mirrornet; text - backdated to the 25th

[sassguard]

I don't know what I saw yesterday, but I don't think I'm the only one who saw it.

I need information about a brainwashing facility that might have existed twenty, maybe thirty years ago. Or anything dealing with imPorts, if there's a record of that. I've been looking into it, but I haven't had a lot of luck turning anything up.

I want to know if that was real.

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[sassguard]

[ It's a name he recognizes, from conversations with Kaidan, but they haven't interacted personally. Still, if what he's told him about her abilities is true, she might have a better shot at figuring some of this out more than anyone... ]

I haven't seen anyone else mention it, so I wasn't sure if I was the only one, though there were people I recognized.

I woke up in a room where imPorts were drugged and restrained, forced to watch some kind of propaganda video. It seemed like it was part of a bigger facility. It was big -- hard to get an accurate sense of its size, but big enough to lose your sense of direction in.

The videos seemed to be designed to ensure compliance and loyalty to the government. Based on the state of technology in use, I'd say it pre-dates what we've seen in Heropa, but I'm not an expert on that.

[ That seems good enough. Then, as a follow-up: ]

But I didn't actually go anywhere, not physically. I've been in my room the whole time.

[prostheticbody]

[She knows of him as well, just from her interactions with Jacob and Kasumi.]

It'd probably be too much to ask for there to be any indication of where the facility might be located.

Tell me more about the video. Were there any recognizable faces or clips? The best lead might be trying to track down whoever made it.

[She has to pause a moment after his final comment. That's... unusual.]

It was like a vision, then?

[sassguard]

It didn't have any windows. No way to tell the time of day or even if it was underground or not.

There was a woman on the videos, but she wasn't somebody I recognized. A woman named Lorna Harris seemed to be in charge of the facility, and I'm trying to find out more about her, but I'm still looking into it. Someone else mentioned a "Peaceful Compliance Act," so maybe that's something to start looking for traces of.

I guess you could call it that. It felt real enough.

[prostheticbody]

I'll see what I can find about her, as well as the Peaceful Compliance Act. The government has to have records somewhere, though they may be only on paper if it was decades ago.

That sort of thing isn't really my area of expertise. It seems like it was a mass hallucination, but I wonder what triggered it.

[sassguard]

At first I thought it might be something like Lucifer again. Something like this happened earlier last month, but I don't think it's the same thing. Only imPorts seem to be affected.

Looking into the cause of the vision might be easier than trying to dig up information on things that happened decades ago.

[prostheticbody]

Probably easier said than done. It could be anything ranging from technology to magic, and the latter definitely isn't in my wheelhouse. Do you know exactly when it first started?

[sassguard]

I experienced the first set of visions about Heropa's future on the evening of the 20th, and it lasted until the 22nd.

The second vision was on the 24th, and it lasted roughly 11 hours.

[prostheticbody]

And as far as we know, only Imports were impacted? I'll search around on the net and see what I can find. I'll also take a peek into some of the government's secure networks.

[sassguard]

As far as we know. If this was happening to locals, we'd probably be hearing about it on the news by now.

Let me know if you find anything I can work with. I'm not much good at tech, but I can at least provide some manpower.

[ Though he wonders about the wisdom of talking about hacking into the government in sort-of public... mirror net or not, some imPorts could be in on this. ]