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[whereabout]

[ So. They can't raise the network on Legion World and the rest of...everybody, but at least the team dispatched to Epryria can talk to each other.

And they might have a lot to talk about, with the last minute changes in the plan, the inconvenient roadblocks...and at least as far as Joshua's concerned, the uneasy feeling this entire mission is giving him, because that's getting worse by the moment.

He's got a strong habit of professional paranoia, honed from his days in Ouroboros. He's also got a habit of meticulous attention to detail and to noting the details for later, from his old profession and his new one, so sharing information with the rest of the team is only natural.

He leaves Kid Q and Brainy off the contact list, though, because it's not only what those two told them that he wants to compare notes on. ]

Can I ask how everyone's briefings went?

[ WERE YOURS ALSO FULL OF AWKWARDNESS AND A SENSE OF SLOWLY ENCROACHING DREAD? ]

Comments

[VOICE]

[truefaceofthelaw]

Badly. Lots of changes. For the record, I still don't approve of these last-minute alterations to the security plans. They were just fine before, makes no damn sense to change them now.

[Well, they do make a little sense, but Rico is still unhappy about the changes.]

And if this means some diplomat's just asking to eat hot drokking lead in the middle of the signings, so be it.

[VOICE]

[whereabout]

I don't think any of us were under the impression that you approved.

[ And Joshua's right there with him, anyway. ]

Apparently there's some increased terrorist activity that's making them nervous? But from what I'm finding about these guys in the news, I'm surprised we weren't hearing a lot more about them while we were still making the plans.

[VOICE]

[truefaceofthelaw]

What?

[Rico's voice is suddenly sharp. Less surprised, and more a narrow-focused beam of interrogation.]

That's one hell of an oversight. Failure to inform us about something as important as terrorist activity can't be excused. This goes beyond incompetence.

[A pause.]

Run by me the intel.

[VOICE]

[whereabout]

I'm sending you what I've got.

[ It comes as an attachment, with the basic rundown Joshua will be given totally already got, and he's added the links to news stories about their most recent incidents. Mostly bio-terrorism related, with one in particular being the release of a gene-altering virus. The news comes from varied sources and seems pretty legit; Joshua was going out of his way to see if there was conflicting information or something that looked planted, but he's come up dry on that front. ]

They seem to be a big deal. So I can completely buy the president being spooked by them as a reason to insist on having a more familiar security detail in key locations. [ Even if he doesn't agree. ] I'm not so willing to buy that they couldn't have seen this coming a mile away and been talking to us about it a lot earlier.

[VOICE]

[truefaceofthelaw]

[There's a long moment of thoughtful consideration as Rico takes this all in.]

You're right. [He says, somewhat absentmindedly as he scans through the information on his visor display.] There are major changes to security I would've made if I'd had this to take into consideration. Security and prevention protocols are completely different when dealing with bioweapons compared to your conventional attacks, and they should know this. For a fact.

[Deep in thought, he brushes the underside of his jaw with his knuckles, tilting his head just slightly to the side.]

There could be somebody on the Epryrian side trying to pull something. Maybe a dissenter, or a sympathizer.

[He's not asking for an opinion, more so that he's muttering to himself. Now why would an entire recently-active terrorist threat would be hidden from them? If not hidden, then omitted - but that's basically the same thing in his eyes. Ignorance of the law didn't mean squat. Same goes for incompetence.]

[VOICE]

[whereabout]

Honestly, I think something's felt a little weird about this one even before now...

[ He shakes his head. ]

But this is the first point where I've actually had something to quantify about why, instead of just "I've got a bad feeling about this."