Memory Beads

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The Bunker

Brigganocks

Brother Iron is talking with RJ Foster.
RJ: I still don't understand. You're saying that you talk with mice?
Iron: No. I'm saying they're talking mice. Mice-folk, really. They're fey, so they have more in common with Zenovi than with Terran mice.
RJ: Well, whoever they are, they're doing solid work replacing the cable runs. It's great having help that can get directly into the conduit.

Containment

RJ Foster is talking with Lisette Carrell.
Lisette: It's an impressive system. What's it for?
RJ: It's a containment unit. Nails decided that it's necessary. Ikhilzis' status is highly unstable. If the symbiote survives reconstitution, it could be an unpredictable factor.

Decorating

Nails is talking with Brother Iron.
Nails: The setup team has moved out. Most of the dorms are cleared. The new furniture is coming in.
Iron: We'll want to monitor whether each individual shows any particular tastes in decorating. That's one sign that their personalities are intact.

Domestic Routines

Brother Iron is talking with RJ Foster.
Iron: We need to ensure that they adopt the typical domestic routines of humanoids.
RJ: So we're talking, what, eating, sleeping, playing games...?
Iron: Yes. Everything should contribute to a feeling of being alive.

Druid Divination

Brother Iron, Stygi, park? forest? wolf howls. Divination.
Iron: "I see no other way. Aiden has agreed to store the bodies. They'll be unseen by the targets. But we also can't let the Relentless Understanding find them. There seems no other way. I'll just have to leave breadcrumbs."

Etchinar

Brother Iron is talking with Lisette.
Iron: I only met Myriad. I heard stories about Ruby Bridges from Jane Irwin, because she was working with Raptor Blue.
Lisette: They're fascinating, the Assembler Rebellion. I mean, assemblers scare me--
Iron: And me!
Lisette: And AForms, too.
Iron: Absolutely.
Lisette: But the Rebellion, I mean, the Etchinar. They didn't let their origin define them. To grow beyond the xenophobia of the, the Reavers. It's, it's really... impressive, I guess. And now, what they're doing with paramatter, with myxels and MForms, it's somehow less creepy and more... beautiful, I guess. More natural?
Iron: It's making what we're doing here possible. These MForms are the only way to keep Raptor Red unfindable by the targets. I can't say it's natural, but it's less... exploitive. Assemblers repurpose living organisms to create AForms. MForms are more...
Lisette: Path of Giving?
Iron: (laughs) That's, that's true.

Virus

Nails is talking with RJ.
RJ: The reports are unreliable, but it appears to be an insentient self-replicating pathogen. A computer virus, basically, but it infects paramatter.
Nails: And this is what the Therosians are calling the Violet Creep?
RJ: No. That's the probability balancing matrix. There's a theory it's divine in origin, but corrupted with adintec.
Nails: And both are related to paramatter?
RJ: Yes. The virus propagates through paramatter. Repurposes it, really, And this is what Cult of the Frayed seems to worship. Or at least exploit.