Not much to say, but it turns out that the servers weren't even missing in the first place. They were just unplugged and carted into a storage closet by the IT team so that they could make room for newer ones. And the lack of footprints was because they were apparently testing a roomba-powered server cart, and the nacho dust-coated Xbox controller on their desks prove it. (And so does the roomba-powered server cart driving around erratically.)

As far as progress on the portal goes, we haven't been able to do all that much recently due to the "missing" servers, but now that the data's been transferred, we can continue working on it.

Gotta go now.

Author's Notes:

Short chapter 'cause I'm still trying out my tablet's keyboard case thingy.