probe | Audience: Sheila Hammond

Mm. [no comment but it's definitely takeru since he mentioned talking to greed during the meeting. anyway, greed pushes themselves away from the wall and wanders to the vending machine to grab...a cup of tea before heading to the kitchen table. there's a cold draft that seems to follow them, and they seem a little stiff in their movements.]

Where would you like to start then?

[She raises an eyebrow at the single cup of tea, but doesn't comment on it. For now. Instead, she moves to sit at the kitchen table.]

With the most basic question: How are you holding up after all these unsettling revelations?

[fun fact i did not get notifs for either greed thread.]

In a word, terribly. This is absolutely worse than I anticipated. Then again...you've uncovered some recent developments that have left me with plenty to work off of.

[Your notifs said Greed has no rights.]

Completely understandable. Everything sucks. But how is this worse than you anticipated?

[I STILL? DID NOT GET A NOTIF FOR THIS ONE?]

Well first of all that thing is getting far too bold for my liking. So there's that.

[GMAIL... I also just noticed my HTML fail above and I'm in tears.]

Agreed, whoever raised it did not teach it how to be subtle or humble. I am so not looking forward to hearing whatever it has to say if it does end up eating us for dinner.

[we're doing great.]

That's the trouble with it all. I'm not sure where its behavior came from, exactly. It seems to have spawned its own ideas and intentions.

Has it consider its ideas suck? It's giving all of us with dietary restrictions a bad rap!

Yes, well, I suppose the point in your favor is that you don't waste time playing with your food.

Hey, there is more than one point in my favor. I have morals.

[Excuse you, she only eats nazis and people with bad road rage.]

I just wish there was a more obvious way to deal with it. You were listening today, right?

You know what I mean. [sheesh.]

I've been listening in as often as I can for my records, yes. And you've run into the same problem we have which is the inability to actually dispose of it. If that's what we're meant to do.

If! Even though it would be so satisfying.

[The greatest disappointment of her undead life is that she can't punch a furby.]

It's too bad my power doesn't let me summon an animal control van, because that would have apparently been more useful.

[hum.]

Van wouldn't be big enough. [even if it isn't a serious suggestion, he's put thought into it.]

What are your thoughts on everything that's been discussed thus far?

A bus?

[Half joking, half considering it.]

Well... A lot of things are super fucked up now that I have context. [The skull on w0...] But mostly, I'm worried about our back-up plans if the computer genuises don't figure it out. And by back-up plans, I mean the lack of them.