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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? ]

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[voice]

[orbislife]

It was a little troubling. Rico has already told you about some of it.

[ There isn't much he could add. The plans have changed, and there is the possibility of gaps in their security because of it. Disguised Legionnaires are being added to the mix in hopes of mitigating the danger. ]

I worry that their response to the terrorist activity you've mentioned is to replace the people already in place the day of the event. Do you know if they suspect us playing a role in it?

[ And a terrorist group can do so much harm to a great number of people, more than just the diplomats. If those disguised Legionnaires are discovered, could that wrongly imply to the Epryrians that the Legion is in league with them? ]

This is separate to the briefing... However, has anyone had an interference with their systems or senses earlier today? My scans do not show any error, but something caused a minor glitch. I thought it might have to do with our communication problems.

[ He's the only mechanically based person on the group, but he doesn't know if anyone has implants that would be able receive interference like he did. (He also doesn't know if the issue, as small as it was, was interference based. It's just a working guess.) ]

[voice]

[whereabout]

I haven't heard anything about them suspecting us, but this group seems like they've been pretty well established for a while. I could see someone getting paranoid enough to think so, but I think it'd be a hard sell to get anyone else on board with it, and a decision to take us off those areas would probably need at least a few people to sign off on it.

[ He thinks, at least; who knows how these people run their bureaucracy. ]

Interference...? [ He frowns. ] I don't think so? I've had a headache all morning, but that's not exactly weird. [ He's good at working through his own discomfort, after all, so it doesn't register as much of anything in his mind. ]

[truefaceofthelaw]

I've had a headache all morning too. Twice is coincidence - three times is a pattern.

[Excuse Rico's interjection. He'd passed it off as one of his usual occasional migraines at first. Maybe the planetary atmosphere didn't agree with him. But coupled with everything else?]

[whereabout]

...this gets better and better, doesn't it.

[ A breath. ]

Let's assume for the sake of argument that Zenyatta doesn't count towards a pattern, since he's an ar- [ They don't call them archaisms here, right. ] Mechanically based? Is that how I should say it? The same things won't necessarily affect us as would affect him, and vice versa.

[ Although the line between biological and mechanical does seem to be awfully blurry to these people. ]

That still puts us at two. One more and I think we can safely say something's weird.

Anyone else?

[orbislife]

It is possible that some wavelength could interrupt my systems and still be detectable by humans in some way. However, I do think a third person feeling off this morning would give more weight to some kind of connection...

[ He doesn't want to jump at shadows, but with everything else going one, it could actually be something... ]

[the_civilian]

I don't have a headache, but Brainy seemed to be nursing one. A pretty severe one, from the way he flinched.

[truefaceofthelaw]

That geek? Hm. Didn't have much to say, did he?

[A pause.]

You didn't have a headache?

[the_civilian]

You realize you're talking to another geek, right?

Nope. Didn't have a headache, still don't.

[A pause. He doesn't want to add to anyone's paranoia, but his nerd tendencies compel him to share all relevant data.]

A lot of things don't affect me the same way they do other people though. My powers burn through a lot of medications.

[Quick, someone else admit they don't have a headache before Rico decides they're all being drugged.]