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[mesovortice]

wow, there sure has been a lot of crazy shenanigans going on lately.
i managed to avoid getting tackled by those freaks in the masks. up until today, anyways.
it involved lots of strategic flying away and running really really fast.
but now the back of my neck is REALLY ITCHY and it kind of hurts too.

but anyways.
there are a lot of you new people!
i didn't look through everything because i have been busy trying to avoid that microchip thingie.
but i don't think i see any of my friends.
that's good, even if i miss them.
because they have important stuff to do at home!

i'm not really sure what i want to ask everyone, or even what i am trying to say.
i guess i am just talking to talk.
i miss my house.
and my dad.

[ ooc: i return from an unannounced hiatus! sup guys. text permissions are here. ]

Comments

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[noble_sin]

From this place I think of the islands. I am not having been there in times and I want to hear the birds . . .

permatext

[boughtabookstore]

Did they chip you?

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[mesovortice]

the islands?
like, is that where you lived before?

[mesovortice]

yeah, i guess they did!
you are smart. so... do you know why they're doing this??

[boughtabookstore]

A different faction from the one that kidnapped us, I believe. They don't seem to know what's going on here any more than we do.

I suspect that's for the best.

1/2

[mesovortice]

this is all really terrible.
i did not think this sort of thing happened outside of the movies!

i bet the chip is monitoring our vital signs.
creepy. so creepy. i bet it has a poison inside of it too.
like if we get too riled up it will sedate us or kill us or something.

[mesovortice]

[ a few minutes tick by. ]

... this is like, for real though, isn't it? it's not some elaborate prank?
i hope it is a prank.
because i am getting really freaked out the more i think about this.

[boughtabookstore]

[ how does she shot emotions. oh man he wants like... comfort or something. ]

It certainly seems to be for real, yes.

As for your theories about the chip, I haven't heard anything like that from those studying them, so hopefully they are simply monitoring devices. Though that is definitely something to look into.

voice

[birdhousesoul]

The chip can be removed. You've got to keep it safe, though, if you take it out. Rather like that old folktale about the giant who kept his heart in a box, only instead of a heart, it's a bloody tracking device.

[theguideless]

Is this John??
They got you??

[mesovortice]

hahah... that is the last thing i wanted to hear, but also what i was expecting.
so i guess i should have been prepared.
did you get a chip stuck in you?

voice

[mesovortice]

Oh, but that would hurt a lot, wouldn't it? After all it is kind of put under my skin.

... I guess it is better than having some weird thing stuck in you, though.
So you just cut it out?

[mesovortice]

yeah, it's me! hello martin.

they did. it was really uncool and i feel really really lame.
i was just minding my own business and they snuck up on me.
i hope you didn't get attacked.

permavoice

[birdhousesoul]

Wouldn't suggest cutting it out yourself, no. Get someone else to cut it out. The clinic can do it with a minimum of fuss and some numbing substance to prevent the pain. They've got at least one healer mage, too, and that helps a fair bit.

I'd offer to do it myself, only I broke the last one I helped remove, and you absolutely mustn't break the thing.

[theguideless]

Im sorry that happened to you John
I still dont understand why its happening
They attacked me and Baryan too before we could get back here

[mesovortice]

There's a clinic now? Jeez, I don't pay attention for a while and so much happens. If I can have it taken out I think that I'd like to.

But... does it explode when it breaks or something? I really, really hope not.

[mesovortice]

it really sucks you got attacked, and bariyan as well...
but yeah, i will be okay.
we will both be, even if it is the pants shitting sort of scary right now.
positive thinking bullshit.

[theguideless]

[man he doesn't really get that until he reads it aloud and realizes what bullshit is. oh.]

I dont really know but i hope so
Are they still bothering you??
The ones who hurt you i mean

[birdhousesoul]

No. It doesn't explode. Nothing at all happens to the chip once you break it; and you've got to put some effort into that. I destroyed one deliberately. It wasn't the wisest thing I've ever done.

When it breaks, the blighters who stuck the first one in come round to give you a second, and that one can't be removed. Not safely, anyhow. Not by anyone I know.

That's why I say you'll want to keep the first one safe, once you've had it out.

[Directions to the clinic follow, with the Initiative Hold as starting point, it seeming the most logical reference.]

[mesovortice]

... Oh, okay. Yeah, not going to break mine then. I am still upset by the first attack.

Though talking about it on here, and... if it's really a tracking thing, isn't that kind of telling them exactly what we are doing? Won't they notice that the chips are staying put?

[mesovortice]

yeah, i hope so too.

they went away after they used that gun thing on me.
it is just kind of sore now.
are you ok? aside from this, i hope you are holding up.

[birdhousesoul]

As regards talking about it here: the whole business has been discussed at length, several times over; won't do us any good to play coy now.

Your other point's a fair one, more than fair, really, except that no one's found a way to keep the excised chips moving without a person doing the carrying, and if we're going to carry them around with us, why bother taking them out at all? It's worth some consideration, this. Any nonhuman conveyance you can suggest? One smart enough to keep from breaking the chips itself, ideally.

video;

[morsecodes]

You didn't get chipped, did you? 'Cause that's not good. Just saying.

[shrugging.]

But you're not the only one with a quest to do. Or family you're missing.

video;

[mesovortice]

Yeah, I did. I know it is not good, which is why I tried so hard to avoid it. But they totally snuck up on me dude, it's not like I did it on purpose!

[mesovortice]

Okay, I will take your word for that first bit.

Non-human... a robot, maybe? I think one of the trolls is good at that sort of thing, maybe he could help. I think he is the one who talks with the D==> or whatever it was.