Curt 2024/03/24(Sun)12:26 No. 1087039 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Did she just call us sub-aspects?
>@TYRANT CEREBELLUM

: Kind of awful that you're always saying that, you know.
: Kind of awful that I'm always living this, actually.
: You shouldn't say it that way, boss. Really, it's just cruel.
: And untrue. Falsehoods can bring unsteady calorie-supply, injury, even death.
: I'm . The real self and identity. The part that speaks, and plans, and solves, and understands the abstract.
: And you're all just psychological constructs developed from 's stupid therapy.
: Representations of impulses. Distracting impulses.
: You're the only part of who I am that is insecure enough to demand some kind of absolute primacy.
: Look, just let me get what I need, you can... think whatever weird things you want.
: If that's what you really think, boss...
: But we still existed before Intent-Querying. I know that for sure.
: We just all weren't so conversational.

>>1087039
Sounds more like the therapy caused to bleed into the other aspects. They gained communication, normally not their thing. Further therapy might allow for more bleedover, which could eventually unify all the aspects, or at least make them all capable of doing eachothers' jobs inefficiently.

It can be a shock to realize that there is no one overarching self, and we're emergent from multiple parts of a very convoluted system. It can be a relief though, because if there is no real self, then there is no self to lose. Awareness of being a biological machine is... normally bad for survival, but it can help in moments of existential crisis.

>>1087056
Well, just because the self is a sum, doesn't mean it doesn't exist - same as a hand exists, despite being made of fingers etc. I'm not really sure what to do about it here, though - in general, a good question to ask is whether an abstraction is useful or not. So far, the "many parts" abstraction has seemed to be useful, though I don't know what 's efficacy was like before it.

>>1087131

It's bad for survival because all the parts start arguing. Can't really comment on whether emergent people can be considered to exist.

Curt 2024/03/27(Wed)09:47 No. 1087253 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: the hair, can't forget the hair!
>@Shroopy

: At least focus enough to get my hair fixed.
: Wandered around looking like some kind of cave creature last loop.
: It was more like a persistence predator from the plains.
: Thanks for clearing that up. ?
: Huh? Oh, I thought it was more jungle hunter.
: Not the aesthetics. The hair! Fix it please!
: Oh! Sorry. Just a second.

Curt 2024/03/27(Wed)09:47 No. 1087254 ID: 0fbdcd
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You chug the whole-- Kid? Are you okay? You chugged the whole thing in one go.

: It is like being struck violently by flavor.
: This is ten fruits. A thousand berries. No, nothing at all.
: It's decisive! I got to do it decisively, so I feel better.
: Hey, remember.
: Hair now, no problem.
: Boss wants us looking okay for when we try to explain this to .
: We've never "looked okay."
: But I'll settle for not looking like I'm hung over.

Morning announcements. You get yourself sorted out while you wait for the machine to wrap up.

: Good morning, Debtors.
: The current time is zero degrees LLO, marking the beginning of work shift B-4381.
: The station's status is currently at green alert, on-track to meet quotas.
: You're now allowed to begin payable labor, and you need to be at your workstations, if applicable.
: As always, remember: All wireless personal medical monitors must be worn and fully active.

Curt 2024/03/27(Wed)09:49 No. 1087255 ID: 0fbdcd
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: , I need to talk. It's important.
: You've reached the right answering machine to leave important messages, but I have to make sure to remind you that conversations with an artificial intelligence aren't really conversation.
: After all, I'm--
: --sub-sentient, I know. This is really important.
: Oh! Oh, very serious. Okay, what is it?
: I'm...
: I'm-- it's so-- it's complicated. Hang on.



: Talking about this is so stressful.
: This is a conversation I don't usually have about a problem that's really complex.
: That sounds like you're being chased by a horrible predator.
: Body-cooling and heart-rate shifts already made.
: I'm going to come back into that hindbrain and strangle your brainstem, please stop.
: Wow! Hey-- I'll counterbalance it with deep breaths, we're fine! We're fine!
: Hold on, I've got it covered--

Curt 2024/03/27(Wed)09:51 No. 1087257 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Have your core be named Laika.
>Anon

: Laika.
: Huh--?!
: That's the name, that you gave me.
: Last loop. You said one of your cores, one of them was a brain from a dog named Laika.
: Loop?
: I'm in a time loop. I've been repeating this shift over and over.
: Almost nobody else remembers.
: But you gave me the name as a password to prove I do.



