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68983 No. 68983 ID: 064752

VII has hit 1000+ posts, so time for a new ITQ!

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No. 76106 ID: d38f67
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76106

>Are there any particular myths that seem much less fanciful, now that you know what's possible?
It's possible there is some truth to neumono with empathy so strong that they were effectively like predators without the capability of falsifying moods.

>Are you genetically related to any of the others who have some ability to turn off their empathy?
I have a cousin who is, and others are more distant. The sample size is too low to be conclusive.

>And has anyone else started trying to gain the ability, since the time of your first adventure?
Yes. Since it has been proven, programs have been proposed since my mission. I expect after I am revealed alive, I will be brought in as a consultant.

>Your hive lived on the coast, right? Do you have a tradition of sea-related activities, like sailing, fishing, pearl diving, et cetera?
We never ventured far from the coast, but we did live on an archipelago not far off from the mainland. We did have fishing boats, did dive for exotic shells and materials, and did not have much trouble with other hives. I was not alive back then, but it was hard to find food if you did not know what you were doing, so hives that attempted to breach our territory would not last long. We hid in caves and waited a few hours before they realized that the islands were not teeming with life, largely on account of us.

>Maybe you could beat Rokoa at beach volleyball, or a sandcastle competition, or that watermelon thing.
No, yes, probably.
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No. 76108 ID: 07e3a8

>I4-2.C1-R.
Huh. The naming / numbering convention isn't consistent with the Rokoa in Polo's head. Although I suppose it might make sense that they have separate naming conventions for darts and fully realized clones.

>all the predators would go for her first
Says the predator who went for her.

>silent program
...dunno, that seems kind of intimidating for potential recruits. 3 in 1000 odds of success, and a ten year training period? I mean, there's the chance those numbers can be improved upon now that some of you know what you're doing, but still.

Then again suppose the right candidates would be people with your mindset, who wouldn't exactly balk at that.
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No. 76109 ID: 4d99b6

Q. for tribal neumono, or anyone who'd know about this- Would Kazati have been thought of as a seer or sage or something had she been born back in tribal times, what with her apparent ability to 'dreamwalk' with other Neumono?
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No. 76111 ID: 57a559

>>76104
Okay, Lascir good for short then?
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No. 76114 ID: 2f4b71

>>76105
>Like, in aliens, they have stuff in the fingers that goes send that feeling to the brain right, and then backwards, so the brain can tell their hand to move? Well, brain and that stuff is pretty closely related, at least moreso than in aliens. So if our brain was all in our head, then trying to move or feel with our feet would be just embarrasingly slow, since while we do have similar stuff to aliens, it would be a lot weaker. I hope that makes sense.

So basically, Neumono fail at myelination.
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No. 76115 ID: 016e5b

>>76106
>It's possible there is some truth to neumono with empathy so strong that they were effectively like predators without the capability of falsifying moods.

That's interesting (and important to be aware of, given all the weirdness that seems to be popping back up), but I think what the question was aiming for specifically was the idea that there might have been other neumono who had the same ability as you, long ago, and who got turned into legends about ghosts and whatnot. It would be a little bit of heritage for you and your eventual colleagues. And might be of scientific interest, if any point of commonality shows up between you and the myths.
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No. 76119 ID: 9f5a86
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76119

> To everyone/all characters: What brand of shampoo and/or conditioner do you use and why?

"Brand, hm? Oh, bring that spotlight up a bit, would you?"

"..."

"That's better, thank you. I don't have a specific product in mind. I tend to buy many different kinds and still haven't found the perfect one just yet. Then again, I'm the type that likes a bit of variety in her life. Chemical or all-natural, it really doesn't make a difference to me until it stiffens my hair.

As for my fur, the same applies, although since one's fur usually covers their whole body, it's probably a little more important to consider what you're using to wash it. I try to limit my selections to more organic solutions."
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No. 76128 ID: 0f507c

Neumono, I must know. Do you have a bit of loose thick skin on the back of your neck where you could be picked up and held by someone's mouth when you were a kid (or if you're very small)?

