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[Lithium Flower]

[Katrina Oniseki]

Aldrith Shutaq slips in through the front enterance, a pall of disapointed bitterness in his eyes.
Aldrith Shutaq plops down a few seats from Katrina. "Whatever the hell is strong," he demands curtly.

Aldrith is handed something ridiculously strong. Like, some 204 proof superconcentrated beverage from the far corners of god knows where.

Aldrith Shutaq sniffs it, but does not react immediately. He just stares at it, eyes narrowed like it is an old enemy.

The drink probably shrivels Aldrith's nostril hairs or something.


Aldrith Shutaq grunts. "To Arzad. Fucking Hamir's."
Aldrith Shutaq pinches his nose and takes a gulp.

Drink is roughly comparable in taste to a mixture of HCI and pepper spray.

Aldrith Shutaq makes an expression like that of a dignified man who's soul has just been violated by large-membered demon. Pained, but proud.
Aldrith Shutaq > That was disgusting and it is poison.
Aldrith Shutaq > But thank you.

"A Rusty Bullet, sir. The strongest we have. You should probably see a doctor now."

Aldrith Shutaq > I am a paladin of the Empire. I am not afraid to die.
Aldrith Shutaq holds his nose again and takes a sip rather than a gulp this time.
Aldrith Shutaq > For the Empress!
Aldrith Shutaq almost gags.
Aldrith Shutaq > Wow... I can already feel it.
Aldrith Shutaq leers around the room, wondering if anyone is watching. "This is bad."

"Yes that's... that's probably the lining of your stomach being destroyed."
"I'll call a medic, sir."

Aldrith Shutaq > Oh come off it, why would you serve a drink that kills people?
Aldrith Shutaq > It's uncomfortable, I'll give you that... but I've had wurs-worse.
Aldrith Shutaq blinks. "Damn."

The bartender simply smiles, watching the drink run its course.

Aldrith Shutaq stands very straight, blinking a few more times. "Hm."
Aldrith Shutaq slowly sits back down.
Aldrith Shutaq > I'd better do this before I'm too drunk to do so...
Aldrith Shutaq takes out his cigarette case and a lighter.
Aldrith Shutaq eyes the glass from the corner of his eye, his head swaying slightly as he bring s the cigarette to his lips.
Aldrith Shutaq glares at it. "Thou mocketh me..."
Aldrith Shutaq snatches the glass up and takes a swig, not holding his nose this time. He winces, gags audibly this time, but keeps his composure.
Aldrith Shutaq is still holding some of the drink in his mouth, unable to swallow it fully. He grimaces and brings the lighter towards his face.
Aldrith Shutaq tears up as he tries to light his cigarette, and promptly sneezes.

*small explosion*

The bartender, having expected this, merely gives Aldrith a full facial with the fire extinguisher, foaming up the man's face.

Aldrith Shutaq sits, frozen in place.

Bartender slips a single napkin towards Aldrith, "A towel, sir."

Aldrith Shutaq slowly brings his arms down and spits out his cigarette, clearing most of the foam from the lower half of his face. "Thank you, my dear man," he says politely and with regal dignity.
Aldrith Shutaq blindly reaches for the towel and finds it after a few grope in the air. He then throws it over his face and stands.
Aldrith Shutaq > So, what do I owe you?

Bartender keeps polishing drinking glasses without a care in the world, "On the house, sir."

Aldrith Shutaq > Many thanks.

"Good evening, sir."

Aldrith Shutaq searches around for the glass, now nearly empty. He finds it, lifts it in the air and pronounces, "To the dead of Arzad!"
Aldrith Shutaq slips it under the towel and knocks back the last bit of it. "He-oley hell."
Aldrith Shutaq turns the glass over, places it on the bar and turns on his heel, foam and towel still covering his head.
Aldrith Shutaq starts to march out the way he came, familiar enough with the bar to know the general direction. However, he stops after only a few paces, turns again, wobbily now, and heads back.
Aldrith Shutaq > Sir, this is not a towel. This is a napkin.

"Quite so, sir. Many apologies.", the bartender hands Aldrith a towel.

Aldrith Shutaq shakes his foamy, napkin-crowned head. "No, no, I would not want to ruin it. Just... would you be so kind as you take one of those soda guns you have there and give me a small spray?"

Bartender lifts a club soda nozzle from the rack, aims it at Aldrith, and gives him a bubbly hose down on the face. Mmmmh. Soda-y.

Aldrith Shutaq's normally lucious locks are sodden with goopy flame retardant and seltzer. At least he can see now, however. His eyes are filled with an expression of contemplative dignity, as though he had just laid a fallen soldier to rest.

The bartender smiles proudly, like a hairdresser whose magnum opus has just been completed, or a hero who saved all the little children from a burning building.

Aldrith Shutaq > Right. Well then. I am sure you enjoyed yourself. I did as well.
Aldrith Shutaq > Whatever the hell that was, it needs to be destroyed. As soon as I am sober.
Aldrith Shutaq turns once more, his stabillity now completely degraded. "Alright... I can do this..."
Aldrith Shutaq walks slowly, but shakily towards the exit.

[Korsavius]

A "full facial with the fire extinguisher" will generally be fatal, as most fire extinguishers contain chemicals that "remove air", so to speak. Moreover, fire extinguisher effects on the skin will generally be something like red, extremely dry, irritated skin. This is why it is NEVER recommended that you douse someone with a fire extinguisher if they are on fire in, like, a chemistry class or something.



..................... \e)

[Aldrith Shutaq]

So basically the IRED bartender killed me.

Good to know. THANKS KAT, you'll be hearing from our lawyers.

[Anslol]

Muh sides. Oh my god. Hahah.

[Arista Shahni]

I have so many good RP logs... shame they all need to stay locked.

