The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
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The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Notice nothing's gone blooey yet...
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
'S kind of a slow motion thing....
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Cuing Lily and Pratt, your rescuee is waiting.
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
From the dialog it's going to get warm but not "blooey".
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
"Processing"?
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Yeah, they obviously left behind more than a info dump.Fairportfan wrote:"Processing"?
Wonder if Atsali's noticed yet?
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
"Okay, I've been told to ignore the dead looney people babbles and get to the important stuff, got to prioritize - wow, okay really no way out."Fairportfan wrote:"Processing"?
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Seems likely that the uranium deposit is going to melt the whole site down into a gushing torrent of sticky incandescent lava.Opus the Poet wrote:From the dialog it's going to get warm but not "blooey".
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
She must be hooked to the computer.Fairportfan wrote:"Processing"?
Also, I'm not sure the looney Etheitians are going to be the most reliable source of information right now. They'd tell you wrong information just to take you with them. If the computer is still functioning, I think I would consult it.
And ... how is it the Etheitians "told" her anything at this point? Does that mean they are still "alive" for now? They can exist outside of the crystals?
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
I have a feeling that Atsali has just achieved the status of a Dom0 host, and that the Etheitians are running around inside her skull as DomU "virtual machine" clients.KnightDelight wrote:She must be hooked to the computer.Fairportfan wrote:"Processing"?
And ... how is it the Etheitians "told" her anything at this point? Does that mean they are still "alive" for now? They can exist outside of the crystals?
In other words... she isn't hooked to the computer; she is the computer!
Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
They escaped "through" Atsali.
Even before that, I was dreading possession. Since then, more specifically Dune-ish ...
Even before that, I was dreading possession. Since then, more specifically Dune-ish ...
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
I kind of doubt hundreds of thousands of beings could possess her. Maybe one or two though. And if that's so, you just know he/she/it/they are going to be the most looney items from the looney bin.Sidhekin wrote:They escaped "through" Atsali.
Even before that, I was dreading possession. Since then, more specifically Dune-ish ...
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Well, she's not as scatter-brained as Scarlet and her sisters who together make a super-computer...


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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
It would be really nice if Monica or one of the GGs could help them at this poit...
Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Now, now... no sense in poiting out the obvious!!!txmystic wrote:It would be really nice if Monica or one of the GGs could help them at this poit...
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Sidhekin wrote:They escaped "through" Atsali.
Even before that, I was dreading possession. Since then, more specifically Dune-ish ...
Yeah, I'm thinking Kath still has to decide what to do with the knowledge of the Anasasi, since Atsali seems to be the new repository for it. Assuming she got the knowlegde without the crazy to go along with it, she just became fairly important in the grand scheme of things.
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Is she remembering, or is she running a last line of code?
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
Hm.
So, here we have our heroines facing certain death with no escape. This seems eerily similar to the way(s) Mon discovered she's the Jaguar Woman. Could this incident force Kath into the role of Spider Woman? Could she save the day by having her evolution fast-tracked in this dramatic fashion?
So, here we have our heroines facing certain death with no escape. This seems eerily similar to the way(s) Mon discovered she's the Jaguar Woman. Could this incident force Kath into the role of Spider Woman? Could she save the day by having her evolution fast-tracked in this dramatic fashion?
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
One has to wonder just how Atsali is going to manage to stay sane with all of those crazy minds uploaded into hers...If she continues to be able to compartmentalize all of that extra data, then she might be able to manage it, but I wonder how much of the Etheitians' wills are still intact to go with all of those thoughts.
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Re: The Only Way Out 2013-06-04
One hopes she doesn't wind up like Donna Noble...
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