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| Her, hiding in her red-streaked shell. |
| Pitiful thing. Hole like a crater |
| through her charcoal heart. |
| She doesn't even know how to yearn anymore. |
Okay. Okay.
So, when we ask if you saw any weaknesses, we're maybe expecting something more... practical? |
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* Shut the fuck up, this is good shit.
* You, angel: did you get the sense she's been betrayed recently? |
| She was stabbed in the front. |
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| * Of course, fuck, how'd I miss it! |
I've spoken with the plasmology team.
We utilized their wave-monitoring instrumentation to detect regions of likely emission points through the lower levels, telling us where encounters have occurred and plasma weaponry was fired. With this we were able to reconstruct a likely path through the facility that our intruder may have taken...
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Oh, um, how are you two going, though.
What were you doing again? |
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| * Just a bit of angel-to-reptile communications. |
We've confirmed the specimens are capable of speech, but...
It's all in, like, riddles? |
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* Eminently solvable riddles!
* Fuckin' cornucopia of pertinent information here, you just gotta read between the lines a little. They're not even hard.
* One-eye here reckons our perp's bound to head back up to surface any minute now. |
| She tried to slither in the dark, oh how she tried! |
| But how could she ever get away with it. |
| She cannot escape the yawning sky. |
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| * Yeah, that's what I said. |
That's very interesting. Very interesting indeed.
That is going to have some fascinating implications, especially as it pertains to their heightened perceptive states... |
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| * Gonna get some real fuckin' tip-top papers out of it, that's for sure. |
| Perhaps we need to progress from mere passive observation to active experimentation! The linguistic implications alone-- to say nothing of the neurological--!! |
Though. I suppose this will have to remain hypothetical. For now, at least.
You know how it is. The military controls our funding.
If they don't see the utility... well. There'll be a lot of paperwork. |
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* Riiighto.
* So what was that shit you were saying about plasma emissions earlier? Don't think we got the conclusion to that one. |
Oh! Right.
We think she's in Underzone 3. |
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* Fuckin' A.
* Testament to the power of hard work and collaboration, we're gonna have a workable operation on our hands before... |
| I can't believe she bit me! |
| After I was so nice to her! |
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* ...Righto everyone. Why don't we all take five a minute.
* I'm gonna chase up a hunch. |
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