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writing/post-self/qoheleth/Carter/005.md

@@ -23,23 +23,23 @@ Carter nodded. "And then you tried to pull em back out?"
 
 "Oh, don't worry, it cost me plenty." Carter laughed. "Christ, this is so far out of the realm of what I'd do, too. I just feel like we're at an impasse."
 
-"An impasse?" Johansson asked quietly.
+"An impasse?" Johansson asked.
 
-"Yeah. We weren't getting anywhere." Carter leaned back in her chair to gather her thoughts. "I've been on a few projects. None were easy, but all the same, this feels like it's got a weird amount of interference. It feels like we're being made to trudge through mud. They won't give us access to the patients? Fine. That's PHI. We just need the data that they collect from them, right? So why aren't we getting that? It's never been a problem on any other project.
+"Yeah. We weren't getting anywhere." Carter leaned back in her chair to gather her thoughts. "I've been on a few projects. None were easy, but all the same, this feels like it's got a weird amount of interference. It feels like we're being made to trudge through mud. They won't give us access to the patients? Fine. That's PII. We just need the data that they collect from them, right? So why is that always so heavily redacted. Why aren't we getting that? It's never been a problem on any other project.
 
-"All we're getting are little tidbits. A few hours of monitor scans, little bits of logs from before the event, and that's it. I don't mean to creep on you or anything, but with RJ, we've come across something we hadn't had before. We found out ey was, well, you know..."
+"All we're getting are little tidbits. A few hours of monitor scans, little clips of logs from before the event, and that's it. I don't mean to creep on you or anything, but with RJ, we've come across something we hadn't had before. We found out ey was, well, you know..."
 
-Johansson canted his head to the side. "Ey was genderqueer? Asexual? A furry?"
+Johansson canted his head to the side. "Ey was an immersive tech? Genderqueer? Ace? A furry?"
 
-"A furry, though those other two are certainly interesting data points to keep in mind. We weren't totally sure ey was asexual, but it tallies."
+"A furry, though those others are certainly interesting data points to keep in mind. We weren't totally sure ey was asexual, but it tallies."
 
 "How did em being a furry help?"
 
-"Ey's the second furry we've had come across our desks." Carter ducked her gaze to her cider, then about the room. "In fact, it's caused a bit of a schism. Some of us are looking into possible transmission vectors, while the rest are focused on cases individually. How could something like getting Lost be transmitted from one person to another? It sounds like some awful show from years back. It's not a virus."
+"Ey's the second furry we've had come across our desks." Carter peered into her cider, then about the room. "In fact, it's caused a bit of a schism. Some of us are looking into possible transmission vectors, while the rest are focused on cases individually. How could something like getting lost be transmitted from one person to another? It sounds like some awful show. It's not a virus."
 
 "I assume you're among those who doubt the transmission story?"
 
-"Oh, no, I'm in charge of it." She grinned. "But there are still convincing arguments to be made against it. Sanders, the leader of the opposition, such as it is, is dead-set against it. He thinks that we're wasting time chasing up this transmission tree. Valuable resources. We've got an agreement, though."
+"Oh, no, I'm in charge of it." She laughed. "But there are still convincing arguments to be made against it. Sanders, the leader of the opposition, such as it is, is dead-set against it. He thinks that we're wasting time chasing up this transmission tree. Valuable resources. We've got an agreement, though."
 
 "What's that?"
 
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ Johansson hunched his shoulders, frowning. "Not much of a lead, I'll grant you t
 
 "Mm."
 
-Silence. It felt necessary. They both stared off into the pub. The room held the distinctly British dichotomy of being crowded and convivial, while also intensely conscious of personal space. The latter suffered as the night went on.
+Silence.
+
+It felt necessary. They both stared off into the pub. The room held the distinctly British dichotomy of being crowded and convivial, while also intensely conscious of personal space. The latter suffered as the night went on.
 
 "You know," Johansson began, the rich baritone bringing Carter's attention back to the conversation.
 
@@ -79,22 +81,26 @@ She shook her head, looking down at her phone as she scribbled the last of the n
 
 Johansson bristled, "RJ was no layabout."
 
-She held up her hands and shook her head, "Mostly, is what I'm saying. They don't have ties, or if they do, they don't hold them long. These last few --- the furries --- they have lots of contacts. Strong ones. That's where our two groups disagree most. I think that we're seeing something novel. 'I' being the leader of the group that thinks there's the possibility of a transmission vector."
+She held up her hands disarmingly, shook her head. "Mostly, is what I'm saying. They don't have ties, or if they do, they don't hold them long. These last few --- the furries --- they have lots of contacts from what we can tell. Strong ones. That's where our two groups disagree most. I think that we're seeing something novel. 'I' being the leader of the group that thinks there's the possibility of a transmission vector."
 
 "And the others?"
 
-"They see it as chance. Too small an 'n'. Too few cases to say one way or another. They say that there was bound to be both connected and unconnected folks among the lost. They'd say that it's a matter of chance, since those who use the 'net more would be more likely to wind up lost, regardless of social situation."
+"They see it as chance. Too small an 'n'. Too few cases to say one way or another. They say that there was bound to be both connected and unconnected folks among the lost. They'd say that it's a matter of chance, since those who use the 'net more would be more likely to wind up lost, regardless of social situation. Furries just use it more than most."
 