[Lyn Farel]

From the Summit :


Diana Kim > Well, Ms. Askold, I don't know how minmatar are going to capture any Caldari, if they are not warriors, but just tribals, shaking spears. You show a fist to minmatar and he is trembling from fear in the corner!
Jude Kopenhagen > Probably not Diana.
Jude Kopenhagen > Sometimes I wonder if the Sebbies and Civire are not cousins of some kind.
Diana Kim > Well, sir Jude, I personally fought barehanded against armed minmatar, I know what I am talking about!
Jude Kopenhagen > Mmm
Kalo Askold > Ms. Kim as you said that I was fighting three on one. Now, please try again with the ugga booga spear talk.
Kalaratiri > /emote sighs > How little things change in a year
Jude Kopenhagen > Hey Kala!
Arista Shahni > Missile waving talk is so amusing.
Lin Alvarin > Wait, you shake spears and say "ooga booga?"
Jude Kopenhagen > And yes, you will the the same cycles here and on the IGS yearly.
Lin Alvarin > You don't whip out the measuring tape and compare do you?
Kalo Askold > I can, but it would be a negative number with you know...biology.
Diana Kim > /emote quickly pulls out rubber missile and brings it before camera, waves it, and the missile bends and wobbles * High-grade missile waving!
Denak Calamari > Err...
Kalo Askold > ....I....don't think that is what you think it is Ms. Kim.
Kalaratiri > /emote nods > Jude
Anja Suorsa > .... Don't want to know what i've just logged in to
Lin Alvarin > /emote bursts out laughing.
Arista Shahni > /emote laughs.
Lin Alvarin > I'm waiting for some of the typical capsuleer humor when Diana does that.
Ammos Gravit > And I think that about sums up the Summit
Diana Kim > This is an inferno heavy missile prototype model toy.
Kalaratiri > I don't think people doubt it's a toy
Aveline D'Heuse > Does the real thing wiggle like that?
Diana Kim > Well, yea, it has red tip, but is not completely correct, because it is missing a couple of fins.
Kalo Askold > Right....well....um....Alright, you win Kim.
Anja Suorsa > Ancestors, stop... you're making it worse...
Lin Alvarin > I might be a little more intimidated if she'd said something along the lines of "Permission to release the warhead."
Kalo Askold > /emote bites her lips to keep from snerking.
Lin Alvarin > Considering I'm pretty sure people don't legitimately ask that on a ship. It just happens.
Diana Kim > Ms. D'Heuse, it depends on the material that the model is made of.
Kalaratiri > well, at least no one has descended to "I've got a rubber missile right here"
Diana Kim > I have a whole crate of them, Ms. Kalaratiri.
Synthetic Cultist > /emote blows a noisemaker ♫
Kalo Askold > ....Don't let her become aware of what the object is Ms. Kalaratiri.....
Kalo Askold > This is just too perfect.
Lin Alvarin > I remember my boss telling me something about when she figured out what those were.
Diana Kim > /emote jumps, and the missile slips from her hand
Lin Alvarin > I couldn't stop laughing. The poor girl.
Veyako Koyama > /emote reconnects
Ani Polevhia > /emote connects.
Diana Kim > /emote sniffs hand * Hmm, this one was strange. * wipes hand of trousers * A bit more slippery than others.

[Silas Vitalia]

Had an interesting encounter with an IC 'poet' in local yesterday:


[04:05:23] Wandering Poet > Evening, folks. Would anybody care for a poem?

[04:05:58] Silas Vitalia > Will you read it to me at a belt?

[04:06:34] Wandering Poet > I only make housecalls for generous patrons, I'm afraid.

*isk transfered*

[04:08:36] Wandering Poet > A Haiku for you:

Gadzooks! What a feast!
This fortune weighs down my pack!
I'm stuck in belt 1.

*ship destroyed*

[04:09:30] Silas Vitalia > needs work.

*capsule tackled*

[04:10:11] Silas Vitalia > Shall you try again?

[04:10:27] Wandering Poet > Shall I?

[04:10:33] Silas Vitalia  once more, with feeling

[04:10:58] Wandering Poet > One poem per donation, of course.

[04:11:15] Silas Vitalia > I think I'll pod you instead.


*Pod Kill *

[Repentence Tyrathlion]

[04:10:58] Wandering Poet > One poem per donation, of course.

[04:11:15] Silas Vitalia > I think I'll pod you instead.


*Pod Kill *

Silly poet.  You donated your ammunition to him!

[Saede Riordan]

long, but this was some hilarious RP in the summit last night. I was laughing my ass off.

