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[lyingheart]

[ 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. ]

Comments

[heartboxer]

I'm afraid I am not sure who these titans are...

[ WE ARE THE TITANS. THE MIGHTY MIGHTY TITANS. ]

[lyingheart]

They're more of a what, you could say, than a who. As far as I'm aware, they're unique to our world, in the form they take.

[heartboxer]

Can I ask for a description of these things? To be able to take out all of humanity is quite a... [ not necessarily achievement, but Armstrong still isn't tactless enough to be insensitive to problems Annie's world faces. ] it's something I can't even imagine in my world.

[lyingheart]

Ah... they vary in appearance, but in general, you can recognize them as some form of human-like creature... deformed, maybe because limbs are too small, too big, held the wrong way. Heads might be too large, faces might be frozen in one expression. Too many teeth, or maybe they look relatively normal. Their eyes don't register as intelligent for the most part. They also have no genitalia... some seem more female formed, others male formed. Most appear male, but again, it's not like there's a definite way to say so. They don't reproduce.

[ A pause. ]

Some might be skinless, or have other oddities of that nature. Hard plating... too much hair. Titan's don't look any one way, really.

[heartboxer]

If they do not reproduce how is there a steady population of them? [ This part he is curious about. ] However, what you're mentioning does sound something similar to creatures we have called Homunculus back home in the sense that they're humanoid but possess obviously different qualities and builds that exceed our wildest imaginations.

But I am getting the idea that they're massive, humanoid creatures whose hideousness knows no bounds!

[lyingheart]

No one knows.

Either way, your estimate is... accurate enough.

[heartboxer]

I hope I will not be mistaken for one of these beasts in my life time! They truly sound quite debilitating to face in combat. How do you even take them down?

[lyingheart]

With persistence, skill, and proper equipment.

[heartboxer]

So you have actual equipment for taking them out?! Very good! I would be worried about your world if you were completely defenseless against these gross beings.

[lyingheart]

Humanity is nothing if not adaptable.

[heartboxer]

That is true. Our will to survive can bring out the supernatural in us. Skilled alchemists back home have been known to transmute their lifespans. They stave off death by shrinking their lifespan to heal a fatal wound. [ Really, it was a brilliant strategy. ] The ways we deal with things has amazing potential!

[lyingheart]

... Yes. [ WHAT THE HAY ] Yes it does. Even if I'm going to... be amazed at things like orchestral music first, personally. People looking for ways to hold off death isn't quite as engrossing.

[ SUDDENLY OFF TRACK yeah mostly doesn't want to get sucked into talking about lifepsan healing things if she can help it ]