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zarf says, "or Uru avatars."
Jacqueline laughs.
McMartin says (to zarf), "That's not far from the truth"
zarf says, "well, I assume you've got a generator function"
schep says (to Floyd), "take beige skirt"
Floyd | You don't have time.
Floyd |
Floyd | The conversation gets a little harder to follow here, as you are stuck
Floyd | behind a man in a yellow coat with no polite way out. "So um, Hal. Did
Floyd | Isaac corner you before you left tonight?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Heh, yeah. 'You stick together all the time, you're always watching
Floyd | each other, snipe casually whenever we're around... did you really
Floyd | think we wouldn't notice you're a couple?'"
Floyd |
Floyd | You slip into the gutter briefly to get past a woman in a beige skirt.
Floyd | "What did you tell him?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I kind of dodged the question." A man with a grey hat with a cell
Floyd | phone almost -- but not completely -- drowns them out. "I made a point
Floyd | to not attack the underlying premise, though."
Floyd |
Floyd | They stop for a moment, as a man in blue pants asks them something
Floyd | about a bus stop. Hal says, "One block that way, sir." He thanks him
Floyd | and heads in that direction. Bian nods. "Great minds think alike. We
Floyd | should keep up the embarrassed silence bit. It serves our purposes, and
Floyd | it implies that they were right. We win both ways." You duck past a man
Floyd | with a grey backpack. "We got really lucky that they hit on a theory
Floyd | that's consistent but false."
Floyd |
Floyd | Hal slows down a little. "Hm. One thing still bothers me, though..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says,"HA"
Jacqueline says,"No time for love, Dr. Jones!"
schep says, "man, that bus-seeking guy is hopelessly lost"
inky says, "I am still confused"
Jearl says, asks, "did the organizations get merged, or is Hal a double-agent now?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's on your mind, Hal?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You breeze past a woman in a red shirt. "Tell me you didn't do anything
Floyd | to Lawrence when denying it."
Floyd |
Floyd | You duck past a woman in a beige skirt. "OK. 'I didn't do anything to
Floyd | Lawrence.' Happy?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "No!" That's the angriest you've heard him so far. "I read the papers
Floyd | you guys had written. I know what you can do."
Floyd |
Floyd | You gingerly step over a panhandling woman in a black skirt. "You know
Floyd | full well I don't use it on neutral parties, and we both already agreed
Floyd | that he is one. LET THE MATTER DROP."
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly find yourself contemplating whether you'd rather have
Floyd | pizza or ramen for dinner tonight, and shake your head to restore your
Floyd | focus. You notice a man in a beige coat and a woman in blue shorts,
Floyd | nearby, also apparently dazed by the force of Bian's command.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hal, however, is unfazed. "Wow. Intonation just so, posture, word
Floyd | choice... even your eyebrows are calculated to put your demands right
Floyd | into the hindbrain. Those psych studies you did are really impressive,
Floyd | though I suppose some of that was your benefactors. Too bad it doesn't
Floyd | work if you can see the wires."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gp32 has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
Jearl says, asks, "and NO ONE is getting smoochies out of this?"
Fang says, "that poor man. All that's recognisable about him is his pants"
schep asks, "why do I get the feeling all these colorful people don't really exist?"
Fang says (to Floyd), "wake"
Floyd | You already have.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hal and Bian walk in silence for a while. Bian then suddenly says,
Floyd | "You're a P.S.I. sensitive, aren't you." Intent on your pursuit, you
Floyd | almost trip over a woman with a beige backpack. Mumbling an apology,
Floyd | you continue on. "... and you just blanched. Don't even try to deny
Floyd | it."
Floyd |
Floyd | A woman in a grey dress tries to hand you a pamphlet of some sort. You
Floyd | reject her with a gesture, then continue. "I'll have you know that my
Floyd | bosses checked, and they said I had no ESP capabilities of any kind."
Floyd |
Floyd | They shift to single file for a bit, long enough to let a man in yellow
Floyd | pants pass. "Not what I meant. If they checked you with Zener cards,
Floyd | they'd show you doing well when you can see the card backs, but only
Floyd | chance when you couldn't."
Floyd |
Floyd | Hal remains silent. You weave past a woman in a beige skirt, trying to
Floyd | keep them in sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bian breaks the silence. You are caught in a momentary crush, and a man
Floyd | in black shorts elbows his way past you. "Pre-Sapient Interpretation.
Floyd | You're pulling more subtle info out of your vision and sound than
Floyd | usual. That's how you found the truck. That's how you can beat the
Floyd | Voice. And it's almost certainly why they sent you to keep an eye on
Floyd | me."
Floyd |