voice!

[wronganswer]

[ It's not immediately after arriving that Anderson finally accesses the network. Out of sorts and deeply discomfited, she falls back on professionalism, as she's been trained to do, and scopes out the area first. This reconnaissance includes a brief mental skim of assorted passersby, mostly to gauge honesty and make sure this isn't an elaborate psychic-induced hallucinatory trap.

She's strong, but she's not invulnerable. She knows that's a possibility.

Except... it seems like it isn't, and she really is here, wherever 'here' is in the universe. After the two days she's spent poking around and reassuring herself of the reality of everything, though, that's not even the most incredulous part to her. ]

Looking for some information. [ Her voice is smooth, pleasant, a young woman's voice largely stripped of tone and easy to listen to. ] Someone told me there's no police here.

No judges.

How does that... work? Has anyone had experience with the intermediary system?

[ How can a place like this exist? It seems impossible to her. And just who is she, here? Who is she if not a Judge? ]

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[gentlemenpreferblondes]

There's no government here. Or at least so they claim.

[J's sounding even more distant than in the beginning of the conversation. Events and affairs of Savrii hasn't exactly interested that much before but considering the recent events there's no way claims like that don't sound fishy.]

Yes and now. The crimes within the crew decreased but there was still killing happening.

[wronganswer]

[ Sounding calm and completely unsurprised, ] That just means whoever's pulling the strings isn't willing to go public.

[ Jaded and cynical, her? Absolutely. ]

--Still? How recently? [ Anderson knows it's not her job here, but she can't resist the instinct. ]

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

Well, it could be that too. Things have gone off very peachy seeing that there's no one watching.

[Pots and kettles, really.]

Ah. I was mostly talking about before we ended up in this world. But now that you ask, these people over here massacred lot of scientist in our previous place that had tampered with Ingress. Then few months ago they left bunch of bloody hearts on people's doors.

[wronganswer]

I find it hard to believe that all these civic-minded scientists are self-directed.

[ But that's just speculation.

This is the sort of gruesome murder Anderson tends to get called out on, and her voice turns correspondingly grim, but unsurprised, steady. ] Who exactly do you mean by 'these people'? The people in Kauto?

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

Yeah, Savrii did that. They are quite possessive when it comes to Ingress technology.

[wronganswer]

They were setting an example. They don't want anyone else to dare try it. What are they afraid of?

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

[J sighs heavily. This is such mess of a story.]

I don't think that's the case here. They had massacred entire building full of scientist and left them there. When our crew arrived to that place it had already passed several years since they had died.

As for your question. I don't know.

[wronganswer]

Oh. So it wasn't recent. [ She hadn't even considered that. ] ... Sounds like a mess.

[ Years-old massacred, mutilated corpses? Yeesh. She's always glad she isn't on clean up. ]

How'd you find out what happened?