…and I still don’t know if they’re faking it or if A-Sig hung a bunch of lower level employees out to dry.
(This is an A-Sig engineered reality blindness plague, no? Panoptica works for A-Sig and knew the score, right? Or are we being led astray by genetically engineered giant red herrings?)
Why can’t it be both? (faking it and hung out to dry I mean, though I kind of want to see genetically engineered herring in the skin-horse universe now)
I think A-Sig pretty much decided they’d hung their lower level employees out to dry when they put them in the same building as Unity. Reality blindness, risk of being eaten, they knew the risks when they took the job. They don’t know them now, of course, but they should have thought of that while they still could.
3rd Possibility: Even A-Sig is not behind everything and they’ve been blindsided by this too. Mr. Green currently believes that he operates an honest detective agency along the lines of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Detective Agency that occasionally does the work that public sector law enforcement is too incompetent or rulebound to do. As do his employees. Which doesn’t mean that Weird Side characters should take too much for granted in dealing with them because as with the Continental Op they would “learn” real quick but still affects them pretty strongly when they’re out of combat. ^_^
They probably do their jobs about the same way you navigate while believing in a round earth.
Also, Sweetheart, UNITY is being emotionally unfaithful again. Deep down you know these mixed species/mixed vitality/mixed iron concentration relationships are hopeless and wrong. Right now, you have an excellent opportunity to prevent two of your friends from doing something they might regret. They won’t understand what you’re doing for them, so you need to be a little bit sly about it, and quick too. If you wait, Virginia and Nick might open up to each other, and you don’t want them comparing notes about what you might have told one of them what the other said behind their back. Just have faith that you’re systematically wrecking everybody’s relationships out of moral courage, not out of pique at how Jonapticon was demolished by canon fire.
Well, yes. Finding bad reasons to cut their SO off from friends and family is my top sign of a jagoff who needs to be dumped, even if the marriage already happened. All the worst jagoff SOs of my friends and family pulled that stunt eventually. (Some concessions may be in order regarding former boyfriends/girlfriends.)
oh, loophole: if they think it’s media, they’re willing to suspend disbelief. Does that mean we can get them to go on missions by telling them it’s a prototype VR experience?
I know, it’ll last until someone gets shot, but still
Wow their agents are worthless now. New test for them to do their job… Write a report and be able to hear their boss talk. Those who fail get fired… Out of a cannon
I realize that asking this is something that all of us are going to regret, but why, oh why, would U.N.I.T.Y. need to fire anything at the buffalo in the first place? This is probably just going to be a Noodle Incident that will go unexplained. but the (sane) mind just boggles.
…Scully? Is that… is that you?
I have a hard time believing in a reality in which Dana Scully would wear shades and smile like that.
Maybe it’s a symptom of her reality blindness?
…and I still don’t know if they’re faking it or if A-Sig hung a bunch of lower level employees out to dry.
(This is an A-Sig engineered reality blindness plague, no? Panoptica works for A-Sig and knew the score, right? Or are we being led astray by genetically engineered giant red herrings?)
Genetically engineered giant gerbils more likely.
Why can’t it be both? (faking it and hung out to dry I mean, though I kind of want to see genetically engineered herring in the skin-horse universe now)
I think A-Sig pretty much decided they’d hung their lower level employees out to dry when they put them in the same building as Unity. Reality blindness, risk of being eaten, they knew the risks when they took the job. They don’t know them now, of course, but they should have thought of that while they still could.
3rd Possibility: Even A-Sig is not behind everything and they’ve been blindsided by this too. Mr. Green currently believes that he operates an honest detective agency along the lines of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Detective Agency that occasionally does the work that public sector law enforcement is too incompetent or rulebound to do. As do his employees. Which doesn’t mean that Weird Side characters should take too much for granted in dealing with them because as with the Continental Op they would “learn” real quick but still affects them pretty strongly when they’re out of combat. ^_^
Bubbles’s replacement at the water cooler job isn’t very talkative, then.
They probably do their jobs about the same way you navigate while believing in a round earth.
Also, Sweetheart, UNITY is being emotionally unfaithful again. Deep down you know these mixed species/mixed vitality/mixed iron concentration relationships are hopeless and wrong. Right now, you have an excellent opportunity to prevent two of your friends from doing something they might regret. They won’t understand what you’re doing for them, so you need to be a little bit sly about it, and quick too. If you wait, Virginia and Nick might open up to each other, and you don’t want them comparing notes about what you might have told one of them what the other said behind their back. Just have faith that you’re systematically wrecking everybody’s relationships out of moral courage, not out of pique at how Jonapticon was demolished by canon fire.
‘Emotionally unfaithful’, or as some of us like to call it: having friends.
Well, yes. Finding bad reasons to cut their SO off from friends and family is my top sign of a jagoff who needs to be dumped, even if the marriage already happened. All the worst jagoff SOs of my friends and family pulled that stunt eventually. (Some concessions may be in order regarding former boyfriends/girlfriends.)
oh, loophole: if they think it’s media, they’re willing to suspend disbelief. Does that mean we can get them to go on missions by telling them it’s a prototype VR experience?
I know, it’ll last until someone gets shot, but still
“This sim (gasp) is waay too realistic… (urk)”
Wow their agents are worthless now. New test for them to do their job… Write a report and be able to hear their boss talk. Those who fail get fired… Out of a cannon
That was their old test, Tip was hired because he was the only candidate who could hear Sweetheart talk.
They must just figure they’re in corporate espionage – copy the files, don’t have to understand.
Or is that too prosaic?
I’m wondering if it’s possible that the SH characters are the victims of the reality blindness and the pandemic is THEIR illusion.
Seems like it would be a simpler gig to pull off.
But how did they get Nera and Jonah and Nick too?
They’ve all had some kind of contact with Anasigma.
Aw. Unity misses Bubbles.
I realize that asking this is something that all of us are going to regret, but why, oh why, would U.N.I.T.Y. need to fire anything at the buffalo in the first place? This is probably just going to be a Noodle Incident that will go unexplained. but the (sane) mind just boggles.
UNITY said “they” not “I”. I think this was someone ELSE firing at the buffalo.
She said “Buffalo”!