Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

being a medic, she has access to plenty of ways to draw blood without biting. and she's a scientist! she probably hasn't gotten to do any science since ascension, a frontline army medic can't be hauling around genetic samplers and whatever else bel gave her as presents when they were wigglers. but she definitely has a grounding in science, and knows how to experimental procedure. so i bet she's figured out exactly how much blood she needs to stay healthy, rational, and non-creepy, and arranges to get exactly that amount via medical blood supply, and blood draws for testing. you know how they draw an ounce or two, but usually only really need a dab here and a dab there for the actual tests? instead of going in the biohazard incinerator, the extra ounce goes down her throat.

she's not quite as morally upright as you think, though. she's very practical, and values emotional honesty, especially with herself. so she doesn't have unrealistic expectations of her own behavior. she knows she has to choose between a minor theft of medical supplies every week or whatever, and getting a stable of victims addicted, and chooses the former.

but lu needing help getting over cloris's marks and her addiction could really twist pancho up inside. like, on the one hand, this is for the kid's health, and no one else is equipped to treat her. but on the other hand, it is very skeevy and personal and also she has SUCH a red crush, and even if trolls don't have the taboo against kiddy-fiddling, pancho does NOT like power imbalances in her quadrants.

 

he should totes gut it out with jethro, trying to sleep or hide will probably just make the sensations worse. but we don't have to watch them all the way through it. we could move on to another thread, possibly involving bel finding out twitch is hiding a stowaway. :D

 

whitey's head of personnel, or the sunslammer's? if she says whitey hired her, and he takes her to whitey, i'm thinking whitey would vouch for her and then try to use that as held-in-reserve blackmail material to make her keep quiet about illegal stuff he's doing. which sounds really dark and i don't think i feel up to playing that. :/

but i don't think bel could be convinced that this fucked-up baby troll is actual military personnel. he'd have to find some kind of loophole to let her stay on, the way they did with twitch.

what if he hands her over to murfey to work at the bar? like "here, train her as a dishwasher or sth, she's too young to be crew and we're not giving her to whitey."

 

whitey's second in command is jay, who is better at breaking kneecaps than sweet talking military bureaucracy. also she assumes all highbloods are made of truck, and would probably knock lu ass over teakettle as a friendly greeting. which several people, bel included, might take issue with. :D

but yeah, bel knows whitey's a cold fish who uses people. i think even if lu was properly registered as part of whitey's crew, bel would take one look at her and be like "nope! whitey does not get to keep this one." because she is obviously in shitty shape, whoever's responsible for that.

 

i, too, hear my bed calling me in dulcet tones of promise. i hope you are sleeping well!

 

yes good

 

kind of like you described when people were pulling out the excess. those barrages of synesthesia.

the idea is that while the sensations from the VR rig might not be as strong, they're more coherent, so he should be able to refocus on them and not get lost. like, if his perceptions are torn between "neon green diesel fumes with itchy piano notes" and "i am lying on the beach in a warm tropical breeze sipping mojitos", the latter's not as intense, but it's where you'd rather be, and it remains itself while the other inputs flicker around not making sense. so you keep coming back to the beach.

 

i think what sigs did with the helmsmen is have their brain computers run 'diagnostics' at the same time they were undergoing sensory deprivation. the ones with a strong sense of self were able to hang onto that text stream, boring as it was, and keep hold of the fact that there was a self to be viewing it.

 

i'm not sure how jethro should proceed. i think it is probs because my daytime meds wore off and my nighttime meds kicked in. so i'm unhooking my brain for the evening.