Now I think of it, this question should be opened to other species that could be suspected of such a thing.
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No. 76131 ID: d38f67
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76131

>[Biles, how are you still alive?]
Polo took the heat off me, mixed with a bit of determination and willpower.
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No. 76132 ID: d38f67
File 137895379286.png - (16.90KB , 700x700 , RokoaSniperCloneITQ12.png )
76132

>Lascir good for short then?
Um, I... oh, wait, I get it. That... I'm going to say no, because I'm afraid it'll stick.

>The naming / numbering convention isn't consistent with the Rokoa in Polo's head.
Yeah we come up with nicknames! I mean, it just sort of stacks on. Every single generation of clones gets a new number, and a C if they're a clone or an I if they're an injection. So, RC-3.I-4.2-C3 would imply the 3rd clone of the 2nd injection of the 4th injection using the 3rd clone of the original Rokoa. I think I did get it backwards before. They're sort of interchangable as long as you know which way it goes.

>Would Kazati have been thought of as a seer or sage or something had she been born back in tribal times, what with her apparent ability to 'dreamwalk' with other Neumono?
Maybe! If the hive was spiritual enough, then that may be good. Then again, maybe the rest of her hive is really good at dream sharing too, in which case it isn't special for her company.

>Do you have a bit of loose thick skin on the back of your neck where you could be picked up and held by someone's mouth when you were a kid (or if you're very small)?
Yes! Our skin is sort of loose anyway, which is why we can shake water off our coat. We only grab kids with our teeth though if our hands absolutely have to hold something else, like more kids, since our teeth are sharp and it can't be that comfortable.
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No. 76135 ID: d38f67
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76135

>That seems kind of intimidating for potential recruits. 3 in 1000 odds of success, and a ten year training period?
It wasn't quite a thousand, and most gave up after a relatively short period. Only a handful of the initial hundreds stuck past a year, and even then, it was not constant silence training. Combat training was included.

>There might have been other neumono who had the same ability as you, long ago
I would be shocked if it was only recently any neumono succeeded at such an ability. Yes, this is more than likely, but it is also more than likely that the tales and myths are embellished beyond recognition of the truth.
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No. 76136 ID: 0a0b4d

>>76132
Yep, he's making her as adorable as possible on purpose so it hurts more when he kills her off.
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No. 76145 ID: 5869f6

Why, Lago? ;_;
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No. 76152 ID: 1cf691

>>76132
That picture has no right to be so damn cute.

We have to find a way to save bubble monster clone.
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No. 76154 ID: 69c889

>>76105
Hmmm... I don't suppose it'd be possible to do something similar to blood doping? Take out bits of your own brain matter over time, get a bunch of it, and then put it back in when you have enough and your body's replenished. Concentrate the extra matter in the head/limbs/whatever parts are needed to get around that. I'm sure it'd eventually be reabsorbed like excess fat/muscle, and it'd be a pain to keep up, but it does seem convenient for missions and the like.

The downside is that your past self might try to eat you and you'd lose your recent memories. Plus the brain matter's personality might change and screw you up. How plausible does any of this sound?
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No. 76176 ID: dbe554

To the Creator (Big Blue Glowy Thing)

Can you tell us about this Mystical Master Creator that created all of you? Any stories, myths, or facts about the greatest creator of all time?
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No. 76196 ID: 57a559

Any quest character:
To reiterate to what may be an old question, boxers, briefs, boxer-briefs, or commando.

There are other types of underwear of course, so feel free to share if you want to. The information, not the underwear.
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No. 76197 ID: 57239a

>>76196
I think this is the first time Dirtbag has rejected a woman's underwear.

Yes I know he wasn't talking specifically to ladies shut up you hypothetical joke-ruiner
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No. 76198 ID: 57a559

Underwear just freaks me the fuck out man.
Only ones I can handle are mine, I will not touch anyone elses.
It's like a goddamn phobia. It's like me with bees.
Oh no not the undies! Not the undies! AHHHHHH! Abablahbla my eyes! My eyes? AHABLAHHHHHH!

