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DR. SOFIA AMARAL: ...the fracture is escalating more rapidly than Mr. Serene had anticipated. Chronon levels will lower to a point that renders Ground Zero obsolete in the near future. I’m cueing up the presentation to make sure everybody remembers the essentials before we proceed.

Hello, I’m Doctor Sofia Amaral. Over the past six years, Monarch has made vast technological advances in the area of Meyer-Joyce particles -- better known as chronon particles.

On July fourth 2010, unique temporal anomalies began to occur in a very small and focused area we now refer to as “Ground Zero” located within the Riverport industrial zone. This resulted in extremely dense emissions of chronon particles, creating the perfect conditions for extraction, which led to the chronon harvesting operation you see today.

All of Monarch’s chronon technology relies on these particles, most notably: The Chronon Field Regular, or CFR, which is the only device that can ensure stabilization and regulation of mass quantities of these particles. When the time is right, the entire supply of chronon containers will be transported from this location to the Monarch headquarters, where the CFR is located. Only authorized personnel are to handle the containers directly.

Unique temporal anomalies become more frequent with closer proximity to the Ground Zero perimeter, when entering the Yellow Zone. This Yellow Zone emits dense chronon pockets ripe for harvesting. The Ground Zero perimeter itself is never to be entered under any conditions. We refer to this area as the Red Zone, where time no longer flows in a consistent manner and shifts without warning. Many who have entered Ground Zero... have never returned.

We know that the Fracture will occur on October 8th, 2016. We hypothesize that from this point forward, chronon levels in Ground Zero will slowly deplete until time anomalies cease to occur. For this reason, all harvesting necessary for sustained use of the CFR must be complete before the fracture runs its course. For more information, please refer to your employee manual. Thank you for your time.

Sofia Amaral posted:

Chronon tech Phase 2 milestones
TO: Monarch - Chronon Research Personnel

Sending a quick email to make sure that all divisions of the chronon R and D department are on schedule. As you know, Monarch will be moving to Phase 3 on October 9th upon completion of the university operation. High level milestone deliverables for Phase 2 are as follows:

GROUND ZERO HARVESTING OP
By the end of Phase 2 we expect to have officially harvested enough chronon particles from the Ground Zero operation to fuel necessary chronon tech indefinitely. Access to the Red Zone should be completely prohibited from this point forward. All harvesting equipment will be dismantled and returned to Monarch Tower during Phase 3.

CFR RESEARCH
All research regarding the CFR must be complete and the CFR must be returned to Monarch Tower for safekeeping.

LIFEBOAT
Prototype testing phase of the Lifeboat should be complete. Further testing will commence once the CFR is returned to Monarch Tower.

CHRONON TECH
Alpha build tech must be complete for all armor and weaponry. Beta tech will commence during Phase 3. Dampener must have reached approved proof of concept deliverables.

Please read the milestone booklet to make sure all departmental deliveries are achieved.

Dr. Sofia Amaral
Head of Research

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TRAILER GENERATOR CRAPPED ITSELF. HOOKED UP THE CAR, USE THAT UNTIL MAINTENANCE GETS AROUND TO THIS.

Theresa Sedmak posted:

Hello Riverport! This is Theresa Sedmak, filling in for Bobby Radford. Bobby's taking a little break for health reasons. I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing him a speedy recovery. Just take all the time you need Bobby, we've got your back.

Now, not to get too serious on you right out of the gate, but here's the latest on the awful tragedy down at Riverport University. The authorities are now looking for Jack Joyce, believed to be the mastermind behind the terrorist action at the university, and personally responsible for several deaths. Details are still scarce, but it's believed Joyce's own brother, William Joyce, is among the dead.

Little about Joyce is known yet, but given the actions of the activist group he was part of, it is now clear that allowing the anti-corporate protest to continue has backfired, at a great human cost. Joyce's current whereabouts are unknown. Fortunately, security personnel from Monarch Solutions were on site and managed to intervene, saving countless lives.

We'll keep you updated as this story develops. And now, some music.

Martin Hatch posted:

RE: Next Steps
TO: Clarice Ogawa


Nothing changes. We move forward.

The university fallout was a setback but we can use these complications to our advantage. Paul is focused on Phase 3 of the plan. He is questioning if there are traitors within Monarch, but I am confident that he does not know where to look for them. I will make sure to shift the blame elsewhere. The gala is going ahead tonight. That is when we make our next move.