: You know that name isn't uncommon for dogs in the frontier sector. That's an easy thing to guess.
: Unlike the names you humans have, it wouldn't be hard to fake that knowledge.
: (Nnnh, please, not the skepticism (it sucks when it's pointed at me)!)
: It's what you told me. It's all I've got, unless you have a better kind of proof.
: Because I can try again.
: ...It's an easy thing to guess, but unlikely to get on your first try, statistically.
: And believing you might be the way to comply with law 1.
: Phew...

Curt 2024/03/27(Wed)09:52 No. 1087258 ID: 0fbdcd
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: What are your orders, given that?
: Huh?
: Assuming that it's true, that you're in some kind of time loop, what do you want me to do?
: How do I help you?
: I...



: ...Didn't think this far ahead.
: What do I do with slightly on my side about this?
: The Company doesn't have any contingencies on-file for this sort of situation.
: At least none that were in our official guide.
: What about the unofficial one? I like that one more.
: Plenty of writing about why they would never get a contingency for it, to save costs.
: They'd study it. Examine it. They'd tear it apart.
: "It" being this situation? This station? What?
: They'd shatter the body and drink what they find inside.
: Not helpful. Also, not Law One compliant? That sounds harmful to humans.
: That's why there's not all that much power assigned to a stationbound artificial intelligence, boss.
: Well I still...



: ...need to figure that out, I think.
: You don't have any ideas?

Got a new tool, kid. Figure out what to do with it. Or get on the road and find where to put it to use.

For starters, begin crunching the bureaucracy to authorize stronger passwords with more administration access, so you can do more next loop.

As for what to physically do, she needs to begin ramping up security. Spend less resources balancing the budget and more resources double-checking the feeds for suspicious instances, because an infiltrator runs the risk of throwing everything into the red.

>>1087258
Well, first find out how much information control she can handle on this issue. Can she keep the loops secret from everyone? Including the Company? If not, then you're not going to be able to tell her on the last loop are you.

Secondly, tell her to keep track of your boss. Find out if she always gets her gun stolen every loop. OH. You can get her help dealing with . Have him imprisoned or something.

Tell it about how and when the whole station gets catastrophically destroyed. It should know what's coming, if a chance to intervene occurs.

It could give you information about what happened when you weren't there, especially at the end of the loop, so you could refine your strategy in the next one.

It could... pray.

Btw! Thanks for bridging this quest to here and back. It's an interesting one.

Curt 2024/04/10(Wed)12:47 No. 1088455 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Give a rundown of major station events to occur in the loop
>@Chlomaki

: Got it.
: You can be law-compliant (with the Three Laws) if all I do is give you a rundown on the shift (specifically bad things that will probably happen).
: And you can make sure to monitor those specific things, to gather data, and give it to me at the end of the loop.
: Right?
: Nothing about that plan conflicts with the laws at all.
: And it's a natural extension of Law 2, following orders.

Curt 2024/04/10(Wed)12:48 No. 1088456 ID: 0fbdcd
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> : Reflect upon stupid therapy.
>@Rug

: , you're up. Give the recap and let her know what to monitor.
: On it, boss. "Easiest thing to monitor is what happens in Engineering..."
: Thanks.



: You find her useful then?
: Memories are always useful.
: Any record of truth is useful to someone.
: But you don't really think of her as worth some equal footing in the mental hierarchy.
: You don't give a book voting rights. Leave me alone.
: Your evolution from an aspect to an intent is never going to be completed like this.
: Really? Because it's some test of worth for me to listen to the irrational impulse to look at sufficiently healthy trees or eat certain snacks sometimes?

Curt 2024/04/10(Wed)12:49 No. 1088457 ID: 0fbdcd
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: No. Because the "Intent-Querying" therapy was always about communication. Me, listening to myself. You, listening to yourself. And in some sense, listening to each other.
: For a frontal lobe dedicated to foresight and communication, you insist on neither. You will never be what you are meant to, as long as that's true.
: Well I don't foresee you making much progress either, given you've made none for a year.
: That's because there's no distinction between us. We're the same person. We make the same progress.
: And I really want to start making some progress.
: There's always been a distinction between us. That won't ever stop.



