TRAVEL ♔ city fast asleep.clouds up on the hill

[rationalizes]

♬ Now Three - Vienna Teng

WHO || Gar, Kat, Mark, Dumage, Martha, Myri, Buffy, Sven, Spike [Closed]
WHAT || The Flight to Chicago
WHERE || IN THE AIR
WHEN || Friday afternoon, Feb 24th
HOW || Actionspam

[This log is for any in-flight interactions on the Knight's private plane ride to the mission site. Feel free to make your own threads/threadjack, etc. The flight time is approx eight hours.  Get to know your teammates, talk about the mission, ask questions, etc. etc.]

Comments

[rationalizes]

Well... preferably... [she trails off weakly] Though I can understand how one might be curious, as it certainly seems... unusual. [Wait, no, that came out all wrong]

... But yes, other questions.

[aproperdoctor]

[There's that brief moment where Martha thinks about telling Gar that she'll find a dragon and discover how unusual it is first-hand if she's curious, but she's not Dumage not...really going to do that, and Gar has no sense of humour.] Are there many corporations and organisations that are fronts for things like the Hoffman Institute, then? And are they run by Shadowkind?

[rationalizes]

[She has a sense of humor. It's just a ... really old-fashioned one...] Oh, yes, a great deal of them. While Shadowkind are accepted in many societies, they're also almost universally discriminated against on some level. It's quite common for some Shadowkind to attempt to hide their heritage, or for groups that support Shadow goals to disguise the fact.

Even our own organization operates behind the facade of a research institute.

[aproperdoctor]

Right, that explains the credit cards. What're Shadow goals? Obviously some of them are, you know, taking over the world, killing all humans, things like that, but do some of them work towards the greater good? More acceptance within the existing society, rights for the Shadowkind, et cetera?

[rationalizes]

Both, actually. There are just as many different groups representing "Shadow interests" as there are... the interests of anyone. Some of them want equality, some of them want to help educate people of this world about their people, others have much more sinister desires.

[aproperdoctor]

Like the Hoffman Institute. Though - are they run by Shadowkind or humans? Or both?

[rationalizes]

The organization seems to employ mostly humans - and its founders were both human as well, as far as we're aware.

[aproperdoctor]

So what are their goals?

[rationalizes]

Ostensibly? Alternative energy resource, but that's hardly their primary concern. They collect artifacts of a Shadow nature and study them. They claim that research is their motivation, but we have no way of knowing if there isn't another reason.