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2018-02-09

by shaenon on February 9, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. Moe Lane
    February 9, 2018, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    …Scully? Is that… is that you?

    • D. Walker
      February 9, 2018, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      I have a hard time believing in a reality in which Dana Scully would wear shades and smile like that.

      • Adept Arcanist
        February 12, 2018, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe it’s a symptom of her reality blindness?

  2. Bruce A Munro
    February 9, 2018, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    …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?)

    • Marisa Mockery
      February 9, 2018, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      Genetically engineered giant gerbils more likely.

    • Frank
      February 9, 2018, 7:01 am | # | Reply

      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)

    • Daibhid C
      February 9, 2018, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • Towering Barbarian
      February 9, 2018, 11:53 pm | # | Reply

      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. ^_^

  3. Robert Nowall
    February 9, 2018, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Bubbles’s replacement at the water cooler job isn’t very talkative, then.

  4. Ogden Wernstrom
    February 9, 2018, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Dalillama
      February 9, 2018, 5:02 am | # | Reply

      ‘Emotionally unfaithful’, or as some of us like to call it: having friends.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        February 9, 2018, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

        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.)

  5. Frank
    February 9, 2018, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    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

  6. Mental Mouse
    February 9, 2018, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    “This sim (gasp) is waay too realistic… (urk)”

  7. Quin
    February 9, 2018, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    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

    • fromthedarkorblackwater
      February 9, 2018, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      That was their old test, Tip was hired because he was the only candidate who could hear Sweetheart talk.

  8. tremor3258
    February 9, 2018, 9:30 am | # | Reply

    They must just figure they’re in corporate espionage – copy the files, don’t have to understand.

    Or is that too prosaic?

  9. casimir
    February 9, 2018, 10:15 am | # | Reply

    I’m wondering if it’s possible that the SH characters are the victims of the reality blindness and the pandemic is THEIR illusion.

    • casimir
      February 9, 2018, 10:17 am | # | Reply

      Seems like it would be a simpler gig to pull off.

      • Frank
        February 9, 2018, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

        But how did they get Nera and Jonah and Nick too?

        • casimir
          February 9, 2018, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

          They’ve all had some kind of contact with Anasigma.

  10. bergerjacques
    February 9, 2018, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    Aw. Unity misses Bubbles.

  11. Shadowmehr
    February 9, 2018, 7:42 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • Christopher Long
      February 9, 2018, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

      UNITY said “they” not “I”. I think this was someone ELSE firing at the buffalo.

  12. Pygar
    February 9, 2018, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

    She said “Buffalo”!

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