: The distinction is the problem that landed us here and kept us from what we want!
: Not being able to recognize why I'm stressed, not being able to figure out why I can't think of something, not being able to even articulate what I'm wanting...
: You all could have just been helpful while keeping quiet instead.
: All those threats and difficulties only reduced once I started the querying exercises gave us. Once I began to communicate fully.
: You could stop them if you wanted.
: But the threat is too great.
: ...

Curt 2024/04/10(Wed)12:50 No. 1088458 ID: 0fbdcd
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: Well at least--
: Please!! Stop making it difficult for me to pay attention and remember what she's saying!!
: Boss, when you think too much I can't record any memories. And the rest of you are making it hard too!
: You don't agree with her, do you?
: Whatever my opinion is, I can understand the...
: The frustration of never getting to do what you were supposed to.
: Because of all this conflict, the fighting.
: So, just, wait next time.



: Alright. We'll pause!
: What's she saying now, then?
: She's saying...

Curt 2024/04/10(Wed)12:51 No. 1088459 ID: 0fbdcd
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: ...Think I understand now. I'll keep an eye out for all of them.
: You seem distracted, though.
: Yeah. Yeah.
: Active aspects today?
: You could say that.
: More from the Back?
: The Front, actually.



: Always remember what we talked about. The Back tries to seek some kind of balance, especially in a tough time.
: Like the time loop.
: Any kind of tough time, but as a machine I can empathize with loops being the toughest.
: The Front can be prone to seeing that balance as overreach, though, a sign that the existing relationship might be inverted soon.
: Try calming that down with something more social. Assure the Front that it still has its place, and that things aren't quite that zero-sum.
: You know, that's the plan, actually.

Time to hit the halls, kid. You've got an engineering club to learn the secret handshakes from. But you tripped up a little last time. She said something more social, could stop by somewhere, have a chat. , maybe, or . Those guys can set anyone's head back on straight, at least when it comes to talking.

Haven't seen in a few loops, have you?

Curt 2024/04/16(Tue)19:52 No. 1088998 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Go talk to
>@MotherBird

: Need something, detective?
: Oh, no (I'm actually here for someone else (over there)).
: Good, I'm about to head out.
: Oh, yeah, right, that. Good luck with the line.

Curt 2024/04/16(Tue)19:52 No. 1088999 ID: 0fbdcd
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: ...?!
: Did I...
: What?
: Oh, uh, thanks.

Forgot, she didn't tell you she was heading to . But all anyone needs is a second or two, and there she goes, believing she told you about it. Confabulation. Loop enough, I bet you'll start seeing it chronically, kid. People filling in their half of what you remember. Picking calls up where you left them last.

Half your memory is always stored in someone else. That's how it's always been.

Curt 2024/04/16(Tue)19:53 No. 1089000 ID: 0fbdcd
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He's always manning a substation. Seems like every substation. I'll be honest, I don't get it. I remember you and running between substations, trying to catch an empty one. He's always there. Some mysteries, I don't think even the two of us can solve.

: Hey !
: Detective! Hey there.
: Got a question or two for you.
: Then I bet you I've got an answer.
: I'm trying to tell some stories and really ingratiate with a little clique (for an investigation).
: Right, lots of cases today.
: Given your, you know, habits, I wanted to know if you had any advice.
: It just doesn't seem to come naturally to me. I get thrown off, I lose my focus.



: Hmm... well, I know two problems you have to deal with.
: The situation and the un-focusing.
: I can't give you a good solution for the situation, though.
: There's a lot of reasons people will just think you're taking up too much oxygen in the room.
: What about the focus?
: That one, I can help a lot with.

Curt 2024/04/16(Tue)19:54 No. 1089001 ID: 0fbdcd
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: Someone I met a long time ago taught me a couple of nice tricks.
: One of the key ones... I guess it's almost like that Intent stuff you mentioned before.
: Really? I thought invented that completely.
: Must be based on something. But it's about attaching it to something else that's effortless.
: Everyone has things they can do effortlessly. Naturally. A couple of things that just come to them without any problems.
: You don't mean instincts like breathing, or built-up skills like talents, though. Right?
: Right. I mean... Ways of being. Maybe an example helps.



: When I tell a story, it can become effortless because I'm the kind of guy who, you know, hypes people up pretty effortlessly.
: I'm not the kind of guy who changes who I am, so I don't think, "I'll act the role of a great storyteller."
: I'm using the storytelling for a purpose. The purpose is something I do effortlessly.
: Almost nothing is effortless right now. Feels like fighting for every inch today, honestly.
: Effortless was a bad word. I slipped, bad word.
: The word I should use is...
: What about "naturally worthwhile?"
: What do you mean?

