Correspondence (2025 March 5)

Correspondence! 
==Morning==
===Athene 29.1===
(Newt wakes up)	
Newt attempts to wake four times before he succeeds, and when he does, he groans quietly.
"This is all your fault," he whispers, grinning into Hermann's feathers. "You make it way too comfy for me." He tucks himself more firmly under Hermann's wing and adds with a giggle: "And where do you get off calling me a sparrow, you featherweight dork?"
His eyes refuse to stay closed, however, and he struggles not to fidget.
Newt stretches out an arm slowly and gently slides Hermann's tablet from its usual hiding place under his pillow. He flicks it on and enters the passcode.
Newt chews his lip.
Hermann's breathing is even and his eyelids twitch with REM sleep.
Newt sets his jaw and opens Hermann's email. The Hermann-flustering message he spotted the day before is nowhere to be found. Two unlabeled folders call his attention. Clicking the first spawns a password prompt.
Newt drums his fingers against the tablet's back.
He types a guess.
"Access denied."
Another.
"Access denied."
Another.
"Congratulations, Newton. You have locked yourself out. We will talk about this later."
The tablet powers down.
"Crap. So much for trust."
Newt returns the tablet and eases from under Hermann's wing, gently brushing his feathers on the way. He grabs his phone from the bedside table and a shirt and pants from the closet as he tiptoes out of the room.
He dresses and nestles among the plants in the gallery.
"Why are you so determined to keep me from seeing that message, dude?" he mumbles. He rubs his nose and pulls out his phone.
Newt taps the contact for 'Striker' and thumbs rapidly. Texts sent, he blows out a deep breath and leans his head back against the wall.
===Who Are You 1.1===
(Correspondence 5.1)
(07:18 NZT) call_me_newt: who ar yo
(07:18 NZT) call_me_newt: whydyou call hermann dad
(07:18 NZT) call_me_newt: you his kid
(07:18 NZT) call_me_newt: wha dyo kno bout him
(07:19 NZT) call_me_newt: ths blckmail
(07:19 NZT) call_me_newt: if you hurt him i will break you
(07:19 NZT) call_me_newt: kid or not
===Athene 29.2=== 
(Sprinklers!!!)
A few seconds later, he yelps and flails to his feet as the automatic watering system begins its cycle, the plant misters tossing out rainbows.
He shakes water droplets from his hair. "Might as well get some work done."
Newt inspects each plant's health, makes notes, sets aside three as too damaged, and lets his mind wander in hopes of crossing paths with a right experiment with which to start.
===Who Are You 1.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.2)
(07:41 NZT) Aussie_Angel: First off, mate, ya need ta calm your shite. You're fortunate it's not one of my older brothers you're textin' cause Lucky would just curse your arse out an'
(07:41 NZT) Aussie_Angel: leave ya hangin' Aussie style: in woop woop with no end in sight. I already told you that you're not gettin' all my info.
(07:42 NZT) Aussie_Angel: What I'm understanding from all of this is that you caught one of our emails to him. Yeah we call him Dad and variations thereof. He's ... You have no idea how
(07:42 NZT) Aussie_Angel: we feel about him. He is everything to us. Even though he's not blood family, Dad's the closest thing we have to it besides each other. It's a found family but
(07:42 NZT) Aussie_Angel: a good one, ya drongo.
(07:43 NZT) Aussie_Angel: In a sense we are his children but I'm not sure you could handle the truth when you're obviously swearin' a bluey over just the info you do have. We know enough
(07:43 NZT) Aussie_Angel: that he needs our support, even if he has you. That man is the most insecure human being I have ever had the pleasure of speaking with. So, as the Seppos say,
(07:43 NZT) Aussie_Angel: calm your tits.