Swamp ass is NOT exclusive the the male sex.
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No. 76200 ID: 57239a

That's actually completely reasonable.
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No. 76201 ID: 70b5eb
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76201

>>76196
there's a reason they call it going commando.
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No. 76202 ID: 70b5eb
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76202

>>76201
Me too! Unless you count bike shorts!
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No. 76203 ID: 70b5eb
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76203

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No. 76205 ID: 888df6

>>76202
Hey Sara super rudely personal question, but what's the maintenance routine like on your robogenitals when/if you're actually using them?

Also, does the, uh, 'material' get sent to your robostomach for conversion to energy like food does? Sounds like it'd reduce cleanup if it did. Kind of fetishy though.
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No. 76206 ID: 70b5eb
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76206

>>76205
When I'm using them?

If I knew the answer to that little question I would be a happier gynoid.
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No. 76216 ID: bd48c5

>>76203
73-6, how does a reanimated corpse have functional sweatglands?
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No. 76218 ID: 593f45

>>76216
Probably because he's a corpse and he's reanimated.
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No. 76231 ID: 1f8505
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76231

>>76196

Sarah: "I don't get questions like these. Who cares what kind of underwear people wear? Is this really vital information?"
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No. 76232 ID: 1f8505
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76232

Cherie: "She loves boyshorts. Especially ones with frilly trim and pink hearts-"

Sarah: "CHERIE! W-WHAT THE HELL?!"
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No. 76234 ID: 57a559

>>76231
It's just a question everyone likes to laugh at. Most embarresing moment, etc.

Plus, Boxers vs. Briefs is serious fucking business. Always has been. So it's funny and serious business that everyone can answer and relate to and reveal something about themselves.
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No. 76236 ID: e34aeb

>>76232
I love your choice of underwear :3
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No. 76240 ID: e34aeb
File 137933752039.jpg - (25.54KB , 600x504 , Lilyshorts .jpg )
76240

>>76196
H-ha...T-this?
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No. 76245 ID: a9c670

Maolla: what happened to that suit you were wearing in the other thread? You should put it back on. I like it better than the overalls.
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No. 76252 ID: 34cbef
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76252

>>76196
All Natural, I live alone and have that luxury.
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No. 76254 ID: 9bc456

>>76252
Not anymore you don't. Want littlebun staring at your junk, do you?
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No. 76256 ID: bf54a8

>>76254
the little bun is blind.
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No. 76259 ID: 9bc456

>>76256
I very, very seriously doubt that would stop him from staring at Steel's junk.
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No. 76267 ID: 399612
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76267

>>68991
Ooh! Ooh! Can I have it? Please? I love apples! Folks say the gold ones taste the same but I swear they're the sweetest ones!
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No. 76272 ID: 5869f6

A'course child! Anythin' fer you!
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No. 76274 ID: 68ac42
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76274

"If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I would do..."
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No. 76275 ID: d3bb9b
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76275

>>76274
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No. 76277 ID: d3bb9b
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76277

"Surprise! It's me!"

"I'm the genie!!"

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No. 76280 ID: 0bc691
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76280

>>76012

Always wanted a dog, but back before the war my parents would never let me get one. Caught a ridgebacked snapper at a nearby river and they let me keep him, though. Named him 'Crawler,' used to take outside and walk around the yard. Never really did much, but was the only pet I really ever had, so loved him anyway.

Had to release when the war started and got conscripted. Haven't got a pet since the war ended, spend all my time working and raising Rahak.

>>76196

Don't really have a favorite type. Mostly wear the kind that are snug and have little short legs on them.

