Comic 1193 - Try some different things
Posted on 24th Jul 2019, 8:25 AM
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Fuse and Michelle start trading up more tinfoil hats--in different numbers than the amount that got you the brain leech... thing. Fuse also prepares to trade up some of his homemade EMPs.
You encourage Dr. Finch to keep trying to harness the blood, maybe focusing less on control and more on... well, whatever comes naturally. He just needs to do it more... uh... Finchly.
He smiles, and nods.
You take a bit to try switching your... self, between thinking with your brain and thinking with the blood--essentially trying to acclimate yourself, your entire self, to being in sync with Mom's red.
You also ask your own Red how she's holding up.
"It's... weird," Red begins. "The bloodspeak. It feels... I don't wanna say familiar. Natural? Also, we're already absorbing some strange knowledge from this sync. We're not even sure how to process some of this yet."
I mean, maybe if we have to kill some time to wait for Pierce and our larger plans.
Does anyone else feel we're as ready as we'll ever be, for those?
The Juries are skilled mechanics, and we should enlist them to help construct robots and electronics. They want to stay in Bunker B, but that's not an issue as we can bring items to them.
Mom's red has centuries of experience on us, and is invested in dealing with Thale. I think they would be receptive if we asked for help making things.
* Fuse doesn't need to be the one to trade up the EMPs. He should focus on making more with the Juries so we can get a better trade. They should be fine as long as the EMPs aren't armed.
* Let Dr. Finch know that we think his ability might be about understanding or communication, and that he might have a better connection with Caius as a human he's close with.
* Ask Mom's red to work on producing exotic materials in the red, like the worm silk we found and limpet teeth. It can teach us once it learns how.
Mine should break off the sync with Mom's red. Now might be a good time to craft the blood ticks we had talked about earlier to attach to our allies to have a way to give them more blood.
+1 to finch teaming up with Caius, but also dont stop Caius from working on other stuff, like helping Michelle with the trade ups
i don't think Moms Red has ever, or will ever have access to any "The Red" but probably does have incite into flesh-crafting x: so +1 to asking for pointers, probably in blood speak?
+1 to breaking off the Sync, also let's test to see how much of the Blood speak stuck around.
On another note, it's interesting that despite all the time Mine has spent differentiating between her Red and herself, her Red still refers to them as 'we'. This might be Mine's subconscious continually reminding her that they aren't separate beings. I'm just really curious about how the dynamic.
Then again, retraining ones mind to that level take a lot longer than they have. So let me propose an alt: Video Game it. Mindless golems ridged to each persons preferences with weapons and spells equipped or grafted accordingly, each set to each persons aura to boost signal, reviving commands from the Blood Speech which is, as of yet, unjamable. Keep part of each golem for a monitor (strech long and thin), so you have a way to see what each one is doing, regardless of each controllers skill in syncing, and nothing can jam the signal (save Nil himself). Even if everything goes wrong, you have a disposable first wave and practice using incredible power.
Specifically, if everyone in the group has a bit of the Blood, Mine can fast travel directly to them and pull them out of danger- or just pull a Meat Cage like she did to protect Grizwald.
To that end, we should consider practicing more with the formation of the portals we used to get to the bookstore, try and make it as fast and reliable as possible.
Maybe practicing a shiny/polished look that chitin can achieve (ala green rose chafers)...