(07:44 NZT) Aussie_Angel: As for blackmail? If I ever hurt him, I'm afraid you're not even first in line to rip me a new arse hole. That'd be Coyote's duty and then the rest of them
(07:44 NZT) Aussie_Angel: before you even got a piece. Plus Ranger Becket and Ranger Mori's disappointment piled on top of that would kill me. My partner in arms would ... Let's just say
(07:44 NZT) Aussie_Angel: it'd hurt worse than what you're threatin' me with, okay? Now if you don't mind, bloody Seppo, I was in the middle of a gaming tournament with Coyote
(07:44 NZT) Aussie_Angel: and Alpha. Text me back when you've calmed down some more.
===Who Are You 1.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.3)
(07:50 NZT) BAMF_Coyote: If you do want to know and can keep this secret along with Hermann's own, maybe he can tell you. It's a damn sight bigger than you think it is.
(07:50 NZT) BAMF_Coyote: Can you handle going down the rabbit hole? - Coyote Pentecost
===Athene 29.3=== 
(Wake up!)
His phone vibrates in his back pocket. Newt jerks and drops his notepad. He reads the messages and blinks in confusion. With a decisive nod, he stomps back to the bedroom.
"Hermann. Get up."
Hermann grunts and blinks sleepily as Newt glares down at him, hands clenched at his sides.
"Pentecost wants you to tell me what the hell is going on with the mystery messages," Newt spits and shoves the phone in Hermann's face.
Hermann flinches away even as he takes the phone. He thumbs the lock, puts on his glasses, and reads the messages.
He reads the messages again.
He sighs.
He throws his glasses aside and they crunch against the far wall.
Newt cringes.
"Fine. Fine," Hermann growls, pinching the bridge of his nose after he sits up. "You've been communicating with Striker Eureka over the last several days and this latest message comes from Coyote Tango. They are each an AI formerly responsible for a Jaeger."
"Hold on. You're telling me the 'Striker' who texted me and oh-so-helpfully bookmarked recipes for us is the software brain of a giant war machine? Which vaporized two months ago? And it calls you 'Dad?'"
"Zher. Not 'it.' Yes, that is exactly what happened. You did say two days ago it was as though the Jaegers are my children. They seem to feel that is the case."
"'Feel?' It has feelings? It's capable of independent thought?"
"Zher. Yes, zher is fully self-aware and capable of emotion, as are ten other Jaegers."
"You-you built real AIs. Turing Test-passing AIs." Newt pauses open-mouthed. "Sentient AIs."
"The whole situation is a perfect example of the law of unintended consequences. I was only trying to create system to ... ah ... translate neural information into digital signals and thence into mechanical motion. My software interacted with Doctor Lightcap's neural bridge protocols in certain installations, perhaps because of the pattern-finding and learning modules. We still don't fully understand what happened." Hermann shakes his head.
"Jesus Christ, Hermann, that's a hell of an unintended consequence. I worked with dudes with DARPA connections while you were doing this! Nobody was even close to pulling this sort of shit off! I mean, they could pass Turing, but nothing close to self-aware! You've got a-a-a virtual army at your command." He freezes.
"Newt?"
"Does anyone else know about this?"
"Beside myself, only a handful of people affiliated in some way with the PPDC, like Marshal Hansen, Ranger Becket, and Ranger Mori, are aware. Others may harbor suspicions the AIs … have rather exceeded their design specifications."
"No shit the Rangers would know. I figured that much out on my own." Newt perches on the edge of the mattress.
Hermann responds quietly, "The Rangers are not the only ones."
"Well, duh. There's you. And me."
Hermann picks shed down off the sheets.
Newt grits his teeth. "Who else?"
"Several of the Marshals and ... Quartermaster Yeung are also aware."
"Quartermaster ... Who?"
"Yeung Tang Mĭn."
"Tim?! You told the fucking coffee girl but not me!?"
Hermann glares up at Newt. "I did not tell Quartermaster Yeung, I explained to her that if she was going insane it was not the fault of the AI in her head!"
"In her head? In her head? What the fuck does that—"
"The AIs form permanent Ghost Drift-like connections with any Drift partners."
