reverienet | video; | id: hank

[The call registers as video, but displays only a geometric mess of blue. Those who recognize the logo won't be too surprised by what comes next.]

<Welcome to Domesticon. Working together today, for a more efficient tomorrow.>

[Cheery and automated, like a call center recording... and replaced, immediately after with a much more human range of tone.]

Hey. Me again.

So, your friendly local techs took a crack at system access the other day. Most functions are still locked, but we're reading big electrical spikes along the shaft and behind the sealed area on Deck Two. Something to think about, if you're the type to pry at doors.

[If, unfortunately not the only thing.]

This also, ah... showed up on the camera feeds.

[The AI's "face" vanishes from the video display, replaced with a view from one of the consoles. It shows a young, fair-haired human making his way down one of Reverie's many halls: Snake, for those who knew him. He doesn't do anything unusual. But after a moment, the human's outline distorts... shimmers... and melts away, leaving no trace of flesh or clothing.

The video reverts, and Hank's voice picks back up, tense with concern.]

He's not the only one. Run a headcount with your friends?

[[ooc: The tech collaboration he's referring to is here. While not OOCly planned in conjunction, the Deck 2 spike is the same area Team Door will be ICly going for on the 15th—so feel free to have your characters connect the dots!]]

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Nice thought. Though it's not a guarantee. We've had a few broken comms already.

Like Elijah?

yeah. he was taken into heaven on a chariot of fire in a whirlwind.
which sounds cool and all? but i always wondered if maybe it meant something else.
like, not a literal chariot of fire. maybe he just burned to death and went to heaven. haha.

sorry. that's probably not something to laugh about with all this.

Oh. That's a religious story? Not too much in the database there.

But your comparison doesn't seem so far-fetched. We don't know what's happening here either.

yeah. it's from christianity if you've heard of it.
it seems crazy that people haven't here?? but i guess that's how different worlds and universes and timelines work.
or something. i don't know.

i don't really know anything about what's happening.
i wish i could do something to help? but it's all sort of alien.
you really haven't seen anything like this before?

Rings a bell. Some of the old employee files, I think.

[Domesticon always did want to know which workers might be asking for time off.]

But people dissolving? No, that's new.

haha. wow. so i'm guessing you're from the future?
or at least somewhere after 2015.
christianity's still pretty big by that point.

i'm glad it's new, at least.
i think it might be worse if it was something we all knew about?
at least now we can pretend people are just. going somewhere else, or something.

[2015?]

Wow. I guess so.
Though my databases wouldn't be your best sample. We weren't exactly at the hub of civilization.

And hey, people might be. Just, no way to know.

that's okay.
some of the androids here are from...
13000? i wanna say?
so even if you're in the future i'm kind of used to that thought already.

okay not really. but sort of? id on't know.

Makes sense. You don't have the same standards.

Where people should be from.
What they should be like.
Or if you did, they've grown since you arrived here.

This place is good for that.

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