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This is good to keep in mind too. I'm still excited to see this game take off. I would vote to push on, understanding we may need to tweak some connections as we go (or before finalizing everything) if anyone is lagging behind. If we do wait a bit longer though, I'm not about to lose interest. I'll still be here.

Seasonal heads up: for the next two months we're all going to see our usual schedules interrupted. Holiday parties, traveling, guests and panic cleaning before they arrive are going to kick most of us out of our usual writing times and headspaces multiple times before the middle of January. Even though I am only spectating, I'm eager to see this take shape and watch the ensuing drama unfold.

So we've hit a slow down. I'm hoping that DreamsnThings gets her net issues resolved soon. Good luck, Dreams! This is a big step, where a lot gets added and linked on the miro board, so I'm really hoping we can wait just a little bit longer for her to catch up. How does everyone feel about the pause? I know the momentum slowed for a few reasons over the last few weeks, several of those reasons being me. Are we losing interest? Still excited? Is everyone cool with waiting on Dreams, or do you want to plow ahead and let her catch up? The problem with moving ahead is that due to the collaborative nature of the game, she'll be les

Still hyped. Admittedly the pause is a little frustrating due to excitement but I'm personally fine waiting just a little bit longer to keep things easier if everyone else is too. Hopefully her situation gets settled fine. I'm chilling.

I am 100% putting "Hive scion having to pose as a emotion-drugged love-doll for infiltration purposes" on my "please yes, I so badly want this to happen list". Just saying. That's a really good idea, which would also give a way to actually have a custom Bio-Frame for my character, which was going to be potentially problematic otherwise. I really like what you did here. At this point, however, I am almost certain I am going to end up with the scion idea. The suggestion you made earlier of having a "knighting"" moment with a new mech also stuck with me, so I'm not sure I'd like to forsake this. Yup yup, that's close to how

This is precisely the kind of thing I'm suggesting. I doubt the Hive's BioFrame locked down is much more complicated that a shutdown switch. Pilot jumps in, thumbs it on, and goes. Hive command gets a notice that the frame has been activated and the monitoring begins I'd warrant, but the competent scion with infiltrators would, I expect mount up. Except that they know it pings command and everyone is watching. If they're on the fence and decide to interrogate the pair, the frame sits idle and only the young commander knows. Which is functionally the same thing as the BioFrame being delivered later. I kind of like the Bi

I think from a meta perspective, we might want to adapt this to more neatly fit bringing in Icarian's scion character. There are a few ways we could play this... - Magda and Emily being discovered tampering with the e-blocker dosing and possibly captured by a surprisingly competent Hive scion (who is on the fence over what side they're actually on) would give them a moment to have an out-of-combat encounter with Icarian's character. Maybe leading to an accelerated capture of the base as Icarian arranges to 'open the gates'? - Icarian's character might leave the outpost on his own to try and proactively find and negotiate with the LU

I am not necessarily against these suggestions (well, somewhat, I suppoze), but I would be keen to learn what sparked them — I think there's more drama and stronger motivation to align myself with the Union if the real reason I am at the location is because it was a trap laid for me. It's fine if the official reason given was some sort of a proving or a test, but it does feel like it also goes against the stated goal of sacrificing the settlement to actually have this sort of a trial take place there. Similarly, I think putting my character in a Hive BioFrame — presumably one that won't survive the fight — makes for a better story. Not o

& Oooo, if we ever want to do some cinematic cutaway scenes (or infiltration), these could be a lot of fun. This is interesting too. What if the experimentation wasn't just on the pilot but on the BioFrame as well? The Hive now has a a failed experiment that cost them a trained pilot and and extremely expensive BioFrame that is now unfit to be reprocessed or synced to a different pilot. In that case, they may send them to garrison the outpost as a way of 'destroying the evidence'. It looks bad on a spreadsheet if they admit the failure, but it's acceptable 'breakage' if the test-subjects are taken out by kaiju or an LU st

As for the Vulcans, no, I don't think it's religious. I think they use intellect boosters and a strict regimen of e-blockers, meditation and self regulation to make clear, optimal decisions based on facts, data and the clearest statistical predictions . They're dangerous because they're purists for themselves, but certainly will to use emo-drugs on others to get results. Maybe they have a monthly therapy session where they grab up a bunch of plebes and jack them full of combat drugs and throw them in a pit. While the patriots tear each other to bits, the Mentats help themselves to carefully calculated, but high, doses of AA and some part

Probably before. Modern medicine uses propofol to keep memories from forming in the first place. That means hive pilots (or other Hive military) who are used against civilians, defenseless wastelanders, or whatever have no memory of whatever malfeasance they were party to on behalf of the Hive. Which means they can't blab. But I don't think it's something you can administer to large populations. I don't think it lasts for more than a hour a dose, so unless you have a way to give the whole city a shot or take a pill all at the same time it's going to have the desired effect. But pilots, hooked into their frames, can be injected as soon as

I have 'taken care of myself' in a chapel. No one was there when I started, and if the guy who walked in realized I was there, he was very discreet about it.