>>76274

Don't really understand this. Some sort of idiom? Unsure what time in a bottle could even accomplish.
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No. 76282 ID: bd48c5

>>76277
Nice metaphor.
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No. 76287 ID: cee89f

>>76277
So cute ^^
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No. 76293 ID: 134f29

To any Neumono: do you have to go through puberty?
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No. 76294 ID: c7c00d

And if you do, got any stories about puberty?
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No. 76297 ID: bd48c5

If you don't go through puberty, please explain what you do instead so that we can engineer it out of our species.
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No. 76298 ID: 059873

>>76297
Eh, it might be worse. Laying egg pods with sharp burrs and edges on them definitely sounds worse than giving birth to live young, as an example.
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No. 76299 ID: f9cf6a

>>76293
And possibly related to this: When and what sets your bodies' baseline fat and muscle level? Is it set by genetics, effects during gestation, environmental factors during youth, anything else, or a combination of the above?
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No. 76302 ID: 1f8505

To all female quest characters: What does your Little Black Dress look like?
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No. 76308 ID: cee89f

To all quest characters: What is best in life (aside from sex and/or 'To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women')?

Again, to all: What do you dream about?
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No. 76309 ID: 7868b4

Hey Lukratsa, may we see your eyes?
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No. 76310 ID: 5869f6

I'm bettin' they quite beautiful! C'mon now, take em' off!
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No. 76314 ID: 399612
File 137982463411.png - (110.46KB , 600x800 , dress.png )
76314

>>76302
Would you have guessed black is my color?
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No. 76319 ID: d38f67
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76319

>Hey Lukratsa, may we see your eyes?
Only in my upcoming movie, 'Die Fast Die Hard 2: Die Harder'.
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No. 76320 ID: d38f67
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76320

Nah just kidding it's no deal.
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No. 76321 ID: d38f67
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76321

>I don't suppose it'd be possible to do something similar to blood doping? Take out bits of your own brain matter over time, get a bunch of it, and then put it back in when you have enough and your body's replenished.
That... uh, the salikai did that once. Pulled out one clone's brain matter, let her recover, and then inject her with... herself. Uh, I don't know what happened in the end, but I think it did involve fighting her past self.

>To any Neumono: Do you have to go through puberty?
Yes! It's when that really weird thing the hive does sometimes becomes perfectly understandable.

>What is best in life?
A friend!

>Boxers, briefs, boxer-briefs, or commando.
Pajamas! They're like a coating of comfort. Er -
>Share if you want to. The information, not the underwear.
....sorry!
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No. 76323 ID: 7868b4

>>76321
No apologies will be necessary if you explain whether or not your ears get cold. They seem large enough to radiate a lot of heat. Is that intentional on your part?

>>76320
Nice.
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No. 76324 ID: 2f4b71

Lukratsa, you worked with Polo on the movie, right? I can't imagine the two of you resisted the urge to pull pranks on the rest of the crew.
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No. 76327 ID: a57f17

>>76324
No. In the last ITQ thread, Lukratsa mentioned she'd only ever met Polo very briefly. If she'd helped with the movie, it'd have taken more time.
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No. 76328 ID: 07e3a8

The box said Polo helped with the movie, although that might have been more messing with the script and front end stuff than actually meeting the actors. We don't know how much time Polo spent on the project, or relatively what briefly meant (could mean Lukratsa only met Polo for a few minutes, it could mean Polo was only on set a few days of the weeks or months of production).

...we do know Polo hasn't actually lived through any of this yet and can't comment. Yay for ITQ opening simultaneous windows into different time zones.
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No. 76329 ID: a57f17

>>76328
Eh, it'll probably be fine, we talked with a dead guy and taunted him for getting killed.
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No. 76330 ID: 07e3a8

>>76329
Actually, no Asteroidverse character has appeared in ITQ post-death.

(Well, maybe Jess, Jules and Wendel if you ignore the time paradox that corrected their deaths. Or Mafia Alison- but death with the UnSe contestants is fuzzy at best, and her existence isn't even certain).

