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Looks like some of you have been pretty busy. Mostly for the better, I think. I hope.

I've been talking to past employees, tracking them down now while things are falling into place. They still don't really know about their past history with the company, but the knowledge was still there if you can believe that. Ask a few questions, you can bait anybody into answering.

I can go into details later for anyone who's curious, but I'll keep this short and sweet. With the next string of programming and adjustments, we can have three tries to check into alternate timelines. Nothing will stick during those trials, but let's think about it this way. Check out a chain of events, see how it pans out, close the loops to make it a new reality.

When everything became about actual reality-bending, I'm not sure. I don't think this is what any of us signed up for, but what's done is done.

Mr. Murdock raised an interesting proposition that I think is worth considering. And a few other have, too, you know who you are. So the question is: what chains of events can we all agree on? A check is just that. It checks how things might go without actively ruining everything…I think. The power used might downgrade the more we check in which is why three's the limit, but the potential's there which is probably better than anything else.

Talk it through and get back to me. It's your future. You should get a say in it at this point.

Zee Carlisle
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Someone else takes his place. Zee tells me he's got his shit locked down. He's got backup plan after backup plan to the point where just killing him isn't going to fix it.

Loath the fuck as I am to admit it.

Well shit. That is annoying.

Did Zee tell you anything else concerning what he meant by "got his shit locked down."?

Only that Vanderweele's been doing this for way longer than any of us realize. And he's been a busy motherfucker. The numbers he gave us? Zee's got more. Way more.

Why more what? Back up plans?

Dates that Vanderweele fucked with time. We have too much data for any of it to mean anything useful right now, other than "here's when Clarence was".

Oh so he got around. Shit. That also makes fixing the time line even more difficult.

Yep. That's probably why Zee's only giving us three shots. Any more than that and we could break so much more shit than we stand to fix.

Now we just need to figure out which ones are gonna work. If any of them.

And Zee expects us to determined that with our limited knowledge?

I still think the killing of the Spinnato twins is important. If not, why did we find out about it?

It's important, yeah. But is it an important enough thing where we need to focus just on that? Did Vanderweele travel through time to kill them? If we save their lives this time, is it going to stop him from doing it again when we're not there?

That's the thing with time travel, I guess. You have to find the beginning to actually stand a chance of stopping it.

But then you have to determine what the beginning is. And do we even know that?

I have the date when he made his first jump. I don't know how much prep time he had before he got there, though, or where and when he jumped to.

Do we have any idea how he jumped?

Not even a little. Not even sure how Zee let us do it in the first place, but my guess is that it's some app bullshit that Zee and Vanderweele both have the ability to do.

You thinking some kind of time travel abilities or object?

Zee thinks Vanderweele's got something that isn't his staff channeling power, but I don't know if that's doing the time travel thing, too. I don't know... fucking anything, really.

Something in his staff huh? I wonder if it a magical artifact or something. In Draco's world wands have magical things inside them that give them their power, or at least helps. Unicorn Hair, phoenix feather, and
dragon heart string. I wonder if it is something like that.

It isn't his staff and it isn't anything in his staff. I don't know why Zee's so sure about that since he could always just fucking go back in time to when he had his staff and steal it from his past-hole self, but whatever.

The plan as I understand it is to try to drain him of his magic however he's doing it. Don't know how that one would work.

Draining magic... yeah, I got nothing. I don't know of any magical moment where you'd take someone's magic away. In Draco's world... magic isn't drainable.

And he's not one of us, so we can't just tear it out of his soul or whatever. I have a couple ideas, but no clue if they'll actually do anything useful.

We're sure as hell in this shit now, huh.

What are your ideas?

And yeah we're in shit. I thought that was a given.