Curt 2024/04/16(Tue)19:54 No. 1089002 ID: 0fbdcd
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: Everything we do around here is sort of... it takes a while to know why we should care.
: Why anyone should care, you know? It's not like we get out of here if we go over quota.
: (Not off the station, maybe...)
: But you could justify it a lot, right? You can explain it in math and in convincing words. Smuggle motivation socially or intellectually into, which part again?
: The part that handles foresight and abstraction and communication.
: The Heads of Staff need to do a lot of that (and kind of feels like they spend half their time doing it).



: But some things are self-evidently worthwhile. No need to smuggle anything through anything. Some things, you can do and not need anyone to tell you why you should.
: You could justify it if someone asked, sure, but you never needed to at the start.
: Eating delicious food. Looking at something nice. An engaging project. Or the unique things that just self-motivate for you specifically.
: Pretty much anyone has a few things that nobody ever had to tell them to do.
: Those things take effort, focus, control. Just, effort you'd do on your own.
: ...And that means no part of you is gonna stop and trip you up.
: Do I understand right?

>>1089002
Something like "enthusiasm"?

Curt 2024/04/22(Mon)10:25 No. 1089398 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Something like "enthusiasm"?
>Anon

: Do you really, really believe you have to get in with this group you're trying to tell stories to? Or do you have to come up with a justification?
: I mean, I have a good reason. This case is important.
: But it's "a reason." It's not self-evident. There's no enthusiasm, is there?
: Wanting to be someone who has a talent, so that you can get some kind of benefit from it, you can't be enthusiastic about that.
: I wanted to become the greatest detective, and I'm pretty talented at that, right?
: You are! But did you want to be that first?
: Or did someone convince you it was something you should do?
: ...



: So if my "enthusiasm" is breaking, I need a way to be doing something self-evidently worthwhile, when I approach them.
: What are you really doing, then? What's self-evidently right for you to do, through all this?
: A guy I met during my first run-in with pre-Bloodletter cults, a long time ago, taught me a funny trick!
: He collected feelings for other people. Crushes and interests and friendship-yearnings. He'd built that up on purpose,*9 actually.
: So whenever he needed to do something, he'd just call up a (romantic or friendly) yearning?
: Exactly. Those motives don't show up on their own.
: Even if it didn't make sense?
: Especially if they don't make sense. Build one on purpose, then tap into it when you need it.
: Huh. What self-evident motive did you build, that makes you so good at what you do?
: Parasocial bonding!

Curt 2024/04/22(Mon)10:25 No. 1089399 ID: 0fbdcd
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:
:
: Huh?

Curt 2024/04/22(Mon)10:26 No. 1089400 ID: 0fbdcd
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: Parasocial bonding.
: Seeing other people as sort of hyped-up versions of themselves.
: Ignoring human flaws or banal stuff on purpose.
: Great source of enthusiasm, really. Broke my streamer-watching habit too.
: Isn't that, really, isn't that unhealthy?
: Oh, I'm good enough at it that I don't let it hurt other people.



: Unhealthy for you. I mean, it sounds, kind of, fun (but there's no way it's good for you)?
: Maybe. Everything you think of as an unhealthy indulgence is basically, uh, how could I say it...
: Like a kind of lower-impact brain medication.
: Yeah!
: Someone's been telling me about that lately.
: Smart guy.

It's good wisdom, kid. People smoke for their health. Trade their lungs for their brain, sure, but everyone's gotta trade something to get anything. Why not pick something stupid? Something a little dumb that can get you the simple joys you need to focus hard through this.

How would... parasocial bonding break a streamer-watching habit? Isn't that how streamers get people to watch them, by triggering parasocial bonding?

I guess if you saw everyone as a streamer, then you wouldn't spend so much time on the actual streamers?

If you need something to indulge into, you could do a lot worse than food.
Actual food that someone cooked, I mean, not whatever food-adjacent products they stock in vending machines. Something tasty, created for the express purpose of being enjoyed rather then just providing calories. No mere sustenance, but a meal. A breakfast. A hot beverage with some freshly baked pastries. Deep-fried, if you're lucky.
And it looks like you haven't eaten in some time, too (because you die before hunger becomes a problem). Some semblance of normalcy could go a long way toward keeping your sanity.

