⚡️ January 30th to February 9th

[enodiajj]

RECAP

In January, after another bout of unusual readings from the Enodia rift, a mysterious prop plane crashed off the station's dome into the Riftlands. Its pilot, apparently a staff member from Terminus Station in Antarctica, was unconscious. The only passenger of the plane appeared to have taken a parachute and was never located.

Twelve hours after the plane crash, everything and everyone from the plane inexplicably vanished. Station residents came to around 6AM with no memory of the last six hours. All data readings and security footage from this time were also scrambled.

About a week later, two FBI agents arrived in Colchester with the intention to stay for at least a month.

THE INTERROGATION

On 1/30, the FBI agents who have posted up at the Water Lily arrive unannounced at Enodia Station to perform "preliminary interviews" with select staff members. They meet briefly with Director Riddle before posting up in the Security building to conduct their interviews. At about 10AM, a mass email from Riddle's office goes out to the staff to alert them to the interview process. This email implies that the interviews will be ongoing throughout the week.

Early in the day, Agent Leonello is taken aback to discover that one resident of the station (Zeke Zelizer) is a former high school classmate of hers. While waiting to be interviewed, Spirit Moneypenny overhears Lundy and Leonello arguing about her degree of acquaintance with him and how the potential conflict of interest should be handled. Spirit relays the information back to Zeke himself, because they’re a good friend, but also Eureka Castillo and Shannon Wan, because the gossip is pretty juicy.

After about ten employees have been interviewed, mid-morning gossip around the station is that the FBI agents seem to be primarily interested in technology augmented by liminal abilities, and vice versa. After an unnamed source tips them off, they are particularly thorough in cross-examining Enoch and Crysta Waldinger (as well as Doc Yowell) about their masquerade masks, how they work, and what they intend to do with the technology, spending about an hour with each of them.

Zeke Zelizer is the last Enodia employee called for the day, and he is interviewed by just Agent Lundy. After taking a detailed history of his acquaintance with Agent Leonello, Lundy also questions Zeke about his liminal abilities as well as his glasses and any other assitive devices he uses. This all takes about 20 minutes.

Although no Explorers were interviewed and nobody was asked about the plane crash, Thornton's assistant Yana Dworak calls a meeting towards the end of the day informing them that anyone who was sent into the Riftlands to investigate the plane crash needs to submit a written statement about their recollections of that day. Thornton and Dworak deny that this has anything to do with the FBI interviews if pressed.

THE AGENTS

Jessica Leonello

First Impressions: Brash, a little short tempered, and in quite a bad mood by the time any PCs get the opportunity to interact with her. Uses her liminal power of telekinesis liberally. Enoch may note that despite her hot head, she is a very accomplished liar and often artfully bends the truth to suit her means.

Digging Deeper: Leonello is a registered liminal, and requesting her records returns confirmation that her primary ability is telekinesis. There is a long redacted section underneath it that suggests she either has a second ability which is difficult explain concisely or many secondary abilities. It is unusual for IRIS files to be redacted in this fashion.

Christopher Lundy

First Impressions: The good cop of the operation, he does most of the talking and has an affable and charismatic demeanor. With her cellular vision, Crysta is able to surmise that Lundy is not liminal. Zeke may note that he has a metal pin in his hip which suggests a long-healed injury.

Digging Deeper: Lundy is a dual citizen of the USA and the UK. Although he grew up in the States, he spent several years in the late 2010s working for DOLUS, a branch of MI6. Its focus is investigating both liminal and unexplained phenomena. Taryn Payne also worked for them in her youth, although she did not overlap with Lundy there.

CALENDAR

1/30

Enoch's Birthday. Agents Lundy & Leonello arrive at Enodia Station and interview select staff.

1/31

Ernestine reports that Agent Leonello has gone to NYC on urgent business, leaving Agent Lundy in town with no vehicle. Further interviews at the station are postponed.

2/5

Norton Jacoby, the chief of police in Colchester, drops by Enodia Station for a lunch meeting with Director Thornton.

