Jeremy Gates // Adrian Veidt // Ozymandias

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It is nearing the end of the semester yet again. Time goes so quickly when there are so many additional things to work on. My students think they're excuses for late papers and missed exams are so original. I haven't the heart to tell them that I've heard them all before. I also hate to inform them that I keep track of many many things, I'm hardly going to forget about deadlines I've set myself.

We have most of our cameras and electronic feeds up, but when it comes to human surveillance we are still quite a bit behind. As you no doubt read in Mr. Morgan's earlier post, there are several people vying for leadership of CORE. We need more information on all of them.

If there's anyone with experience trailing and observing enemies, now is the time to speak up. Your skills are needed.

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Our surveillance program is back up and running. I confess I'd been terribly remiss in letting it get quite so out of date, but we did believe it was no longer needed. Hope, as they say, springs eternal.

Simply saying that it's running isn't meant to imply that we're fully operational though. People have moved, previous plants have stopped working, and there is, always, the human component.

If anyone feels they have the skills to assist with our mission to keep an eye on our enemies, please get in contact with me at your earliest convenience. There is much to be done.

So there is to be war. Again. Or, perhaps I should say, still. If one studies history one finds that conflict is a constant state, with brief respites between. When one conflict is resolved, another arises to take it's place. Many conflicts are never resolved at all. This war within the world of reincarnates has been going on for centuries, so long that no one really knows how it started. As for why it continues, I can only surmise it is for the same reasons any conflict persists: power, pride, resources, misunderstanding, vengeance. No, the reasons it goes on are no mystery. The real question is, what would it take to end it?

The unrestrained behavior of the population continues to spread, although based on what research I could gather instances appear to have peaked. The pattern of people being affected indicates either a viral cause or some sort of toxin, possibly spread through the food supply. That would explain why not everyone in given areas are affected, but it is difficult to narrow down the cause any further.

I don't believe I've been affected myself, however, I have never been a very impulsive person and strive to be honest whenever it is practical, so I cannot rule it out.

This is an extremely curious situation. To be fully honest (as if anyone could be anything else at the moment) I wonder more about the motivation than the method. This is clearly not an accident or a natural occurrence. Has anyone out there discovered anything else about it?

I've always been fascinated by history, though the stories of the ancients always held more interest for me that the relatively recent past. However, in the past months I've found my thoughts turning quite often to modern history and to what might be called 'alternative history', since we in this unique fraternity know that 'fiction' is not always what it seems. In times of old, times still more fresh in the memory of civilization, and those times that have never been, there are always small groups of people, catalysts at moments of immense change - warriors, thinkers, scholars, politicians, men and women of action in turbulent times. I begin to wonder if that isn't what we are to be, somehow. Reincarnates have been around for a very long time - possibly forever, certainly longer than there are any records for - but never in the numbers we are now. The Agency recorded a peak in activations only a year ago and that rate doesn't appear to be slowing down. I'm certain I'm not the only one who senses something coming, though even I am at a loss to say what that might be.

For now I shall leave it at that, as I realize that you, dear readers, may not be so interested in my abstract musings. It has been quite some time since I last dabbled with these journals, so it would be advantageous for me to reintroduce myself. I am Professor Jeremy Gates. Please, just call me Jeremy though, there's no reason to stand on formality. I've been living harmoniously for many years now with Adrian Veidt, also sometimes known as Ozymandias, once a masked vigilante. It is, as they say, always an adventure.

( Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! )