Red replied to our taunts after getting tazed, but our taunts after his death went unanswered.
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No. 76331 ID: a1f107

>>76330

Rikora might count? It's not like she's died on-screen, but she should be dead by now. In any case, you're wrong about Red. His last appearance in ITQ was in response to posters reacting to his death. "to red's corpse", etc.
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No. 76332 ID: 07e3a8

>>76331
Red's last ITQ appearance: 2012/11/25(Sun)16:47
Red's death: 2012/11/22(Thu)04:52

Huh. Whataya know.
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No. 76344 ID: 07e3a8

>save your Q&A for some other nebulous point in time, when there isn't anything important happening!
>youcoulduseITQifyoureallywant.png

...so Dastrica, would you mind telling us about yourself?
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No. 76442 ID: 5bf190
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76442

>Hey Radde, how many wars have you fought in this life, and how does this battle rate compared to some of the other's you've been in?

"Man, that's actually sort of a complicated question! I mean, there's war, and then there's "tensions", and "peacekeeping", and "military exercises", aaaand a bunch of other nebulous stuff. As for wars, well, in space wars either are over really quick or they just go on forever, generally. Either one side or the other figures out they're outmatched and then they try pretend they didn't want a war at all, or both sides actually are pretty evenly matched and then they just sort of try to avoid each other as much as possible, because, you know it's space and it's not like we're all stuck on one planet with each other. And then usually you just have skirmishes now and then while waiting for some sort of weakness. I mean, you get grindfests sometimes, but... ok, ok, back to the question. Basically, it's hard to list how many "wars" I've been in. As for this conflict, well, so far I've had worse, but definitely also had better. You'd have to ask me again when it's all over, assuming I'm still in a body then."

>Piyerra/Radde: Have you two worked together before?

"Yes. More than that, though, we're... hm. The closest approximate term would be "soul mates", but that would be very approximate."
"Our psychic patterns are entangled with each other! So we're doomed to run into each other more often than any ordinary pair of scellor would be, across our various lives. And it feels, sort of, just a little more comfortable having each other around, you know? Helps you remember yourself."
"It's not necessarily an amicable relationship, it just means that we're stuck together. You could compare it to a sibling relationship."
"But when you do that it makes people feel weird, because we're scellor and we mess around with each other all the time. Sexy-wise."
"I swear you make yourself a Niiar to spite me."

>To all quest characters: What is best in life (aside from sex and/or 'To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women')?

"To know you're improving the universe!"
"... Same."
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No. 76443 ID: 58c621
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76443

>Hey Rokolo how did three stripes and giant hive end up fairing in your universe?

Let me think. Right, Three Stripes. Well! Because Rokoa killed most of the salikai before her duel with Polo, priorities had to be rebalanced, and the tribal hives were ignored for a while. By the time I was around, and got around to looking into it, it seems Three Stripes' friends had persuaded him to help them out a little, territory-wise. I can admire a bit of ambition, so I gave them a good offer RE: serving me. Although, really, it wasn't like any of the other tribal hives were going to be very helpful, by then!

>to rokolo's boobs: why are you so big

I've got Rokoa's, see, but the rest of me is smaller. And good thing! I feel much lighter than Rokoa did. Square-cube law, you know? You lose weight faster than you lose strength. It's nicer than she thought it would be, being smaller.

>To all quest characters: What is best in life (aside from sex and/or 'To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women')?

Having a few moments without all the voices in your head bothering you. But, not all the time, just now and then. Wow, Rokolo, you can make yourself sound crazier than that! Ok, how about: knowing you're the best. Yeah, there you go.

>Again, to all: What do you dream about?

I spend my dreams keeping everyone in line, up in here. Gotta have some discipline in your own brain, you know.
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No. 76444 ID: 58c621
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76444

>...so Dastrica, would you mind telling us about yourself?