 "Both make sense, I guess," Johansson hedged. "All the same, you know I have a vested interest in RJ, so I'm going to wind up seeing it from your point of view, since you're working with em. Never mind that you invited me out here. What do you need from me?"
 
-Carter frowned, thinking. "I guess I need to know more about em. I have all of eir stats, the dump from eir workstation and the time leading up to it. I'm assuming we're getting all of it, but perhaps that's generous of me. It's got PHI redacted, but I don't know if there's anything else missing. What I need to know is what's slipping through the cracks. I need to know about who RJ was. How ey interacted with the theater, I mean. And anything you can tell me about eir friends."
+Carter frowned, thinking. "I guess I need to know more about em. I have all of eir stats, the dump from eir workstation and the time leading up to it. I'm assuming we're getting all of it, but perhaps that's generous of me. It's got PII redacted, but I don't know if there's anything else missing. What I need to know is what's slipping through the cracks. I need to know about who RJ was. How ey interacted with the theater, I mean. And anything you can tell me about eir friends."
 
 "Should you...?"
 
-"Should I have all of that information? I don't know." Carter sighed. "Is it against the law for you to tell me? No, not at all. I don't know. Maybe. Is it unethical to further my own agenda with this project by consulting you? Probably yes. If I were on a bigger, more mature project, we'd probably be interviewing you anyway, though. But is it because I think that the more we know, the more likely we are to get RJ and the others back? I'd say yes."
+"Should I have all of that information? I don't know." Carter sighed. "Is it against the law for you to tell me? No, not at all. I don't know. Maybe. Is it unethical to further my own agenda with this project by consulting you? Probably yes. If I were on a bigger, more mature project, we'd probably be interviewing you anyway, though."
 
-Johansson looked down into his beer, then, with a decisive motion, drank most of it in a few smooth gulps, holding up the glass with the last inch left in it, an obvious toast. "To RJ, then."
+Johansson frowned, nodded.
 
-Carter felt a little silly toasting to someone she'd never met, with a man she'd only just met, with a full glass of cider to his mostly empty ale. It all felt so dramatic, until she remembered who she was toasting with. She raised her glass and clinked its rim to Johansson's.
+"But is it because I think that the more we know, the more likely we are to get RJ and the others back? I'd say yes."
+
+Johansson looked down into his beer. Then, with a decisive motion, drank most of it in a few smooth gulps, holding up the glass with the last remaining, an obvious toast. "To RJ, then."
+
+Carter felt a little silly toasting to someone she'd never met, with a man she'd only just met, with a full glass of cider to his mostly empty ale. It all felt so dramatic, so theatrical, until she remembered who she was toasting with. She raised her glass and clinked its rim to Johansson's.
 
 "To RJ."

writing/post-self/qoheleth/RJ/008.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AwDae stood in the sunlight for a moment, blinking.
 
 Ey felt weak. Not from hunger. Not from lack of sleep. Just worn out. Exhausted.
 
-This was starting to feel like grinding. That drudge that you went through playing games to level up. Busywork. Idle hands and tired eyes. Always cast in a negative light.
+This was starting to feel like grinding. An endless drudge to level up. Busywork. Idle hands and tired eyes. Always cast in a negative light.
 
 But then, you could quit a game. Here ey was, clues and riddles. And for what?
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ There was even a fog of war.
 
 Ey stripped down to eir underwear, hesitated, then stripped that off as well and shook eir fur out.
 
-'Comfort' was the wrong word to use in regards a sim. It was a matter of sensory inputs that the system was set up to provide. The musty smell of the auditorium seats had been one thing, but ey was starting to get the impression that, given the way this sim was constructed, there would be rather more than less input. Eir tux was not made for fox-people: eir fur was decidedly matted.
+'Comfort' was the wrong word to use in regards a sim. It was a matter of sensory inputs that the system was set up to provide. The musty smell of the auditorium seats had been one thing, but ey was starting to get the impression that, given the way this sim was constructed, there would be rather more than less input. Eir tux was not made for fox-people, and so eir fur was decidedly mussed, decidedly uncomfortable.
 
 Ey folded eir clothes and set them on the sidewalk in front of the school.The cool blades of the grass provided a welcome change from the indoor-outdoor carpet or tile indoors and the roughness of the concrete out here.
 

writing/post-self/qoheleth/index.md

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Check when edited
     * [X] Chapter: [Carter 004](Carter/004) --- Planning to visit Johansson
     * [X] Chapter: [RJ 007](RJ/007) --- Sleeping in the auditorium
     * [X] Chapter: [Qoheleth 001](Qoheleth/001-b) --- archive
-    * [O] Chapter: [Carter 005](Carter/005) --- Pub with Johansson
+    * [X] Chapter: [Carter 005](Carter/005) --- Pub with Johansson
     * [O] Chapter: [RJ 008](RJ/008) --- clothing from school
     * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 003](Ioan/003-c) - trying to figure out archive with Dear, gets in, finds pgpkey. Frustration at another encryption method, discussing diff between exocortex and archive.
     * [O] Chapter: [RJ 009](RJ/009) --- Home is unlocked