02-11-2022, 01:33 AM
VOIDSY: We’re…not sure.
VOIDSY: This is a really complicated situation, and deprogramming can take time.
VOIDSY: Showing them that there can be different ways of living- more positive ones- is a good goal, but exposure to media may be tricky when we don’t have time for it.
CHELSEA: I can…see what I can do. My knowledge of picture books and the like are fairly limited to propaganda media found in Consumption schools, decades ago, when I was a chil-
They shake their head.
CHELSEA: Nevermind that.
CHELSEA: I suppose I can try to make something based on a prompt, I’ve yet to test the limitations of the create system.
CHELSEA: …wait.
CHELSEA: No, that’s out.
CHELSEA: You have some of our TCPs outside the base. Damnit.
CHELSEA: Well…
CHELSEA: If you manage to make the three of them go rogue, I’ll be able to make something light and easy to carry around, even in wartime.
CHELSEA: I’m no good at stories, so…I’ll take my chances with the game’s interpretation of a prompt.
CHELSEA: With any luck, Wax will have made it so the system skews towards things beneficial to the TCPs.
VOIDSY: It’d also be a good idea to make sure they have someone who will actively care about and listen to how they’re feeling…and challenge their beliefs without being too intense about it.
CHELSEA: There’s only so much of that I can do, seeing as Spit could pull me away at any moment-
VOIDSY: …then we find a way to get more time.
CHELSEA: …what?
VOIDSY: Spit’s many things, but she seems easily distracted.
VOIDSY: Are there other things going on that require her attention?
CHELSEA: Well…you’re both wrong and right at the same time.
CHELSEA: She is easily distracted, but when she really gets interested in something, she has a tendency to fixate.
CHELSEA: The only reason why she had to put the game down for now was to do something about a “brand new master plan”, and I dread to think of what that means for the citizens of Consumption.
CHELSEA: If we’re lucky, we have a few hours, but she’ll be right back to this soon enough.
CHELSEA: Though…
CHELSEA: Hm.
CHELSEA: There are ways to draw her away from the game itself, but w- I wouldn’t be in control of the console, providing I’d be doing the distraction.
CHELSEA: Attempting to fight her would be effective in the sense of her getting into torturing me, but there’s a good chance it would knock me out of the game entirely.
CHELSEA: I could make up some kind of problem, but she’d figure me out fast. She’s not stupid.
CHELSEA: …or I could start a fight with her head cultist. He’s had it too good for too long, and he operates on a hair trigger.
CHELSEA: I’ll still likely get beaten for it, but if I can make it…
They grimace.
CHELSEA: Funny, she may give me a pass.
CHELSEA: So…
CHELSEA: I guess that’ll be my plan.
CHELSEA: And you have yours.
CHELSEA: Thank you for talking to me, but now’s the time to act.
CHELSEA: Godspeed.
Before you can even get a goodbye in, they’ve hung up on you.
Time to get back to it.
Time to get back to it.