Puru Quest (Gundam UC/Mass Effect)
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[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
In that order, unless someone comes up with something better.
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
In that order, unless someone comes up with something better.
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
The poor Puru ghosts
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
Qwaar
Jesus Christ how horrifying
Vote tally:
##### 3.17
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation.
No. of votes: 1
Lunatic350
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
No. of votes: 8
chriswriter90, Blasterbot, NephyrisX, Koden, 1986ctcel, Jedarol, Furtuka, Tiypo
Not a lot of variation there, guess I'll have to wait for Darik for some clever commentary.
##### 3.17
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation.
No. of votes: 1
Lunatic350
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
No. of votes: 8
chriswriter90, Blasterbot, NephyrisX, Koden, 1986ctcel, Jedarol, Furtuka, Tiypo
Not a lot of variation there, guess I'll have to wait for Darik for some clever commentary.
BlindJustice15
Legally Blind Gamer
[X] Check in on the patient again yourself. Though she hasn't requested it, you feel better progress might be made.
This would make a good refresher for those of us who haven't seen ZZ.
This would make a good refresher for those of us who haven't seen ZZ.
Qwaar
Jesus Christ how horrifying
Well shit, guess that's all we're getting.
Vote tally:
##### 3.17
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation.
No. of votes: 1
Lunatic350
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
No. of votes: 8
chriswriter90, Blasterbot, NephyrisX, Koden, 1986ctcel, Jedarol, Furtuka, Tiypo
[X] Check in on the patient again yourself. Though she hasn't requested it, you feel better progress might be made.
No. of votes: 1
BlindJustice15
Locking, writing.
Vote tally:
##### 3.17
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation.
No. of votes: 1
Lunatic350
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
No. of votes: 8
chriswriter90, Blasterbot, NephyrisX, Koden, 1986ctcel, Jedarol, Furtuka, Tiypo
[X] Check in on the patient again yourself. Though she hasn't requested it, you feel better progress might be made.
No. of votes: 1
BlindJustice15
Locking, writing.
Newtype Analysis
Qwaar
Jesus Christ how horrifying
[X] Talk to Daniel about 'Eight'
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
After a while, you are able to catch Daniel in the lobby, not terribly long before you'd expect him to head out to his apartment. He seems rather distressed, he had already been somewhat slow today when coming in. Likely fatigue, while a resident of Omega, he hardly expected to be in a building that had been targeted by mercenaries. The display of the bodies out front was likely jarring as well. Then there was 'Eight.' You've seen plenty of strange things in your life, being part of the STG was one of the most exciting things in your life for a reason. Human children with a completely unfamiliar militaristic uniform were not among the things you encountered. Self proclaimed psychic clones were also not something you ran into with any frequency. Which brings you to your current list of queries.
"Ah, good. Still here Daniel, was hoping to discuss earlier patient meeting."
"You mean the delusional girl?" He says in a somewhat irritable tone.
"Delusional? Admit, story seems unlikely, but many unusual factors. Something outside our knowledge clearly present. Story as a whole unlikely. Each individual part, while questionable, not conclusively insane." Your assistant has been on edge since Eight's outburst, and it has left them irritable it seems. "You have a strange stance on this. Seem skeptical overall, yet act sympathetically." You comment, while you don't particularly want to turn the conversation into an interrogation, it may help you learn about your patient, "If her story isn't true. She is either lying or delusional. No reason for personal offense on your part. If true. Tragic, however rage response expected. If her accusation was unfounded, you would have ignored it."
This entire time, your assistant has appeared more and more uncomfortable with the conversation, and has unconsciously been making to leave the couch. Maybe not so unconsciously though, as he hasn't set down his coffee but also hasn't taken a sip, as if he intends to stand up without leaving it. Deciding to cut to the chase, you call him out on his behavior, "You thought it. Didn't you?" It isn't a question, and although it is vague, he also knows what you are saying.
'You called her previous Master a disgusting monster. You insulted her idol to her face.' He freezes, still for several moments, before sighing shamefully and setting his coffee back on the table. You don't hold much regard for such an entity yourself, but the potential distress such an accusation could have for the patient represents a horrendous breach in bedside manner. If he thought such a thing, even if the patient hadn't been able to literally pluck it from his thoughts, it places unnecessary strain on patient relations.
You may not be a psychic, but you don't need to be to know he is saying 'Yes.' The implications are, again, unfortunate, as frankly that was one of the more fantastic parts of her story. The clothing and the firearm, while archaic and unusual lend their own evidence to the rest of her story, and the strangest part would be her empathy.
