Lower Layer

Left to right: Maximin, Oleander, Owen

Left to right: Jiabeng, Akemi, Claudia

Michael

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: If you don’t have access to the cameras how do you they were lying?

[Oleander]: Somehow corpse-powered robots is the least weird thing about this place, i watched a giant house with a bird leg crush a bunch of clerks

[Oleander]: Hana’s real stingy about information, they looked about ready to blow a gasket when they found out we didn’t get anything interesting off of the squirrel when it breached

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: Might have to log this, glad i didn’t send the highlighted file, hana would’ve been all over my case

[Oleander]: Big scraggly lookin thing, missin the cheeks on its face so you can see the fangs, got these weird runes on the tail, massive bugger too

[Smoke]: And a weird heart abno that's a aberration of Nothing There called Realism.

[Smoke]: Also hold on a moment...

[Smoke has locked the message logs, only Smoke and Oleander can view & interact with/in this message log]

[Smoke]: There, now we won't be found out exchanging stuff like this.

[Smoke]: Though I know my twin sister will probably see all this. Ex-Beholders are a technological force to be reckoned with.

[Oleander]: I fought an arbiter once

[Oleander]: Man that was a fun weekend

[Oleander]: Anyway

[Oleander]: Based on the readings from the attempt at ego extraction on the squirrel, it’s part of a trio that can react to each other in a massive way, the squirrel seems to mainly act as a catalyst - speeding up the reaction rather than causing it

[Oleander]: No data on the other two yet, no idea if they even exist yet or if they’re purely theoretical

[Smoke]: Realism managed to trick us all that he was an agent until earlier today, when someone upped the Qlipoth Deterrence in one of the departments and he just. Turned into a heart. He was placed into a containment unit afterwards.

[Oleander]: Killed a claw too, and almost got a beholder once

[Oleander]: Slippery bastard managed to get away while i was distracted

[Oleander]: Anyway i don’t think we’ve had any aberrations here yet, but i heard the new hire for welfare has the ego suit from somethin called army in yellow so that’s fun

[Smoke]: I do think I remember some time ago about hearing some of my higher ups talkin' about some dude who managed to kill four of my fellow Arbiters. I'm guessing that was you or something.

[Smoke]: Also quite surprised you killed a Claw. I think I heard something from my sister before she was given to B-Corp and transitioned that some dude killed 6 claws. And to come back to the dead arbiters, my old higher ups think it was the same guy who killed the Claws.

[Smoke]: And I think I remember my sister telling me about a few of her coworkers getting gravely injured while on what was both a mission and a test on a thing the higher ups of B-Corp were making for the Beholders.

[Smoke]: Almost all beholders are never out on the field. Due to B-Corps stuff involve surveillance and whatnot.

[Smoke]: In fact, my own sister said that most of her job outside of being the "man... well girl in the chair" on my missions, she also mostly just looked through people's search histories and whatnot.

[Smoke]: Also most Beholders are weird. And almost all of them are in some percentage voyeurs. Though I am jealous that they don't have a dress code and can wear what they want.

[Smoke]: Though for more Beholder stuff you'd have to ask my sister. She'd tell you some stuff for a price. Also warning: She's a whale. Do not give her any money she'll just blow it all on gacha games.

[Oleander]: Well not at first anyway

[Oleander]: If i’d known that auction was gonna have that i wouldn’t have taken the job to watch the place

[Oleander]: Though if i were the head i wouldn’t want a claw arm being sold to anyone either

[Oleander]: Why would something that would have been trapped in some empty cell depriving it of whatever life it was adapted to decide to help its captors instead of killing them

[Oleander]: Why would it do that when it seems like it’s intelligent enough to know that the right thing for you to do is not return the favor

[Oleander]: Makes me wonder if those things are sentient instead of just being really good at pretending

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: Might have to log this, glad i didn’t send the highlighted file, hana would’ve been all over my case

[Oleander]: Big scraggly lookin thing, missin the cheeks on its face so you can see the fangs, got these weird runes on the tail, massive bugger too

[Smoke]: And a weird heart abno that's a aberration of Nothing There called Realism.

[Smoke]: Also hold on a moment...

[Smoke has locked the message logs, only Smoke and Oleander can view & interact with/in this message log]

[Smoke]: There, now we won't be found out exchanging stuff like this.

[Smoke]: Though I know my twin sister will probably see all this. Ex-Beholders are a technological force to be reckoned with.

