Group Email to CONDOR Personnel

[nothinbut_therain]

 
Are we planning on doing anything about the joker posting on The Watch about wanting to collect materials from the UCLA sinkhole? I know we haven't had the tightest security on it so far, and I can't say I'm complaining about not having to babysit a hole in the ground. But now we have some anonymous "man of science" hellbent on collecting as much shit from the hole as possible. 

The phrase "as a man of science" never leads to something that altruistic. 

-- Thrace 

Comments

[missinterference]

Ms. Thrace, did you intend to include me on this e-mail chain?

Regardless, this will probably lead to some sort of worldwide epidemic--will civilians be granted superpowers upon contact? Will our intrepid and hapless explorers activate an alien signal beam and bring an extraterrestrial apocalypse down upon this Earth, again? I for one am dreadfully curious.

Or, a novel thought: we could avoid disaster through common sense.

Sincerely,
Flora Poste

[nothinbut_therain]

[Starbuck would schedule another talk with Charles about putting civilians on confidential mailing lists, if she wasn't utterly certain that it was useless at this point. If Flora Poste wanted to read an email, Flora Poste was probably just going to read the damn email.]

Ah. Ms. Poste. A pleasure, as always.

Since I already have enough headaches without more superheroes to babysit, I'll bite -- what particular bit or bits of common sense do you think would save us so completely from ruination?

[missinterference]

[No truer words.]

Ms. Thrace--I might suggest the relatively lax security around the sinkhole be increased; though of course, what do I know. I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason CONDOR is behaving in such a manner--perhaps so as to facilitate Plot rather than Safety? Indeed without clever oversights, drama would never happen.

Or the anonymous 'man of science' could be apprehended. He has very neatly outlined the means. Simply reply to him expressing interest in a rendezvous, and when he shows up--well, you get the idea. There are infinite variations. Infinite ways of cajoling him into a meeting!

Sincerely,
Flora Poste

[nothinbut_therain]

Most of the looting happened within the first three hours, and we were busy pulling people out of there. I don't think anyone's bothered to go back down. I'm more worried about the people who snatched shit while the whole thing was going down.

As for the other part -- not a bad plan, honestly. I would have done something like that by now, but I don't exactly keep my identity a secret, and I doubt anyone being this secretive is interested in meeting with CONDOR personnel. The prize would have to be pretty enough to lure him out.

[missinterference]

Oh, I doubt we would have much luck with confirmed and uncautious CONDOR personnel.

I'm sure someone trustworthy could be found.

Sincerely,
Flora Poste

[Ms. Thrace surely will not interpret that as Flora's offering to volunteer, ugh. Surely. Surely she knows her too well to expect any such thing.]

[nothinbut_therain]

Riiiight. Thanks. As always, you've been a tremendous help.

[Well, you can't blame a gal for trying.]

[missinterference]

[...........Well, Flora thought she'd at least be asked. So that she could explicitly refuse.]

Surely not a tremendous help. It is only the easiest trick in the book, as it were.

Sincerely,
Flora Poste

[nothinbut_therain]

[Starbuck just sort of quietly throws up her hands. Ms. Poste always manages to be aggravating in the most precise ways.]

Well, thanks anyway then.

[missinterference]

I suppose you don't have anyone in mind?

-Flora
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[nothinbut_therain]

Not in particular, yet.

[missinterference]

Perhaps one of those Trailblazers would be ever-so-kind. A teenaged 'civilian' would not attract undue suspicion; and yet this person would be under your supervision.

-Flora
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