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I'll keep this short and to the point to give you guys time to strategize, catch up, all of that.

Congrats on your Magatus missions. Looks like everything's been cleared out as best as we can, but the region's been evacuated thanks to a couple of factors.

The new problem is we just added a bunch of people to city limits.

I've got some good news and some bad news.

Bad news: need some people out in Pesgare to do some deepdiving and recovery. It doesn't look like there's anything out there that'll kill you, but I need something from down there to stabilize Recollé itself.

Good news: got the subway working. Did you know it was just about coding? That's a little crazy to me and okay, I might have found out on accident, but…whatever was blocking exits from the city was just a false creation.

It means getting out of here and checking out the progress outside. The trains will be ready for departure in about a week, I'll get some maps drawn up and everything. I could really use some of you on location scouting.

Finally…who knows about machinery? We've got a problem we should probably look into, but keeping track of that eye's a huge pain in the ass.

Discuss, get in touch with me, prepare. You know the drill.

Zee Carlisle
Hiring Manager
Retr

spec Incorporated

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Here's hoping we don't have to deal with those again! That was dreadful.

I wouldn't be surprised if we have to go fight something down there again, though. Are you interested in checking it out?

...Perhaps, if there's nothing down there that's going to kill us. I'd like one actual weekend without something in this godforsaken city trying to murder me.

It certainly would be nice, wouldn't it? I suppose we'll have to see how things go, I'm sure someone will head down there and report back!

And if they don't report back, I'm sure we'll be sent to retrieve every idiot that went missing.

Oh, of course. That's what we're supposed to do, isn't it? It does get a bit tiring...

One would think that if Mr. Carlisle truly wanted to be helpful, he'd at least be down here with us. Though apparently his personal uselessness level has reached "well, now I'm fixing things by complete accident."

I wish I could say I was surprised... He is the only one left from Retrospec that's capable of doing anything, so I suppose he's in over his head, but that really doesn't inspire confidence.

I just want to know how he discovered this particular bit of idiocy. I almost hope it was more a case of "I sat on a control panel and pocket-dialed the subways open" as opposed to "I was playing with code that might have deleted the city and it's only by the grace of God that no one died, but hey, I fixed the subways."

I'm certainly hoping it was the former! I'd hate to think we've been left in the hands of someone that reckless!

>Retrospec
>Not reckless with our souls

Pick one, please.

Fair, that is absolutely fair. Well, at least they haven't managed to completely destroy us all yet!

It's only been, what, two years? They've got time.

I wonder how long it will take them... Three years? Four? Am I being too generous?

Far too generous.

How long do you think we have then? A matter of months?

Personally, I'm waiting for finally confronting Vanderweele and seeing how that goes. I suspect that's where we're all going to die. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I doubt it.

That makes sense to me. Of course, I do hope we're able to defeat him and return everything to normal (as normal as it usually is, anyway) but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the end of us.

...It's us against an immortal Nazi wizard. My hopes aren't high.

Understandably so. It certainly doesn't sound like something we can win.

So are you going to spend the final confrontation (whenever that actually happens) at home?

I fully intend to die holding my cat and screaming like a proper civilian not involved in this, yes.

Fair enough! If we all don't die terribly somehow, I'll let you know how it goes!

Do try not to die too horribly. That's going to be inconvenient.

Don't worry, I'll do my best not to die at all, much less horribly! I'll try not to inconvenience you!