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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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Hitori Togusa All credit to Ardyn, really. “The more red tape someone measures out, the longer a rope they wind to hang themselves with.”

Ha. Not bad.

I still... listen, dude. You know I still want to see Clarence pay, though.

Hitori Togusa Then handle Clarence. I dont like the idea of time travel, because it would be all too easy to say ‘none of this ever happened.’
Hitori Togusa But it did happen. And it demands.. whatever we’re shooting for. Vengeance or Justice.

I'm good at one thing and that one thing isn't gonna work here. Not without breaking everything around it.

I'm not stupid enough to think that keeping this city alive and around and keeping the people in it happy isn't the goal here. It's what I'm fighting for, too. But the idea of the person who did so much shit to all of us not facing any consequences... I don't have a stomach and it still doesn't sit right.

Edited 2019-05-20 18:09 (UTC)

Hitori Togusa If all I can do is bring their crimes to light? Let them be judged? Then I can do that.
Hitori Togusa Because I know exactly how you feel. Not just Vanderweele, but all of them. Just getting away with it, the thought makes me sick.

This the kind of call you have to make a lot as a cop? Letting someone you know is guilty go free for the greater good?

I have to trust in the system’s ability to figure out that ‘knowing someone is guilty’ part. Luckily I dont have to make that call that often.

It’s when even the system has judged them guilty, and they can walk away because of protection or security or whatever status they’ve bought themselves. Toss in his self-righteous attitude about saving people who dont need him and never asked for it, and it’s everything that disgusts me.

Damn. You might be the first cop I've seen that the system hasn't beaten down. More power to you.

So tell me. What do you think a murder android can do to help out now that we're going the peaceful resolution route?

Option A: If Zee up there is right, we could finally find Jim and form the conga line to punch him in the face.

Less of a joke, Option B: Didn't Zee say something about Vanderweele having a minion in the city? There was some situation with a giant eyeball that I was admittedly keeping out of because it sounded Out Of My Power League.

Ohhh, Togusa. You just hit me with the absolute pettiest idea for payback I could've imagined.

I'm in. I'll fuck up his weird monster. I'll head to Zee's place and see if he can give me anything to go on.

I honestly look forward to seeing the results.

Meanwhile if I cant find Jim, I might try to get his public listing and set the Tachikoma to ‘autodial.’

So this is where we're at, huh? Being annoying assholes however we can be. I'm into it. Didn't know you were legally allowed to misbehave.