AUDIENCE 🚀 ANISE TATLIN

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[va11halla]

Yeah... sure. Not sure how much I'll remember but.

[ pats cot. maybe it'll be a surprising amount tonight. ]

Maybe talking about it will help. What about it?

[sexyasmieu]

Okay, well...

Do you remember Blake looking into stuff about death, and souls? It sounded like they were working closely with you...

[va11halla]

Blake...?

[ their expression shifts a bit. something sparks behind their eyes. they sit up straighter. ]

Blake Walker?

[ a faint smile ] We always got saddled with a crapton of work... we were... [ thinking a bit hard about this but then they blink. ] We were trying to research using the CEMs to our advantage. Somehow... with memories, bits and pieces of the soul... it was a long shot but...

[ patting their pockets a bit and making a "tch" sound. ]

I think it has merit.

[sexyasmieu]

Do you think we could...!?

I mean, if there's some way to pick up that research again...

[va11halla]

I think there's a possibility I could dig some of it up again... it's worth a shot.

But it's still going to take some time.

[sexyasmieu]

Really!? Okay, let's do it! I mean, I don't know much about this. But I'll help any way I can!

[va11halla]

You guys help enough as it is. You keep doing what you're doing and I'll see what I can scrounge up from the files. If they even exist anymore.

I don't know if they went with Blake... whatever happened...

[ distant, kind of sad about that. ]

[sexyasmieu]

[ hm... ]

Some of Blake's notes were discovered earlier... It's how I found out about this. Do you want to look at them?

[va11halla]

[ oh immediately: ]

Yes. Please.

[sexyasmieu]

Okay... here.

[ she'll pull up the document on her IRIS and bring up a screen for Thebe to see and scroll through.

it's the w4 research journal. ]

[va11halla]

[ scanning it... quietly... but then focuses in particular at the mention on the end. ]

Oh. That's Ryser. Courtney Ryser.

[ nodding quickly ]

Kind of a hot mess, but... wasn't any of my business. She did good work otherwise. Worked with Blake and I in R&D.

[sexyasmieu]

So... you, Blake, and Courtney were the research team on that crew. Was that everyone?

[va11halla]

One more... I'm pretty sure.

Whoever it was, they were Chief of Science before me.

[sexyasmieu]

The chief... I wonder if they were involved in this, too.

[ she pulls up a copy of the roster-in-progress so they can both see... ]

It's gotta be one of the names here, right?

[va11halla]

[ leaning in to peer at it but just furrows brow a bit. ]

Yeah... I... might need a visual if it's possible. In the mean time... I'll try and wrack my brain for them...

[sexyasmieu]

Do you remember what the other two looked like? Blake and Courtney?

We have some videos, but there are a bunch of people I can't really place...