That would be Lust. You know I believe in checking all avenues for answers, but I'm afraid I don't know how many you'll find from there that are accurate. Our dreams aren't always completely accurate to reality, are they?
No, that makes sense. [But it would be crazy to request a new PC with you so I just told Alli to ask. Anyway, what if we hooked Maus and Frumpkin up to it at the same time???] It did show up when we used it - but it seems to be getting bolder anyway.
Is the process you went through to become Avatars something we can discuss? Where did that happen? On the ship, or before it?
[you're valid and thank you i'm dying squirtle. also stop leave maus alone.]
I'm starting to think it really does not care anymore if you're all so determined to find it.
[...] We can discuss it. It happened before we arrived on this base. Becoming Avatars is what led us to moving here in the first place, after the other thirty-one were dead. That man was with us, but he never evolved the same way we did. I suppose that should have been the obvious sign he would never become Gluttony.
It seemed like something similar happened to Shi Qingxuan and the others. I just wonder if it is significant in some way. It let you have certain abilities, but also seems to draw that thing more directly to you?
Are you more connected to it through that, somehow?
What happened to those four was temporary, though from what I've heard it's similar to what happened to us. But you would be correct. All eight of us are connected to it after our ascension to becoming Avatars.
Yes, I know - nothing that happens in those places is real per se, but it can still be informative. The other thing that happened was that. . . they connected themselves to dead bodies they found, and those bodies began to drain energy from them. I've wondered what the meaning of that is; whether it's merely evocative of the way that thing draws power from the dead, or whether it's instructive in some other way, somehow.
I think it's far too late for that, if you want my honest opinion. [he's not thrilled.] With how often a number of you have seen it and learned about it...I can't imagine it will sit by and wait as it has been.
But I don't think it's planning to attack either. That's what makes it even more dangerous. It's unpredictable.
Maybe by now we've offended it more than you have.
[Her tone implies that he should probably care. Even though she is the same as he is, and has been going around open in her antagonism because she would rather be the target than someone else.]
. . . I suppose then the connection you have to it cannot be reversed except if you reach your win condition?
I'm fairly certain it has the capacity to hate all of us. [this furby is going to be the end of him. they are truly too similar in this case which is horrible.]
...even with the win condition, whatever that may be, I'm uncertain how the tie will be severed. So far in my research I've been studying parasitic relationships and biotechnology and nothing seems to stick out enough to be of use.
I don't suppose the method you used can be reversed? [Wincing.] Surely you've considered that. However, I don't have the technical background here to be of particular use.
I wonder if it's not something worth using our resources to learn more about? [She chews on her lip, a little uncertain.]
We have so few [and will later use one of their books to get a dick drawing] but it still seems critical to me, somehow; the connection gives you certain advantages we don't have, but also seems to be providing a separate power source to the creature other than our indulgences. The line between underpowering it so it becomes more aggressive in consuming the dead versus the line between underpowering it so we can manage it seems like a risky one to navigate, but. . .
But it's one worth pursuing. [he'll just finish that thought.] It's always been about balance. If you can find a way to redirect its focus...I wonder if there would then be a way to shift the connection to something else.
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. . . For the most part, I just want to know if we should be continuing to try to mess with it, or if that's a bad idea.
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Is the process you went through to become Avatars something we can discuss? Where did that happen? On the ship, or before it?
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I'm starting to think it really does not care anymore if you're all so determined to find it.
[...] We can discuss it. It happened before we arrived on this base. Becoming Avatars is what led us to moving here in the first place, after the other thirty-one were dead. That man was with us, but he never evolved the same way we did. I suppose that should have been the obvious sign he would never become Gluttony.
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Are you more connected to it through that, somehow?
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. . . Do you have any sense what it will do next? Will it still be content to try and get us to kill one another thing week?
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But I don't think it's planning to attack either. That's what makes it even more dangerous. It's unpredictable.
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[They've implied a few times they'll be punished for these conversations.]
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[the tone seems to imply he also doesn't care anymore because there are bigger matters at hand.]
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[Her tone implies that he should probably care. Even though she is the same as he is, and has been going around open in her antagonism because she would rather be the target than someone else.]
. . . I suppose then the connection you have to it cannot be reversed except if you reach your win condition?
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...even with the win condition, whatever that may be, I'm uncertain how the tie will be severed. So far in my research I've been studying parasitic relationships and biotechnology and nothing seems to stick out enough to be of use.
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We have so few [and will later use one of their books to get a dick drawing] but it still seems critical to me, somehow; the connection gives you certain advantages we don't have, but also seems to be providing a separate power source to the creature other than our indulgences. The line between underpowering it so it becomes more aggressive in consuming the dead versus the line between underpowering it so we can manage it seems like a risky one to navigate, but. . .
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It's all a part of my research at the moment.