"Prolonged silence, defeated posture. Presume that's a 'yes' then. Moving on, what are your thoughts on empathy?" There isn't much purpose in verbally chastising your assistant at this point however, the lesson is learned.
He looks at you with a perplexed expression, before he rolls his eyes and shakes his head, not expecting the shift in focus, "What she was describing is impossible, there is no scientific basis behind any sort of ability like what she described." Daniel's voice is so totally dismissive and assured that even the most skeptical part of you wants to cringe a bit. He always has seemed to have a very rigid view of the world. Everyone has their role that defines them, and the way things seem is as they are in his views.
You aren't sure how much you actually want to break him of that habit, as you aren't terribly eager to have that sort of argument again. You had enough of that with some idiots/friends back in the STG. "Why not, asari display similar abilities? Meld quite capable pulling fragments of memory with minimal training."
"That is targeted Professor, practically a peer to peer connection, and they need physical contact. 'Eight' is talking about unrestricted access, to whoever she would want to. What would a nervous system even do with that? The human mind wouldn't just interpret a crowd of say, thirty people without any problem. What would that even look like in her neural activity? What would trigger the synaptic reactions?"
And there he goes again, assuming his partial knowledge combined with common sense paints a full picture. Going to have to train at least some of that out of him. "Not all asari need contact. Some individuals documented merely to need proximity. At that point, just a factor of range. For multiple persons simultaneously, no precedent does not mean impossible. She also revealed interesting limitations. You've simply missed them"
Daniel looks rather sure he didn't miss anything significant, but respectfully refrains from commenting, sitting back and waiting for you to elaborate.
Raising a finger to illustrate the most profound point Eight unintentionally brought up, you elucidate, "Mention of individual persons, if fully networked, only makes sense from the research perspective. Yet referred to as individuals. Capabilities on networking capabilities clearly limited, likely different personalities and skillsets. Motivations as well, considering proposed dereliction from duty by 'Two.'"
"A dereliction she mentioned no reasoning for by the way, seems odd that any competent organization deploying in a military capacity would have allowed such a possibility to happen. Unless there is someone else from this organization, like another of the clones, to corroborate her story, I'm doubtful."
… He seems woefully out of touch with how much working knowledge any such organization could possibly have. Even in the STG you didn't see people who assumed THAT much…. usually… you think. Perhaps you should have should have requested some testing on critical thought processes.
It seems that is as far as you are capable of forcing the discussion however, so you don't force the issue, you weren't particularly inclined to have a more in depth discussion about her story anyway, so you excuse yourself and let the clinic start its shift changes.
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[] Be Eight
[] Be Mordin some more
[] Be a partially reconstructed desiccated corpse
[] Be Five
Timeskip
[] The next day
[] The next week
---[X] His reaction to her accusation
---[X] His opinion on empathy.
After a while, you are able to catch Daniel in the lobby, not terribly long before you'd expect him to head out to his apartment. He seems rather distressed, he had already been somewhat slow today when coming in. Likely fatigue, while a resident of Omega, he hardly expected to be in a building that had been targeted by mercenaries. The display of the bodies out front was likely jarring as well. Then there was 'Eight.' You've seen plenty of strange things in your life, being part of the STG was one of the most exciting things in your life for a reason. Human children with a completely unfamiliar militaristic uniform were not among the things you encountered. Self proclaimed psychic clones were also not something you ran into with any frequency. Which brings you to your current list of queries.
"Ah, good. Still here Daniel, was hoping to discuss earlier patient meeting."
"You mean the delusional girl?" He says in a somewhat irritable tone.
"Delusional? Admit, story seems unlikely, but many unusual factors. Something outside our knowledge clearly present. Story as a whole unlikely. Each individual part, while questionable, not conclusively insane." Your assistant has been on edge since Eight's outburst, and it has left them irritable it seems. "You have a strange stance on this. Seem skeptical overall, yet act sympathetically." You comment, while you don't particularly want to turn the conversation into an interrogation, it may help you learn about your patient, "If her story isn't true. She is either lying or delusional. No reason for personal offense on your part. If true. Tragic, however rage response expected. If her accusation was unfounded, you would have ignored it."
This entire time, your assistant has appeared more and more uncomfortable with the conversation, and has unconsciously been making to leave the couch. Maybe not so unconsciously though, as he hasn't set down his coffee but also hasn't taken a sip, as if he intends to stand up without leaving it. Deciding to cut to the chase, you call him out on his behavior, "You thought it. Didn't you?" It isn't a question, and although it is vague, he also knows what you are saying.
