For SRWU, an attempt at a different kind of story

[killed_the_cat]

 1.) [New guy's wandering around base. No military insignia of any kind, but he's got an ID badge clipped to his chest that reads "JOHNATHAN VALE-PRESS".]

So this is the unity group, huh...
[He can be seen taking pictures as he wanders around.]

2.) [Later, the same guy can be found wandering around the hangar, though he's got an escort as he takes more of his pictures.]
Quite the variety, isn't it...

[He's probably even taking pictures of your robot.]


3.)
[If you're going out to the bar in town, who should you happen to see there but-Johnathan Vale, Freelance Reporter. He's got a laptop, a notebook, and dozens of sheets of paper arrayed in front of him on the table. The ashtray's got plenty of cigarette butts in it, so he's probably been here a while.]


Heh, I'll probably be doing this until the day I die...
[He takes a drink of his scotch.]

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[in_over_his_head]

Carbo- No. NO! Though I'm probably willing to admit that's sort of a problem. But that's not what I'm talking about.

[Calvin clears the rest of his drink in one go, feeling the burn just smash at everything on the way down.]

These might not just be headaches. At first I figured it may have been some kind of complex psychological trigger someone put on you at first to keep you from digging too deep. You try to investigate and your body starts having problems...

But the more I think on it and this log...

[He looks dead serious right now, just what is he getting at?]

I'm thinking it might be some sort of ESP that may have been jarred open by that incident, and you experience some sort of sensory overload when you get close to anything that triggers it.

Phenomena of an unexplainable nature in other words.

[killed_the_cat]

...

[in_over_his_head]

I'm telling you this is exactly what it is! All we need to do is dig a little deeper and we'll find out everything we need to know!

[killed_the_cat]

Yeah, you can uh...go...do that. [He starts packing up his stuff.]

Uh, good luck. I guess.

[in_over_his_head]

... You think I'm crazy don't you.

[killed_the_cat]

No, I've seen crazy people. You're just a believer.
[He finishes packing up his stuff into a large messenger bag.]

Water fluoridation, vaccines causing autism, the kaiju are an inside job...those people aren't crazy. But they have faith, and faith doesn't care about facts.

[in_over_his_head]

But I do care about facts!

[Its just that a lot of them lead to places that other people would think him crazy for.]

[killed_the_cat]

But not Occam's Razor. Look, we live in a crazy world, but just 'cause there's aliens doesn't mean there's psychics and unicorns.

I'll see you around. Do all the occult detective stuff you want, but I'm not gonna be your guinea pig for it.