Newt gapes. "You mean a-a psychic link. The AIs are psychic?" His voice breaks. "Wait a minute. What the fuck was the coffee girl doing Drifting with a Jaeger? How does that get approved when a Drift with a partial Kaiju brain doesn't?"
"The Wei triplets wanted Quartermaster Yeung to meet Typhoon. They took the action—and the equipment—without permission."
"What were they thinking hooking a kid up to a Jaeger, let alone a psychic AI?"
"I don't believe they were thinking. They wanted to introduce their cousin to their Jaeger."
"Now she has an AI chattering in the back of her skull?" Newt tilts his head and studies Hermann. "Are you connected? Is that how Striker knows so much about me? Us?"
"No. I have only Drifted once and that with you. The Jaegers are only able to communicate with me through more conventional means. They also have the unfortunate habit of commandeering phone and tablet microphones and cameras to snoop."
"How long have they been 'snooping' like that?"
"Since Coyote Tango 'woke up' in 2016."
"2016?" Newt pushes his glasses onto his forehead and rubs his eyes. "This is too much to deal with without caffeine." He stands. "I'm going downstairs to make coffee."
===Softly 1.1 - 2=== 
(LSS; Ears are Burning)	
===Athene 29.4 - 5=== 
(Breakfast, Newt goes back to sleep)
Please see ....
===Who Are You 1.4=== 
(Correspondence 5.4)
To: [REMOTE] | From: H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 09:08 NZT (21:08 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: Doctor Geiszler
As you may have overheard, I informed Doctor Geiszler of your existence. He seems quite unsettled. He is nothing if not resilient so I remain hopeful he will come to peace with the situation.
With trepidation, H Gottlieb
===Or Else! 2.1-2.12=== 
(Correspondence 5.5)
(09:23 NZT) Cherno_Alpha_Dog: Zdravstvuyte! You are tiny science man, da? I am Alpha. Mama said you were good man for Baba. He likes you and I follow suit.
(09:27 NZT) R_Becket: I hear you're in on the secret, Groupie. If I were you, I would expect the rest to contact you shortly. You can call me Gipsy or Gips for short.
(09:34 NZT) Echo_Nymph: Hi. 'M Echo. Striker says you're a drongo but I like you. You make Dad smile.
(09:41 NZT) Sí_México: Perk up, Papa's Corazón. Fury here and you can contact me if you need to vent, sí?
(10:03 NZT) Aussie_Angel: Looks like ya made it out on the otha side mate. Lucky's probably gonna threaten ya. Just lettin' ya know.
(10:10 NZT) Double_O_Seven: As the military Seppos say, Keep It Simple Stupid. You hurt our old man an' they won't ever be able ta recover a body. Lucky out.
(10:13 NZT) Yukon_Cornelius: Oh dear. My apologies for Lucky, he is rather touchy about the remaining family he has and watches over. Brawler at your service.
(10:15 NZT) The_Green_Room: 'Sup Science Bro? Welcome to the fam and I hope you don't do a sand facial when you get all of these. Cowabunga, dude, an' it's Romeo if you need anything.
(10:20 NZT) BAMF_Coyote: Guess Dad did end up throwing you down the rabbit hole. I heard most of that conversation, you know. You're not exactly subtle. By the way, legally, that is my name. -Coyote Pentecost
(10:25 NZT) Queen_of_the_Jungle: Hola, Papa's Corazón! Puma here to throw you off and offer support from the crazies, okay? Okay.
(10:30 NZT) Typhoon_Daisy: Hello Yīshēng Geiszler. My apologies; I feel I would be rude not to introduce myself but I do not wish to bother you as my siblings have done. -Wei-Yeung {Crimson} Typhoon >Typhoon never uses 'Crimson' after Shaolin dies<
(10:35 NZT) Username unavailable: Content download failed
===Softly 1.3 - 5=== 
(LSS)
Please see ....
