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So you and @carl-summers are both Eye-defenders/j and also both don't think too highly of North Shore Research. Which I find a little strange since North Shore Research is basically a hub for Eye cultists.

What exactly did North Shore Research do to deserve hatred?

take that /j out it's just true /silly

but uhm to answer your question:

first of all, there are other hubs for the Eye other than North Shore. Dunnington Construction and The Dunnington Center of Research seems to be rather populated with them too. The Louisiana government also seems to have quite a few cultists in it too from what we've seen.

second, do you remember that in sinkhole it was established that there's a sect of the cult that wants to harvest the Eye's power for personal gain? The Masters of the Eye? Well, it's my personal belief that towards the end of its life, North Shore Research became a hub for these types. At the very least, Dr. David Brumfield (ugh) definitely was going down that pipeline. His and the company in general's treatment of Prophet feels pretty indicative of that shift. Prophet was pretty similarly exploited for what he could offer to the researchers and then after the company went under was left behind to rot.

So sorry for taking so long to respond to this!

Honestly? While a lot of AHRT stories are interconnected with one another, not everyone in the space knows each other and I'm sure there are already discrepancies between stories!

@nyxisart made a timeline image some time ago that you can work off of (though again, it by no means has everyone included)

(and this is an edit I made to it some time ago for my own purposes)

And @ariathelamia made a spreadsheet some time ago I think, though I don't know if she ever shared it outside of discord-

But there's basically no real rules when it comes to Animal HRT, at least from how I view it. You can join in on the interconnected web if you want, or you can make your story more standalone!

So just out of curiosity, how did u get into Lanphet as a ship in the first place? Was it shipping at first sight or did it take time?

It did take a little bit of time after we first watched Sinkhole. The thought truly came to me some time after Landon had split into the system, and I pretty awkwardly asked it and Prophet if they were okay with me shipping their source counterparts, cause we already knew by then that Landon was (and still is) aromantic. They were cool with it though, so yay!

But uh, it pretty quickly became apparent that me bringing up that I shipped them caused the two of them to consider how they felt about each other, and our system's Landon and Prophet ended up getting together. They don't really specifically have a label for their relationship - it's somewhere in the queerplatonic/alterous space, but also it's worth noting that Landon IS allosexual also so... But the point is that they were already pretty joined at the hip, and now they're pretty much inseparable.

Another thing worth noting, a LOT of our lanphet stuff has basically been Landon on full self indulgence mode. I have my moments of activity (especially recently hehe), but since like the start of this year or maybe earlier I've retired indefinitely from being the main host of the system, and letting Landon take that role instead. So yeah Landon's been at the helm of making things, including the ship content hehe

Don't get me wrong though, I still love lanphet too! If I one day feel ready to take back the host role, there'll still be lots of it to come!

I wonder what any possible feds that might be watching our search history must think of us searching for just "list of crimes in the US" /silly

I feel like so many companies and even government officials being involved in the Eye has to violate some sort of antitrust laws, to start

I know we have no proof but. C'mon, the Eye has ABSOLUTELY orchestrated at least one assassination before. Like it just makes sense for them.

Arguably one could say that possession counts as a type of identity theft, but looking up "does possession count as identity theft" didn't come up with anything, so we'll just leave that one on the table for now

Attempted murder is a given. I mean, they've definitely succeeded at killing people more often than not, but there's definitely a few that got away, right?

Armed robbery & arson are two more we have no basis for but, like, I could see it happening

Assault with a deadly weapon feels like another given assumption.

Assault and/or killing a federal officer..... Looks at Prophet in Itch-

Embezzlement is another for the list of "we haven't seen it but there's a high likelihood it happened"

BLACKMAIL FOR CERTAIN. The Eye LOOOOVES its blackmail

Bribery..... that is Sinkhole in a nutshell.

Coercion is a very vague name for a crime but I'm just gonna say yes

And so is "computer crime" but like that's Prophet's entire existence I feel, yeah?

CONSPIRACY. So much conspiracy.

Continuing criminal enterprise feels like another given

Damage to religious property.... We could technically count the sinkhole that appeared in They Will Thirst No More but that depends on whether or not you'd wanna try the followers for the direct actions of their god-

Destruction of records in federal investigations That's another one for Prophet specifically I think

Destruction of corporate audit records. Another easy assumption here I feel

Disclosure of confidential information is NOT one I'd pin on the Eye itself but rather one that I believe they'd pin on OTHERS a lot. Not what you're asking I know, but I found the thought funny.

Yeah I'll take extortion for 500

Falsely claiming citizenship.... Does it count if you came from another dimension?-

False declarations before Grand Jury or court had to happen at least once, right??

FALSE INFORMATION AND HOAXES. FOR FUCKING CERTAIN!!

Every degree of murder imaginable. Put em all here.

Forgery might fit in i dunno

Hostage taking is a maybe. I think

Illegal possession of firearms maybe???? Leave that one to a coin toss i think

Insider trading feels fitting, doesn't it?

Insurance fraud could maybe happen with the whole rebirth thing???? I have no clue actually

Mailing threatening communications is a given

MONEY LAUNDERING DEFINITELY

Obstruction of justice and alike crimes all feel like easy assumptions to make

It's fucking stupid that pirating is considered a federal crime but. Yeah they would. And they're based for it!

Product tampering maybe??? For Tangi Water specifically, I'm thinking. What crime does "putting a parasite in your beverage to sell to people" fall under, exactly? /lh

Retaliating against a witness/victim/informant is a decent enough assumption wouldn't you say?

Sabotage 👍

I think it'd just be fucking funny to add shoplifting to the list. Like yeah I could see certain members shoplifting shit for the cult. Namely Landon-

Solicitation to commit a crime of violence sounds right up their alley

Stalking 👍👍

Tampering with a witness/victim/informant by brainwashing them

TORTURE!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

You could probably find a way to pin treason on them yeah

And last and... honestly pretty mundane - vandalism. Imagine some random fuck ass concrete wall in Cate's Crossing with graffiti on it about the Eye. It just makes sense, don't it? Yeah.

Do you have a list of silly Prophet headcanons? (Eg: Favorite music, an embarrassing but silly thing he did while on the Internet, that sort of thing) Prophet deserves to be silly!

AWW don't feel bad about your last ask!! I liked answering it, even if it was a bit heavy

But yes I very much agree that Prophet deserves to be silly so here are some silly HCs

1. Prophet will INSIST that he doesn't care for music and that the only sound that matters to him is the sound of The Eye, but this isn't exactly true. I like to think he gained a guilty enjoyment for electronic types of music after escaping from North Shore. Even guilter of a pleasure, though - vocaloid >:). I think that Prophet would find the idea of vocal synthesisers to be an intriguing one :p Also not to get shippy on main (/j I absolutely get shippy on main who are we kidding here) but I also think Prophet would have a soft spot for 70s & 80s rock/metal music as it would remind him of Landon 🥹

2. On that note, I think that after Prophet got onto the Internet, that he would end up consuming quite a lot of media in general, and I definitely think he would gravitate to media with the "Evil/Rogue AI" trope in them because of himself identifying with the trope and all. He wants to be AM so bad /silly

3. Definitely the type to make throwaway accounts on social media just to troll people. Little shit that I love <3

HELLO HI IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU TOO!!!

LEVI FOR SUUUURE