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███: You've each seen the numbers on Rebél, and you can see it's doing even better than we'd hoped. Rebél Water is already beating out both Liquid Death and Pumpkin Spice Mountain Dew in our most crucial markets, and Sooper Sour Rebél Gummies are doing better than expected in the 11 to 15 year old market, which is our sweet spot.

█ ██: And we're already seeing positive effects on the time curve projections. We might even end up with a net bonus here, and hit our pre-incursion KPIs ahead of schedule.

█████ ███: Brilliant. And we would have never come up with that angle if it weren't for those meddling kids...

(group chuckles)

█████ ███: But now that we've captured their attention, we've gotta keep it headed in the right direction.

█ ██: The temporal abattoirs. It was always going to take a lot to get them cranking at full capacity...

███: Which is why it's time to pull out the stops on the Time Broker campaign. The pilot program has been really impressive (see the appendix to the Rebél report), and I think it's time to go all in on that.

█ ██: Carpet bomb the feeds!

█████ ███: Agreed. Unleash the Time Brokers!

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███: I say we bottle it.

█████ ███: Come again?

█ ██: We can't control it. The genie is already out of the bottle. Every little thing those kids do has repercussions, and it's replicating.

███: No, seriously. We bottle that up and sell it. Rebellion! Thinking for yourself! Save the world!

█████ ███: Save the god damned whales.

███: Slap that on some bottles...

█ ██: Or gummies...

█████ ███: And we can sell it right back to them. Feed it all back into the supply chain as a recursive loop.

███: Equality! Freedom! Live Woke!

(group chuckles)

█ ██: I'll have the product team draw up a plan. We can have it in stores by Monday.

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█████ ███: We had your assurances this was a slam dunk. What the hell?

███: These are just minor alterations in the stream. If you look at pages 32 through 38, you'll see the projected impacts of the changes are still within the tolerable--

█████ ███: --but how much more can we "tolerate" from these these kids mucking around?

█ ██: Mandela Effect, Butterfly Effect, Streisand Effect... the variables start piling up exponentially...

█████ ███: And why are the kids still in play? I thought she pulled them out right away. Why don't we have them ourselves?

███: Medical exemption. Still recovering in her temporal dysmorphia chambers. She says to pull them out now would have irreversible effects--

█████ ███: --I think that's already obvious--

███: --on the kids, and the Psymed board still recognizes her credentials. We're working on Psymed, but for now we still can't get our hands on the kids.

█ ██: On the bright side, it is just a handful of kids. The temporal density we've built up is really... dense. The "weight of history" and all that. Even with all the potential side effects, the numbers still say any changes they could possibly make will be reintegrated within a few years, tops.

███: Yes. That's in the conclusions on page 42.

█████ ███: Well... I suppose. We have laid down a lot infrastructure.

█ ██: Like racism. Try building that out!

(group chuckles)

███: Ok. You'll continue to get daily updates on any further alterations that show up in the temporal record. And we should have the High Counselor on ice in just a few more days. You know how the bureaucracy is at Admin.

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███: According to the report, the kids slipped in through an open window. She says she might of left it open for her cats.

█ ██: Or to air the place out. She is the "High" Counselor.

(group chuckles)

███: In any case, we can now assume complete control of the facility. It's a hazard and she's negligent. Kids going into temporal fugues, parents to apologize to, out-of-court settlements to make. It's gonna cost us but it'll be worth it. She'll get disciplined and out of the way and we can put in some real security and lock it down right.

█████ ███: About damn time. We're lucky some kid didn't wipe out the next half century. All the investment we’ve put into these futures…. the construction, the logistics, the long range planning…

█ ██: The future doesn’t just make itself!

███: And who's going to build the next generation of workers, if not us?

█████ ███: Damn straight.

█ ██: And anything to keep the Dry Bone people out of the picture.

(the group is silent)

███: You're not supposed to mention them by name. And you keep doing it.

█ ██: Oh, yeah. Sorry.