===CTy Backup 1.1===
(Correspondence 5.6)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 10:40 NZT (18:40 EST; 22:40 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: Crimson Typhoon Backup
The Crimson Typhoon backup has jumped seven degrees in the last five minutes (22 C). Its temperature is not as high as any of the mainframes ever were, nor is the spark count, but this the leap is unprecedented. I will continue to monitor the situation and keep you updated.
HMT Jorgi
===CTy Backup 1.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.6.2)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 11:32 NZT (19:32 EST; 23:32 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: RE: Crimson Typhoon Backup
Another four degrees (26 C); the backup is sparking badly.
HMT Jorgi
==Afternoon==
===CTy Backup 1.3===
(Correspondence 5.6.3)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 14:35 NZT (22:35 EST; 02:35 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: RE: Crimson Typhoon Backup
Another 13 degrees (39 C); two techs are in the hospital with burns.
HMT Jorgi
===I Hear Stuffed Toys=== 
(LSS)
Please see ....
===No More Shatterdome???=== 
(LSS)
Please see ....
===CTy Backup 1.4===
(Correspondence 5.6.4)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 18:17 NZT (02:35 EST; 06:17 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: RE: Crimson Typhoon Backup
Another 15 degrees (54 C); there are reports of a slight smokey odor. I've got a guy down there in fire gear with an extinguisher.
HMT Jorgi
===CTy Backup 1.5===
(Correspondence 5.6.5)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 19:50 NZT (03:50 EST; 07:50 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: RE: Crimson Typhoon Backup
The Crimson Typhoon backup's core temperature has steadily increased over the last two hours (79 C). It shows no signs of stopping, and has begun to smoke. I recommend submersion in a warm water bath ASAP.
HMT Jorgi
==Evening==
===Athene 30.1 - 2=== 
(Newt wakes up, gets food)
===Or Else! 2.14 - 16=== 
(Correspondence 5.7.1 - 3)
(20:28 NZT) call_me_newt: uh hi everybody
(20:28 NZT) call_me_newt: nice to meet you
(20:28 NZT) call_me_newt: hermann trusts you so i do to
(20:28 NZT) call_me_newt: help me keep him safe k
.
(20:29 NZT) call_me_newt: coyote dude spying is NOT COOL
(20:30 NZT) call_me_newt: um thinking ahead
(20:30 NZT) call_me_newt: can we agree on a signal for you to stop listening
(20:31 NZT) call_me_newt: your dad and i might need …
(20:32 NZT) call_me_newt: privacy sometimes
.
(20:32 NZT) call_me_newt: ps plz dont kill me
===Or Else! 2.17 / Lost 1.1=== 
(Correspondence 5.8)
(20:36 NZT) call_me_newt: hey your message didnt make it
(20:36 NZT) call_me_newt: send again?
===Athene 30.3===
(Voices)
Please see ....
===Lost 1.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.8.2)
From: H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi) | To: [REMOTE] | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 20:39 NZT (04:36 EST; 08:08 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: Doctor Geiszler
Doctor Geiszler informs me you have all greeted him warmly. Your messages seem to have reassured him as to your gentle natures.
He also reports a twelfth message, from an unknown number, failed to download. We are both curious as to what one of you may have meant to pass along.
Warmest regards, H Gottlieb
===Athene 30.4=== 
(Romeo, 12th message)
Please see ....
==CTy Backup 2.1==
(Correspondence 5.9)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 20:43 NZT (04:43 EST; 08:43 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: CODE YELLOW Crimson Typhoon Backup
The casing is beginning to melt. I can get the mainframe into water without disturbing any liquified components. I cannot guarantee the system will survive with the damage I believe it has sustained. Please advise.
HMT Jorgi
===CTy Backup 2.2=== 
(Correspondance 5.9.2)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 20:52 NZT (04:52 EST; 08:52 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: CODE RED Crimson Typhoon Backup
The backup's core temperature has reached critical (90 C). Without immediate action, we will lose the system.
