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[posse]

All right, more news. Matthew Johnson and Pablo Jose (aka "Pub") have reported that James Barron came back 2 days ago -- not at FAILTECH, but back from wherever he disappeared to. So I guess James Barron is out as far as impersonating goes.

That leaves us with the following people as options for Rifter to impersonate:
Joseph Dillinger ("Junior")
Billy Chan ("Bills")
Matthew Johnson ("Maths")
Pablo Jose ("Pub")

Which is a good choice? Matthew Johnson is kind of low on the totem pole, I have a feeling that Pablo and Joseph are more involved in the plan, so it's kind of a trade-off (how far can Rifter go undercover, how effective can Rifter be to interfere/help us thwart Nox Ordo).

Rifter also told me about this "renovo" skill that he has too, along with his impersonation skill:

[Lystella]

I'm not confident about any opinions I have regarding people or putting things together, but I'll toss my wilted brain salad out there even if only to serve as a springboard for doing otherwise (written light-heartedly and seriously; no sarcasm/mean-nes/etc. intended ^_^).

Considering the trade-off, perhaps Billy would be a good middle? I also can't help but wonder if they'll have an eye on Matthew with him being "the weakest link" according to Billy from the email exchange, which I'll attach in case anyone wanted to read them now that Portal is down.

I'm a little lost about the renovo ability. Why does Rifter already have physics re-written on him?

(EDIT: forgot the attachment XD)

[posse]

Maybe Matthew would be a good choice, considering he's not supposed to know much about what's going on anyway so it wouldn't be suspicious if he didn't know anything. Given just the way they greet each other and how intricate that is, I doubt Rifter will be able to get past much else without people getting suspicious.

The renovo ability I think might have been tossed out there as a "deus ex machina" solution to help the Pioneer. At least, that's just an idea I had there. Not sure exactly HOW re-writing physics could possibly save the Pioneer, given the state it's in now. But what do you think about that?

[Lystella]

That's a very good point. In that case, I'll support Matthew as impersonation candidate.

Hmm...when it comes to re-writing physics and saving the Pioneer, I remember one thing Skyfall wrote regarding me being concerned about the Pioneer time-travelling in the first place (I didn't take the physics part seriously at the time because I wasn't aware of a physics re-writer ability out there.)

[cookingboy3]

Can someone recap me on this a bit? Also

lainsy.net/fail Is diffrent then a 404...

Also, check out the 500

http://lainsy.net/fail/?error=500
http://lainsy.net/fail/?error=404

There's so many lolcats here.

[Lystella]

Welcome, cookingboy3! \(^_^)_

Here's a quick summary regarding where we are at right now:

We were being trained by Failtech's Inno Ellis to investigate suspicious activity within or related to Failtech. One of the training assignments led to discovering that an organization called Nox ordo had infiltrated the company. Eventually, Inno Ellis was inadvertently switched with a Rifter (someone who jumps/travels through rifts). We were left to coordinate with Rifter and other head Failtech people to learn what Nox Ordo had planned. During this time, we also learned about the Pioneer, which is a Failtech ship that was stranded in space and in the wrong time (although the crew is unaware of that they had time traveled). Now, Nox Ordo has made their move, and the Pioneer is in trouble (atm, there is nothing linking the two events).


We also have a wiki for this ARG here:
http://failtech-arg.wikia.com

The best place for a recap is the wiki's Timeline. We're currently at the interlude. If you have any questions, feel free to send a PM, too!


As of now, I believe there are two major things going on:

= We are trying to prevent members of Nox Ordo from stealing one of Failtech's space ships.
= We are also figuring out if we can save another Failtech ship that is in trouble somewhere in space.

I hope this helps and that I wasn't too confusing!

[posse]

I've been chatting with the characters and here's what's up:

Genus is back from his time travel trip. Hooray! Apparently he's found some good stuff. He's given a report to Daniel, I haven't gotten word on what he's found though.

Dan Miller and his team have established a base camp outside of the Greenland Facility (deja vu, didn't he do that last time?), but can't go in until LAINSY's lockdown is removed. I'm trying to get a status report from him, anyone else have new information on this?

I changed my mind and decided to target Pablo Jose for Rifter to impersonate. Mainly because I like talking to Matthew Johnson, the more you talk to Matthew the more stuff he's likely to drop in conversation (see below). Pablo is much more suspicious, plus he's actually involved in the plan so Rifter might actually learn what's going on.

Thing is, Pablo is hard to bait. I'm trying to bait him with the story of meeting someone who knows what exactly went on in FAILTECH last year (it seems the Nox Ordo is EXTREMELY interested in this) but I don't want to drop Dan Miller's or Genus's name. Instead, I want him to think he's going to meet Dan or Genus, but meet with Rifter instead. I don't know if this is going to work. I guess I'll keep trying?

Then there's the worry that when Rifter is trying to trap Pablo, Nox Ordo will ambush him instead. Rifter claims he can incapacitate Pablo as long as Pablo doesn't have any fancy technology. That's pretty risky, if you ask me. Trapping Matthew Johnson would have been way easier, but the payoff is low. Trapping Pablo is way way riskier, but if we can succeed that would pay off a LOT in the end.

Matthew Johnson has dropped a little bit more information. I asked him whether Nox Ordo has learned why exactly they need to go to the stars and what they plan on doing when they get there, and he said:

[Lystella]

I haven't been in touch with anyone as of late (didn't know what to say and was worried about being redundant in that anything I did ask would have been something you already asked), but I'll ask about the status if it would help.

I have no votes for anyone toward who would be best to impersonate, but here are some of my half-baked brain thoughts in case they might be of use. I agree that going for Pablo is risky, especially considering his involvement in Phase 3 and the timing of the meeting with Phase 3 (unless you've already linked them?). Also, while Matthew Johnson is a source of less classified Nox Ordo info, I wonder anything Genus found on his visit to the era of Matthew's ancestors could be comparable to what Matthew could tell us.

[duke9509]

Here we go...

[zeighy]

If there's something going to happen this is IT!

http://lainsy.net/ update

[Lystella]

*\(*_*)/*

So exciting!

I'm curious: does season 2 get a new thread?

[duke9509]

I forget, what was the join.failtechnologies.com page a sign-up page for again? I remember we at least had an idea at some point. I mean, we're already "external agents," aren't we?

EDIT: Also, I checked Cliffside. There's nothing new there; still not quite a complete site.

[Lystella]

[punxtr]

I'm going to try my best to keep up with the start of Season 2. I still don't have the time, but I'm going to try darnit!

[duke9509]