[spoiler][ 2013.08.17 01:34:45 ] Diana Kim > There are NO homosexual relations in the State at all.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:34:53 ] Anslo > text> HAH
 [ 2013.08.17 01:34:56 ] Anslo > text> You're funny kid
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:02 ] Violca Kari > Diana, what would you do if Heth was gay?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:06 ] Silas Vitalia > Actually I didn't specifically reference any sort of thing. I refered to a madam I own finding a consort for Oniseki
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:08 ] Andrea Okazon > Hrm, I've heard that before from some back water planetary governments, but generally it's wishful thinking rather than reality.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:18 ] Silas Vitalia > Anyway.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:22 ] Gottin > "Serim protect us..." Gottin murmurs.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:28 ] Silas Vitalia > I'll just withdraw the offer.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:30 ] Anslo > text> But yeah, another Friday night in the summit. Call me when the naked juggling lesbian civire/brutor mixed performers show up with their heth satire
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:35 ] Silas Vitalia > You people need to open up a bit.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:36 ] Katrina Oniseki > You do that.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:38 ] Diana Kim > Kari, this is straight impossible,
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:39 ] Silas Vitalia > /emote disconnects
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:48 ] Violca Kari > Im Gallentean. What do I know,.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:54 ] Diana Kim > Keep your dirty gallentean thoughts out of our Heth-haan!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:55 ] Kalo Askold > Someone needs to pod that blooder...
 [ 2013.08.17 01:35:59 ] zhang elliott > the what who shows up?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:02 ] Pieter Tuulinen > It's based on perfectly valid cultural reasons...
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:02 ] Anslo > text> Working on it.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:06 ] Morwen Lagann > Silas, some of us open up, just, you know, not in a place like this.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:16 ] Anslo > text> Bowm chika bow wow
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:21 ] Andrea Okazon > I need to find more of those other places.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:21 ] zhang elliott > she has departed
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:23 ] Saede Riordan > Well, this looks like a fun time to come in.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:31 ] Katrina Oniseki > Shut up, Saede.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:33 ] Violca Kari > Ohyeah.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:33 ] Kalo Askold > It is an interesting time Ms. Riordan.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:36 ] Katrina Oniseki > Get out, Saede.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:37 ] Saede Riordan > Nope.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:47 ] Andrea Okazon > Wait, do we not like eachother either?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:47 ] Saede Riordan > How are you Oniseki?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:48 ] Katrina Oniseki > /emote shakes finger at Saede.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:50 ] Morwen Lagann > Whatever. If she thinks that opening up in a place like this is a good idea she's nowhere near as smart as she likes to think she is.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:36:54 ] Katrina Oniseki > I'm good, how're you?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:00 ] Saede Riordan > Oh pretty good.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:03 ] Violca Kari > I am beginning to think she isnt, Morwen
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:05 ] Katrina Oniseki > Just enjoying another riveting night at the Summit.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:06 ] Punx Evangeline > I'm as smart as I think I am Morwen!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:10 ] Anslo > text> Op success for her then Morwen
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:14 ] zhang elliott > Why they no like you Saede?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:26 ] Andrea Okazon > She's a tyrant, is what she is, honestly.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:31 ] Saede Riordan > Completely.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:42 ] Saede Riordan > Ask Andrea, I whip her to sleep every night.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:48 ] Katrina Oniseki > Everybody likes Saede.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:37:53 ] Katrina Oniseki > At least, that's what she Saede to me.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:00 ] Violca Kari > You people.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:07 ] Saede Riordan > Yeah, us people.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:07 ] Andrea Okazon > I'm not allowed to sleep until I've hauled all her junk around, and she won't let me play with any of the chemistry sets.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:10 ] Punx Evangeline > So... it has come to this...
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:16 ] Violca Kari > This.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:20 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Hey, Eva.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:26 ] Punx Evangeline > Hi Pieter!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:38:34 ] Morwen Lagann > I am so glad I'm in the bath right now. That pun was so bad I might've opened fire inside the station.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:02 ] Katrina Oniseki > Shut up. It was amazing.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:10 ] Gottin > /emote sighs and gets up from her console.  She moves outside the range of her video pickup.  The clinking of ice cubes can be heard in the background.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:22 ] Katrina Oniseki > /emote notices the Amarr.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:22 ] Andrea Okazon > Mor-wen than loss, anyway.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:31 ] Violca Kari > Im in the bath tooooo
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:43 ] Violca Kari > Being all Gallentean and hedonistic.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:48 ] Punx Evangeline > Rawr!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:39:49 ] Andrea Okazon > We're not allowed to bathe, we have to EVA and roll around in valuable gasses.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:40:05 ] Morwen Lagann > Sucks living in a wormhole.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:40:08 ] Katrina Oniseki > /emote narrows eyes at Gottin and adds her to a list.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:40:31 ] Andrea Okazon > It does, I cry myself to sleep on piles of ISK every night. Well, I would if they were physical. Someone should make some of those.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:40:57 ] Saede Riordan > You can get physical ISK chips.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:41:10 ] Andrea Okazon > are they tear-absorbent?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:41:29 ] Saede Riordan > Maybe!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:41:53 ] zhang elliott > /emote laughs to himsrlf
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:04 ] Violca Kari > I find i like sleeping on my large bed
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:12 ] Violca Kari > Under my fine Achuran silk sheets
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:13 ] Gottin > /emote plunks back down in her console chair, a chilled citrus cocktail in her hand.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:15 ] Anslo > text> Wow this conversation's weird
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:16 ] Violca Kari > Naked.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:19 ] Anslo > text> Where the fuck did it turn
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:21 ] Violca Kari > For extra hedonism.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:25 ] Gherrit White > Uh.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:29 ] Morwen Lagann > Hedonism Avenue, apparently.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:30 ] Andrea Okazon > I've kind of padded the inside of a conduit and Saede throws in some fish heads occasionally.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:42:50 ] Saede Riordan > Fish are high in protein.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:43:01 ] zhang elliott > mmm just like mom never made
 [ 2013.08.17 01:43:07 ] Anslo > text> Hey Morwen, how are you anyway
 [ 2013.08.17 01:43:08 ] Andrea Okazon > Fish are high in your face.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:43:28 ] Morwen Lagann > Not better.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:43:35 ] Anslo > text> But not worse.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:43:45 ] Morwen Lagann > No, actually, that was the implication.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:43:49 ] Andrea Okazon > What happened, Ms. Lagann?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:44:02 ] Katrina Oniseki > This channel.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:44:11 ] Andrea Okazon > Summit-induced migraine?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:44:15 ] Gottin > /emote smirks.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:44:31 ] Morwen Lagann > No, not even long-term exposure to the Summit could cause this.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:44:44 ] Andrea Okazon > /emote makes a sympathetic grimace.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:44:57 ] Anslo > text> Ouch
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:04 ] Anslo > text> Diagnosis yet?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:22 ] Violca Kari > I wish I had some people to bathe with me. For the hedonism.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:29 ] Violca Kari > We could play with the soap.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:40 ] Anslo > text> Where's quafe girl
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:46 ] Andrea Okazon > Are you particularly lonely, Violca?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:58 ] Violca Kari > Katrina should stop by. We can finish what was started on page 271.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:58 ] Maatard Jans > Miss Kari, I did happen to pick up a few exotic dancers, male, from a breached hub. Arrange for their transportation?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:45:59 ] Diana Kim > text> Isn't it dirty to bathe in same bath with someone else?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:03 ] Morwen Lagann > I have someone helping out with that right now. Kinda why I'm sticking to audio-only outbound.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:13 ] Violca Kari > Diana
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:17 ] Violca Kari > Its extra dirty!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:19 ] Katrina Oniseki > Not in the mood to joke around, Kari.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:22 ] Violca Kari > ...
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:23 ] Pieter Tuulinen > It's efficient, Diana.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:26 ] Violca Kari > Wow.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:28 ] Violca Kari > Sorry.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:35 ] Katrina Oniseki > Not your fault.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:48 ] Diana Kim > text> How is it efficient?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:46:57 ] Anslo > text> About as efficient as using your chin to cut stir fry Tuulinen.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:47:02 ] Anslo > text> That made more sense in my head..
 [ 2013.08.17 01:47:12 ] Andrea Okazon > /emote starts quietly mumbling a little tune to herself, the lyrics being "fullerites, fullerites, fullerites..."
 [ 2013.08.17 01:47:14 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Or using it to beat cocky Gallenteans to death.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:47:37 ] Andrea Okazon > Or make them highly interested.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:47:47 ] Anslo > text> Who's cocky?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:47:56 ] Saede Riordan > 'cocky'
 [ 2013.08.17 01:47:58 ] Pieter Tuulinen > /emote snorts. "Puhleeeease."
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:06 ] Saede Riordan > /emote snerks.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:16 ] Violca Kari > I definately can use more cock...y. In my life. I like it.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:22 ] Andrea Okazon > No, no, I want to hear more about Pieter's chin.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:29 ] Andrea Okazon > For science.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:37 ] Anslo > text> I'm not cocky.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:40 ] Saede Riordan > Pieter's chin will always be second to Stitchers.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:43 ] Anslo > text> I don't talk or brag now, I just act.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:48 ] Saede Riordan > No Anslo, you really aren't.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:53 ] Saede Riordan > /emote smirks quietly.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:48:59 ] Andrea Okazon > More blocky than cocky.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:18 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Not always, Saede. One day he will grow old and careless....
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:25 ] Diana Kim > text> Still, Tuulinen-haan, how is it efficient?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:27 ] Violca Kari > Later.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:29 ] Anslo > text> But for now