Right yes, hello! I'm Dastrica, I'm 29 years old, I work as one of Polokoa's personal assistants and I'm the first neumono/predator hybrid to have ever existed! Some people say neumedator and some people say predamono, but either way I was the first one. Er

I mean, there could theoretically have been others, especially hundreds of thousands of years ago when the two species hadn't diverged as much, but it'd be like a million to one to get the individuals with the right genes and then another million to one for them to survive just until birth and then

What I mean is, I was made in a lab. Yes. That's the first thing I try to make clear to people. I mean, I have parents! And my mother was even nice enough to carry me for a while, for which she had the trouble of needing surgery to get me out, but I have about .6% artificial genes or something and they were also moved around in the sequence, I think. Something like that. Closing the gaps, basically, to make me possible. I needed other help too, like I had to get braces for my ribs and hips to grow right and I needed speech therapy to make sure I actually did learn to talk instead of just being lazy and shooting my thoughts at people, which I really didn't like at the time because bending air around your throat and tongue and things is so weird but if I didn't learn then I would never have been able to learn properly! And I was almost a bit of a disappointment anyway because the only special thing I could do was imitate neumono empathy so I could feel like a hive member, but then they figured out that if they put these implants in me to make some more connections in my brain I would get a lot of much cooler powers, which is nice, though now I've grown up and I'm not horribly disabled they're making more of us and they think they've improved things so they won't have the same issues I did.

Excuse me, sorry! When you use your brain to talk you don't need to breathe, so sometimes you start using really long run-on sentences. I was concentrating on not talking about myself in the third person, sometimes I do that if I forget. Sometimes you just hang around hearing people think about you as another person so much that you start doing it yourself! It's like living in a hall of mirrors.

So, right, ok. With my augmentations, I can do mostly anything a predator could do, just not as strong. Like, if I wanted to really change a neumono, they'd have to let me, or be vulnerable in some other way, and it'd take longer and there are some thing I can't do at all. And of course I can go silent, or I can even put out false moods, though if someone knows me they can tell because I can't put out fake moods as strongly as real ones. More often I just partially silence myself, so I can keep bad or rude thoughts to myself while letting the others out. But more! Because of the blend of predator powers with some neumono brain bits, I can put out much more specific and complicated thoughts than a predator could, like actual words or even pictures and sounds and hallucinations and things like that. I'm telepathic! Oh, and I've learned to use my implants to turn my thoughts into a wireless signal, so I can talk with computers, too. For actual work, like earning my food work, one thing I do is, I can put neumono into a sort of trance, where it's like I take away all their distractions and tiredness and that sort of thing, and they can work really efficiently and they don't get as tired and afterwards they say it feels like it didn't take long at all. So that's really popular and Dastrica gets asked for that a lot. And I work as a counsellor, too, I've actually got training and everything, so it's not just mind powers all the time. And I help with diplomacy and making sure people get their problems out and are happy and honest and everything. And recently I've tried to get involved with all my new little fellow hybrids! Because they're trying to go for more genetic diversity, but I'm not sure their parents will be so good with them as mine were with me, but I'll be here. And they're really adorable and when you pick them up they just start beaming lovely baby happiness at you, it's really nice and it's funny to see the neumono scientists walking around carrying them.

We'd have a lot more fuss made over us if it wasn't for Polokoa, I think. She's sort of overloaded everyone's weirdness sense, so we don't seem so odd. Some neumono are still kind of superstitious about us, like the Dustwalker hive, but then a lot of them are superstitious about Polokoa, too. I think sometimes she encourages a lot of weird things like us so that she doesn't seem so odd. Getting scientists to rebuild species that were extinct, for example, but whose genes were still bouncing around, our home planet had a lot of strange stuff that was gone by the time aliens turned up. And then there's all the cyborgs and the time travel experiments and the CAI village and all the crazy scientists and the clones and, just, everything.

It all seems normal to me by now, but I'm part of it, so I understand.

>To all quest characters: What is best in life (aside from sex and/or 'To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women')?

When people are happy to have you around!

>Again, to all: What do you dream about?

