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lucetilocked2012-07-02 07:05 pm
endgames) wrote in lucetilocked2012-07-02 07:05 pm
[Locked Transmission to Residents]
[On the evening of July 2nd, the following transmission is both typed and dictated.]
Evening, Luceti. My name is Nara Shikamaru; I'm a resident of this enclosure like the rest of you, and am transmitting this over a secure network that can't be seen by the Malnosso.
The last few weeks have been difficult. To be brief, on the twelfth of June, the Malnosso made a demand of the village to hand over a man known to us as "Catherine". [Here on the typed version, said demand is linked now.] Don't know who that is? Albert Silverberg summed him and some other key figures up best on this same channel back in February. I suggest taking a look.
[And again a link, this time to here. He doesn't want to explain things any more than necessary, it gets tedious.]
Catherine, or Bil as I'll refer to him, was seriously injured in an attack made on the Battle Dome in April. His assistant, Molly, was taken in the same raid, but Bil remained and his treatment was left to us. The village decided to keep things that way, and it's so that he died in our care. The droids the Malnosso sent to find him captured decoys instead, myself included. From there we were taken to a facility.
Before I say anything else, I would like to thank everyone who worked to keep the village safe in the attack, and those who defended both Bil and his decoys. I know things ended grimly, but your efforts were and continue to be appreciated, and it is thanks to that that I can share the following information with you, as those of us who were captured didn't spend all of our time in a cell.
I can tell you that the facility was similar to the one Luceti residents infiltrated a while back and where a flesh-like entity was fought, for those of you were involved in either of those things. Before we were recaptured, we did come across several things which I feel should be of note, starting with an overheard conversation.
A certain man's "niece" was said to have given up valuable information, to which they dubbed "the Luceti Operation" to not have been a complete waste of their time.
[His suspicions about that, he keeps to himself. Lupin was the only one to have heard that part of the conversation, unlike the following. It's the only thing Shikamaru will give his opinion on out of all of this.]
They then went on to discuss an old man, calling off another attack on Luceti when they realized he was near death in favor to make plans for what they called his rebirth, saying that he would be more dangerous then.
It's clear the old man they speak of is Bil. Due both to this, and the things Bil said before he passed, it is my belief that those who demanded him from us intended not to kill him, but to keep him alive and weak in their hands. Make what you will of that.
The last thing I have to mention is more drastic than the others. While we were on the run, our party made it to the third floor of the building. It was there we found what was essentially a factory, where the improved line of droids were being assembled. These are the same model of droids who could replicate unique abilities of us residents, which some of you may have fought.
[He pauses for a breath, then continues.] What we saw were actual brains being installed inside the robotic heads.
We later attempted to stop them by shutting down the building's power, but we were surprised to find that they can function without the building network to direct them like the older line we're accustomed to. This may or may not be the reason why.
[So. New layers of disturbing, but he'll leave it at that.]
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask them here or to discuss recent events in general - any information that may have been gathered from the attack on the village or on the draft. Please keep all such discussion to this entry, however, and do not point anyone towards it on the journals. This network remains hidden from the Malnosso, and we'd like to keep it that way.
Thank you.
[/end transmission]
(ooc: Anyone is free to ask questions and start discussions on this post. If there are any specific questions for Shikamaru, he'll get to them.)
Evening, Luceti. My name is Nara Shikamaru; I'm a resident of this enclosure like the rest of you, and am transmitting this over a secure network that can't be seen by the Malnosso.
The last few weeks have been difficult. To be brief, on the twelfth of June, the Malnosso made a demand of the village to hand over a man known to us as "Catherine". [Here on the typed version, said demand is linked now.] Don't know who that is? Albert Silverberg summed him and some other key figures up best on this same channel back in February. I suggest taking a look.
[And again a link, this time to here. He doesn't want to explain things any more than necessary, it gets tedious.]
Catherine, or Bil as I'll refer to him, was seriously injured in an attack made on the Battle Dome in April. His assistant, Molly, was taken in the same raid, but Bil remained and his treatment was left to us. The village decided to keep things that way, and it's so that he died in our care. The droids the Malnosso sent to find him captured decoys instead, myself included. From there we were taken to a facility.
Before I say anything else, I would like to thank everyone who worked to keep the village safe in the attack, and those who defended both Bil and his decoys. I know things ended grimly, but your efforts were and continue to be appreciated, and it is thanks to that that I can share the following information with you, as those of us who were captured didn't spend all of our time in a cell.
I can tell you that the facility was similar to the one Luceti residents infiltrated a while back and where a flesh-like entity was fought, for those of you were involved in either of those things. Before we were recaptured, we did come across several things which I feel should be of note, starting with an overheard conversation.
A certain man's "niece" was said to have given up valuable information, to which they dubbed "the Luceti Operation" to not have been a complete waste of their time.
[His suspicions about that, he keeps to himself. Lupin was the only one to have heard that part of the conversation, unlike the following. It's the only thing Shikamaru will give his opinion on out of all of this.]
They then went on to discuss an old man, calling off another attack on Luceti when they realized he was near death in favor to make plans for what they called his rebirth, saying that he would be more dangerous then.
It's clear the old man they speak of is Bil. Due both to this, and the things Bil said before he passed, it is my belief that those who demanded him from us intended not to kill him, but to keep him alive and weak in their hands. Make what you will of that.
The last thing I have to mention is more drastic than the others. While we were on the run, our party made it to the third floor of the building. It was there we found what was essentially a factory, where the improved line of droids were being assembled. These are the same model of droids who could replicate unique abilities of us residents, which some of you may have fought.
[He pauses for a breath, then continues.] What we saw were actual brains being installed inside the robotic heads.
We later attempted to stop them by shutting down the building's power, but we were surprised to find that they can function without the building network to direct them like the older line we're accustomed to. This may or may not be the reason why.
[So. New layers of disturbing, but he'll leave it at that.]
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask them here or to discuss recent events in general - any information that may have been gathered from the attack on the village or on the draft. Please keep all such discussion to this entry, however, and do not point anyone towards it on the journals. This network remains hidden from the Malnosso, and we'd like to keep it that way.
Thank you.
[/end transmission]
(ooc: Anyone is free to ask questions and start discussions on this post. If there are any specific questions for Shikamaru, he'll get to them.)
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