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:35 ] Maatard Jans > Rest well?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:37 ] Anslo > text> I just avoid the talking and act
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:40 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Less water volume per person, Diana.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:41 ] Saede Riordan > You totally missed what I was implying.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:43 ] Anslo > text> It tends to shut people up more.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:48 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Also, people can reach the bits you can't.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:52 ] Anslo > text> I don't care what you're implying
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:53 ] Andrea Okazon > Oh, man -- do you think ... they'll chin bump?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:53 ] Saede Riordan > Spose that might have been a bit too subtle.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:49:59 ] Anslo > text> Be straight forward or I don't care.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:11 ] Andrea Okazon > I may faint.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:15 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Probably *said cheerfully*
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:29 ] Saede Riordan > Oh, well I was attempting to subtley and humourously imply you have a small penis.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:39 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Who me?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:42 ] Andrea Okazon > I didn't get that, but wow.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:43 ] Saede Riordan > No Anslo.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:44 ] Pieter Tuulinen > /emote blinks
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:45 ] Anslo > text> That's a horrible joke that has zero imagination.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:48 ] Diana Kim > text> Really?... Well, probably I should try it then.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:50:50 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Ohhhhh. Fair enough then.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:00 ] Saede Riordan > Yeah, thats why I made it subtle.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:07 ] Diana Kim > text> But I think I use much less water when I shower.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:10 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Right. You wouldn't bother being subtle with me.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:13 ] Anslo > text> Almost as bad as that hair dye job
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:25 ] Andrea Okazon > Cut to the very quick
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:29 ] Saede Riordan > I know right? Awful and clashing.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:42 ] Andrea Okazon > Specially since I'm blue now. doesn't match at all.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:55 ] Anslo > text> It's terrible.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:51:57 ] Anslo > text> Yuck
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:10 ] Anslo > text> Anyone seen Caine?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:15 ] Anslo > text> Or Sygarius
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:15 ] Kalo Askold > I have not.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:16 ] Saede Riordan > I kinda wanna see how the dreads look when you let them down Andrea.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:30 ] Andrea Okazon > How forward of you!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:32 ] Morwen Lagann > To answer your question, Anslo, it's really not the business of anyone in here who doesn't already know whether there's a diagnosis or not yet, or what it is if there is one.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:41 ] Saede Riordan > He's not in here, pretty sure he's banned.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:52 ] Morwen Lagann > Caine is banned.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:52:57 ] Anslo > text> That's not an answer, more just a fuck off.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:53:12 ] Morwen Lagann > Syagrius is not, nor is anyone else in Stillwater, to my knowledge.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:53:30 ] Saede Riordan > You really don't want anything to do with him Anslo.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:53:37 ] Anslo > text> K
 [ 2013.08.17 01:53:41 ] Anslo > text> How about Laria?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:53:45 ] Morwen Lagann > "I don't feel like sharing details, let alone via this channel" is a perfectly valid answer.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:53:58 ] Sid Afraldir > Stillwater, har har.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:12 ] zhang elliott > Why would Stillwater be banned?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:24 ] Saede Riordan > Yeah and Leopold is the human pond scum. Laria's alright...ish.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:34 ] Morwen Lagann > Aside from her taste in men.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:34 ] Andrea Okazon > Because among terrible, horrible people, they still manage to cause revulsion.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:38 ] Sid Afraldir > Stillwater is a joke.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:45 ] Maatard Jans > Having finally docked, it is time to take my leave... Thank you, Summit, for providing - yet again - such a hospitable environment to converse. Best of wishes to everyone.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:46 ] Sid Afraldir > Shit, they're not even that terrible.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:49 ] Sid Afraldir > They're like...
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:54 ] Maatard Jans > /emote disconnects, with a smile.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:54:58 ] Anslo > text> Whatever. I just need to talk to one of them.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:01 ] Katrina Oniseki > Should be called Stagnantwater, at this point.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:12 ] Katrina Oniseki > ... because it's been sitting still.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:14 ] Katrina Oniseki > Get it?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:16 ] Katrina Oniseki > Hah!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:17 ] Anslo > text> Boooooo
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:17 ] Morwen Lagann > "Stalewater" and "Stillbornwater" are the two ones we used.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:30 ] Sid Afraldir > Those kids you see in Callie who try to hard at being cool.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:31 ] Kalo Askold > That was bad and you should feel bad.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:55:56 ] Anslo > text> Whatever. I wanna see if they want stuff
 [ 2013.08.17 01:56:16 ] Diana Kim > text> Stillwater, is it like bath?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:56:21 ] Anslo > text> Yes
 [ 2013.08.17 01:56:24 ] Katrina Oniseki > Yes.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:56:25 ] Morwen Lagann > Bath of terrible-smelling incense.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:56:41 ] Diana Kim > text> I think I will prefer showers for now.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:01 ] Morwen Lagann > Showers are also nice with company.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:08 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Confirmed.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:14 ] Diana Kim > text> Why would you need a company in the shower?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:22 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Still more efficient.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:28 ] Andrea Okazon > If I don't have a love life, no one else should be happy either.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:28 ] Sid Afraldir > Only if you have heated tiles and a good handle bar.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:41 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > What did I come into here?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:44 ] Katrina Oniseki > Saede is single, I think.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:44 ] Anslo > text> So no Stillwater? Any Angel Cartel people?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:50 ] Anslo > text> Like, at all?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:53 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Anslo....
 [ 2013.08.17 01:57:59 ] Anslo > text> What?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:01 ] Katrina Oniseki > She's got red hair, you've got blue hair. Why don't you two make purple?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:05 ] Sid Afraldir > Kyllsa, we are talking about sex in the shower.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:13 ] Andrea Okazon > Nah, Kat. She has a boy, who's a good friend of mine.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:13 ] Saede Riordan > I'm not single?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:22 ] Katrina Oniseki > You're plural?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:27 ] zhang elliott > doesntlook like Angels are flying tonite
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:29 ] Saede Riordan > Well yes.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:31 ] Katrina Oniseki > Many Saedes.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:33 ] Andrea Okazon > I thought you weren't.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:36 ] Morwen Lagann > Company as in having company over. A friend. Or partner.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:38 ] Andrea Okazon > Although there are a few of oyu.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:39 ] Anslo > text> Flying? I just wanted to talk to one. Oh well.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:43 ] Saede Riordan > I'm dating Anatole.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:47 ] Diana Kim > text> Mr. Afraldir, don't you think that such thing should stay inside family that practice it?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:54 ] Kalo Askold > Ms. Siikanen I might have to have a daring raid on your liquer cabnet.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:54 ] Andrea Okazon > Yes.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:58:59 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > ...
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:12 ] Katrina Oniseki > Kyllsa, help.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:14 ] Andrea Okazon > Oh, party at Kyllsa's place?
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:15 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > I am utterly confused.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:16 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Lock up the booze!
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:19 ] Sid Afraldir > Whoa.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:22 ] Sid Afraldir > Whoa, Diana.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:29 ] Kalo Askold > Between the talk of no homosexuals existing in the state and talk of sex slaves being offered on the summit. I need whatever you drink to stay sane.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:30 ] zhang elliott > booze you say>
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:33 ] Sid Afraldir > I don't know what kind of freak you people get down with in the State.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:41 ] Arthas Romanov > what did DK say this time...
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:47 ] Sid Afraldir > That shit scares me, and that'
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:52 ] Sid Afraldir > 's not an easy thing to do.
 [ 2013.08.17 01:59:53 ] Andrea Okazon > She's just a fan of keepin' it in the family.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:06 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > Vodka.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:07 ] Andrea Okazon > Keeps the gay away.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:13 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > How I make it through the day.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:23 ] Katrina Oniseki > Pause. Rewind. Sid, don't take Diana Kim seriously. Ever. Not even when she's trying to shoot your frigate on station with a HAC.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:23 ] Sid Afraldir > Nothing wrong with the "gay".
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:24 ] Arthas Romanov > I know plenty of caldari gays
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:27 ] Pieter Tuulinen > Can we stop using Miss Kim as a baseline for the State?
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:28 ] Andrea Okazon > So, what's worse to deal with, Kyllsa -- small children, or capsuleers?
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:34 ] Kalo Askold > Alright, because I almost put a dent into my desk with the blooder offering things.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:43 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > Capsuleers.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:45 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > Easily.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:47 ] Arthas Romanov > Kim does not represent the state
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:49 ] Kyllsa Siikanen > I like children, overall.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:50 ] Arthas Romanov > nor humanity at large
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:51 ] Andrea Okazon > /emote beams. "We are pretty horrible."
 [ 2013.08.17 02:00:51 ] Saede Riordan > Yeah definitely capsuleers.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:01:16 ] Gottin > /emote raises her glass "Capsuleers."
 [ 2013.08.17 02:01:25 ] Sid Afraldir > Word.
 [ 2013.08.17 02:01:31 ] zhang elliott > Here,here[/spoiler]