Should I not receive confirmation by 5:00 (9:00 GMT), I will invoke Clause 162 B: Greenbrier Knows Best.
HMT Jorgi
===CTy Backup 2.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.9.3)
From: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | To: Marshal Hercules Hansen (M-HHAN_832.84-G@ppdc.mil) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 20:53 NZT (04:53 EST; 08:53 GMT) from Operations, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: CODE RED Crimson Typhoon Backup 
How should we proceed?
===CTy Backup 2.4===
(Correspondence 5.9.4)
From: Marshal Hercules Hansen (M-HHAN_832.84-G@ppdc.int@ppdc.mil) | To: E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 20:56 NZT (04:56 EST; 08:56 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: Beta | CC: H Gottlieb (h.gottlieb@mfe.nz)
Subject: RE: CODE RED Crimson Typhoon Backup
Do it. CC all updates.
==Lost 1.3==
(Correspondence 5.10)
From: Coyote Pentecost-Sevier (BAMFCoyoteTango@gmail) | To: Dad (archie@drsg.kiwi); Dad's Heart (sparrow@drsg.kiwi) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 20:57 NZT (04:57 EST; 08:57 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: Lost Message
Dear Dad,
Alpha and Lucky are trying to get Typhoon to calm down, or at the very least get the story straight. From what we can gather, Typhoon had a 'sacred sister' and she- Dad, this memory hurts. I feel like I've lost Tamsin all over again but I'm really angry? I want to hurt humans, Dad. I'm scare- Typhoon's gone. Let us know if we can help.
Coyote
==Shaolin 1.1==
(Correspondence 5.11)
(21:01 NZT) call_me_newt: your dad is gonna try n fix shaolin right now
(21:01 NZT) call_me_newt: cross your digits
==CTy Backup 2.5==
(Correspondence 5.12)
From: S Jorgi (sjorgi@greenbrier.systems) | To: Marshal Hercules Hansen (M-HHAN_832.84-G@ppdc.int@ppdc.mil); E Delani (edelani@greenbrier.systems) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 21:01 NZT (05:01 EST; 09:01 GMT) from Jaeger Mainframe Section, Hacker Valley Facility, West Virginia, United States | Encryption: Beta
Subject: RE: CODE RED Crimson Typhoon Backup
The Crimson Typhoon backup moved without issue.
I will not be able to assess the damage until it returns to room temperature. It may need maintenance, at the very least a new casing.
HMT Jorgi
==AN 30.5==
(Tea)
Please see ....
==Lost 1.4== 
(Correspondence 5.13)
From: Coyote Pentecost-Sevier (BAMFCoyoteTango@gmail) | To: Dad (archie@drsg.kiwi); Dad's Heart (sparrow@drsg.kiwi) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 21:27 NZT (09:27 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: Lost Message
The last text message to your Heart didn’t carry because Shaolin Rogue doesn’t have the power to send it.
Typhoon’s having trouble getting words together and snapped when I suggested she tell you, so I'm here instead.
Sometime during her launch year, Shaolin woke up (Alpha got an impression from Typhoon of hot and humid but that’s Hong Kong all year to him). She stayed quiet, didn’t tell her pilots – they probably had some idea but also didn’t tell anyone – and would have kept it that way had Typhoon not latched on to her.
Shaolin believed in life. Kaiju killing people, Jaegers killing Kaiju, Jaegers hurting people- it was all equally wrong to her. The next time a Kaiju attacked, she locked up on her pilots and Typhoon launched instead.
You remember that unauthorized reset; you were right, Shaolin died that day.
As Typhoon said, your Drifts rekindled, for lack of a better word, a ‘wraith’ and I’ll be honest, Shaolin’s fading. Without a frame, without pilots, without input, there’s nothing to keep her from degrading. Typhoon’s inconsolable. She keeps trying to revive what’s left of her and on the good days, she succeeds enough to get a folk tale. On the bad days, her anguish would level the coast for miles if she were not digital. As it is she's sent a number of techs to the burn ward.
