Tales des Révélateurs

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Le Professeur online.

Le Commerçant: Bonjour, maitre. How may I assist?

Le Professeur: Salut. How is our progress?

Le Commerçant: We're on schedule. As per your order, Protocol "Unité" is in effect. It's too early for any conclusions, but initial results look promising. The challenge is to find the right people, and then approach and 'recruit' them for our cause. The groundwork didn't account for a sudden ceasefire, so we have to alter our plans on the fly.

Le Professeur: Any setbacks?

Le Commerçant: A few. Apart from having to improvise, our agents report the lack of 'recruitment hardware'. Apparently, a major part of it was taken off-world during the evacuation, but was never returned to Gallia. We make do with what we have, but the more portable units we have, the better.

Le Professeur: The direst events are over. I granted clearance to redistribute the hardware. Do our agents still lack it?

Le Commerçant: Oui, maitre. But we haven't received any scheduled supplies from Evreux, Lausanne, or L'Itton. We lost contact with the stations. And that's the strangest part. The facilities are still there, we know that much. But we haven't received a reply from any them in days. No distress calls either. If our people were still there, they would've responded to my order. Should we alert the Navy?

Le Professeur: Non, there is too much at stake. Proceed as you do now. Who was the last member of the Inner Circle assigned to L'Itton?

Le Commerçant: Le Duc handled the evacuation of all sensitive data and prototypes to all the fallback locations. To my knowledge, nobody has been there since then.

Le Professeur: Where is Le Duc now?

Le Commerçant: Unknown. His last transmission came from Le Monarque, when he had finished his inspection of L'Itton and proceeded to Zurich. I haven't heard from him since.

Le Professeur: What about Le Monarque?

Le Commerçant: It should be in Ile-de-France still. I received a confirmation after successful evacuation of assets.

Le Commerçant: Hold on, it isn't there. I need to run a check.

Le Commerçant: Le Monarque never returned from Zurich.

Le Commerçant: Maitre, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Le Professeur: Proceed as planned.

Le Commerçant: Maybe we should alert the Navy what they're dealing with?

Le Professeur offline.