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[basically mass texting all police-people]

hi i'm a concerned citizen a situation hasn't been looked into yet? as far as i know
could you please check this out
i think it's a valid concern
what is that thing?? thank you

prompto.......

that's so obviously photoshopped

WHAT
no it's not!!

c'mon

i have a 4s and it takes less grainy pictures than that

are you telling me i've been scared for nearly a week over nothing

...

maybe

to be fair, it's a very intimidating blob with legs

mako... i sent this to a bunch of people

[OHHHHH MY GOD, EXCUSE HIM WHILE HE WEIGHS HIS RESPONSES.

and maybe laughs.

but you're not there to see it]

all good, i'll just tell them i don't know you

DUDE!! i can never show my face the precinct again!?!

unfortunately

unless you've got enough friends to let you play it off as a joke

pass
maybe i can pretend my phone got hacked

might be a solid solution

but man

how many people are we talking about with "a bunch"?

think police station people...

like the whole police station? or just the secret app police station?

don't tell me if mr wolf starts laughing or cursing outloud

So...I'm lonely tonight. Roommate's gone.

Can you come by, or are you busy?

Hey.

You told me to tell you if more weird stuff started happening with this app. I have got some updates for you, I'll warn you they're not all productive.

You tried going to the company building again?

not recently. i've been dealing with a minor family emergency for the past few weeks. looks like that's resolved now, though.

so lay it on me, pal. what else have you found?

Sorry to bother you, then. But if you need the distraction, I'm happy to provide.

Swing by my desk, and I can show you the paper trail, but here's the short version.

-The names of two supposed employees of Retrospec have so far been revealed on the app: Janet Wizeman, HR, and Jim Halloway, Research and Development. I say supposed, because background checks have so far been unfruitful. Janet Wizeman brings up nothing (closest name match is a Janet Wagner). We have a number of hits for Jim Halloways, I'm considering putting someone on looking through them one at a time, but I'm not hopeful.

-The interior of the Retrospec building has changed. Dramatically. The entire elevator that was in the lobby is gone. I've got photos of what the inside looks like now. Still no sight of employees. We'd need to do a stakeout to determine it for sure.

-Mysterious packages have begun to be delivered to people throughout the city, but they aren't touching the postal service. Current theory is that Retrospec has been employing their own couriers. Not...everything that has been delivered in those packages is 100% legal.

There's one other area that I want to look into, but it would be less on the books. Not as questionable, but it's still something from last month that was concerning. But my reasons for hitting on this, specifically, are more personal.

did you check out of state? janet wizeman doesn't seem like it's all that rare of a name, either. and it's still possible this company is headquartered somewhere else, isn't it? i hear outsourcing everything from office cleaning to hr is a hot new thing.

it's not unusual for startups to outsource some of their development, too... but it is a little weird for a company supposedly at this state in the game.

[he reads too much bloomberg, forbes, and techcrunch. it's kind of ridiculous. But outside of that-- he frowns.]

what's the area you want to look into? and are you sure you want to discuss it here instead of in person?

Uh, no. I was only checking inside of Recolle, because, well, maybe I've been putting too much stock into that building they've got locally.

[Mako has an excellent point, and that's why Togusa wanted to bounce these ideas off someone else.]

If you want to meet up, this one's safe to talk about inside the Deaprtment.

[It doesn't take Togusa long to find Lou, and he is carrying, of all things, a pair of the local tabloid magazines. He places them on Lou's desk, so he can see the usual celebrity gossip headlines.]

"So, remember how...active" for lack of a better word, "the media was being last month?"

"It was hard to forget," Mako says with a slight grimace. That was actually something he'd spent way too long dwelling on. Recolle was a city-- it wasn't a Los Angeles, but it wasn't a one stoplight town in the slightest. While he didn't expect every news paper to be the Chicago Tribune, this felt a little too New York Daily News to him.

He folds his arms across his chest. "Do you have a theory on that? Because I'm all ears. It doesn't make sense, otherwise."

"Any theory I had? Out the window now," Togusa gestures to the magazines. "Not a word got actually reported. Not me or you or Gentiana or Izunia, people I know got followed around? Nothing."

Togusa huffs and rubs his brow. "It gets even stranger. I gave some of our usual contacts a call, the crime reporters? They had no idea what I was talking about. No memory of it. So, theories?" Togusa shrugs. "It's not that I have nothing? But nothing that makes sense."

"It's like the chickens all over again," He mutters almost as soon as Togusa stops speaking. "People acted like we were crazy then too. And hell, maybe we are. This might only be related in that the reactions to us are the same, but it still smells fishy."

He places a hand to his temple. One thing he doesn't like, is being made to feel as though he's crazy. It hurt his chances moving up-- and he couldn't keep ignoring it and hoping it went away.

"So... how's this affecting what you were talking before? This new area you want to look into?"

"We're not crazy," Togusa asserts. "If you're not trusting your own interpretation of things, remember there's about 160 of us, so far. And I'm betting there will be more. All of us can't be wrong in exactly the same way."

"I'm still not sure what to do with this piece, where it fits in. It's been a relief to some people that these things weren't reported on. But." He folds his arms. How to even explain what he saw at the building?

"Retrospec had changed up their building, we had to play a dumb game to get in the front door. Type information into a screen. Within minutes, we were surrounded by the damn press again, and they all knew what we had typed. Pointless information, but it had been just," Togusa snaps his fingers, "sent to them in an instant."

"So it comes back down to a question of what direction to go from here."

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