[Oleander]: I fought an arbiter once

[Oleander]: Man that was a fun weekend

[Oleander]: Anyway

[Oleander]: Based on the readings from the attempt at ego extraction on the squirrel, it’s part of a trio that can react to each other in a massive way, the squirrel seems to mainly act as a catalyst - speeding up the reaction rather than causing it

[Oleander]: No data on the other two yet, no idea if they even exist yet or if they’re purely theoretical

[Smoke]: Realism managed to trick us all that he was an agent until earlier today, when someone upped the Qlipoth Deterrence in one of the departments and he just. Turned into a heart. He was placed into a containment unit afterwards.

[Oleander]: Killed a claw too, and almost got a beholder once

[Oleander]: Slippery bastard managed to get away while i was distracted

[Oleander]: Anyway i don’t think we’ve had any aberrations here yet, but i heard the new hire for welfare has the ego suit from somethin called army in yellow so that’s fun

[Smoke]: I do think I remember some time ago about hearing some of my higher ups talkin' about some dude who managed to kill four of my fellow Arbiters. I'm guessing that was you or something.

[Smoke]: Also quite surprised you killed a Claw. I think I heard something from my sister before she was given to B-Corp and transitioned that some dude killed 6 claws. And to come back to the dead arbiters, my old higher ups think it was the same guy who killed the Claws.

[Smoke]: And I think I remember my sister telling me about a few of her coworkers getting gravely injured while on what was both a mission and a test on a thing the higher ups of B-Corp were making for the Beholders.

[Smoke]: Almost all beholders are never out on the field. Due to B-Corps stuff involve surveillance and whatnot.

[Smoke]: In fact, my own sister said that most of her job outside of being the "man... well girl in the chair" on my missions, she also mostly just looked through people's search histories and whatnot.

[Smoke]: Also most Beholders are weird. And almost all of them are in some percentage voyeurs. Though I am jealous that they don't have a dress code and can wear what they want.

[Smoke]: Though for more Beholder stuff you'd have to ask my sister. She'd tell you some stuff for a price. Also warning: She's a whale. Do not give her any money she'll just blow it all on gacha games.

[Oleander]: Well not at first anyway

[Oleander]: If i’d known that auction was gonna have that i wouldn’t have taken the job to watch the place

[Oleander]: Though if i were the head i wouldn’t want a claw arm being sold to anyone either

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: Might have to log this, glad i didn’t send the highlighted file, hana would’ve been all over my case

[Oleander]: Big scraggly lookin thing, missin the cheeks on its face so you can see the fangs, got these weird runes on the tail, massive bugger too

[Smoke]: And a weird heart abno that's a aberration of Nothing There called Realism.

[Smoke]: Also hold on a moment...

[Smoke has locked the message logs, only Smoke and Oleander can view & interact with/in this message log]

[Smoke]: There, now we won't be found out exchanging stuff like this.

[Smoke]: Though I know my twin sister will probably see all this. Ex-Beholders are a technological force to be reckoned with.

[Oleander]: I fought an arbiter once

[Oleander]: Man that was a fun weekend

[Oleander]: Anyway

[Oleander]: Based on the readings from the attempt at ego extraction on the squirrel, it’s part of a trio that can react to each other in a massive way, the squirrel seems to mainly act as a catalyst - speeding up the reaction rather than causing it

[Oleander]: No data on the other two yet, no idea if they even exist yet or if they’re purely theoretical

[Smoke]: Realism managed to trick us all that he was an agent until earlier today, when someone upped the Qlipoth Deterrence in one of the departments and he just. Turned into a heart. He was placed into a containment unit afterwards.

[Oleander]: Killed a claw too, and almost got a beholder once

[Oleander]: Slippery bastard managed to get away while i was distracted

[Oleander]: Anyway i don’t think we’ve had any aberrations here yet, but i heard the new hire for welfare has the ego suit from somethin called army in yellow so that’s fun

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: Might have to log this, glad i didn’t send the highlighted file, hana would’ve been all over my case

[Oleander]: Big scraggly lookin thing, missin the cheeks on its face so you can see the fangs, got these weird runes on the tail, massive bugger too

[Smoke]: And a weird heart abno that's a aberration of Nothing There called Realism.

[Smoke]: Also hold on a moment...

[Smoke has locked the message logs, only Smoke and Oleander can view & interact with/in this message log]

[Smoke]: There, now we won't be found out exchanging stuff like this.

