Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Four and Five

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Characters: red-marked characters and their new friends
Location: ???
Date: Morning 354, Morning and Day 355
Summary: A quiet morning and a confusing morning, or maybe they're both, or maybe they're neither.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Four OOC Post
Part Five OOC Post

Comments

[0thingsonmymind]

Dig deep?

*That was a thing for awhile, wasn't it?*

Something is down.

[warriorscribe]

I'm not sure we have the time or resources to reach it by brute force, but you're certainly right. This place, potentially. That place where we made repairs. Possibly the white maze...

Miller, by his own words, lives somewhere underground.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Finding Miller...yes, that would be worth it.

He nods.*

[warriorscribe]

He has supplies. Heat? He must be better cared for than we are.

[Taking his means of harming others, that may depend on finding him in person and who knows how that would go, with his static minions and his control over the nanomachines?]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He nods eagerly. Heat. Heat was important. Occasionally he forgot what it was like, but even here was warm enough to make things a little better.*

We can get what he uses to watch and control

[warriorscribe]

[After decoding the message, Enoch lowers his head, struggling with the thought. Taking it away from him would be good, but...]

...I don't like the idea of us having it, either. It should be disabled if it's safe to, should we find it.

[0thingsonmymind]

Many will disagree.

[warriorscribe]

Unless it can make the sort of changes that will restore our taken powers, I don't think many will want the ability to control one another to remain intact.

[That's the only reason he can think of that Brian would say that. If it could restore their powers...]

[0thingsonmymind]

Some will. But I meant control town and spiders.

[warriorscribe]

Do you think he really has all of that? I would think most of that control is in Eve's possession.

[Miller has some control, but Eve had control over those things from the start, he's sure. If he can be sure of anything in this state.]

[0thingsonmymind]

I think he has access. Admin could probably block him. Maybe.

*He had to have SOME access to bring them all here.*

[warriorscribe]

Do you think so?

[A pause.]

No, I...the spiders must be hers. Do you believe Miller is responsible for the cult?

[What he's getting at is, the robed static figures came instead of the spiders...]

[0thingsonmymind]

*The cult had figures too...perhaps.*

Maybe. There must be a way to find out.

[warriorscribe]

She might be willing to tell us, if she can now acknowledge Miller is a danger to us. She said it herself...she is meant to protect. Even if her view of it is warped or inhuman.

[Miller's means, when they were performing those tasks for repairs, were cruel. But he had stated he was doing them for efficiency's sake. Perhaps that had been enough to mollify Eve then. But it had been made clear that Eve could not see the lines, to the point where he had received no correcting injection. If she couldn't see it, maybe...]

[0thingsonmymind]

*Enoch has way too much faith in the admin.*

Either she does not want to tell us or she cannot. We must rely on ourselves and not her.

cw: mention of amputation

[warriorscribe]

You can't assume that. It takes very little time to simply ask a question of her. At worst, we receive no response.

[Simply assuming she won't help is why Clayton lost his toes, and it's why they went as long as they did without vital medications. He's not making that mistake again.]

[0thingsonmymind]

You can ask. But do not expect anything useful. Others have tried already.

*Re: Spiders and control of things, at least.*

[warriorscribe]

About Miller? Certainly not before this. This might change her stance on him, if he has been acting without her approval.

[It won't - or rather, if it does, it won't lift the classified thing. But at least he can say he tried.]

[0thingsonmymind]

Maybe before this. After repairs. But I do not know.

[warriorscribe]

Then I will try when we get out of here. Surely- surely this must change something.

[None of the things anyone wanted to change, unfortunately.]

[0thingsonmymind]

Tell me if you learn anything.