[Avio Yaken]

wait wait wait.....the GOOD RP log thread?

Does that mean their is a BAD RP log thread? *o*

[Havohej]

wait wait wait.....the GOOD RP log thread?

Does that mean their is a BAD RP log thread? *o*

In a manner of speaking.  It's called the Catacombs.  When people play the role of a bad poster on Backstage, their posts/threads are archived there as an example of what not to do on Backstage.

[Havohej]

Long (didn't seem so at the time, but :text:) interaction between Havo and a Dust merc named Ryeon about things like Humanity and how it relates (or not) to podders and dusters, the changes made to Dust merc brains and other neat stuff about DUST 514 (which has PF I've never read), sparked by a comment by Foley and with a bit of interesting/amusing back-and-forth with Diana Kim on the side (<3 Diana Kim)


[spoiler] [ 2013.09.07 05:45:19 ] Foley Jones > .......so i was told to go see a mental doctor today after i grinded up a duster in my blender and forced a sniper to drink himself......
 [ 2013.09.07 05:46:04 ] Havohej > Why do they bother with shrinks for you lot?  You're meant to be entirely disposable assets anyway, aren't you?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:46:26 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Bodies, yes. Minds, a bit less. Hello, pilots.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:46:37 ] Diana Kim > /emote bows * Ryeon-achur