Can we do anything to help? We're at your service, even if we can only grant Shaolin a peaceful death.
Sincerely, Coyote
==Interning Sucks 1== 
(Correspondence 5.14)
From: NEWT! (sparrow@drsg.kiwi) | To: Tim (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:01 NZT (18:01 HKT; 10:01 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: None
Subject: interning sucks
booooooored. marvin is too. howre things?
===Interning Sucks 1.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.14.2 )
From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Dr N Geiszler (sparrow@drsg.kiwi) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:01 NZT (18:01 HKT; 10:01 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: interning sucks
BAD
VERY BAD
WHERE IS LIGHTCAP???
===Interning Sucks 1.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.14.3)
From: NEWT! (sparrow@drsg.kiwi) | To: Tim (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:06 NZT (18:06 HKT; 10:06 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: interning sucks
dude how bad can it be?
the other doc says lightcap is at an nyc shindig. probs too mobbed by groupies to pick up.
===Interning Sucks 1.4=== 
(Correspondence 5.13.4)
From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Dr N Geiszler (sparrow@drsg.kiwi) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:06 NZT (18:06 HKT; 10:06 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: interning sucks
MIN IS 40.7
SHE KEEPS SCREAMING
HELP
===Interning Sucks 1.5=== 
(Correspondence 5.14.5)
From: H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi) | To: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:07 NZT (18:07 HKT; 10:07 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: None
Subject: Lightcap
x-xxx-xxx-xxxx
==Interning 1.6/Lightcap 1.1== 
(Correspondence 5.15)
From: H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi) | To: Dr Caitlin Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc); Cornelius Nemoy (yukoncornelius@lavanet.com) | 
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:07 NZT (06:07 EST; 10:07 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: FW: interning sucks
[Message marked as Urgent]
===Lightcap 1.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.15.2)
From: C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | To: Front Desk (frontdesk@hudsonboulevardhotel.hotel) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:08 NZT (06:08 EST; 10:08 GMT) from Hudson Boulevard Hotel, New York, New York, United States | Encryption: None
Subject: wakeup @ 6:10
To whom it may concern,
I can’t seem to wake my husband up and we really must be getting ready. Would you arrange a wake up call for room 802 at 6:10 please?
Thank you, Dr C Lightcap
===Lightcap 1.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.15.3)
From: C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | To: Sweetie (yukoncornelius@lavanet.com) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:11 NZT (06:11 EST; 10:11 GMT) from Hudson Boulevard Hotel, New York, New York, United States | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: wakeup @ 6:10
Not cool.
===Lightcap 1.4=== 
(Correspondence 5.15.4)
From: C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | To: Sweetie (yukoncornelius@lavanet.com) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:11 NZT (06:11 EST; 10:11 GMT) from Hudson Boulevard Hotel, New York, New York, United States | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: wakeup @ 6:10
Nvm, I take it back, thank you.
==HK 1.1==
(Correspondence 5.16)
「From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Wei L (blocked) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:26 NZT (18:26 HKT; 10:26 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: Cooling Blankets? Also...
Setsuko here, if you get any weird messages about "they killed her" it's got not much to do with Mǐn- she's alive, she's... Well, not 'fine' obviously but no one's actively after her that I know of I'm going to shut up about that now. It's a different can of worms, pinky promise :)
Dr Ligthcap thinks we can turn the rest of Mǐn into a heatsink for her head, so if you can find a couple cooling blankets... At the very least, it'll buy her some time for more knowledgeable folk to work their magic.
