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[gorillawarfare]

It looks like the indignant rage thing is pretty much covered on this one, so I'll spare you all of that.

I really just have one, big, and potentially day-ruining question.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't exactly keep a personal diary of harrowing mental experiences lying around. They have access to our memories. Good access. Access good enough that they could throw us into them without permission.

Naturally this is leading to a healthy suspicion aimed primarily towards all the new goodies we're getting from the supposed La Resistance.

They can get into our memories, I don't think it's that big of a leap to think everything else in our brains is at stake, do you?

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[fintastic]

Maybe, but what have you really got to lose? Is there something in that silly human head of yours worth hiding?

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[gorillawarfare]

Punchy one-liners, mostly. They can have my liberty but not my quips.

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[fintastic]

Oh no, not the one-liners! Anything but that! Say it isn't so?

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[myownbestfriend]

Very good question.

[Proud of you, kid. Apparently you have a brain under that class clown act of yours.]

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[gorillawarfare]

Next I think I'll promote myself to dumb answers.

[ he sighs, shaking his head ]

Don't say I've already accomplished that one, Professor Hotness.

[ex_bandai157]

[ Yeah he's been thinking about this which is to say he's been obsessing about this possibility. ]

No, I don't.

[ Is it possible to sound terser? LET'S FIND OUT. ]

[gorillawarfare]

Glad to see we're both on board this one then. Nothing like a hearty dose of paranoia to really perk up the call to arms.

[ a groan ]

Sorry. About the ants.

[onemoredeath]

Who is to say that they haven't already played with our brains, mm?

[gorillawarfare]

No one. My brain's probably scrambled eggs at this point. My only fail safe is there's no way evil can replicate my cutting rhetoric, so at least something's still functioning.

[ definitely not unnerved by the possibility. Nope. ]

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[blondejokes]

How are they able to get inside of our minds?

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[gorillawarfare]

That one's a work in progress. But I'm going to hazard a guess and say it's either these communicators or the weapons. There's that old expression on free lunches- I figure it extends to whatever Mac monstrosity these things are.


[ pause. cute blonde girl detected ]

My name's Marco, by the way. I don't think we've been introduced.

[andhishat]

I've already begun constructing mental shields that will fill whoever tries to access my mind with the worst images Orcish erotica has to imagine.

How are these bastards better than those they claim we are to fight?

[gorillawarfare]

Orcish erotica? Now I'm seeing the whole dirty monk angle.

In two words? They aren't.

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[birdhousesoul]

[While Anders primarily associates Marco with cheetos and sassiness -- neither of which are bad things, in his book, though he can take or leave cheetos -- the young man's suggestion is a serious one indeed, and Anders answers without the levity he might normally bring to a Marco post.]

Not that big of a leap, no. But one perhaps we haven't wanted to consider, or articulate. Thank you for spelling it out.

[And there's not an ounce of sarcasm in that thanks.]

It's good access, yes. Not perfect -- yet -- or else their general incompetence keeps them from wielding it more effectively. When they wanted to change our behavior and thoughts, they drugged the food and water. So they're not equipped to control our minds directly.

... or they weren't, yet, at that time.

[Ugh. If there's one thing Anders hates, it's blood mages mind control. That's what blood mages do.]

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[gorillawarfare]

I'm thinking about going into PSAs, actually. Next is the one about friends not letting friends defend underground resistance movements they actually know nothing about.

...wait. They drugged the food and water?

[whatsupcroc]

Wait, you didn't already think they did when we have weapons that are supposed to evolve with us?

[ Not that she is going to point out that to her, there is something really large and frightening thinking her mind is able to be manipulated by anyone else.

Most of her life, her mind was the only safe place without limitations. The only place she could be and go and operate out of and ignore reality when reality didn't suit.

Now people were going to be able to mess with that, even more subtly than the Yeerks could? ]

[gorillawarfare]

I thought that was more of your standard bumper sticker greeting. Probably why I picked the slingshot.

[ he's bothered by this too. It might not be noticeable to people not from their world, but it's obvious that this is just another means of the Yeerk's initial plan: the takeover of soul. It's not something that sits well with him. ]

I'm thinking the slingshot might get lost in a fire pretty soon.

[sacrificar]

A reasonable enough assumption.

[miss her?]

[gorillawarfare]

...I think reasonable kind of left the window with your jaw line.

[ he cringes ]

Okay, maybe I was a little...impolite the last time we talked. But warning a guy isn't exactly a faux pas with these things.

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[punk_cute]

Maybe, but now that we know, we can fight back. Maybe ditch the weapons and shit.

[Kanji seems very positive and upbeat about this.]

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[gorillawarfare]

Ditching the weapons and fighting back doesn't sound like the most appealing combination.

[ a sigh ]

I tried. Threw the thing out a window. The next day it just showed up under my pillow.

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[feel_nevermore]

It might not be safe for them to do so any more than they already did. It might very well ruin their day.

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[gorillawarfare]

Ruining days? Sound the alarms! Board the doors! Raise the cavalry! Inconvenience at the expense of total liberty and mental insanity has to at least be a code orange.

[acemedium]

Well, if they can pull us from any point in time or anything.... I mean, that was already pretty scary to begin with!

[But ugh.] They're not forcing us to fight...

[gorillawarfare]

At the moment. But it's probably not going to be too much longer until their resources run dry and, oh hey, here's an army of people we can brain wash into submission.