⚡️ January 30th to February 9th

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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

1/30: Zeke & Crysta, late

[beautyfull]

There is now icing on her shirt. Which should annoy her, as this is a very expensive shirt; designer, vintage, one of a kind at this point. But she's distracted. Under his touch, her once-broken rib aches, a soft phantom pain.

"I don't know." She muses, leaning back in to steal just a little frosting from his lips, "Like, to a third party, or would you have to sleep with one of them because with Agent Jessica I'm anticipating that could be like. Dicey."

1/30: Zeke & Crysta, late

[bwnedpronouncedboned]

"Ain't you never heard o' enemies to lovers?" Zeke smirks and walks his fingers along Crysta's side, trying to capture this feeling in his mind for later. The way his fingertips sweat when Crysta comes close, the way his breath hitches and his lips tingle when she touches them, it's like when someone else cancels plans first.

And it's the opposite of how he'll feel when he leaves this bubble of safety on the roof and sees one of the agents again, or his phone rings, or he remembers another embarrassing thing he did more than a decade ago.

"Unless you're more her type," he breathes out, clinging to the moment a second longer. "Then I'd say a threesome's the only fair option there."

1/30: Zeke & Crysta, late

[beautyfull]

Crysta is very cruel in that she displaces Zeke's cake slice from the top of his chest, setting it to the side so her hand can rest in its place. She doesn't imagine herself exploding Zeke's heart anymore, when she does this. Not for more than a few seconds. She likes knowing when it slows, when it quickens. It's just good data.

"Oh. Babe." She pulls back a little to share more good data, "I'm obviously more her type like. Have you even seen her. You can join in. But if you're planning to like, say her dad's name for revenge or something, you gotta warn me first."