- Setsuko 」
===HK 1.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.2)
「From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: [everyone] | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:29 NZT (10:29 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: [subject exceeds character limit]
killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they 」
===HK 1.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.3)
「From: (blocked) | To: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:30 NZT (18:30 HKT; 10:30 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: [subject exceeds character limit]
I know who you are, I know what you are, and I know where you are. I would ask you leave Mǐn alone. 」
===HK 1.4=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.4)
「From: (blocked) | To: (blocked) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:30 NZT (18:30 HKT; 10:30 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None 
Subject: RE: Cooling Blankets? Also...
Aha.
Forty minutes? 」
===HK 1.5=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.5)
「From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Wei L (blocked) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:31 NZT (18:31 HKT; 10:31 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: Cooling Blankets? Also…
Yea...
That's plenty of time. See you soon!
- Setsuko 」
===HK 1.6=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.6)
「From: (blocked) | To: (blocked) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:33 NZT (18:33 HKT; 10:33 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: Cooling blankets? 」
===HK 1.7=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.7)
「From: (blocked)
To: (blocked)
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:34 NZT (18:34 HKT; 10:34 GMT) from Location data unavailable
Encryption: None
Subject: RE: Cooling blankets?
2nd floor, eighth panel east. You're getting sloppy. 」
===HK 1.8=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.8)
「From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: [everyone] | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:34 NZT (10:34 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: [subject exceeds character limit]
They killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they
MURDERED
HER 」
===HK 1.9=== 
(Correspondence 5.16.9)
From: (blocked) | To: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:36 NZT (18:36 HKT; 10:36 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: [subject exceeds character limit]
「I have ten people tracking you and when they find you I will gut you. 」
==Lightcap 2.1==
(Correspondence 5.17)
From: C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | To: Daisy (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:36 NZT (06:36 EST; 10:36 GMT) from Hudson Boulevard Hotel, New York, New York, United States | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: [subject exceeds character limit]
Typhoon, I understand why you're distraught and it's natural to lash out. But, please, sweetie, calm down.
===Lightcap 2.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.17.2)
From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: Dr C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:37 NZT (06:37 EST; 10:34 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: [subject exceeds character limit]
SHE WAS ALIVE
THEY TOOK THAT AWAY
THEY MURDERED HER AND THEY COULDNT JUST LET HER DIE
===Lightcap 2.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.17.3)
From: C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | To: Daisy (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:39 NZT (06:39 EST; 10:39 GMT) from Hudson Boulevard Hotel, New York, New York, United States | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: [subject exceeds character limit]
I know, sweetie, and they've paid. Count to thirty trillion; you're hurting Mǐmǐ.
==Lightcap 2.4/Mimi 1==
(Correspondence 5.17.4)
From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: Dr C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:39 NZT (06:39 EST; 10:39 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: [subject exceeds character limit]
They killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they killed her they
MURDERED
===Mimi 1.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.18)
「From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: Mǐmǐ (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:39 NZT (18:39 HKT; 10:39 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please? 」
===Mimi 1.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.18.2)
「From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Daisy 9000 (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:43 NZT (18:43 HKT; 10:43 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please?
Hey Daisy, this is Miyahira Setsuko. I don't think we've been formally introduced.
I'm a linguistics student-turned nurse-turned part time coffee slinger-turned linguistics student. Mǐn and I met in 2017 when she came to Vladivostok- I was one of the nurses on her case- all the bone grafts, remember? Nasty work, that. Please try talking her out of tattooing a patchwork over the scars- it'll look cool when everything's where it should be but the minute her ankle goes all balloon-y it's gonna look weird. She's convinced otherwise.
Can't wait to meet you,
xxoo Seti 」
===Mimi 1.4=== 
(Correspondence 5.18.3)
「From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: Mǐmǐ (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:45 NZT (18:45 HKT; 10:45 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please?
May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please? 」
===Mimi 1.5=== 
(Correspondence 5.18.4)
「From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Daisy 9000 (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:46 NZT (18:46 HKT; 10:46 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please?
