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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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[myownbestfriend]

Very good question.

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

[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. ]

[onemoredeath]

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

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[blondejokes]

How are they able to get inside of our minds?

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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.

[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.

[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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[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.

[blondejokes]

[ Mac monstrosity? O...kay. ]

I'm Yamanaka Ino. I haven't been here for very long.

[ But his guesses are ... strange. Should she avoid using the communicators and her newly acquired bow? That's a worrying thought. ]

[ex_bandai157]

I wouldn't call it paranoia.

[ But yeah you know what let's just say ominous things and move on to less heavy topics. ]

You don't have anything to apologize for. If anything, I was the one trespassing.

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[myownbestfriend]

["Professor Hotness?" Emma raises an eyebrow and smirks.]

Frost. My name is Frost.

[Since that's the opposite of hot, and all.]

[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?

[onemoredeath]

You may wish to ask their programmer how easy it is to stimulate the mind through electronic frequencies and the loop that it will cause.

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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.]

[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? ]

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[fintastic]

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

[sacrificar]

A reasonable enough assumption.

[miss her?]

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[gorillawarfare]

[ sigh ] It isn't so. I'm beginning to think you're a very literal-minded person.

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[gorillawarfare]

I think I'm going to stick with Professor Hotness. Quirky endearments mean better friendships.

[gorillawarfare]

They probably would. It's easier to operate if we establish the enemy's definitions first.

[ ...getting ripped apart by ants is a less heavy topic? where are you from, man ]

Oh, my bad. How dare you trespass on my obviously important moment with bugs. Really upset that you were there to stop another portion of my guts from being ripped out.

[gorillawarfare]

I'm sure I'll definitely get a straight answer if I do that. They seem so forthcoming, these programmers.

[gorillawarfare]

It's been a really light-hearted and entertaining experience, don't worry Yamanaka Ino.




Okay, that was sarcasm. Since you're new I'm going to be polite.

[gorillawarfare]

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

In two words? They aren't.