animus_network | [voice] IS ♞ EVEN ON THE NETWORK'S CHARACTER MAP XI: color coded for your convenience

The first voice that boisterously sails from the terminal's speakers is clearly recognizable to those who know her as Sayaka Miki, formerly erstwhile agitator back in.. what seems to be totally unaltered spirits.

"Yo, my lovely towerlies! I hate to interrupt our monthly cycles of being really really sad for a while after getting stupid things done to us, but I wanted to point out something that I thought was very fascinating, actually."

The second voice (that of Jin Shirato) cuts in quickly, unable to resist the comment.

"I don't. Everyone's whining over stupid shit anyway."

Sayaka plods onwards, despite the interjection.

"And for any of those upper - hm, lower, actually - echelons listening in, hey, don't be shy, I'm okay with you hearing this, too. Turn up the volume, put it on a couple extra screens for added effect. Anyway. Just listen to me a for a second. You know what all this information pumping means? All these horrible things you were forced to give away? It's not just random torture, no way, I know what that looks like. They're scared. Of us. Of what we might be doing."

"Make that what we are doing. It's not like they've made habit to be preventative before, after all-- how many blows to their sanctuary do you think is too many?"

"Or maybe just one special guy in particular is the one who's afraid. After all, it was his turn to man the wheel this time. And why not? Buddy, you've got every reason to be nervous. You're the predictable one, and you've already gotten in hot water before. "

"Maybe he's just afraid of turning out like Dax."

"-Exactly. It's just going to be a matter of time until you're complicit in some great final blunder. And I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for it."

The sounds cuts.

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He's got a whole Tower of folks that want him dead-- assuming we could get enough of us in his presence, even HE can't survive that.

But you got a point. There's probably loads more about this place we don't know that he doesn't want us knowing. Probably because it puts him at some sort of disadvantage.

Or, maybe he doesn't wanna be tomorrow's breakfast. Either way.

He would certainly be more palatable to her, I think.

*It still made him shudder to think about what had happened. The magnitude of the change still hadn't sunk in all the way, and this month's brutality seemed surreal...*

I wonder if it has ever occurred to him that he is making it more difficult for himself this way.

You think amoral douchebags are more tenderized?

[Sorry Enoch, this is the exact kind of joke he finds hilarious.]

He mostly seems to think he's completely invincible. But maybe he actually realized how deep a hole he dug himself, which is why he started pulling out the big guns?
He really likes sitting on top of things.

To Ruana, clearly so. Though I am not familiar with the insult "douchebag". It must be ahead of my time.

*It's a poor way of coping, for him, but it's also kind of true. If Dax was "going soft" and that equated to "rotten" to Ruana's tastes... by comparison, Jason should be a delicacy.*

That he does. He cannot claim his experiments earn him anything but a feeling of superiority now.

In layman's terms, it's probably the highest tier of smug jerkish bastard you could find.

That's probably what it was all about from the start. You can only claim "scientific curiosity" for long until all your tricks start looking like last year's junior mad science clearance bin.

*He understands all three of those words, the latter's "insult in its own right" connotation having been picked up in its own right.*

I see. I attempted to force him to confess it, but I was so blinded by my rage I was ineffective. I do not doubt he does learn things during these experiments of his, but he cannot claim he doesn't thrive on the pain they cause.

No doubt about that. Though honestly, I'm dubious as to just what kind of shit he's trying to learn that he hasn't already.

Trust me, plenty before you have tried every now and then. It'd help if we could actually touch the guy or be in three feet of him without getting nerfed or drugged.

What is "nerfed"?

*Context is failing him in a way. In this case, by being a little vague. It could either mean "killed" or "hampered"...*

[Augh. He hated talking to people who had outdated vernacular.]

An effect that reduces the power of capability of someone or something.

Oh, so the outdoor levels "nerf" our powers then, do I have its meaning right?

*Learning never fails to at least distract him from things!*

Yeah, that's about the basics of it. Same thing happened whenever the administrators show up in person.

Or when one of the retrieval units wills it.

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