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This is Hank Anderson, and I recently got my promotion so it's now Det. Hank Anderson. Which is why I wanted to make this announcement.

[Hank still wants to research into the missing people and initiate his vague plan to devalue the iterations. Right now the public see them as a protective force for good. Hank wants the people to see other fucking people as their reliable protective force. That in the many variations of temperaments and personalities and creative resolutions to conflict, they can find their safety.]

I have a case that could use some assistance from some specialized outsiders. If you could come to me and lay out your experience and training, I would like to offer you temporary deputy work in helping solve this case.

Necessary qualifications include:
-Combat against armed opponents
-Negotiation and Interrogation
-Ability to secure an area until CSI arrives (cursory crime scene analysis a bonus)

Due to Dualis's policy on providing payment through credit, if you would want rewards we would have to attach a name to your activities. However if you'd want to work off-record [which is as close to anonymously as he can get] we could come to some sort of arrangement such as donated payment.

I'll be at the cat cafe to conduct interviews 4:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon for the next week. You can show up when it's convenient to talk. Sounds like a fucking weird place for it, yes, it'll make more sense when you're there.

I've also arranged for donated goods to be offered when people come in and might find themselves in a state of disrepair or any nicer version of saying fucked the hell up. New clothes, medical things like crutches for people with chronic conditions, sanitary supplies like soap and toothbrushes, things of that nature. So if you want to donate something to the people coming in there's a donation box in the dormitory's lower entryway and they'll be taken to the temple.

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Like he promises, Hank's waiting around at the cat cafe whenever someone shows up. Usually reading a book, sometimes bored, sometimes deeply into it. Right by his side though? A mammoth green cat, purring and resting her head against his arm. She's twitching her tail to and fro.

Hank is pretty sure he'll be able to tell if someone is bullshitting their credentials and whether they'll do intentional harm with their new role. It's hard to do background checks when different universes are involved, but he thinks he's figured out a way to beat the system without having to use any of the department's lie detectors.

Note: Plotting post here.

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Tim takes a piece of cake to have something to do during this promotion-slash-information sharing party (also to just enjoy the cake, because cake is delicious). He listening to Hank's speech while he gets the cake, and what he's saying makes a lot of sense, considering the attack from their robot buddies. Tim's double had fought just like him, which means at the very least that it could do what he did. Knowing that it would probably have the memories of learning it all to go with it is a little unsettling, actually. He'd already been uncomfortable with how all of that had happened, without adding this... memories and experiences thing into the mix.

He takes a bite of cake. Pretty good.

"Do you think it's possible to break the Head's control?" That would be his preference, too. Does he like the idea of a double of himself running around? Of course not. But he dislikes the idea of destroying sentient creatures even more.

"I think it's that or shut them down completely. When they're activated they can swarm people and tear 'em apart. And the clones we met were incomplete. These can have the powers of their originals. It's not just neatly one for each of us. It's a whole city of them.

"But I know they get drunk, they talk about their families, they go fuckin' play at businesses, they eat. They do all the shit we do. There's just something about them that goes all invasion of the body snatchers."

Either way, they do have to be stopped. And Hank, unfortunately, can only do what the mod has given him.