(taps forehead) can't steal what already belongs to you [Midweek 3]

[okanetendo]

I don't know what you did or how you did it, you have to teach us that trick

But it's probably a good thing you did because hooboy is Erebus dirty



Okay backing up. Nabiki Tendou here... or Faith Maxwell. Or the Operator. I infiltrated as an office lady with ambitions of selling out The Company, like you do when The Company has a glass ceiling... until whatever stupid brain trick Naoki pulled got my head out of her ass.

Anyway if you heard from an Operator, that was her trying to set up a black market. For cheaper than the Company.

In the course of her social engineering for salable secrets she found some memos indicating something interesting. A good... wanna say dozen... of the cows were intended to be charity. Sent to Piratetown.

...RR. I meant Ridge Rock. It's Piratetown on the CB radio.

There's no way Faith or her career at least is gonna survive pointing this out unless she - we - make Erebus' blatant theft go public in a big, big way. And it'll help Piratetown survive stealing them back.

I think Sheriff Stick Up Her Ass is hidebound enough to be a Key to this little Lock. Give her evidence and let her make the biggest bust in Martian history. Given enough protection.

So. What are our options?

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make that double-protected

[leftbehindagain]

That's it, as far as I can tell. De-infiltrating someone is finding the piece of their mind that's still there within an infiltrator and giving it control again.

Actually getting someone out of the infiltrator and into their own body is considerably more difficult, without resorting to killing the infiltrator. But sometimes it's more useful to be in control and still able to access local stuff without raising suspicion.

thank u naoki

[okanetendo]

...if you've got time, I'd be forever grateful for a run down of more advanced messaging.

[leftbehindagain]

Advanced in what sense?

Bern already knows these but uhh... how I advance Bern psi skills??

[okanetendo]

Like what you're doing right now. Telephony rather than text. It's part of what you need to know to send memories, right?

gearing toward sensory eavesdrop/image projection seems the most logical?

[leftbehindagain]

...You know, I'm not even sure if half of us would qualify this as livestreaming. After a while I think we just expected the network to carry tone instead of just text. But yes, that is part of sharing memories, that and backreading the network.

Livestreaming's basically treating yourself as the camera - or microphone, or whatever sensory input you're trying to share with everyone. We have at least one person who tends to use it to yell on the network directly. [Less so than Eren used to, but that's definitely happened.]

I know it's possible to project an image of yourself onto the network too, and use it more like a video call, but I've never seen much point to doing that.

It does at that, and Berne doesn't have Image Projection

[okanetendo]

...Let's start with basic image projection. Photography, with the mind's eye as a viewfinder, yeah? That's how I've heard others talk about it.

Send me a psychic Polaroid? Might help to know what it feels like.

[leftbehindagain]

It might, at that.

[The view she gets via the network is one of the Gelus Vitae establishments, most likely the one in the city. Naoki hasn't really strayed far from the bar, but then, they're good sources of information, and cows aren't his strong point.]

[okanetendo]

Aha. I think I got it. It's not just thinking loudly - it needs texture, if that makes sense.

...you'll pardon me if I try this on the incriminating evidence, right?

[leftbehindagain]

I certainly won't blame you.