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@the_mystic has added @the_gallant to the chat
@the_mystic has added @the_scribe to the chat.
the_mystic: While still routing through Vanguard channels, I have added an extra layer of encryption based on hive runes. This should create sufficient protection for our communications.
the_gallant: Thank you, Eris. I’m sure this will be an excellent way for us to coordinate our research into the Darkness.
the_scribe: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,;l’kdfjfghhj.jnjjj
the_gallant: Asher? Are you all right?
the_scribe: ]]]]]]]
the_scribe: A brief spasm of the radiolara in my arm. All is now well. The hallucinations have ceased.
the_gallant: Thank the Traveler.
the_scribe: This channel will serve, I suppose. Uploading my latest research now. [pyramidion_data_x.115.7.pdf]
the_gallant: Excellent. I’ll review and send you thoughts by tomorrow.
the_scribe: I would expect nothing less.
the_mystic: Clarity in action.
the_scribe: Clarity in action.
the_gallant: Clarity in action.
the_mystic: yes.
the_gallant: ?
the_mystic: In response to cousin Asher’s question: yes. sometimes i do feel affection for the creatures that changed me
the_mystic: but i do not consider this feeling craven.
the mystic: when the hive taught me to love them, it was with the love they have for each other: bladed, hungry, destructive. with this love i shall surpass them, and devour them with their own teeth.
the_gallant: Oh, Eris.
the_mystic: do not fear, Ikora. i shall not waver from my purpose.
the_gallant: I don’t fear your corruption. I mourn your suffering.
the_scribe: Hmph. A useless sentiment! Suffering is the common lot of Guardians, and your grief does nothing to assuage it.
the_scribe: But thank you, Eris. I . . . appreciate your insights.
the_scribe: I would burn this Vex infection out of my body at once if I could. But I cannot strip myself of the hope—perhaps delusion—that the information it grants me is not entirely calculated into their plans.
the_mystic: indeed. they have sharpened our blades for us to wield.
the_mystic: 🗡⊂(ʘ‿ʘ✿)
the_gallant: …then again, sometimes you do worry me.
@the_mystic has changed their name to @o_vengeance_mine
o_vengeance_mine: 🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡⊂(ʘ‿ʘ✿)🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡
RADIOLACTIVE: Excellent news! While the Young Wolf remains overall a dunderhead, their willingness to be blown up repeatedly in the course of research has proved most advantageous. Behold my latest equations:
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o_vengeance_mine: (´•̥̥̥ ‸ •̥̥̥`✿)
RADIOLACTIVE: …golden age unicode is NOT sufficient for even the bare minimum of research transmission. Ikora, why don’t we have a revised character encoding system yet??
thanks_cayde: Because right when it had reached the top of my to-do list, the Red Legion invaded. I might have time in another century.
RADIOLACTIVE: Too long. Put your Hidden on the job. Maybe they’ll finally be good for something.
o_vengeance_mine: i wish that vanguard text channels allowed the transmission of hive runes. the labor of transliteration serves only to remind me how alien i am become to those who were once my kin.
thanks_cayde: …I’ll see what I can do.
RADIOLACTIVE: THIS IS BLATANT FAVORITISM.
o_vengeance_mine: aiat.
thanks_cayde: Aiat.
RADIOLACTIVE: 110 phaseglass needles, 28ml radiolara, 3 enhancement prisms
RADIOLACTIVE: 33cm x 48cm x 5013 cm. deeply pitted and scored. signs of exothermic reaction>
thanks_cayde: Asher, are you using this chat to keep notes?
RADIOLACTIVE: Yes, and?
RADIOLACTIVE: Is this not a place to share research?
thanks_cayde: Fair enough.
o_vengeance_mine: I have scraped the brain matter out of a Wizard’s skull with its own thigh-bone and eaten both. Do NOT test me.
invective_queen: ?
o_vengeance_mine: ah. wrong chat.
o_vengeance_mine: (✿◕‿◕)
invective_queen: Zavala just woke me with the news.
invective_queen: Eris? Asher? Are you still there?
katabasis: yes. i am safe on luna.
invective_queen: Asher?
invective_queen: Asher?
katabasis: if he was on io when the darkness took it, he cannot hear you.
invective_queen: I know.
katabasis: i am sorry, ikora.
katabasis: (´◕︵◕`✿) っ❤️
invective_queen: ERIS
katabasis: yes?
invective_queen: ….never mind.
invective_queen: But where did you even learn pre-Golden Age Kaomoji?
katabasis: with asher. a long time ago. part of a failed attempt to contact rasputin.
invective_queen: Oh.
katabasis: and where did *you* learn about kaomoji?
invective_queen: On a stake-out with Owl Sector, where else?
katabasis: did you get my letter?
invective_queen: Yes.
invective_queen: Zavala did too.
invective_queen: Eris . . . I want to agree with you. Perhaps I do agree, in principle. If I were making the choice to pursue Stasis for myself only.
invective_queen: But as Vanguard . . . I don’t think I can tell Guardians at large to embrace the Darkness. Not yet.
invective_queen: On the other hand, the Vanguard doesn’t have sufficient grounds to interdict Europa. And if more Guardians than the Young Wolf learn to use Stasis without disaster . . . that might change things.
katabasis: i see.
invective_queen: Keep good notes, my friend.
katabasis: always.
katabasis: ✏️⊂(ꈍ ᴗ ꈍ✿)
invective_queen: Hello, Asher.
invective_queen: Eris hasn’t logged in since she started her . . . transformations. There’s no point to me visiting this channel anymore.
invective_queen: But I can’t stop.
invective_queen: I can see the “last active” timestamp on your profile. You were here only a few hours before Io disappeared.
invective_queen: Every time I log on, I hope that date will have changed.
invective_queen: I am sorry, old friend.
invective_queen: I spoke with Mithrax today. He told me a story about the hero “Ashermere.”
invective_queen: I’m so furious. You survived Io by taking refuge in the Vex network — of course you did.
invective_queen: But you didn’t escape. You didn’t send a message. And you could have done it, if anyone could!
invective_queen: But you wouldn’t abandon your research. Not even when you knew it would destroy you.
invective_queen: I suppose that’s to be expected, from a Warlock. We’re nearly as self-destructive as Titans, in the end.
invective_queen: …Or maybe you just knew that if you came back, I’d make you help Zavala translate his courtship poems for Caiatl.
invective_queen: I do miss you.
ikora_rey: I drank tea with Eris today. She’s healing, Asher, more completely than I ever thought possible.
ikora_rey: You would sneer at me for that, wouldn’t you? I limited my hypotheses by my assumptions. And here I am, made a fool by further data.
ikora_rey: I always thought we would find a cure for your arm.
ikora_rey: But you were so sure that you were incurable, and of course you always had to be right.
ikora_rey: Damn you, Asher. You deserved to be proved wrong, just once.
ikora_rey: But all I can do now is move forward. Keep faith with you, as you did with us.
ikora_rey: You won’t return to this chat, and I don’t think Eris needs it anymore. And I . . . need to stop looking back.
ikora_rey: Clarity in action.
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RADIOLACTIVE: LATENCY.SCANNING()…………YY33//GNSMSCRB//MX88
RADIOLACTIVE: EXIGENCY.PERIHELION(y|n){ I can’t believe I have to do this. I already left you messages. };
RADIOLACTIVE: EXIGENCY.PERIHELION.TRANSCRIBE(y|n){ The signal should be strong enough to break containment. };
RADIOLACTIVE: EXIGENCY.PERIHELION.TRANSCRIBE.ELABORATE(y|n){ Ikora? };