 [ 2013.09.07 05:47:13 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > *the one-eyed Minmatar scout dropsuit on the feed bows in return* Kim-haani.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:47:40 ] Foley Jones > so i went to a doctor....they did some tests and they believe i have "PTSD" or some shit....whats PTSD?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:08 ] Havohej > Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.  Understandable for a disposable soldier, I'd think.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:09 ] Ber Kan > pst traumatic stress syndrome
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:18 ] Ber Kan > or something like that.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:23 ] Havohej > ...still don't see why they'd give a shit.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:44 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Um ... to an extent, I'm not ... sure that they do, pilot.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:48 ] Caviar Liberta > Its like the ground combatant that is beating his head against the wall while singing oh happy day. Happy and sane aren't always mutual,.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:50 ] Foley Jones > whats it mean to have it? and my CEO gave a shit
 [ 2013.09.07 05:48:58 ] Baryn Taranogas > /emote mutters, "I thought it was 'Production Terminated, System Down'.  Ah, well."
 [ 2013.09.07 05:49:39 ] Havohej > It means, in brief, that certain events can trigger you to go off the rails in some way.  It can be dangerous.  But you're supposed to be dangerous.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:49:42 ] Diana Kim > Oh, I remember we were passing psychical evaluation very often. I hated these "doctors" and their stupid questions. And they like always were like "get serious already". Gah. I wish they saw me now. Im fucking serious now.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:50:01 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... usually? Well ... paranoia, nightmares and related phenomena, anxiety, flashbacks ...
 [ 2013.09.07 05:50:09 ] Foley Jones > ...,indeed you are
 [ 2013.09.07 05:51:07 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > We're ... um, supposed to be subject to especially extreme cases, courtesy of our ... frequent deaths.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:51:13 ] Havohej > Tell me, Dusters... are you human?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:51:19 ] Diana Kim > I think I lacked a bit of... determination, when I was studied in the academy and were serving in the Navy. And now Im quite firm with my resolve.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:51:39 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > "Human" is a ... um, matter of perspective, pilot.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:51:45 ] Havohej > Yes.  It is.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:51:58 ] Foley Jones > flashbacks? well i don't have my memories to flashback on...Paranoia? msybe...nightmares? a few..unless im cuddling THEN i sleep fucking GOOD
 [ 2013.09.07 05:52:25 ] Havohej > I imagine the tech that transfers your consciousness is related to that which transfers ours...
 [ 2013.09.07 05:52:37 ] Caviar Liberta > Now lets see if I was in charge of the Dust program I'd have R&D come up with a targeted memory wipe so as to wipe some select memories to reduce any post combat issues.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:52:50 ] Havohej > Which would lead to the potential for greater similarities.  In theory.  If it's so.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:52:50 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... It seems inevitably related. The source is still ... ah, unknown, I'm afraid, pilot.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:53:21 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > It does replace portions of the brain, however, rather than merely augment what is already there.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:53:27 ] Foley Jones > apparently there was a failure in transfering my memories
 [ 2013.09.07 05:53:51 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > The brainstem and hippocampus are both ... replaced entirely.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:54:28 ] Foley Jones > well its late guess im off....hey Kim! you free saturday?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:54:31 ] Caviar Liberta > /emote coughs and mutters wetware?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:54:42 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... And since the latter is involved in the formation of long-term memory, that probably ... explains what, um, happened to Mr. Jones. Assuming ... that it was an accident.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:55:01 ] Havohej > I see.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:55:03 ] Diana Kim > Oh... poor Mr. Jones! Now I know what is wrong with you! You should hire yourself a drill instructor, who will teach you proper behaviour! That will compensate memory loss.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:55:33 ] Foley Jones > .....riiiiiiiight, you free saturday Kim?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:55:36 ] Ber Kan > /emote thinks a moment.  'I could do such a thing, though physical punishment is always there...regardless of punishment.'
 [ 2013.09.07 05:55:40 ] Havohej > I would think that replacing pieces of the brain outright would retard the potential for evolution.  Are these pieces replaced in every iteration, then?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:55:47 ] Diana Kim > Free? FREE?!!!
 [ 2013.09.07 05:55:58 ] Ber Kan > /emote twitchs and then shushs up.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:56:00 ] Diana Kim > /emote twitches eye nervously
 [ 2013.09.07 05:56:03 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... regardless ... though they, um, do call us "immortals," it ... does seem likely that the average DUST operative will have an even ... shorter career than the average capsuleer.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:56:14 ] Ber Kan > Madam kim, remember your teachings.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:56:30 ] Foley Jones > .....yeah Free...wanna ask you out to dinner! or a movie!
 [ 2013.09.07 05:56:38 ] Diana Kim > /emote leans back on the couch, places hand on her chest and pants
 [ 2013.09.07 05:57:13 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Hm ... well, that is possible, Pilot Havohej ... our skill development system certainly seems to reflect a lack of confidence in our ability to retain ... learned knowledge.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:58:04 ] Diana Kim > I am not free! I have duty, morals, norms, regulations, love and obligations! I serve the State, Mr. Jones!
 [ 2013.09.07 05:58:23 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Our ... um, skills are hardwired, rather than being based on knowledge-download technology.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:58:32 ] Havohej > If there's such a lack of confidence in the technology... specifically, yourselves, that suggests the technology is still under development?
 [ 2013.09.07 05:58:43 ] Foley Jones > .... you can't take 30 minutes to have dinner with me?.......ok...
 [ 2013.09.07 05:58:54 ] Menalea Aldurald > /emote mutters, "And they say tobots have no emotion."
 [ 2013.09.07 05:59:00 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > It's quite possible. The ... um, first generation was ... almost entirely exterminated, after all.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:59:10 ] Menalea Aldurald > (robots)
 [ 2013.09.07 05:59:18 ] Ber Kan > /emote nods.  'And with this hilarity of a failed date attempt, I must leave.  it seem's my attention is required amongst divisional command.'  Ber Salutes properly and his immage dissepears.
 [ 2013.09.07 05:59:23 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... which suggests ... well, some issues.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:00:15 ] Havohej > And so, should a better Duster be developed, it's likely they will destroy the current lot as well, I suppose.  To me, that begs the question: what to do with the consciousnesses of the current batch?  Delete, or transfer to the upgraded hull?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:00:22 ] Diana Kim > /emote automatically salutes back
 [ 2013.09.07 06:00:56 ] Foley Jones > well i guess im off....you free sunday? no? ok.....
 [ 2013.09.07 06:01:00 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Well ... for the most part, we've ... thus far been transferred, where possible, at ... least as I understand it.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:01:10 ] Menalea Aldurald > /emote laughs softly
 [ 2013.09.07 06:02:15 ] Havohej > Which is to say, maybe not all get transferred.  I wonder if problems like PTSD in Dusters move with the consciousness or if they're a manifestation of defects persisting through clone iteration after the initial damage takes place.  But that particular
 [ 2013.09.07 06:02:21 ] Havohej > science is not my forte...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:02:45 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > If ... nothing else, the consciousness takes time to adapt to the hardwiring. The ... hardwiring may be in place, but ... that does not mean that the consciousness is integrated with it.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:02:55 ] Foley Jones > /emote dis connects
 [ 2013.09.07 06:03:45 ] Havohej > /emote nods slowly. > I see.  It sounds like some manner of tech upgrade must be in the works, then.  I can't imagine they'd be aware of this glitch and simply leave it alone.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:03:45 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Well ... we are probably a bit more disposable than capsuleers. Decent ... soldiers are rather more common than pod-compatible baseliners.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:04:35 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > I'm not ... um, respectfully, quite sure it's a "glitch," as ... such. Capsuleer hardwiring works a bit differently from ours, but ... even yours requires a degree of training, does it not?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:05:54 ] Havohej > I'm not sure that pod-compatible and baseliner are terms that can truly be used together, but I can see your point.  As to the training, it's been quite a long time but all I remember of that part of the training was "this is going to be disorienting..
 [ 2013.09.07 06:05:58 ] Havohej > suck it up, pilot."
 [ 2013.09.07 06:06:38 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Um ... there is a "cybernetics" skill download, is there not?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:07:17 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... and of course, you get "Infomorph Psychology" before you're ... permitted to use jump clones.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:07:32 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Some of my ... colleagues could probably have ... used that sort of class.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:07:32 ] Havohej > Ah.  It seems we were talking about different things, just now.  You mean the hardwirings themselves that we use?  For instance implants that improve our skill with various turret-based weapons systems?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:08:01 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > *the scout's blue-masked face nods*
 [ 2013.09.07 06:09:32 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > What ... um, I was getting at is that ... even your probably somewhat ... less-intrusive form takes some ... ah, getting used to.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:10:36 ] Havohej > Well.. in terms of our downloaded skills, they're naturally fully integrated.  We download the information, we have the ability.  Same with the hardwirings.  Suddenly I'm a much more accurate predator after I have the implant plugged in.  Jumping from
 [ 2013.09.07 06:11:38 ] Havohej > one clone with one set of implants to another clone with a different set causes me no more disorientation than jumping from one clone to an identical clone.  A few seconds, and I'm ready to hunt again...  perhaps because entire pieces of our brain
