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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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Which means they aren't from his either.

But the brain that took my eye was hooked up to IVs in a lab. It was definitely supposed to be there. So whoever set up that lab knew it was there, obviously. Maybe it got kidnapped from another world or something? Maybe the whole idea is that they delved too greedily and too deep and ended up with a whole bunch of eyeball brain tentacle monsters.

Vanderweele definitely seems like the type to put research over people. And to not really care about saving the worlds so much as play around with them.

Cool, so he's just going time- and dimension-hopping and building his army like that. Stealing whatever he can for his own purposes.

Why am I talking like that's something new or even a little surprising.

Guess we'll have to pool our knowledge on how to deal with supervillains, too.

I'll leave that one to you. That's the thing with military history. No magic powers.

Not that we didn't try, but that's a whole thing all on its own.

Wait, try to get powers? Like experimentation or something?

Oh my god, dude. Project Grillflame? Or Stargate or whatever they wanted to call it. That's a real-ass thing the real-ass American military did to try to give their soldiers psychic powers back in the 70s. That was always the shit that I didn't mind learning about back when my parents went on their lectures.

For the record, it 100% did not work.

Whoa. That's really kind of weird, and

Okay, I just got another memory where this other supervillain was yelling at me about how apparently I have it easy because she was running experiments to try and get superpowers but it just made her go bald. So I think we can cross human experimentation off our list of things to do.

Sounds like a pretty petty supervillain. But, like, when are they not. Glad I could help get back another piece of your puzzle.

Getting the feeling I won't be able to do that for people for much longer.

What do you mean? You think you're going to lose your Retrospec memories?

Nah. Just feels like this is coming to a head, you know? And who knows what's gonna happen after that. Whether the app is still gonna exist the same way. Whether anyone's gonna be left.

It's grim shit, dude.

Yeah... I'm scared too, but I'm trying to just focus on saving the worlds. It's hard, though. I keep coming back to what everyone else is worried about.

Yeah. It's hard to keep that focus when there's so much riding on what we do right now. Feels like I'm carrying the weight of the world. It fuckin' sucks.

But we got this. If we're here now, it's because we're meant to be. We can handle this.

Yeah. At least I hope so. I'm gonna do my best, and I'm sure so is everyone else.

Goddamn right. Glad you're here with us.