More Important Questions

[claudiometer]

Please tell me someone came back with Team Orange's specialty. I need the shit out of that but couldn't refaction during the jaunt.

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[truerevelation]

Was running around with enough of 'em at the end, and I still don't get how they were doing what they were doing...

[claudiometer]

It's Loopholes: The Faction Skill, from the description I got. Would've taken it then and there if I'd been fully investigating.

[Given Kanji's bucket of Crypto issues, she leaves it at that, but he can probably understand not wanting to do something that'd upset your overlay half later.]

[truerevelation]

Yeah, I know what ya mean. That was me 'n Kallias back in Achaia.

But ... heh. Like ... dodging the rules, sort of thing? They didn't seem to be breaking that many of them. Unless messing with recharges counts as rule breaking.

[claudiometer]

The example I got was... okay, you know how dataspikes are normally Combat Interface: The Utility? ['You know how stupid the very idea is,' she doesn't add, but her tone probably covers it well enough.]

What I saw in action was twisting what data was spiked around until the spikes were sending information instead of stealing it. Got some of 'em loaded up with the patch. I figure as the person who pointed out a sanction can give power instead of just taking it away, in Questing Country, I need this thing like burning.

[truerevelation]

- whoa, yeah, I think I heard about that one! Messing with ... what something's doing? What the thing it's doing ... means? I dunno.

[claudiometer]

Look at the things something can mean, and make it be something other than what it conventionally is. I do love me some loopholes.

[truerevelation]

[Is that a bit of laughter coming through there?]

Damn. That's clever stuff.

[claudiometer]

Ain't it just?

[truerevelation]

...mosta the time I'm trying to dodge loopholes. Don't wanna get in a tangle.

But I dunno. [There's a hesitant pause, then-] Might have to check this stuff out.

[claudiometer]

Dude, if I can get my hands on it, hit me up whenever.

[Then he doesn't have to Decide Now.]

[truerevelation]

Heh, alright. Kinda wonderin' if it'd piggyback on some'f my Adversary stuff. Mixing the messages, yeah?

[claudiometer]

It just might. I really can't see it not helping that stuff along.

[truerevelation]

Ain't Questing Country stuff all about what your archetype, uh, means anyway?

[claudiometer]

Considering how expansive Oracles' stuff can get, absolutely.

[grimjeaper]

...actually, I might still have all the data I collected on the different Factions. Gimme a few micros-- ah, gimme a few minutes and I should be able to free up Declarification from that.

[claudiometer]

Oh hell yes.

[grimjeaper]

Any other ones you wanted while I've got this open? My overlay got the complete set.

[claudiometer]

Nah, I have the ones I'd have a use for already, other than that. [And she's staunchly anti-Convert in any case.]

[grimjeaper]

Alright, cool. I'll get that set up and come find you!

[crouching_sin]

I might be interested in knowing what's available. I was more focused on hunting down the disc thief than anything else by the end...

[grimjeaper]

So Declarification is the Signifier's faction skill, it allows them to modify the purpose and function of something. Miners can Sift, which allows them to find patterns in white noise or jargon; Defenders can Interrogate, which forces a person to give a truthful answer to a single question; Cryptos have Creative Enlightenment, that lets them create an object as defined by parameters of the Program's choosing, but they can't do anything else during, like eat or sleep.

Automata have Convert, which is, uh. Less pleasant. It forces a person to subscribe to your point of view, and it's kind of traumatizing. And Revolutionaries use Assist, which boosts the efficiency of all of these by a hundred percent or more.

[crouching_sin]

[Convert seems useful but he's not stupid enough to ask for that publicly.]

Creative Enlightenment seems extremely useful.

[grimjeaper]

I can package that up for you them, if you want?

[crouching_sin]

I would appreciate that, yes. I can come find you somewhere, if that works.

[grimjeaper]

I'm kind of, uh. Drifting. At the moment.

I-is there anywhere we could meet up easier?

[crouching_sin]

My room is open. I'm working on recording some things from the Jaunt.

[grimjeaper]

I'll make sure to swing by.

[carbonatedscientist]

Now that you mention it...I think I kept that as well.

[claudiometer]

Sweet. You got yourself a good one there.

[carbonatedscientist]

I think it should come in handy.

I was really more surprised that I kept the Sift thing that the Miners do, because I wasn't one by the end of everything.

[claudiometer]

What you have at the end of a jaunt isn't always the thing that sticks with you, necessarily. I haven't learned any other faction stuff on the Grid, but I picked up Assist a while back and still have CE. Nothing saying we can't have more than one, just that Programs in general can't have more than one at once.

[carbonatedscientist]

Huh, interesting. That was my first time being...not myself...and I didn't realize it could work out that way.

[claudiometer]

Lucky duck. I went six for six infiltrating before I got a break.

[carbonatedscientist]

...I'm sorry.

[Because yikes.]

[claudiometer]

Eh, it was annoying as hell, but it's evened out some lately.

[carbonatedscientist]

That's something, at least...still, I don't look forward to doing anything like that again.

[claudiometer]

If you're lucky, you won't for a while.