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The Tether
The Tether App
During the night, everyone's phone or other network device has been updated with a new app - The Tether - intended for helping new arrivals find Tethers.
Unfortunately for those who don't want to participate, the prompt for the application will keep popping up on their screen until they fill out the mandatory fields and post their profile. If you don't want to participate, it might be best to fill in the blanks with prank answers!
Once posted, the app creates a profile that looks like this:
| The Witch | ||||
| « |  | » | ||
| Age: ageless Gender: female Interests: three interests About: 30 words or less | ||||
| base code by photosynthesis | ||||
| Tian | ||||
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It is a simple swiping type app like many dating apps, swipe left to ignore a profile, swipe right to initiate an instant messenger conversation with the person in question on the app's proprietary chat program, complete with emojis!
NOTE: This meme is game canon.
The Code
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No?
Do you dislike what I ask, or do you doubt my intentions?
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Yes.
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I see.
A person can't be compelled to answer questions they don't wish to consider, and it's meaningless to bend your arm over trifling concerns. If you aren't the place for me to find these answers, so be it.
[ It'd be incredibly easy to cut to the chase, ask something sincere and avoid these suspicious, roundabout games. But as long as it means saying something remotely personal, the gulf between his words and thoughts will keep growing wider.
These people aren't cats. But maybe that's all that's changed. ]
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Would knowing that be somehow meaningful to you? Or useful?
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However, the population here offers a compelling landscape far removed from the narrowness of my home's dull-minded cats. I wonder what I might learn by asking about something that [ There's about five minutes of pause right here while Leaks is stuck on how to continue. Viktor's throwing him a bone by prompting him to explain himself, but... ] troubles me about this arrangement.
By your own declaration, you are a person who would accept any challenge in order to live. The subsequent question — what if the death of the body is not the only possible way to lose oneself? — is a natural one to wonder, isn't it?
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That is a possibility we face every day.
But most of us are not regularly faced with situations as unequivocally bizarre as having to choose between sickness and death versus melding your consciousness with that of another person.
As a scientist I am more or less obligated to find it all fascinating, but if you want my opinion as a person: this sucks.
[Too bad this text; borrowed phrases like that sound great coming out of his mouth.]
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That wasn't so difficult, was it?
[ Leaks may not understand the terminology, but the message comes across all the same. It does, indeed, "suck".
But whatever sort of validation Leaks is seeking from him, it's apparently at least somewhat sated by his answer. It's informative in various other ways, as well — enough that he puts a pin in the tether topic for a moment, at least long enough to address something else Viktor dropped in there: ]
A scientist?
In what manner of discipline?
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Engineering. Experimental technology.
What the people here call "magitech".
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[ It's a simple question on paper, and completely belies the curiosity associated with it. Leaks already has a lot of questions he's compelled to ask... but to find out exactly what sort of experiments he means is probably the highest priority. ]
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[Not to be too dramatic about it.]
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What a fascinating prospect.
Technology on my world fails to match the advanced state of our magic development — my development. Enchanting weapons or laying traps within items is not inconceivable to me, but you mean truly advanced technology, correct?
I presume your area of discipline will follow you here, if the world's natural laws permit it? You have no reason not to continue, given our circumstances.
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There are certainly more constructive applications than weaponry. Tangible solutions to everyday problems: that is what people need. Some of these devices are, or will be, complex.
And yes, it goes where I go.
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Violence is a universal constant, as clear in this world as anywhere else. So he'll have to see how much conviction Viktor truly has about that. ]
You speak proudly of it. I'm curious to know if it can live up to the potential you imagine within it.
Once you've established your work here, I would wish to see it.
[ There's no meaningful advantage to Viktor in sharing it with anyone, least of all someone for whom he has any misgivings. Whether or not trust is even a feasible thing between anyone here is nebulous, at best. But that won't stop him voicing his desire. ]
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Depending on the project, it might even serve you.
[Pride, ideals, cheeky callbacks: he has it all.]
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[ Oh, you! ]
If you haven't overstated its value, then perhaps. Whatever the case, I shall await word from you, once you are ready.
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Starting from scratch, here.
[That and his morale is terrible, deep in the negatives, buried six feet under the toilet. But he can't just hang around sulking.
—well, no, he can, and has been. He's just getting bored of it.]