operatives wanted

[alsohawkeye]

Seeking operatives for short-term employment on the Atalanta starting immediately. Unplugged required, matrix experience preferred. Contract would be for duration of a single mission. Maximum time out of Zion: 1 week. Apply by responding to this post.

Comments

[dostoevsky]

What sort of mission?

[ He's not here to apply, he's here to make conversation. ]

[alsohawkeye]

Hello, Stephen. What're you up to today?

[ It's probably not really a secret, but what fun is it if she just tells him straight out? ]

[dostoevsky]

Picking a week's worth of dirt out from under my fingernails.

[ From his very honest work on the farms. You know how it is. ]

[alsohawkeye]

That does sound like it would take a while. Harvest anything good lately? You know I'm always more forthcoming with produce.

[dostoevsky]

Sweet potatoes. Big ones.

Look how many of your questions I've answered and how few of mine you have.

[hacker]

Do we get to know what the mission is first?

text; private

[alsohawkeye]

[ The privacy is really just to annoy the Bloom above her, though maybe it will also force more lurkers out of the woodwork to ask for themselves. ]

Primarily reconnaissance. Investigate an anomaly and determine whether the humans who have come in contact with it are in danger from Agents. Extractions if necessary.

text; private

[hacker]

What do you know about the anomaly?

[alsohawkeye]

It seems to be a glitch in the matrix, manifesting as a distortion in reality, a sort of instability. We won't know much more than that until we go get a look at it firsthand. Are you interested?

[hacker]

[ If it's putting people in danger, she wants to help. On the other hand, she hasn't gone back in since she was extracted. Which would be fine, except that she has freaking earthquake powers that she can't control. ]

Yeah. I'm interested. But I haven't been back in yet, and you said you wanted someone experienced.

text;

[rrrrangerrick]

I'm so surprised you don't have more takers given the extremely vague and sketchy details you've provided.

[alsohawkeye]

The ability to ask follow-up questions is part of the application assessment process. So far you're not doing very well.

[rrrrangerrick]

Why would you wanna waste time on answering questions when you could just give the answers

[alsohawkeye]

Why are you wasting time on any of this?

[dissent]

From those requirements, I take it you want someone to actually go into the Matrix.

[alsohawkeye]

Yes, it's an in-matrix recon job.

[dissent]

Fantastic. I'll pass, then, but if you ever do a run and need a medic or an extra deckhand, I'm usually available.

[alsohawkeye]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Anders, right?

[echopraxia]

Not currently looking for operative work but have done it before, a tour on the Nidhoggr. If you get no one else.

[alsohawkeye]

Did you quit or get fired?

[echopraxia]

( a question she was prepared for, and has a (truthful) answer to; it helps her pride that it's nothing unusual, metzger breaking in new recruits who move onto other assignments. she doesn't have to feel bad about it. she definitely doesn't.

that is a lie, but, you know. )

Captain Metzger makes decision one agreed upon tour remains one tour. I respect his reasons and his judgement. We do not dispute.

[forcemageure]

Ooh, can we take the shouty one? He seems like he'd be such fun for long stretches where we're all on top of each other.

[ He ...means Rocket. ]

[alsohawkeye]

If I do he's sitting up front with you.

[forcemageure]

Oh good. He can shout directions!

[rrrrangerrick]

I don't do directions, funny guy.