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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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It’s been so long, I hardly remember.

do you think you'd ever volunteer?

[…] Maybe.

There’s risk to everything we do here, so that isn’t what deters me. The limits of his testing has been reached and this is the next step. I’m viewing it like a vaccine. It has to be tested if it’s ever going to become a viable option.

But I hate the thought of being under the Veil again, however temporary it’d be.

And I also dislike the idea of asking unVeiled on the ground to do something we ourselves aren’t willing to do. They didn’t sign up for risking their lives that way, and we did.

even though i agree with you, i dont love the idea of you doing it

I knew you’d miss me.

[…] Obviously you have to have a talk with Eren, but I don’t think it’s fair to Luis for you to do it. Which might be hypocritical of me because I do know how heavily this weighs on Papá, but Luis only recently got to have you. Losing a parent is […] devastating.

I am going to volunteer to go down if they need a team to man the facility they undergo testing at, though.

im not the one with an issue with feelings

[...] i know what you mean, but if this doesnt succeed he spends his life hiding or back under the veil or worse. how can i say i wouldn't do anything and everything to stop that from happening

I don’t have an issue with having feelings.

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It might be a moot point anyway with how many people have already volunteered. […] Would you be able to accept it if you went through the psychological testing and they said you weren’t an eligible candidate?

[...] i'm here, aren't i?

[…] I don’t understand to which part you’re referring.

You can’t suggest you’d do anything and everything, and then assume I wouldn’t expect you to push back if you thought something was limiting how helpful you could be.

i meant if i'm well enough to go down and risk my life on missions i don't know why i wouldn't be allowed to volunteer

I can’t pretend to know what the team is going to view as thorough, but it might be more intense than ‘you’re here, cool.’

And you didn’t answer my question, which makes me nervous.

i'd be pissed

Yes, I suspected that.

so much of my life has been out of my control, ev

Most of us could say the s

You aren’t specia
I understand wanting to make a choice and have it be fully your own. I am not trying to take that from you, only to help prepare you if the result of it isn’t what you want.

But if this is a choice you feel you need to make, then you can make it, pepino. You don’t need my permission.