remanded to the Memory Cradle for interrogation. You can read the incident report here.

Through use of the Fracture Garden, Novak discovered that Watson was a sleeper agent who activated once onboard Mnemosyne. To be clear, this was a targeted, remote triggered agent. Initial screening to bring her aboard did not raise any flags and it is my belief that this could not have been detected beforehand.

Arguably more importantly, Novak uncovered the following information:
• Two node locations: Vuelta Grande, Guatemala and Inhaca, Mozambique

• The names of three other sleeper agents

• The location of an Antarctic bunker. The bunker is believed to contain plans for something unknown that the Architects do not want us to get our hands on. Our disruption of Xitang has intensified their determination.

We'll be launching an immediate investigation into this bunker. Schade, Finotti: you'll be handing off your Sighișoara assignment and deploying on this instead. Hache, Murphy, and Wijk: you'll be accompanying them. Your objective is to retrieve whatever is in that bunker.

Novak, Bhandari, Rojo: you'll be walking the other Neuroclast subjects through the Garden. I don't want any other surprises from them.

NOVAK, SINGH.
Good work.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-23 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
If I said I was surprised at the possibility, I’d be lying. Between that and the plane salvaging, it’ll be busy.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
sometimes it's nice when it's busy, though. easier to keep your mind off things.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-23 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
There are too many things for any of them to serve as a distraction for me right now, but we persist.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
what are you trying to be distracted from?
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-23 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[…] one of the undercover agents that had to be extracted is my Mamá. Eli went for her on Friday and he.

And now Papá is down seeing who they can re-link, and I’m hoping that will be much more uneventful than what’s going on here.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
your mom is an undercover agent?
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
are you losing your mind?
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-23 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Only when I think about it.

She’s been unVeiled almost as long as I’ve been. That’s been hard to reconcile.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
do you think that correlates? it seems like often the chips falter when something happens that [...] inspires an intense emotional response.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-23 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[…] I don’t know. Possibly? I had left for university years before and it wasn’t as though I cut off contact with her entirely.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[…] how are you feeling about the idea of talking to her unveiled?
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-23 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s […] odd. I feel a bit stupid for not realizing she might not have been, though I know that’s the point of being undercover. I want to be glad to have a chance to, and I am, but […]

In my mind, I had assumed she’d only become unVeiled after all this. And now she could be on board in a few weeks.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
you shouldn’t feel stupid for that. impressed, maybe. you have to be very good to fool your own daughter when she’s as smart as you. […] i’m sure it wasn’t an easy choice to maintain her cover when she was so close to being able to talk to you in a real way.

it’s always been comforting to me to think the world may end before i ever have to deal with my problems. […] but it’s probably better to do it. if you can.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-23 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. There were plenty of reasons to not want to talk to me about certain things, even if she’d been allowed to.

You don’t feel they weigh more heavily because there may never be resolution?
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-23 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
plenty of reasons to want to talk to you too, though.

i think maybe the threat of having to deal with them is worse for me than the idea of never doing so.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-24 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I would like a little more time to come around to that.

Do you think it’d go badly?
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-24 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
maybe your dad can delay her arrival somehow.

i’m not sure. it’s hard to imagine anyone i know from […] my life as unveiled. or what that would look like. i’ve only ever known most people under the veil.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-24 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
I’m sure he’d try if he were up here. He was deployed this morning.

Unveiling is a brutal process. It’s hard to predict how anyone could handle it, especially if you’d only known them under it.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-24 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
maybe he’ll be back before she’s sent up.

it’s hard not to und […] exactly.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-24 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Ideally. I don’t think he had enough time to be […] annoyed about it first.

It’s alright to not want to deal with it. But if the opportunity comes up, you probably should.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-24 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
hopefully both of you end up with enough time to process.

if the opportunity comes up, i don’t think i’ll have a choice.
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[personal profile] adequacies 2026-02-24 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Alternatively, I could just process indefinitely.

No. It always circles back somehow.
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[personal profile] iyla 2026-02-24 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
that might be inevitable.

unfortunately.