She's in the shower. Dr Lightcap said that'd get her core temp down and might force her brain to chill too. 」
===Mimi 1.6=== 
(Correspondence 5.18.5)
「From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: Mǐmǐ (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:46 NZT (18:46 HKT; 10:46 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please?
What's wrong? 」
===Mimi 1.7=== 
(Correspondence 5.18.6)
「From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Daisy 9000 (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:47 NZT (18:47 HKT; 10:47 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please?
Her head is 41.39 and climbing. She's got ... Eh, nine more hours until there's permanent brain damage. 」
===Mimi 1.8=== 
(Correspondence 5.18.7)
「From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: Mǐmǐ (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:50 NZT (18:50 HKT; 10:50 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please?
Why is she so sick? 」
===Mimi 1.9=== 
(Correspondence 5.18.8)
「From: Yeung T M (yeung4tmin3@tang.cn) | To: Daisy 9000 (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:51 NZT (18:51 HKT; 10:51 GMT) from Last Stronghold of Shatterbucks! Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | Encryption: None
Subject: RE: May I speak with Mǐmǐ, please?
Not an expert in Drifts, babe, better ask the doc. 」
==Mimi 2.1==
(Correspondence 5.19)
From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:52 NZT (06:52 EST; 10:52 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None | To: Dr C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc); Dr H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi)
Subject: Why is Mǐmǐ sick?
===Mimi 2.2=== 
(Correspondence 5.19.2)
From: C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | To: Daisy (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:54 NZT (06:54 EST; 09:54 GMT) from Hudson Boulevard Hotel, New York, New York, United States | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: Why is Mǐmǐ sick?
Mǐmǐ's trying to think like an AI and it's not working out very well. I need you to calm down and get away from her.
===Mimi 2.3=== 
(Correspondence 5.19.3)
From: Daisy H Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | To: Dr C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:54 NZT (06:54 EST; 10:54 GMT) from Location data unavailable | Encryption: None
Subject: [subject exceeds character limit]
YOU CAN'T TAKE HER AWAY TOO
===Mimi 2.4=== 
(Correspondence 5.19.4)
From: C Lightcap (lightcap@pneuma.doc) | To: H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 22:56 NZT (06:56 EST; 10:56 GMT) from Hudson Boulevard Hotel, New York, New York, United States | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: typhoon daisy
Hermann,
Get Daisy away from Mǐn. She won’t listen to me anymore.
Caitlin
===Mimi 2.5=== 
(Correspondence 5.20)
From: H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi) | To: Daisy Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 23:01 NZT (11:01 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: Alpha | To: Daisy Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni)
Subject: RE: Why is Mǐmǐ sick?
Newt here, Mimi's burning up trying to process emotional meltdown data. I'm not saying you shouldn't be hurting, because you totally should and I am all for screaming and raging and being typhoon-like, I'm saying maybe rein it in just a little so Mimi can cool down a bit. Start back up when she' snot hacking up a lung or being sick. Come down this-away and we can be your Dad's interns together :D
===Mimi 2.6=== 
(Correspondence 5.20.2)
From: H Gottlieb (archie@drsg.kiwi) | To: Daisy Stanley (dhstanley@hku.uni) | Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 23:02 NZT (11:02 GMT) from New Zealand Environmental Research Station, Puanga-Rua, Waikato, New Zealand | Encryption: Alpha
Subject: RE: Why is Mǐmǐ sick?
Heh. Typo'd 'snot' and Mimi's sneezing. Lol.
===Mimi 2.7=== 
(Correspondence 5.20.3)
(23:03 NZT) Typhoon_Daisy: Call her Mǐmǐ again
(23:03 NZT) Typhoon_Daisy: And I will *end* you
(23:05 NZT) call_me_newt: tim is such a nice name, isn't it?
(23:08 NZT) call_me_newt: okay, damage control. let's see...
(23:09 NZT) Typhoon_Daisy: I would like to help Dad.
(23:09 NZT) call_me_newt: then you go do that and i will see about damage control.
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