enodia_gpsl | ⚡️ January 30th to February 9th

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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By the time Zeke is called for his interview, he has thoroughly psyched himself out about it and now he's out of smokes. The fact that Leonello is not in the room with them and instead he's left alone with just some, like, perfectly nice non-liminal dude does nothing to make him feel any better, and instead he starts sweating before they even start. Cool cool cool cool cool.

Anyway!!! He is not super forthcoming about his history with Agent Leonello. Oh... they went to high school together, but he dropped out in senior year and then moved away. He didn't even know what her bones looked like until now (awkward sweaty laugh)!!! One time she and some of her friends shoved him in the school's walk-in freezer and jammed the door closed, but that was ages ago, and who in 2007 didn't want to bully the scrawny gay weirdo ~~who has never had impure thoughts about a single member of the Leonello family~~??? (More awkward sweaty laughter as Zeke waits for Jessica to jump out from behind a door and accuse him of lying.)

When it comes to his glasses/assistive devices, Zeke is more willing to be open, but he doesn't know a lot. He knows they had to be inspected before he took his GED and there's a folder in his locker with all the reports and forms about them, it's just so full of technobabble he doesn't know what the fuck most of them mean. If Lundy wants, he can inspect the glasses himself, as long as he gives them back and please don't break them unless he wants to see Zeke cry. For anyone without x-ray vision, putting them on is basically like putting on a blindfold, but there's probably some interesting things for him to poke at.

Zeke spends the remainder of the day just waiting to be accosted by Leonello. Oh god, she's here and she knows he lied and she's gonna tell everyone and they're gonna be like "that's hilarious" and move on and yet he will still be anxious about it.

It's unclear if this is a consequence of being unattended by his partner or just part of his easy-going fun guy strategy, but Lundy is not a very rigorous interviewer on his own. He takes mostly everything Zeke says about Leonello in cheerful stride, jotting it down in his notebook in an illegible scrawl. The anecdote about the freezer seems to catch him off guard, and he spends a moment staring at the wall behind Zeke before sighing and asking him to repeat himself. The notes he takes on the second go-around are much more neatly penned.

Once that's done with, the interaction becomes much more conversational. He seems empathetic to Zeke's anxiety, and does his best to set him at ease before getting into the nitty-gritty of the glasses, which he seems genuinely quite fascinated by. After about five minutes of fidgeting with the device, he acknowledges that it's not really relevant to his current investigation and returns them to Zeke.

Zeke can spot Leonello lurking in the hallway as he's being dismissed, and while she does toss him a sour glare (easily apparent via her generally hostile body language), she will not pursue a conversation with him unless he approaches her first.

⚡️ January 30th to February 9th

1/30: Zeke's Interview

1/30: Zeke's Interview