The Tuesday Group didn’t meet for a month and a half, then resumed meeting but a large chunk of what they actually discussed was what the hell had happened. Did Brian just leave, for some reason? Commit suicide? Was he killed?
The meetings were maybe a third the size. Nothing got accomplished.
The proposal never got handed over.
Luckily, their progress hadn’t gotten undone. The community was still connected via churches and other groups and organizations that the Tuesday Group had created to try to bring the chaos of Haven together, even if some random accusations were being flung around about who could have targeted Brian.
And Project Zero hadn’t noticed any problems at first, so their administrators were still pretty free to operate with autonomy.
This freedom did not turn out well for the security forces. They were lead at the time by a man named Hugo Willard, who was a former deputy sheriff of a very small town, and used to breaking up bar fights and the occasional jealous stabbing, and he was out of his depth when suddenly thrust into a community-wide mystery with huge political implications that everyone was demanding answers to. He eventually resigned, after two months. His second-in-command also resigned, after just a few weeks.
Project Zero started making comments about whether or not this distance they were allowing their employees was a good idea, and they sent in some outside investigators to ‘help’.
Luckily, at that point, the head of the security force job landed on Cynthia Brady. She didn’t solve the mystery, in fact, no one has to this day, but she at least looked like she was competently investigating it, working with the outside investigators. She also was a close friend of Gregory Stevenson, having together served with him in the InterAct military and them coming here together in the same incident. And Gregory was a good friend of Brian, so everyone believes she was doing the best she could, and eventually generally accepted the idea that the mystery would not be solved.
Well, besides a few deranged theories that Gregory had Brian murdered for some reason, and Cynthia was helping him cover it up, a theory without any rational basis.
But this had almost completely derailed talks of the future, the ‘four options’. The Tuesday Group meetings were dwindling down, and no one seemed to care.
During all this, over the last few years, Project Zero had gotten better at listening to people, and processes for complaints had been set up without much notice. A lot of the pressure had gone away.
So it almost started to feel like the outcome was just going to be option one. At best they could try again for option two in a few years.
By the start of HY19, Tuesday Group had started to aim itself at mere community building. The major plan they were working on was to create community events each quarter.