Ah, my dreams are kind of scary. Sometimes I have dreams about eating neumono, or sometimes the neumono are the ones eating me. So most nights I sleep with neumono and I visit their dreams! Usually Polokoa, actually. She likes to have me help keep her dreams nice. She used to get upset every time she was Polokoa in her dreams, instead of being Polo or Rokoa, but she was getting used to that by the time she had me around. Now though, she gets upset when either of them aren't in her dreams, or especially when they're both missing. She wouldn't ever admit it but I think it frightens her a bit, and makes her sad.

Oh, um, don't tell anyone I said any of that.
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No. 76446 ID: f45380

>>76444
You are just adorable. So's the baby.

Do you have the same problem purebred predators have with an actual dependence on neumono-meat?

Your training is surprisingly well thought out for neumono management. (Counselor, diplomacy, etc). Guess Polokoa finally got things whipped into shape in your universe.

>Oh, um, don't tell anyone I said any of that.
Don't worry, we'll honor patient-therapist-imaginaryheadvoices confidentiality.
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No. 76447 ID: cee89f

>>76442
Er... why would becoming a Niiar 'spite you'?

>>76443
Why does your shirt change every shot?

>I spend my dreams keeping everyone in line, up in here. Gotta have some discipline in your own brain, you know.
...Does this involve little Rokoas and littler Polos in tiny chairs, typing at giant machines in a slightly overdone visual metaphor for the subconscious?! =D
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No. 76448 ID: f45380

>Why does your shirt change every shot?
Because her appearances have been days and week apart and she doesn't feel the need to dress exactly the same way every time she shows up to talk to us.

(She what an evil opposite she is? Blatantly flaunting the conventions of the medium!)
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No. 76449 ID: dbe554

>>76444

What exactly, is a CAI village? A village run by CAI? Or a village of CAI?
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No. 76450 ID: cee89f

>>76448
Don't bring your fancy shmancy logic into this! >:I

( :p )
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No. 76453 ID: e15bdc

>>76444
>parents
To be clear; who were your biological parents?
Did either of them have any part in your parenting?
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No. 76460 ID: 49f001

>>76443
It's true, Rokolo, you are the best. At boobs.
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No. 76461 ID: c23ab0

Dastrica: Do Neumono taste good?
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No. 76464 ID: e15bdc

>>76453
Wait, genetic parents would probably be a more correct word.
Oh, also; is your genetic mother someone other than the one who bore you?
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No. 76470 ID: 3dd384

>>76449
tgchan island imo
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No. 76477 ID: cee89f

>>76470
>island
>CAI village
...

Sounds legit. =I

Saulanna: What do the horns feel like? Bone? Those stones in Kairosa's part of the world-body? Cartilage? Steel?
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No. 76495 ID: 256d52
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>>76023
>What do you think of flesh golems? Can they be made with your magical sistems? Will they still be considered undeads?
Well, flesh isn't a great material to use for golemetry? There's systems and structures in it that were formerly the living processes of the creature it was taken from, and so you get a degree of resistance when you try to create similar processes for a golem's semi-life. You can't make golems out of living things at all - the interference is too great. So as a raw material it's harder to use and inferior to nice durable things like rocks.

Necromancy, on the other hand, tries to restart those systems. This is imperfect, and so undead have certain vulnerabilities and traits. Necromancers do make chimeric undead, and golemetry helps: it can make a framework to stitch together the mismatched vital structures of the parts used. Golemetry and necromancy are actually pretty closely related. You could say that golemetry is an attempt to recreate life, while necromancy is an attempt to defeat death.

By combining the two effectively, you might be able to create a golem with the capacity to learn and unlimited motive energy though? It wouldn't be undead, but it wouldn't quite be alive either.

>>76308
>What do you dream about?
I try not to.
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No. 76496 ID: 79b3c8

aww, she is adorable
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No. 76508 ID: c770a7

>>76495
You really ought to stop evading and start ignoring some questions, or else people are just going to get curious.

