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[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

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[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

Can't say I blame him. / He works closely with them, yes? / He's risking a lot.

[But hey, you can't get results if you don't take a few risks.]

Did he have new info?

[mylawn]

They took the child to mediation.

[Whatever that means. 76 has a few ideas--but generally he doesn't believe it's anything good. Considering the state of Shepard and Lavellan, he wouldn't be at all surprised if some kind of torture was involved. Psychological, maybe.]

Any samples they tried to take of the biohazard after the child was removed went necrotic.

[So, useless.]

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

[Back to square one, by the sounds of it. The subtle slouch of his shoulders suggests that Zer0 is perhaps not entirely satisfied with this turn of events.]

This "mediation", / I'm still unclear about it. / What does it entail?

[mylawn]

Not sure. I’m wondering if it doesn’t involve some kind of psychological reconditioning.

[Or an attempt at it, anyway. He hadn’t exactly gotten straight answers from either Shepard of Lavellan.]

Everyone I’ve talked to who came out the other side of it wasn’t right.

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

Who's that? How were they not right?

[He assumed one might be Shepard, but he'd never had a chance to catch up with her after her unexpected leave of absence.]

[mylawn]

Shepard. She was gone for weeks.

[He doesn’t know if Zer0 is familiar with her, but he supposes it doesn’t matter. The survivors of the Moira all seem to be aware of each other on some level. It isn’t out of the question that Zer0 would get filled in.]

Didn’t want to talk to me about it when she got back, but it was pretty easy to see she’d been traumatized.

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

Shit. That's where she was. /

[He's internally kicking himself for not keeping better track of people. She's a badass, he just... figured she must be fine. Even your toughest badasses can be broken, though.]

If they can get in our heads / This could get tricky.

[mylawn]

That’s where she was.

[Though of course she doesn’t want to talk about it. Lavellan had been a bit more chatty, but he’d also ended up under the impression that his time in mediation had been a good thing.]

They might already be in our heads. No way to tell.

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

[sounds like BRAINWASHING. Or just trauma. Or. Maybe both? Brain stuff, man.]

I think if they were, / We would be busted by now. / We might be okay.

[But man as if Zer0 wasn't already looking over his shoulder enough, now he had brain invaders to worry about.]

[mylawn]

Yeah? You got a way to be sure?

[Of course he hopes they’re not under extended brainwashing, but now that they’ve gone and opened up this particular can of worms, he’s running with it. That’s just the kind of paranoid conspiracy theorist he is.]

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

Unfortunately, no.

[Given the current condition of things, 76 probably isn't too far off base in all fairness.]

I tend to avoid direct contact with them whenever possible. Perhaps skipping out on all those decontamination procedures wasn't the wisest idea, but I won't let them get close to me.

[Zer0's paranoia might be up there with the old dude's just sayin]

[mylawn]

I don't blame you for that.

[He'd ended up risking the biohazard too, simply to keep the Savrii out of his hair.]

But if we're getting to the bottom of this, we might be dealing with them sooner rather than later.

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

I'm betting sooner. / Our intel's been made public, / They'll retaliate.

[mylawn]

You think they can see our network?

[And, therefore, Adrien's post about what they encountered. 76 is betting on it.]

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

I'd be more surprised if they couldn't.

[They were all using tech provided by the Savrii, after all. Odds are the TABs aren't very private at all.]

[mylawn]

We'd better get ready then.

[Because all of this is going to come to a head sooner rather than later.]

[gh0stamidstthec0mbat]

[Man how do you prepare for something you barely know anything about? This isn't exactly like gearing up to go shoot a bunch of badguys or hunting down some poor loser to assassinate. This is slightly outside of Zer0's area of expertise.]

My guns are loaded. / Mostly playing it by ear, / This is all quite strange.