2/9

After working on it for several weeks, Shannon Wan is able to unscramble some of the security footage from the missing 6-hour gap the evening of the plane crash.

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Comments

OOC: GM Requests

[enodiajj]

For investigating/snooping/interacting with NPCs etc.

Re: OOC: GM Requests

[imaginist]

Question: Does Enoch get the impression that the agents saw his Liminal registration records before the interview? He's told only a handful of people about his truth powers but he DID update his registration (sad clown emoji).

Re: OOC: GM Requests

[enodiajj]

Between his liminal abilities and using some context clues, it should be pretty easy for Enoch to figure out that Leonello & Lundy didn't have any foreknowledge about the Waldingers' device and therefore likely had no reason to seek out information about them before arriving today. Throughout the course of his interview, he should also be able to surmise that Leonello is not aware that he knows she's lying (unless he does anything that might show his hand).

2/1: Boys' Brunch Date

[stophit]

Sal and Zeke head into Colchester, intent on meeting Lundy for a fact finding mission. Despite his bluster on the network, Sal aims for a friendly bro-ey "hey man, welcome to the ass end of the riftlands" tone. Some light flirtation will be involved, in an "oh no my glasses are acting up look at them" way from Zeke. Men love to be the hero, right?

They'll try to treat Lundy to lunch, or at minimum just get him into conversation for long enough to learn more about WHY the agents are here and what they're looking for.

(Sal and Zeke are also seen buying a dozen Valiant Vidalias to take back to the station.)

2/1: Boys' Brunch Date

[enodiajj]

This ploy of tempting Lundy with Zeke’s glasses works very well, and he spends several minutes examining them on the sidewalk before agreeing to grab lunch with Zeke and Sal. He’s cheerful and affable the entire time, as is usual for him, and asks them many questions about their time at Enodia and the local ecology of the Riftlands, which seems to be a particular interest of his.

He is very slippery about what official business he’s here on, and doesn’t hesitate to laughing telling them that he can’t really talk about ongoing investigations. At one point, however, he does accidentally let it slip that they last time he and Leonello were investigating abnormal happenings at a Rift (located in Taos, NM) it was also because a plane crashed nearby.

While they’re waiting for their large takeout order to be prepared, Lundy pivots into pestering Zeke about his relationship with Leonello again. Sal notes that his curiosity on this topic seems more personal than professional.

1/31: Waldinger interviews

[imaginist]

Hearing that the FBI interviews have been postponed, Enoch and Crysta spend this week checking everyone in Research Division themselves. (Enoch by using his lie detection, Crysta by snooping on people's computers.) Is anyone on staff hiding dangerous liminal-augmented technology? Do the agents' suspicions have any merit?

1/31: Waldinger interviews

[enodiajj]

Crysta's snooping on official work files is largely boring, but she is able to unearth a group DM on Cairo Montana’s work computer which features him and a handful of other Research employees where they primarily seem to bitch about their coworkers and pass judgement on everyone else at the station.

Most relevantly to her investigation, she discovers that two of Cairo’s friends were interrogated by the FBI agents on the 30th: the first is Tulip Xanthopoulos, whose liminal ability allows her to “awaken” inanimate objects and give them personalities, like the furniture from Beauty and the Beast; the second is Derek Drexel, who is working on what he describes as a “telepathic livestreaming device” which allows two wearers to see through each other’s eyes.

Additionally, name searching herself and Enoch reveals that this entire groupchat seems to have a fairly positive opinion of the Waldingers. Cairo semi-regularly asks everyone else if they think Enoch hates him, which they always assure him he does not. Tulip appears to thinks she’s friends with Crysta. They’re all a little puzzled about what happened with Enoch's birthday party the other day, but chalk it up to the FBI interruption.

Enoch notes that even though Dr. Raleigh Huff tells him she isn’t working on anything particularly interesting, she is in fact lying to him. She truthfully admits that the FBI agents did not interrogate her or show any particular interest in her.