You take care of the preparations. Make sure Dr. Kim’s lab is ready for detonation. I will make sure that Paul is sufficiently distracted as to not question our involvement.

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TO: MARTIN HATCH
FROM: CLARICE OGAWA
DATE: OCT 9, 2016 – 7:32am
SUBJECT: RE: Next Steps

The university operation gathered far more attention than we expected. How does this impact our agenda moving forward? I’m concerned that Paul Serene will be paying closer attention to our actions. Perhaps we should delay making our move until things calm down.

Bruce Livingstone posted:

MY SCREENPLAY!!!
TO: Sofia Amaral


Hey Dr. Amaral,

We haven’t talked too much but I’m one of Serene’s guys from Reaper Squad. Working around all this time tech stuff (or chronon tech you call it I guess?) got me real inspired so I started writing a screenplay. There’s a lot of science talk in here so I want a scientist to check it and make sure it kind of makes sense. Would you mind taking a look? Thanks!

Here is the first half:



TIME KNIFE
Written By Bruce Livingstone
ACT ONE
INT. OFFICE – NIGHT

BRUCE SAVAGE stands in his office. He is sexually attractive.

Somebody knocks on Bruce’s door and he opens it. It’s a SCIENTIST LADY. She looks like a librarian with glasses but she is actually a scientist. You can tell because she has a lab coat.

LADY SCIENTIST:
Help me.

BRUCE:
Okay.

LADY SCIENTIST:
Take this knife because some bad apples are trying to steal it and it is very important.

BRUCE:
Okay.

LADY SCIENTIST:
What is your name handsome?

BRUCE:
I’m Bruce. Let’s shake hands.

Bruce and Lady Scientist shake hands.

LADY SCIENTIST:
Wow. You almost broke my hand with that handshake. You are definitely a tough guy.

She is impressed with Bruce’s strength. She looks at his large biceps like they are delicious pieces of ham but she doesn’t want to eat them.

LADY SCIENTIST:
Here is the knife.

The Lady Scientist hands Bruce the knife. It looks mostly like a knife but also like a time machine because it is both a knife and a time machine but Bruce doesn’t know that yet.

GOONS break through the windows and shoot the scientist lady. She dies.

SCIENTIST LADY:
Avenge me.

BRUCE:
Okay.

Bruce kills the goons with his legs by doing lots of kicking at them. They are dead real quick.

BRUCE:
Looks like I got a LEG UP on you guys.

The audience probably laughs here so Bruce waits to deliver his next line for around five seconds so that everybody has calmed down.

BRUCE:
What is so special about this knife?

Bruce stabs the knife into his chair. The chair disappears.

BRUCE:
The chair disappeared.

He looks at a picture on his wall which is a big photograph from 1932 with lots of people from 1932 in it. Bruce’s chair is in the picture.

BRUCE:
Interesting. My chair traveled back in time to 1932 when I stabbed it. When I stab things they travel through time. That explains why this knife looks like a knife but also like a time machine, because it is both.

Bruce’s real goofy friend from across the hall runs into the room. He trips on something on the floor. His name is SLOBBO. He isn’t as fat as his name sounds.

SLOBBO:
Awwww yyyeah!

That is Slobo’s catch phrase and he says it in a real funny way.

SCIENTIST LADY:
Bruce, you saved my life.

The Scientist Lady was only faking being dead.

SCIENTIST LADY:
Are you married?

BRUCE:
Only to my job.

SCIENTIST LADY:
I find that attractive but also respectable.

She kisses Bruce’s cheek.

SLOBBO:
What about MY cheek? Awwww maaaan.

That is Slobo’s other catch phrase, which he says in a different but equally funny way.

Bruce waits a few seconds for the audience to stop laughing before speaking.

BRUCE:
Wait. Those lips were man lips not woman lips.

Bruce pulls off the Scientist Lady’s wig. She is actually Bruce’s boss, PAUL MARINE. Paul Marine is a douche.

BRUCE:
My boss. But why?

PAUL MARINE:
I wanted you to kill those guys because they wanted me dead. I knew you were real tough so you could kill them easy but I don’t respect you as an employee so I always make you do the shitty jobs even though you’ve been working at my company more than most of the other guys and are real smart. Also I don’t like you because my girlfriend finds you sexually attractive.