 [ 2013.09.07 06:11:45 ] Havohej > aren't... synthetic, is it?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:11:53 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Um, respectfully, yes ... but you require a certain ... background knowledge of cybernetic systems before you can ... use them, correct?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:12:10 ] Havohej > Of course.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:12:57 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... Also, I'm ... not sure your gel-matrix ... brain can really be described in any manner other than "synthetic," respectfully.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:13:34 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... but it's true that ours has an actual implant ... ah, supplanting rather than supplementing our ... brain functions.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:13:44 ] Havohej > /emote chuckles > Touche, Duster.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:14:24 ] Havohej > /emote muses > I wonder how much more or less effective I might be if entire portions of my clones' brains were 'implants'...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:17:02 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > *she bows* Um ... Dead Six Initiative Staff Psychologist-- um, honorary title, mostly-- Yun Hee Ryeon, pilot.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:17:47 ] Caviar Liberta > /emote starts to speak and motions with a hand in a vague direction. Think about this for a moment. Imagine for a moment if we were essentially the same of you dusters. But our first death is a ploy to link our real body to a remote controlled clone bod...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:18:08 ] Caviar Liberta > as you
 [ 2013.09.07 06:18:54 ] Havohej > /emote nods his head with a vague motion suggestive of a hat tip > Enkil Akheteru, Ryeon.  Callsign: Havohej.  Executor of the Shinjiketo zaibatsu.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:19:12 ] Havohej > Well met.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:20:27 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > A pleasure, Executor Akheteru. ... Um, I'm ... not quite sure what you are getting at, Mr. Liberta?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:20:42 ] Menalea Aldurald > Niether does he.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:21:31 ] Caviar Liberta > /emote nods back, Aegis Commander, Moira Division, Black Rise Expendary Force Unit
 [ 2013.09.07 06:22:28 ] Diana Kim > /emote shrugs * He's a gallentean after all
 [ 2013.09.07 06:23:29 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > *she cocks her head* Moira is ... um, a Gallentean partisan organization, is it not, Aegis Commander?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:24:07 ] Caviar Liberta > actually you know thats the first I have ever mentioned my foll title and chain of command
 [ 2013.09.07 06:25:24 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... *the scout dropsuit turns its single ember eye towards Diana Kim* ... I ... see-- ah, very Gallente.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:25:27 ] Caviar Liberta > Yes it is a pro federation organization. However we will question the actions of those in charge in the Federal Navy and government when needed
 [ 2013.09.07 06:26:42 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > . . . I see. Thank you, pilot. I have, ah ... been working opposite certain of your associated elements. It is ... a pleasure, regardless.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:29:56 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... and I am sorry that I will not ... be able to test your abilities in ... any direct fashion, at ... least personally.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:30:23 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > And at ... um, least soon.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:30:47 ] Havohej > Aggressive, aren't you.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:31:34 ] Diana Kim > I wouldn't mind... "testing" his... "abilities" in person *grins widely*
 [ 2013.09.07 06:33:12 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > A Moira pilot is an ... enemy of the State I ... exist to defend. That said, it is ... not a personal issue. I ... am what I am, pilot. It is how I maintain my ... own center and sense of self ...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:33:30 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... even if I am a leaf in a typhoon, in the end.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:34:37 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Respectfully, Kim-haani, I ... prefer not to contemplate too ... closely the option of engaging capsuleers out of pod.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:35:11 ] Havohej > I was under the impression that Dust mercs were pure mercenaries.  You have a loyalty to the State, though,.. should I call you Doctor?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:35:15 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... that is a grim eventuality, as it would ... likely herald the ... destruction of one or both of our classes.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:36:23 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > *she shakes her head* Funnily, most ... actual psychologists know better than to ... um, subject themselves to strongly scarring psychological forces. I am ... ah, an interested amateur.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:36:41 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > My ... title, as I said, is ... honorary, mostly.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:36:41 ] Alexia Blekna > /emote connected. She was almost smiling, but a blank expression creeped across her face. Soft sounds were apparent; the low creaks and moans of a Minmatar ship's refusal to fall apart when entering hyperspace.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:37:57 ] Havohej > I'll stick with Ryeon, then.  For simplicity's sake, Havohej or simply Havo will suffice.  "Executor Akheteru" is much more formal than this channel warrants, I think.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:38:09 ] Diana Kim > Oh... please excuse me for a moment *stands up, holding hand on her chest and using couch as support with second hand, approaches desk slowly, takes a bottle of water*
 [ 2013.09.07 06:38:56 ] Diana Kim > /emote returns back on the couch, drinks a bit * So, why would it be destruction of our classes?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:39:37 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > The most ... reliable way to kill a capsuleer is to eliminate any backups, typically by sabotage, then kill the primary.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:40:15 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... Preferably by wholly unrecoverable means.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:40:15 ] Diana Kim > Oh, you mean to destroy completely capsuleer memories and all offsprings?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:41:25 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > That is the only reason for one of us to stalk one of you out of pod. Otherwise ... there is a great risk of accidental, permanent death, since not all capsuleers use any form of backup.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:42:00 ] Diana Kim > I have another idea, how to hurt a capsuleer really hard.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:42:02 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > This is ... well, an extreme and absolute option.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:42:13 ] Diana Kim > First you kill a capsuleer, and then scan him.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:42:52 ] Diana Kim > I still... can't recover after this. And thinking about how I could do the same to my enemies.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:43:19 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Respectfully, Kim-haani, I will ... leave such musings to yourself.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:43:53 ] Havohej > This loyalty to the State, Ryeon... may I ask 'why'?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:43:54 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > I do ... not desire our classes to be pitted against one another; such a thing would likely be hard to stop once begun in earnest.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:44:10 ] Diana Kim > It makes me to... feel better, when I imagine, that gallentean will suffer this way!
 [ 2013.09.07 06:44:40 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Well ...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:45:21 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... The State guards certain things I value, Mr. Havohej. Things I wish to ... see preserved.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:46:30 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > You ... may have heard Kim-haani address me as "Ryeon-achur." I am not a ... full citizen of the Caldari State; by ... choice, I have taken advantage of my clone soldier status to revert ...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:46:40 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... to an Achur identity.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:47:44 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > My ... people are clients of the State. You ... might think of it as being a bit like a cross ... between a poor cousin and a protected species.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:48:32 ] Havohej > ...a not-entirely-wanted houseguest, or a pet.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:49:08 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Cast darkly, perhaps. Neither we nor most Caldari see it so. The Templis might, but I do not care very much about their opinions.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:49:41 ] Havohej > These things you value...?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:50:22 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > The Caldari uplifted our homeworld-- the urban areas-- just before they left the Federation. They left the rest of it to us, and so it remains.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:52:01 ] Havohej > By uplifted, do you mean to say "modernized the valuable areas enough for the megacorporations to exploit"?
 [ 2013.09.07 06:53:37 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Considering that we are talking about Sukuuvestaa, Pilot, that they are a Practical corporation, and that they forebore to exploit our world anywhere nearly so fiercely as they might have ...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:54:26 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... also considering that we were a preindustrial civilization when they arrived ...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:54:38 ] Herra Gunter > Man, that was like a Serpentis invasion over here...
 [ 2013.09.07 06:54:45 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > ... we're not quite so sure as you seem to be that it was a bad deal.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:56:07 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > In sharp contrast to the Amarrian approach to the Matari, for example, we still have the vast majority of our land, and no effort has been made to stamp out our culture or faith.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:56:27 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > In fact, we are a sovereign nation-- albeit clients to the State.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:57:00 ] Havohej > Exploitation isn't always a "bad deal," per se.  But I think it'd be hard to deny that, while Achur may have pulled the least of the possible evils in that straw-draw of fate, even Sukuuvestaa wouldn't do anything out of the kindness of their hearts.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:58:07 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Perhaps not kindness, as such. The Caldari are very set upon being themselves, but their leaders are not blind to other truths.
 [ 2013.09.07 06:58:50 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > The Caldari recognize Achur spirituality as close kin to their own. I was speaking more literally than you may have thought when I described us as "poor cousins."
 [ 2013.09.07 07:00:22 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > Like the Intaki, we see and explore the same truths as the Caldari, just from a different angle. It takes a hard heart to exploit kin as far as they might theoretically be exploitable.
 [ 2013.09.07 07:00:36 ] Havohej > I see.  It seems perhaps there is an element of gratitude to your decision of loyalty, then, no?
 [ 2013.09.07 07:02:10 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > And a desire to see the relationship survive, yes. The Caldari offer both peace and isolation, as well as self-governance; the Gallente cannot be counted upon to offer anything of the sort.
 [ 2013.09.07 07:02:32 ] Yun Hee Ryeon > For one thing, they do insist on having their democracy....
 [ 2013.09.07 07:02:48 ] Havohej > /emote scowls slightly. > Don't I know it.
 [ 2013.09.07 07:03:34 ] Havohej > It's been interesting speaking with you, soldier.  Fight well.
 [ 2013.09.07 07:03:41 ] Havohej > /emote disconnects.[/spoiler]

