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[arora]

I would like to formally apologize for what happened during the mission. I promised that no contaminants from this world other than what I had explained would pass through, which was true.

However, a contaminant from outside of this world has managed to make their way into this universe.

I am not able to manage Scylla nor prevent his presence.

Comments

/just chimes in to say

[reincarnesiac]

Geas! It's a geas! Scylla has one too!

[rudelanguage]

I don't know what the hell that is! [Knife's never watched anime!!]

[reincarnesiac]

It's what you're talking about, there's a restriction on what they can say. Not necessarily share, it depends on how the geas works, kind of like a curse? A vow? There are things you can't say even if you want to, so you have to figure out how to talk around those things.

( she has, but this she knows from... video games!!! )

[rudelanguage]

Can we just use 'curse,' then? For shorthand? Unless this [gay-ass] geas thing has a special component?

[reincarnesiac]

Curse works for me, I was just using the word he called it. So he and Aurora are cursed, probably by the same knowledge. Uh, that they can't share. Um... I have a little more to say, but let me make a new post, and not make Aurora's get all off topic, if that's okay?

[rudelanguage]

A new what, now? [what's fencing infrastructure gotta do with talking aloud.]

[reincarnesiac]

( she does manage to catch the confusion here, she thinks? for once! )

The uh, entries on here. When people make a new thing on the earpiece that other people can see and respond to, one of the words for it is a post. Aurora makes a post before each mission, people post to here. You go to the messageboard to read all the posts.

[rudelanguage]

...

[Don't people just...call them messages? Conversations? What the hell. Why is everything always so complicated.]

Sure. Okay.

[reincarnesiac]

( welcome to the wired generation. she still is mildly amused almost all tech here is pretty much older style, from her point of view. )

Yeah... gets called other stuff too, but that's what I meant! Anyway, I'll go work on my own, too.

Re: /just chimes in to say

[nottheboss]

Did you say he has a gay ass?

[reincarnesiac]

I mean, maybe? Geas is more like a vow, or a curse, something that you can't talk about directly. I didn't really stop to ask about his sexual preferences or if his ass defines itself as gay or otherwise. Doesn't generally seem relevant.

( she sounds distinctly amused. )

[nottheboss]

[His tone, despite his best efforts, betrays that he's just playing around]

It's totally relevant! What if we can honey trap him? You seen some of the men around here? Hell the women, too, if he goes that way.

[reincarnesiac]

( thus continues two people being very, very serious. )

I don't know, he can kind of instantly teleport, are we sure honey traps would be more than honey stumbles?

[nottheboss]

What you think he'll just hit it and quit it? That's cold even for whatever the fuck he is.

[reincarnesiac]

Someone who can teleport, project himself into brains, and clear up brain-fog with a touch? Yeah, I think he might. Also not sure he'd be the type to hit it at all if it's not already his person, and we're all probably way not close to that. But who knows! Give it a try next time he's around!

[nottheboss]

Who, me? I'm all thumbs when it comes to seduction.

[reincarnesiac]

Wouldn't be me, I can't help apologizing for kneeling in someone's lap unless they're purposefully making me angry and I'm using them as an anchor to shoot at people shooting at us.

( #smallthings )

[nottheboss]

No way that sounds like a good time to me. What do you shoot? Rifle, pistol, both?

[He's a sniper he's got Interests okay]

[reincarnesiac]

Both, but pistols are more common if we're not going into a situation where we know we want rifle fire. And at that point you're more likely to want someone sniping as back-up for what you're walking into, and that much warning is kind of a luxury.

( She shrugs, which does not translate in audio, but alas. )

Different sets of pistols are more my go-to. Rifles are a lot of fun at the range though.

[nottheboss]

Shit I'm just shooting my shot here but you wanna go fire some bullets at bottles or something?

[reincarnesiac]

Sure! Might have to wait for tomorrow, I need to get a post up about my conversation with Scylla at the end here, and the journal page he left with me, but then things free up again. I don't have the head for the math that's needed. Reading, sure, give me that as a puzzle. Shooting things? Sounds even more fun.

( and like stress relief. who does not love stress relief. )

[nottheboss]

Plan on it then. After you see what the city has to say about Scylla.

[reincarnesiac]

Hah, will do then. ( Then a pause for a beat, since: ) What's your name? I'm Alex.

[nottheboss]

You can call me Bossie. [playful even if he is all thumbs] Hi, Alex.

[reincarnesiac]

( she snorts, since fair enough as a name or nickname, given the you can call me line, but: )

Hi, Bossie. How bossy are you?