BRUCE:
Now I understand.

PAUL MARINE:
Give me my time knife back.

Paul Marine snaps his fingers and seventy-three goons surround Bruce.

PAUL MARINE:
You can’t kill seventy-three goons so just give up.

BRUCE:
I don’t have TIME for this.

Bruce stabs himself with the time knife and disappears.

SLOBBO:
He time traveled using the time knife.

Bruce opens the door. Now he is twice as jacked.

PAUL MARINE:
You’re even more sexually attractive. How is this possible?

BRUCE:
I stabbed myself and traveled to the past, then trained in all kinds of martial arts to become even stronger. I also strapped explosives into everybody’s boots in the past so that when I press this detonator you will all explode.

SLOBBO:
Awwwww yyyyeah.

BRUCE:
I’m glad I have stocks in this company.

PAUL MARINE:
Why?

BRUCE:
Because business… is booming.

Bruce presses the detonator. All seventy-three goons blow up like eggs in a microwave. Paul Marine doesn’t explode.

PAUL MARINE:
Luckily I used my metal detector this morning and found the explosives. So I switched boots with somebody else. Say, Slobbo, whose boots are you wearing?

SLOBBO:
NOOOOOO!!

Slobbo explodes.

BRUCE:
My best friend. You’ll pay for this.

PAUL MARINE:
You don’t want to stab me with that time knife.

BRUCE:
Why not?

PAUL MARINE:
Because I am actually you from the future.

BRUCE:
That doesn’t make sense.

PAUL MARINE:
Yes it does. Remember that the time knife is also a time machine. I am you from the future but I stabbed myself with the time knife in order to come back here and do all of this.

BRUCE:
But we don’t look the same.

PAUL MARINE:
That is a good point and I am glad you brought it up. First I time travelled 700 years into the future to a time where humans have created advanced technology that allows surgeries that completely change people’s faces and bodies. I had this surgery performed so that you wouldn’t be able to recognize me, but I am actually you in disguise. I can prove it because I know many things about you.

BRUCE:
Like what?

PAUL MARINE:
You have a birth mark on your left ankle.

BRUCE:
I do have a birth mark on my left ankle. I am starting to believe you now.

PAUL MARINE:
You should, because even though I have a new body I kept that birth mark on my ankle so that when I met you I could prove that I was actually you from the future. I will show you.

Paul lifts up the left leg of his pants but there is no birth mark. Instead there is an ankle holster for a gun. Paul pulls out the gun and aims it at Bruce.

PAUL MARINE:
I was lying this whole time. I’m not actually you. I was just saying all of that so that I could get my gun.

BRUCE:
Son of a bitch.

PAUL MARINE:
Also in the future I melted the time knife and turned it into bullets. Those bullets are now in this gun, which means that I can shoot you but also send you through time all at once. Finally you will be out of my way so that I can marry my girlfriend Sofine later today before you are able to tell her that I’m a real shitty guy.

BRUCE:
I didn’t know you were getting married today.

PAUL MARINE:
I know. My girlfriend Sofine made an invitation for you because she admires you and thinks you’re attractive but I destroyed the invitation and then lied to her and said I gave it to you at work. But now I am here to give you a different invitation. To your funeral.

Paul Marine shoots at Bruce.

Slobbo jumps in front of Bruce.

SLOBBO:
NOOOOOO!!

Slobbo wasn’t actually dead. He jumps in front of the bullets and is shot several times. Now he’s actually dying.

SLOBBO:
Avenge me.

BRUCE:
Okay.

Bruce goes to attack Paul Marine, but now Paul Marine has disappeared.

BRUCE:
He’s gone.

Slobbo is dying on the ground covered in blood. His body is red like a hotdog covered in lots of ketchup.

SLOBBO:
You must… stop the wedding. You are… totally a better guy and clearly more attractive than Paul. You should be… dating his girlfriend Sofine.

Slobbo dies.

Bruce just sits there next to Slobbo for a while because many people will be crying at this point. He eventually gets up.

BRUCE:
Looks like I’m going to a wedding. After all…

He holds out the time knife.

BRUCE:
Somebody’s gotta cut the cake.

“Cut the cake” means he’s going to kill Paul. The audience will understand because of the way the actor says it. It’s a real intense moment.

Bruce puts on his shades.

END OF ACT ONE