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Happy New Years, users.

I'll cut to the chase; the barrier we instilled a few months ago is decaying quickly and we're sorting through the new data as fast as we can. This barrier was originally designed to contain a rogue error. There are several of you who have taken care of this issue and from here we will handle the rest...thank you. The influx of data will help us decode our next steps.

As mentioned, we've spent December tracing several magical sources that are coming up in our readings. We're doing the best we can to trace Clarence--Mr. Vanderweele, and corral the effects he's altering in the city. I believe we're ready to tear down the firewall and begin exploring further. If our information is correct, we're really breaking the boundaries of the layers we've discovered lately! It's exciting, don't you think?

The only information I can offer is that we will need you to be strong no matter what happens. We believe things have changed outside of security measures we've set in place, though we will need more data to understand the best way to stabilize the city from his control. We understand if you cannot and do not wish to help, but please know we're doing everything we can.

Please take care.

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retr

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you catch them when they're not paying attention
before they can think to change reality up on you

do u knock them out u cant just handcuff them

[ This gives him pause. James was just speaking from what he could remember of the Cosmic Cube, but with Vanderweele, it's probably different. ]

it depends on how the power works
if it's tied to an item they use then yeah you can handcuff them, just take the reality changing thing away from them
but if it's a power that THEY have like inside of them then
yeah knocking them out or killing them is the best option

do we have to kill him

[Yes, he's a bad person doing bad things and he's difficult to stop, but Shinji doesn't like the idea of killing anyone.]

if you wanna play it safe then yeah

[It takes a minute for this reply to come.]

but if we kill people were the bad guys

no
if you kill GOOD people you're a bad guy
if you kill bad people then you're a good guy
you just have to make sure the person you're killing actually is good or bad first

[ and plus, y'know, the whole thing of what really defines good versus evil, and maybe there's a limit to how 'good' you can be if you're willing to kill at all, and how well can anyone really value the goodness or badness of any given person, and yadda yadda, but like. James isn't about to get into all that with a 9 year old. Especially considering he's still sorting all that out for himself. ]

Edited 2019-01-02 03:26 (UTC)

[Thank you for not having that debate with a small child.]

we know this guys definitely bad so its ok i think?

considering he killed spinnato and his family
and how much grief he's given us for the past few years
yeah i think it's pretty okay

ok i dont wanna if we dont have 2 is that dumb

[ hey: this hurts him! ]

no
but it is riskier
leaving him alive means he might be able to wriggle out of whatever we do to contain him
and then we'd have to search for him all over again
but no
it's not dumb to not want to kill someone

[This is what you get for having this conversation with a literal child, James.]

i kno i guess its not my pick anyway this sux

yeah, high stakes stuff tends to be like that

good luck if u run into him whatever u do

[If it's murder, Shinji hopes he never has to hear about it.]