[Just so he feels reassured they can leave without a window. As for the rest...]
I think we should start with the murder thing first.
[He sits on the floor, one knee drawn up.]
Our team is called the FREAK Force. The First Regiment Elite AttacK Force. The K part of it's pretty stupid.
[It's a dumb name.]
It's a team mostly made up of people who have criminal records. Draft dodgers, unaligned vigilantes that got caught at it, people who got arrested for accidentally hurting people by losing control of their powers...
You serve for a little while, it's considered time served, you go free. You even get your criminal record wiped. It counts as your military service, or you have to follow up and pick a guild after, but you get a fresh start.
Assholes like King Snake aside, a lot of decent people have gone through the program and been released. And while the missions are dangerous, we've never lost any members. At least as long as I've been there.
It's not really...ideal. But it's also let people learn to control their powers, learn some discipline, and make up for things they feel guilty for, especially if they accidentally hurt people. And we've done some real good. Even if nobody else knows about it, since the program's kept secret.
I think since the team's made up of convicts, they're worried about, you know...optics.
Even with it being secret, until recently, we hadn't gotten many orders that seemed suspect. But...that's changed. Samantha Walpert, our program director, has gotten more secretive. More strict. More...cold.
A few of us have been worried that something's gone wrong behind the scenes. A change in her superiors that went corrupt in the government itself. Or maybe she's lost it and the program's gone rogue, following its own agenda.
This...this confirms it. That something's seriously wrong. I don't why she wouldn't want a civilian witness other than she really, really wants to hide something about Mutagenia's experiments and the tech we recovered.
And if she does, that means said tech is probably going to be used for something bad. Which means she wanted to make sure no one found about it that she didn't have at least some control over.
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[Just so he feels reassured they can leave without a window. As for the rest...]
I think we should start with the murder thing first.
[He sits on the floor, one knee drawn up.]
Our team is called the FREAK Force. The First Regiment Elite AttacK Force. The K part of it's pretty stupid.
[It's a dumb name.]
It's a team mostly made up of people who have criminal records. Draft dodgers, unaligned vigilantes that got caught at it, people who got arrested for accidentally hurting people by losing control of their powers...
You serve for a little while, it's considered time served, you go free. You even get your criminal record wiped. It counts as your military service, or you have to follow up and pick a guild after, but you get a fresh start.
Assholes like King Snake aside, a lot of decent people have gone through the program and been released. And while the missions are dangerous, we've never lost any members. At least as long as I've been there.
It's not really...ideal. But it's also let people learn to control their powers, learn some discipline, and make up for things they feel guilty for, especially if they accidentally hurt people. And we've done some real good. Even if nobody else knows about it, since the program's kept secret.
I think since the team's made up of convicts, they're worried about, you know...optics.
Even with it being secret, until recently, we hadn't gotten many orders that seemed suspect. But...that's changed. Samantha Walpert, our program director, has gotten more secretive. More strict. More...cold.
A few of us have been worried that something's gone wrong behind the scenes. A change in her superiors that went corrupt in the government itself. Or maybe she's lost it and the program's gone rogue, following its own agenda.
This...this confirms it. That something's seriously wrong. I don't why she wouldn't want a civilian witness other than she really, really wants to hide something about Mutagenia's experiments and the tech we recovered.
And if she does, that means said tech is probably going to be used for something bad. Which means she wanted to make sure no one found about it that she didn't have at least some control over.