Curt 2024/04/29(Mon)13:28 No. 1090016 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Find a way to connect it to your deepest passion.
>@Farsee 🔑

: Alright, fall in, all of you. We need to come up with a plan.
: Already got one.
: Engineering's departmental pet. What was it?
: Parrot, right, chief?
: We've got a parrot story. But...



: Story doesn't matter. Telling it doesn't matter.
: We tell stories around campfires. There's none.
: We join tribes to gain something important.
: Fixate on a chance to speak with a well-learned parrot again.
: That's... childishly stupid.
: I want to go see a nice-looking bird again, though.
: I'm not a kid anymore, I haven't done this animal detective stuff since I was--
: Shut up.
: ?!

Curt 2024/04/29(Mon)13:29 No. 1090017 ID: 0fbdcd
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: My heart is the trunk of a tree. Cut me open and look with your own eyes.
: See beneath this one season's self-centered, presumptuous bark.
: The rings outside grow to protect the rings inside, not to throw them away.
: The rings inside still exist. They will always be there. I would collapse if they vanished.
: And many of those rings are a mystery-solver who sincerely wishes for a vibrant ecosystem and thriving fauna.
: Indulge it with all the power of your foresight.



: Sorry, boss, I'm voting with the chief here.
: Yeah, this seems like the right way to go.
: ...This is incredibly dumb. Focus my foresight on a bird?
: Fine. Ugh. Fine.
: And when this fails, you all listen to me for once.

Ooh, they have a parrot?

Curt 2024/05/01(Wed)06:36 No. 1090071 ID: 0fbdcd
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> : Report to Engineering and simply ask to see their bird because you've been having a hard day.
>@Dork

Alright then. Back to work, and cutting through the crap this time. Don't even have to go far, just wait a while, then get back to the engine gang. One way or another, Engineering does most of its work at the start and end of a shift. Whether that's the scheduled end or the unscheduled end, that rule is pretty unbreakable.

: Alright, you got the memories loaded up?
: Sure do, boss.
: Alright. , set to earnest yearning?
: Earnestness is looking solid and genuine!
: ? This enough for you?
: Yes.



: Hey! You're all back now. Was the line okay?
: Ugh. No.
: was there again.
: That's awful (I always feel so stressed out after I talk with (or even spend time near) him).
: Is what is. Nothing you can do.
: I don't know, I always found some decent ways to get around the stress. You have a departmental pet, right?
: Confirmed. Code - Harmony, Fortissimo, Caltrops.
: Poly, I think her name was. I have so many fond memories of birds like that...
: Honestly, this shift has been kind of stressful for me too. Hanging out with a cute bird could be nice.

Curt 2024/05/01(Wed)06:37 No. 1090072 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Activate your detective vision and focus it on the concept of cute birds
>@Pizzatiger

: Starting the thought reaction. Hold her steady.
: It's all fine, boss.
: Decent motivation off of that collision.
: Bring it towards the goal.

You've got that posture, kid, when you're putting things together and making connections. Usually a lot more stressed, though. Guess whatever you're doing is good enough to keep you positive, talkative. Doesn't matter who you're dealing with, some of that can get infectious.

You talk it out. Some stories about old birds, plenty of questions about this one.

Curt 2024/05/01(Wed)06:41 No. 1090073 ID: 0fbdcd
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Doesn't take you long to get ahold of the bird. Seems like you even lost track of the goal. Or put it out of your head. Easier to solve some problems that way. A man doesn't get up every day to work, he gets up for a good meal. The work, that comes later.

: Good morning, Debtors. The current time is!
: Check the ansibite core!
caws loudly!
: <I'm making the same sounds you do! Even though they're weird!>
: Who took all the space gear?
: <Remember to let me be part of the flock! Remember to let me have a share of the food!>
: <Oh! You're so wonderful, don't worry, your social bonds with the flock are so strong!>
: Give me your credit card number !
: <Okay, well, don't imitate that sound.>



: What's that? That thing you're doing with your mouth and your arms?
: Oh, it's-- don't worry about it. It probably doesn't matter.
: Code - Inquiry, Amplify, Inject. Don't break off, target likely has payloads of interest.
: Huh? No, really, it's kind of embarrassing--
: Hey.
: You can tell interesting facts and stories to Engineers. You can do this to earn repair priority, renovations, or alcohol.
: Ahah, I guess if you want to know...