To everyone: Whats the worst part of your job?
I work with children and young adults, so for me the worst part is seeing the light in their eyes go out as they grow, replaced by a dull and glassy glaze.
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No. 76509 ID: 68ac42

gaze, you mean.
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No. 76518 ID: 26e322

>>76509
Never heard the expression "eyes glazed over"?
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No. 76541 ID: 5c9e53
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>>76508
Illusionists.
Your average Arker is big, tough, dangerous, and predictable. That last part is how you can bag 90% of them. Nessie just bum rushes them and then I turn the invisibility off and give 'em a little love tap to the back of the head.

But dream mages ain't nearly as predictable. You never know, with them. And we've squared off with some good ones.
But I'm better.
They ain't got a decade or two of Authority combat training under their belt.
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No. 76542 ID: 00848e

Kappi, I've got a quick question for you. How do you feel about eventual fatherhood? Do you think it will ever happen to you, and if so what will you do/have done to prepare?
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No. 76543 ID: 7bbaae

>>76541
So what is your combat style, when you have a reason to use in-depth dream magic?
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No. 76545 ID: 57a559

>>76541
Oren you look depressed. Are you depressed?
How come you don't dye your eyeball a different color? Or illusion it up some?
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No. 76546 ID: 22e46e

>>76541
What's it like being a badass all the time, Oren?
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No. 76551 ID: 5c9e53
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>>76543
Depends on the opponent. Arcanists are easy. They're all trained to use subconscious finger movements to differentiate their spells so nervelocking the arms fucks them up. Even if they get past that, they start to stumble when they're forced to really think the motions through; it's been drilled into them.

Elementalists favor area of effect, so decoys are less useful, but if you mess with their environment they get disoriented and try to toss rocks at you that ain't really there. Plus they got fewer defenses against mind-affecting magic than anyone else.

Thaumaturges you just have to misdirect into going on the defensive, then hit them with the real juice when their shields are all used up. I do my best to practice on Nessie but she knows all my tells.

Illusionists is where it gets tricky, but I've found a few hundred footpounds of mace crashing into your crotch carries a magic all its own.

Anyone who ain't a mage is kiddy stuff.

Nessie does most of the heavy lifting in combat, of course. I support and land the knockout.

>>76545
Never been happier, point of fact.

Nessie and me consider the red eyes a badge of honor. Pisses marks off something awful. We usually just use them annoying helmets when we go around in public.

>>76546
You'll have to ask my wife some time.
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No. 76563 ID: 9ddf68

Hey Oren, what ever happened to that one 'spirit' thing that helped you out along with the undertaker back before you became a cyclopes?
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No. 76571 ID: dcd48d

>>76551
Great to see yah well Oren.
So what are you and Nessie up to now-a-days?
Mage cops?
Working with Orpheo doing whatever it is he does to keep tabs on arkers?
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No. 76575 ID: 7bbaae

Hok: What do you DO with all the money you steal?
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No. 76576 ID: 36e6ae

Hey Deem, ever anger any sky deities, Alicorns or poke a rocket in the Moonman's eye?
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No. 76577 ID: ea4924

>>76575
Up until this morning Hok's time, Tin took nearly all of it to cover the risk of Iron Cove or someone else who he pissed off coming around and ruining the place. I assume the rest went towards various equipment, food, emergency money, and the like.
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No. 76579 ID: 7bbaae

>>76577
Hok has apparently stolen a ridiculous amount of money from a ridiculous number of people, though. Tin certainly didn't secure vast quantities of wealth for the Iron Cove by hiring Hok. So where'd it all go? Hidden somewhere perhaps?
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No. 76580 ID: 2f2cd6

>>76579
I'd assume he blows through it almost as quickly as he gather it. Criminal enterprises, worthy causes, explosions... it eats up the zenny! And there's not much pressure to hold onto it if he's confident he can get more.

Although I suppose he might have some caches somewhere?

Another question for Hok: what do you think about the Asteroid's other super-thieves? Whiskers, for instance? Ever had a run in?
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No. 76779 ID: 1f8505

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