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[ Annie manages to sound fairly calm through all of this, only allowing her irritation and amalgamation of unhappy emotions show through in the words she chooses to emphasize, smattered throughout her report-like announcement. ]

Loki, you can considering this a love letter for the information age, following up on when you were asking people here to deal in sharing and caring. United States Military, you're welcome to listen in, but all this information is on file with you already, so you may find it lackluster.

Any helpful technologically capable people out there might help me out and work on encrypting conversations below here for the sake of freedom of discussion.

I don't like talking on these, and I'm not good at it, so pay attention. I've included two attachments to this broadcast, and none of the dramatic bullshit we've seen on national television lately. This is all information I've been given by Lieutenant Ananke. Any questions in specific to those contents within should be directed to her, through her contact line programmed onto your device. Or stop by in person. I don't care.

The first is a list of imPorts and native heroes who went missing following events in 2008. Some are reported dead, others only as missing. These names should be familiar to anyone who attended the swearing in last month, where we were witnessing the opening of the memorial graveyard. Not all of these names are there. Not all families wanted a memorial. Not everyone thinks these people are truly gone, or truly dead.

The second is a series of video recordings of a handful of these people. I'm hoping that you can help me identify everyone in attendance - some recordings are labeled with names. They match up to descriptions on file. It also means we have a few more faces to put with names. I've guessed that the young blond man we see in the last two videos is Liam Lawson, a younger native hero. I believe the woman he isn't with, the one sitting down, may be Eleni Wang, who hasn't been heard from since going underground in 2008. I'm not positive, so here's the floor, open for discussion.

Further, myself and several others have been pursuing investigations into the Hornets, localized to the city of Nonah. It's not all swift moving, but I hope that each person will be sharing information on what they learn as they learn anything. I'm presently investigating one of the former students at Phillip North's gym, but if that provides information, I won't know for a while yet. Liam Lawson is also being investigated by another of those who expressed interest, and I'd recommend he share that information, even if it's a dead end, with the imPorts when he has a chance.

[ If there's anything to report, Wally. ]

I don't care how much or little you trust the government. I don't care how often you want to piss into the wind. There's too much shit going on for me to care about bickering over those details, between Russia sitting on ships staring down Alaska up North, to puzzles pointing toward concerns further South and outside this nation, to the fact that Lunatic, one of our own, has been murdering people, and tried to incinerate a seventeen year old civilian earlier today for having been involved in a drunk driving incident that ended another's life.

Cut to the chase. What else is happening that we should know about? Enlighten me.

[ Attachment A: HFILE1.PDF ]
[ Attachment B: Video Files ]

[ OOC Note: Any references within this post to Kara Strydottir should read as Kara Lindholm instead, as that is how her name appears on network. My apologies for any confusion! Please use Kara Lindholm for any references in this post and related comment threads. ]

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It depends on what you mean by "reachable."

Sigh, hyperlink it is.

[ he switches over to text. ]

As much as I hate my own self-referrals.

Clicky click!!!

[Clark still uses the audio feed, but he takes a while to reply. He wants to make sure he reads each and every one of the replies- he'll probably reread it later, and take notes. But later.]

That was helpful. It seems like plenty of people have made the Greek connection- though I admit I hadn't noticed the roman equivalents in the cities’ name. Greek mythology is more of my expertise, and even my knowledge of that is kind of spotty.

But it does seem to be a recurring theme. Isn't it weird, though, that so far no other gods have been involved? If we really are dealing with the mythology beings, I mean.

You misunderstand.

[ he pauses for a moment and then says: ]

Mythologies carry in unexpected ways through universal barriers for a reason. It's not about the mythos of it, of course, it's about the power of the resonance that the concepts carry. There's a different question we should be asking ourselves.

There's a reason myths were conceived, after all.

[There’s an obvious clue in there. Like those times where he can’t figure out a crosswords and Lois just passes by, whispers the right word in his ear and walks away as she laughs because it’d been obvious all along.]

What is that question then? What’s the reason?

Nothing that isn't just conjecture.

[ but then there's something in his voice that there wasn't before. ]

But wouldn't you like to find out?

[ because he very much would. he had something to do, after all. he has a self to define in the face of Fate. ]

Let's just say there's nothing I dislike more than questions without an answer, I would indeeed like to find out.

But all I can do, for now, is gather information. We'll figure it out eventually.

Hopefully that "eventually" isn't one of the "surprise, too late!" variety.

Is there any other kind?

[But then he lets out a loud sigh as he rubs his forehead.] Thank you for the link, and for answering my questions. I’m Clark, by the way.

[Which yes, it’s on the ID, but he still feels weird if he doesn’t present himself.]

I'm Loki of Asgard, well-met. Don't sweat yourself too much, hm?

I promise nothing. But coincidentally, I was told to contact to if I had questions about this place... funny how I was already doing that without me knowing.

It's a small omniverse.

That's, apparently, growing bigger every day.

I'll come by the club one of these days.

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