'You called her previous Master a disgusting monster. You insulted her idol to her face.' He freezes, still for several moments, before sighing shamefully and setting his coffee back on the table. You don't hold much regard for such an entity yourself, but the potential distress such an accusation could have for the patient represents a horrendous breach in bedside manner. If he thought such a thing, even if the patient hadn't been able to literally pluck it from his thoughts, it places unnecessary strain on patient relations.
You may not be a psychic, but you don't need to be to know he is saying 'Yes.' The implications are, again, unfortunate, as frankly that was one of the more fantastic parts of her story. The clothing and the firearm, while archaic and unusual lend their own evidence to the rest of her story, and the strangest part would be her empathy.
"Prolonged silence, defeated posture. Presume that's a 'yes' then. Moving on, what are your thoughts on empathy?" There isn't much purpose in verbally chastising your assistant at this point however, the lesson is learned.
He looks at you with a perplexed expression, before he rolls his eyes and shakes his head, not expecting the shift in focus, "What she was describing is impossible, there is no scientific basis behind any sort of ability like what she described." Daniel's voice is so totally dismissive and assured that even the most skeptical part of you wants to cringe a bit. He always has seemed to have a very rigid view of the world. Everyone has their role that defines them, and the way things seem is as they are in his views.
You aren't sure how much you actually want to break him of that habit, as you aren't terribly eager to have that sort of argument again. You had enough of that with some idiots/friends back in the STG. "Why not, asari display similar abilities? Meld quite capable pulling fragments of memory with minimal training."
"That is targeted Professor, practically a peer to peer connection, and they need physical contact. 'Eight' is talking about unrestricted access, to whoever she would want to. What would a nervous system even do with that? The human mind wouldn't just interpret a crowd of say, thirty people without any problem. What would that even look like in her neural activity? What would trigger the synaptic reactions?"
And there he goes again, assuming his partial knowledge combined with common sense paints a full picture. Going to have to train at least some of that out of him. "Not all asari need contact. Some individuals documented merely to need proximity. At that point, just a factor of range. For multiple persons simultaneously, no precedent does not mean impossible. She also revealed interesting limitations. You've simply missed them"
Daniel looks rather sure he didn't miss anything significant, but respectfully refrains from commenting, sitting back and waiting for you to elaborate.
Raising a finger to illustrate the most profound point Eight unintentionally brought up, you elucidate, "Mention of individual persons, if fully networked, only makes sense from the research perspective. Yet referred to as individuals. Capabilities on networking capabilities clearly limited, likely different personalities and skillsets. Motivations as well, considering proposed dereliction from duty by 'Two.'"
"A dereliction she mentioned no reasoning for by the way, seems odd that any competent organization deploying in a military capacity would have allowed such a possibility to happen. Unless there is someone else from this organization, like another of the clones, to corroborate her story, I'm doubtful."
… He seems woefully out of touch with how much working knowledge any such organization could possibly have. Even in the STG you didn't see people who assumed THAT much…. usually… you think. Perhaps you should have should have requested some testing on critical thought processes.
It seems that is as far as you are capable of forcing the discussion however, so you don't force the issue, you weren't particularly inclined to have a more in depth discussion about her story anyway, so you excuse yourself and let the clinic start its shift changes.
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[] Be Eight
[] Be Mordin some more
[] Be Five
Timeskip
[] The next day
[] The next week
BlindJustice15
Legally Blind Gamer
[X] Be Eight
[X] The next day
[X] The next day
[X] Be Five
[X] The next day
c'mon guys more newtypes.
[X] The next day
c'mon guys more newtypes.
BlindJustice15
Legally Blind Gamer
Seriously? Another Puru means another stress meter to manage; and Ple-5 is less mentally stable than Ple-8, so she'd be more susceptible to breakdowns.
al103
Grumpy Russian Bear (SV edition)
- Location
- Russia, Krasnoyarsk
Problem is - 5 is likely to be present either way and if we don't get to be 5 then it's possible that she would be on other side. I prefer Newtype Hax OCP on one side, thank you. 5 imprinting on Harper or Leng or Harbinger or Broker or What Else - DO NOT WANT. 5 imprinting on some asshole without us knowing it - EVEN MORE DO NOT WANT.
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Ardion Prosili
An (im)Perfect Cell
Which option brings up mobile armors? 
[X] Be Five
[X] The Next Day
[X] Be Five
[X] The Next Day
[X] Be Five
[X] The next day
[X] The next day