[Smoke]: Though I know my twin sister will probably see all this. Ex-Beholders are a technological force to be reckoned with.

[Oleander]: I fought an arbiter once

[Oleander]: Man that was a fun weekend

[Oleander]: Anyway

[Oleander]: Based on the readings from the attempt at ego extraction on the squirrel, it’s part of a trio that can react to each other in a massive way, the squirrel seems to mainly act as a catalyst - speeding up the reaction rather than causing it

[Oleander]: No data on the other two yet, no idea if they even exist yet or if they’re purely theoretical

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: Might have to log this, glad i didn’t send the highlighted file, hana would’ve been all over my case

[Oleander]: Big scraggly lookin thing, missin the cheeks on its face so you can see the fangs, got these weird runes on the tail, massive bugger too

[Smoke]: And a weird heart abno that's a aberration of Nothing There called Realism.

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: Might have to log this, glad i didn’t send the highlighted file, hana would’ve been all over my case

[Oleander]: Big scraggly lookin thing, missin the cheeks on its face so you can see the fangs, got these weird runes on the tail, massive bugger too

[Oleander]: Got the data you sent about the squirrel, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary except for something in the ego extraction report, thought it might be of interest unless you already spotted it?

@v-7768-atziluth

[Smoke]: Think your message got to the wrong facility mate.

[Smoke]: This is Facility X-394, not Facility V-7768.

[Oleander]: Might have to log this, glad i didn’t send the highlighted file, hana would’ve been all over my case

“That’s it, there you go. What did she mean to you? What does the estate mean to you?”

(Maximin steps out of the containment unit.)

(Something about the air seems to almost . . . shift, or maybe twist. Some kind of distortion of the light, perhaps?)

(The E.G.O. Gift CENSORED on Michael’s face shifts in a strange and almost undulating way, revealing just a sliver of a single eye.)

(The fog seems to grow still, unnaturally so.)

(Almost like it’s . . .

“That’s it, there you go. What did she mean to you? What does the estate mean to you?”

(Maximin steps out of the containment unit.)

(Something about the air seems to almost . . . shift, or maybe twist. Some kind of distortion of the light, perhaps?)

(The E.G.O. Gift CENSORED on Michael’s face shifts in a strange and almost undulating way, revealing just a sliver of a single eye.)

(The fog seems to grow still, unnaturally so.)

(Almost like it’s . . .

“That’s it, there you go. What did she mean to you? What does the estate mean to you?”

(Maximin steps out of the containment unit.)

(Something about the air seems to almost . . . shift, or maybe twist. Some kind of distortion of the light, perhaps?)

(The E.G.O. Gift CENSORED on Michael’s face shifts in a strange and almost undulating way, revealing just a sliver of a single eye.)

“That’s it, there you go. What did she mean to you? What does the estate mean to you?”

(Maximin steps out of the containment unit.)

(Something about the air seems to almost . . . shift, or maybe twist. Some kind of distortion of the light, perhaps?)

(The E.G.O. Gift CENSORED on Michael’s face shifts in a strange and almost undulating way, revealing just a sliver of a single eye.)

“That’s it, there you go. What did she mean to you? What does the estate mean to you?”

(Maximin steps out of the containment unit.)

(Something about the air seems to almost . . . shift, or maybe twist. Some kind of distortion of the light, perhaps?)

(The E.G.O. Gift CENSORED on Michael’s face shifts in a strange and almost undulating way, revealing just a sliver of a single eye.)

“That’s it, there you go. What did she mean to you? What does the estate mean to you?”

(Maximin steps out of the containment unit.)

(Something about the air seems to almost . . . shift, or maybe twist. Some kind of distortion of the light, perhaps?)

(The E.G.O. Gift CENSORED on Michael’s face shifts in a strange and almost undulating way, revealing just a sliver of a single eye.)

(There’s something . . . odd about Michael’s presence. Nothing specific or obvious enough about him to be pointed out, just that something in the air around them feels almost . . . heavier. Like the air itself is being dragged down in a way.)

(And then the moment passes. Perhaps it was just the imagination.)

“I need emotion.”

“Don’t stay silent either. Don’t keep it in.”

(There’s something . . . odd about Michael’s presence. Nothing specific or obvious enough about him to be pointed out, just that something in the air around them feels almost . . . heavier. Like the air itself is being dragged down in a way.)

(And then the moment passes. Perhaps it was just the imagination.)

“I need emotion.”