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[claudiometer]

Now that I can have everyone's attention, a little good news.

Since Jules and I both needed the occasional break from the Bronze Age, I'm proud to announce Liminal Intranet is now up and running. Even I'm not good enough to hook it up to proper Internet, as that would involve punching dimensional holes that are probably beyond our reach, but it should at least be a boon to Project Infopool.

Servers are in my rooms, so they won't be going anywhere even if I do. You'll have to provide your own computers, though.

Comments

[pionero]

So, now we can talk in each others heads and now we have computers. You really are making this just like home, aren't you?

[claudiometer]

You can talk in people's heads when you're at home?

[pionero]

Maybe.

[claudiometer]

[Not the way he seems to avoid the network, he can't.]

The way I see it, there's nothing wrong with having something familiar, especially when it's a good backup for sharing info on jaunt places.

[pionero]

[ Don't point out the logic holes! ]

Except for the fact it might be as compromised as the network might be. Given we're in their space.

[claudiometer]

Pretty sure they have better things to do with their time than eavesdrop 24/7.

[pionero]

I'm pretty sure that if someone is going to kidnap you, they want to keep tabs on you all the time. Unless we all suddenly develop Stockholm syndrome.

[claudiometer]

You'll noticed I didn't say 'can't.'

[She's not touching Stockholm syndrome with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Jesus fucking Christ, I am so tired of people blaming Stockholm syndrome for anyone who isn't completely miserable here or doesn't see this place as a jail or thinks it might be preferable to other alternatives like being dead. As in finally dead, not the kind you can rise from because your body is on fire on their roof.

Have you ever been forced to sympathize with the people who are oppressing you? Like full-on being made to love someone who is using you?

I have. This is not it.

For all the bullshit the Arcana have done, at least they've never compelled me to feel anything about them.

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[truerevelation]

[...because Kanji doesn't want to start an argument where someone who's talking about 'kidnapped' is, even if he's breaking into a conversation. (Sorry, Cal.) Mental cough, and...]

Talked about that with the horse. Depends on the Arcana, I think? It doesn't go spyin' at least. Sounds to me like they mostly just pay attention when we're ... doing shit that relates to whoever's idiom.

...what's Stockholm syndrome? We ain't been to ... whatever country that is, it's one of the north Europe ones, right?

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[claudiometer]

So the one downside to Lovers getting bumped out early is the most likely constant spy has nothing better to do than popcorn at us. [Not that Claudia can see her not popcorning anyway, but.

Aaaaand cue a mental sigh, though it's not directed at Kanji.] No, we haven't been to Sweden, good geography job there. It's... a term for a thing that happens sometimes when people are kidnapped. They start sympathising with their captors.

On a human-to-human level it is absolutely fucked up. On this level, I'm not about to wade into whether it applies, because the people who think it does will insist that the presence of people who think it doesn't makes them right, and those of us who don't mind or don't care have our reasons for not minding or caring.

[thornsofmalkav]

Well yeah. Some of us can't go home, even after this is done.

[pionero]

So everyone likes to remind me.

[thornsofmalkav]

Well, it affects how we see this place.

[kindashady]

I don't know how much I like the idea of getting too comfortable here.

[spoiler: he doesn't like it at all nope.]

[pionero]

I think we are some the few who don't like the idea. We should start a book club.

[ SARCASM IS AT 80 MILES HIGH

About the club part. ]

[kindashady]

[Cal. Bro. He likes you and all but don't be a nerd.]

I'd rather see more effort being put into finding a way home than playing around in clubs or with...whatever godsforsaken thing a computer is.

But speaking of book club, meet me in the library when you have a moment.

[Because in between his moping and conflicting leftover feelings from his overlay he's at least been trying to be productive.]

[pionero]

[ HEY. Hey. Don't tell him you don't want to know about 15th Century weapons of murder. ]

There are a few things I think effort should be put into.

[ The library. Alright, he'll bite. ]

Yeah. Sure.

[kindashady]

[Look bruh he LIVES in fantasy 15th century. Ish. You wanna know about weapons of murder he knows better ways than a book.]

Maybe if we yell loud enough people will actually take it to consideration. Seems to be how they operate around here.

[Sarcasm, what sarcasm.]

[pionero]

[ Let him show you some moves sometime dude. ]

Do you ever pay attention to the people shouting for attention?

[not_the_question]

Probably for the best. The more comfortable you are, the harder it is to realise the water is slowly warming until you boil to death.

[He should write Christmas Crackers.]

[kindashady]

[Well hey now, he kind of recognizes that...voice? Gods, this whole psionic psychic thing is still really weird.]

My thoughts exactly. Call me paranoid, but that's only asking for trouble further down the line.

[not_the_question]

[Yes it is weird, but that's neither here nor there and the Doctor tends to forget people as often as he remembers them.]

Oh, I wouldn't call it paranoia. Scared is good. Scared is rational. Without that sense of self-preservation, well, it'd be a lot harder to stay alive.

[kindashady]

I'm glad someone else in this godsbedamned place is capable of common sense.

For all that people seem to be adept at manipulating this place, we still know almost nothing about what it really is or the true nature of those behind it. [Which is why he's spending increasingly more time in the library as of late, on the miracle off chance he can find something.]

[not_the_question]

Oh, I could explain this place. It wouldn't be easy to understand, but I could explain it. The bigger issue with this place is that people are given abilities they have no business having, without being told how to use them safely and without thinking of the ramifications of being granted such abilities.