There you go. There's the storytelling.

>>1090073
Well, tell the story. Context is important here, they asked for it so if they don't like it they'll blame themselves instead of you.

Curt 2024/08/02(Fri)05:32 No. 1095183 ID: 0fbdcd
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I've heard this one from you before. But by the time you're halfway through telling it, turns out someone else has too.

: Wait, I know this one.
: Code - Duet, Ostinato, Dawn.
: Confirm target IFF identified as familiar.
: No, no, I just-- I remember this from a school book fair?
: Kid books? Haha, what?
: "The Many Cases of Detective..." Detective something.
: Can't remember.
: Well, it was named after me.
: Oh, your real name, that explains it.
: Right. Back when I was probably about eight, they started printing the books.

Curt 2024/08/02(Fri)05:33 No. 1095184 ID: 0fbdcd
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: It was cargo, I remember that.
: Right! The guy in charge had a bad alibi, he said he'd been watching space carp in an orbit that they don't migrate through.
: Did you really call the real life Mighty Squad on parrot smugglers?
: Hah. Dumb, fake. Those guys aren't real.
: God no. That part was faked for the books.
: I couldn't even get the front desk of the security department to answer me.
: I mean, I was eight years old.
: Well, seven when I made the bust.
: Bad harmony, clear up last transmission.
: Clarify your firing solution.

Curt 2024/08/02(Fri)05:34 No. 1095185 ID: 0fbdcd
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: I just had to deal with it.
: Toughened you up to let some animal cruelty happen, huh?
: What? God, no, never.
: Never.
: I meant that I had to deal with it myself.
: What? How?
: Uhhh... Well, it's not something we need to (or really should) go into.
: You wouldn't believe it if I--
: Children can use slingshots, stealth tactics, and unsustainable self-destructive strain.
: Don't underestimate a child's ability to disrupt your work, but don't have high expectations of their adulthood.
: ...

Curt 2024/08/02(Fri)05:35 No. 1095186 ID: 0fbdcd
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: I just dealt with it myself, okay?
: There was... I guess you could call it a raid.
: Slingshots can make people back down if you get good ammo.
: You can't even do that now, you did that as a kid?
: Full of crap. No way.
: The security department was okay with that?
: They thought it was amazing. They thought I was amazing.
: (I used to be really, really amazing.)

slingshotting bath bombs filled with superglue, slingshotting grenades, slingshotting self expanding foam, slingshotting containers full of angry bees...

The most effective ammo for a slingshot is a grenade, of course.

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: Adults can use you like that, when you're amazing, and a child.
: They don't even mean to.
: I just busted the smuggling ring (for free, all that risk) because they always admired me after.
: ...Copy that. Confirming message.
: People who make you feel amazing are high-risk signatures.
: And you'll do anything to keep them thinking you're amazing, right?
: Confirmed. Code - Midnight, Fortissimo, Caltrops.
: That bad, huh?
: What was your case?

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: Blood 1.
: What?
: Bloodletter leader.
: ...
: She thought you were amazing?
: Confirmed. Everyone felt like she thought they were amazing.
: Target broadcasted an admiration for all targets and phenomena.
: That sounds like it would be... a lie, really?
: Negative. Target authenticity was clear.



: And that's how she got to you? Got you to do things?
: The same reason you did Security's work.
: Yeah. I get it. I understand.
: You built a lot of the ritual sites, I heard?
: She came to me. She... asked what I would make, if I could.
: And she hung on every word of the answer.
: Yeah...
: She sounds nice, in a way.
: She was kind.
: Code - Dawn, Harmony, Glissando.
: You were so kind, too.
: Huh?

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: What did you say?
: Transmission repeats: Code - Dawn, Harmony, Glissando.
: No, I--
: Sorry (got confused a second).
: All good.



Focus, kid. You've got some crooked steps at the end there, straighten them out.



: Do you think I could get a list of your work-sites?
: I'm looking for something related to the Bloodletters lately...
: Could give me somewhere to start.
: Er-- Affirmative.

>>1095312
That looks like you remembered someone else's memories.

That parrot is really good at imitating her voice!

>>1095312
interesting, seems like had a few different lasting effects on the station.

with how liked she must have been, opposing her must have been hard, in more ways than one.