aaldana 001.

[adrii]

This has already been approved by Verin and leadership. This is not a debate on if we should. It is a debate on how.

We will be going forward with additional experimentation to further stabilise the Neuroclast. To do this, we will be taking volunteers among those who have had an implant that is not TIF. The process will include baseline and progressive scans, temporary monitored linking to the Veil and exponentially increasing exposure to experimental Neuroclast packets while simultaneously stimulating the dorsolateral and ventrolateral PAG when disconnecting from it. The goal is to get below a 4% risk of side effects when disrupting or destroying a node.

This procedure is not without risk, and the risks include: chronic pain (headaches/migraines, shooting or radiating pain stemming from the neck down), paralysis/spastic limbs, death.

Volunteers would need to understand and accept the risks as well as undergo a thorough psychological examination. We would need 3-5 volunteers, and where to source those volunteers is the current issue at hand. My personal preference would be to take volunteers from onboard Mnemosyne. Others have suggested we take volunteers from the unVeiled cities. There is also an option for a mixture from both.

Neither sourcing is without risk. We already operate at a resource deficit, and taking agents further increases that deficit. If that volunteer is in a leadership role, we risk years of knowledge and experience. If we take from the cities, it's a security risk to bring them onboard. Propaganda will spread further of us being like the Architects in that we are choosing not to experiment from within.

We're leaving it up you all to decide how we source volunteers. Again, this will be happening, so spare me the ethics debate of experimenting on humans. If there was another way, chances are we've already tried it.

NIKO.

What's going on with you and Domingo? The flirting is obnoxious. Just fuck already.

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Adrip.

[adrii]

It has been heavily implied by Ishaan and practically outright spoken by Bone.

Adrip.

[philiip]

And Niko?

Adrip.

[adrii]

He says he trusts me but he's doing ev

Adrip.

[philiip]

But you have doubts?

I think most of us are in agreement that this work needs to be done in order to further the neuroclast project. The main deviation seems to be which risk outweighs the other: the inherent danger of outsiders or potentially losing our own people.

Adrip.

[adrii]

He thinks it's convenient that you are unable to volunteer and believes I would talk Eva out of it, so yes. I have doubts.

I understand that. I lean slightly one way simply for control factors.

Adrip.

[philiip]

I know you wouldn’t if she volunteered. And I know I wouldn’t volunteer if I could, because I have put too much time into my skillset to risk them to those odds.

Just like everyone else here.

Adrip.

[adrii]

Apparently he doesn't know that.

I truly don't care where we source the volunteers from. Would I prefer to make my job - and Niko's and Ishaan's - easier? Yes. But the outcome remains the same.

Adrip.

[philiip]

I can see you don’t care, Adri.

Adrip.

[adrii]

Can't care if I don't have a heart, right?

Adrip.

[philiip]

You can fool others with that shit. Not me.

Adrip.

[adrii]

What do you want me to say?

Adrip.

[philiip]

Say what you want to say.

Adrip.

[adrii]

No. You want something. Tell me what it is and I'll give it to you if I can.

Adrip.

[philiip]

What I want is completely unachievable in the reality we're fighting for, because I am never going to get 100% agreement, nor should I.

But looking at how many pilots are already volunteering themselves, I want Dislinked volunteers to be banned outright.

Adrip.

[adrii]

You also think it's a foregone conclusion that they'll be incapacitated.

Adrip.

[philiip]

Sure, I'll just strap in with Az and hope he doesn't have a seizure halfway through evasive manoeuvres.

Adrip.

[adrii]

Right.

I have things to do, so if that's all.

Adrip.

[philiip]

Right. Why     Why do you always wi Fine.

Adrip.

[adrii]

Great.

Adrip.

[philiip]

Since you asked: no, that's not all.

Adri, I can't imagine the kind of pressure you're under with this work. And announcing it like this positions you as the primary person to absorb everyone's concerns and opposing opinions -- I wouldn't be able to handle it with the half the gra restraint you've shown. But there are going to be opposing opinions, and when it comes from me, it's not because I don't trust you. And it won't be because Niko doesn't trust you.

You're probably going to lock yourself in your office now. If that's what you need to do, fine. But I hate it when you withdraw whenever we dis Just stop calling yourself heartless. A heartless man wouldn't give a shit whether or not the Neuroclast injured half the population it was meant to help.

Adrip - an hour later.

[adrii]

It's not the opposing opinions. Santa Maria, do you think I like that this is where we've landed? Or that I enjoy having to take all of this on my own so my team doesn't experience any of this? I don't.

But that you and Niko both assume that any success I have is going to come with abject failures, that your reasonings are that it's inconvenient for it to be the very damned people who have volunteered their lives already, positioning me to have to take a stand on whose lives are more important when you both damned well should know I don't want to do this on anyone, feels like a fucking slap in the face.

Adrip.

[philiip]

I know you don't want to do this on anyone.

Adrip.

[adrii]

Do you?

Adrip.

[philiip]

I'm going to allow that because you're upset.

Adrip.

[adrii]

I'm very calm, thank you.