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[whydoyoushine]

[There's a livestream of a bit of ranting and some holding cells that cuts off before Zed speaks.]

Someone give me a good reason I shouldn't just blast everyone with darkness and be done with it.

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[thornsofmalkav]

Oh my god. Okay. Uh. Care to give me a description of your captors I can give Melissa in a bit that I can claim was from my local friend who saw something?

[whydoyoushine]

They were wearing dark suits and had me stuffed into the back of a van before I knew what was going on.

Definitely weren't Kuros; they didn't listen to me.

[thornsofmalkav]

Kuros?

[whydoyoushine]

Shadow Line grunts. They wear dark suits.

[thornsofmalkav]

Ohhhhh. I get it. くろ means 'black,' after all. It's just pluralized in the English way.

[whydoyoushine]

Exactly!

[photonicfighter]

That's not who got me. It was a woman with black hair, dressed in black, and...

...wait, weren't we on the lookout for someone like that already?

[Oops.]

[whydoyoushine]

...I saw a woman like that right before it happened...

[photonicfighter]

Did you?

She was part of the roadie crew! Well, the replacement ones. We were working together for a bit and then.... Well.

[whydoyoushine]

I am going to have serious words with her if I see her again.

[thornsofmalkav]

... oh Jesus fucking Christ, we were.

[whydoyoushine]

Good job keeping an eye on her, team.

[photonicfighter]

I... I was very preoccupied! And hungry! And tired!

[rustyhonesty]

Yeah, we were. Uh, great. Sorry, I guess we weren't vigilant enough.

[photonicfighter]

I'm going to take this as a learning experience, and resolve to pay more attention in the future....

[rustyhonesty]

I think we all could use that.

We'll get you all out. Promise.

[photonicfighter]

Thank you. It's good to know that. It's good to know that we really are in this together, as much as we might fight about things sometimes.

[rustyhonesty]

I think fighting is pretty natural in any group like ours. Especially with all the different opinions flying around.

But when things get serious, I feel like most of us do our best to help one another. That's what really matters.

[photonicfighter]

We don't have to completely agree to work together, do we? I think that's a good principle to operate by. That's certainly one of the things I learned when I became a Guardian.

[rustyhonesty]

A guardian?

That is a good principle though. Always accept that everyone has different opinions, yet try to find the common ground.

[photonicfighter]

My job before I came here. The Guardians are a security force. We work with all of the major governments and corporations in the Gurhal System.

There are definitely a lot of different opinions, when it comes to handling jaunts. I've always tried to stay out of it, but now I've gone and gotten myself all up in the middle of things....

[rustyhonesty]

Sounds like you've been dragged here from an important position.

I'm usually infiltrating so I miss those conversations... but now that I'm investigating, I want to do my best to help out. Though it would help if we knew the Arcanas in question on how to approach this.

[photonicfighter]

I wouldn't say an important position. I'm just a standard rank-and-file Guardian. But the work was important, and I would like to get back to it.

Whenever I end up infiltrating, I try to look back on the network after I'm myself again. It helps to get that perspective on what everyone was doing that whole while, I find. As for the Arcana running this one... well, if these are bracket matchups and we're not getting any of the ones that we've had up until now, process of elimination might help us start to work it out?