[Katrina Oniseki]

Jude Kopenhagen > "Mmm, I wanted to keep the Titan up, for my own reasons. Even though it falling meant the end of Heth, that was not known during that time and was a great price to pay. But, I saw so many seperate Caldari groups there, working independantly, with limited effect. I can't help but feel if they went unified, with similar ships, the battle would not have been entirely as one sided."

Katrina Oniseki nods, sighing gently, "I remember. I still relive that day in my dreams, night after night. I remember throwing myself against the side of a Moros. I remember the hull alarms going off through the halls of my Ferox. I remember feeling the escape pods jettison, the prow of my ship connecting with the enemy's in such a moment of terrible noise and light. I remember sitting there after everything I had was expended. Sitting there, in just my pod, watching the inevitable. You can't imagine the... unbelievable finality of it all. Of failure. Before your eyes, watching it go down."

"I was there."

Katrina Oniseki tilts her head, "Do you have parents?"

"Yes."

"A mother, a father. Brothers and sisters, maybe?"

"No siblings.", he answers.

"You once told me you don't call yourself -haan. You once told me you don't pledge your loyalty to the State. I can respect that. I can understand that. I do not have a mother and father. I did not grow up in the loving arms of flesh and blood. I grew up in the loving arms of the glorious State. The State is my family. They are my parents. I watched my mother die that day. I watched her merge with the ground, because I could not protect her."

Jude Kopenhagen nods.

"Mister Kopenhagen, with all due respect, you could not see it the way I did."

Steffanie Saissore listens quietly

Katrina Oniseki sips her tea and smiles. She doesn't seem upset. Not angry, or sad, or disturbed even. It's all so very matter of fact, part of her life now.

[Katrina Oniseki]

[spoiler=Not Entirely Legit][18:09:53] Tiberious Thessalonia > But no.
[18:10:04] Katrina Oniseki > Know what?
[18:10:13] Tiberious Thessalonia > What, Kat?
[18:10:22] Katrina Oniseki > You said, "but know"
[18:10:34] Tiberious Thessalonia > No, I said no.
[18:10:48] Katrina Oniseki > I know you said know.
[18:11:02] Tiberious Thessalonia > No, I said NO.
[18:11:11] Katrina Oniseki > I know!
[18:11:37] Tiberious Thessalonia > ...
[18:11:40] Katrina Oniseki > ...
[18:12:13] Tiberious Thessalonia > Kat, apparently I am getting pulled into some things that I have no idea why I am being pulled into them
[18:12:16] Tiberious Thessalonia > Hence my confusion.
[18:12:24] Katrina Oniseki > I see.
[18:12:32] Katrina Oniseki > An interesting Nation of affairs.
[18:12:46] Katrina Oniseki > Hah! Get it? Because you're not in the State?!
[18:12:54] Katrina Oniseki > Oh, that's rich. I crack me up.
[18:13:12] Tiberious Thessalonia stares at Kat.
[18:13:23] Katrina Oniseki grins back widely.[/spoiler]