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<p>The next two days passed in relative peace.</p>
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<p>There were a few more meetings with phys-side, usually with just Günay, but sometimes Jakub or another administrator peeked in. They all seemed to be rather cowed by the sys-side administration, such as it was. I chalked this up to the fact — later confirmed by Dry Grass — that there had been other talks beside between the latent Temporary Administrative Council and the System Consortium. Talks which had been far more tense.</p>
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<p>Although phys-side remained in control of a few aspects, they had quickly ceded the rest to us once more, including ungating communications between Lagrange and Earth.</p>
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This included ungating all communication between Lagrange and both of the LVs, leading to a flood of messages from friends and long-diverged cocladists. Reed#Castor had sent me several panicked messages, as had the rest of the clade.
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This notably included Marsh, both on Castor and Pollux.
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<p>Also joining us on phys-side were Günay and Jakub, along with one of the information security officers, a dour person named en4, who introduced themself as a member of The London Cohort of New Zealots, a conservative collective from whom the Our Brightest Lights Collective had split some decades prior. LCNZ had apparently proven itself to not be conservative enough, and the far more militant OBLC had left to join a coalition of fundamentalist collectives and like-minded individuals in order to orchestrate the Century Attack.</p>
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<p>“The LCNZ sternly and unquestionably disavows the action of the OBLC,” they began. “Their actions are truly reprehensible, and despite our generally distant relationship with the System, we harbor no ill-will to any of you, even the Ode and Jonas clades.”</p>
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<p>“Even us?” Answers Will Not Help asked, a sneer painted on her face, voice dripping with sarcasm. “<em>Even us?</em> And what is it that we have ever done to you, my dear?”</p>
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<p>Their face remained impassive. “We, like the original Zealot Cohorts, hold a rather poor opinion of those named in the Bălans’ <em>An Expanded History of Our World</em>. We acknowledge that it was a sensationalized work, as expressed in the Bălans’ own words in <em>Individuation and Reconciliation</em>, and those of Sasha in her <em>Ode</em>, but it is hard to let go of prejudices.”</p>
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<p>Answers Will Not Help scoffed.</p>
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<p>“We stand by our earlier statement,” en4 said, offering a hint of a bow from their seat. They were calling in from Earth, so their reactions remained on a delay, which took some getting used to. “We harbor no ill-will, we just do not like the manipulative tactics used by the eighth stanza in particular.”</p>
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<p>“We will come back to that,” she replied coldly. “We will have words.”</p>
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<p>“So be it.”</p>
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<p>“We have spoken with the quarantined instance of the attacker several times,” Jakub said, picking up the conversation smoothly. “They remain alive in this instance of the restart, although in previous restarts, they quit immediately on realizing that the bomb failed to detonate.”</p>
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<p>“Why do they remain alive this iteration?”</p>
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<p>“We turned off their ability to quit,” Günay said.</p>
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<ul>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="001.html">Intro</a> — The evening with Hanne and Reed — 1241</li>
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<li class="done3"> Part 1 — Marsh has gone missing and the date has jumped forward — whaaaa — exploring the new System, what it looks like, contact from the LVs<ul>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="002.html">002</a> — Reed tries to merge down, but then it all kicks off — 6269</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="002.html">002</a> — Reed tries to merge down, but then it all kicks off — 6269</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="003.html">003</a> — Dealing with the emotional fallout of Marsh being gone, starting later that night when Reed catches up with Vos, deals with his own grief — 1771</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="004.html">004</a> — Meeting up with other Marshans (minus Lily, plus Dry Grass) to talk through results, walking sims and seeing how others are reacting, meeting with Odists to estimate percentages, catching Lily up — 10190</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="005.html">005</a> — INTERLUDE: The perisystem feeds: tallying up the missing, building up percentage of lost personalities, the Marshans and Dry Grass wind up leading an effort — 1975</li>
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<li class="done3"> Part 2 — Phys-side is being a little sketchy about what happened, turns out there was a reset and a lot of work behind the scenes after a coordinated attack between phys- and sys-side, taking the form of a generalized weapon that wiped out most of the System. Large chunks of it were restored after a lot of work and help from the Artemisians, but not total success — virus loophole was fixed (incl singular attacks), but no guarantee there won’t be another work-around, plans to split the System into smaller pieces, move some of them to Earth/Sun Lagrange points<ul>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="007.html">007</a> — Dry Grass loops Reed & co into discussion with phys-side admin and engineers, Günay made point and admin pushed to the side, Huddle to talk about why they’re being so cagey — 5747</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="008.html">008</a> — Dinner and talking with Dry Grass, Cress, and Tule about feelings, Reed catching feelings — 3324</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="008.html">008</a> — Dinner and talking with Dry Grass, Cress, and Tule about feelings, Reed catching feelings — 3324</li>
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<li class="done3"> INTERLUDE: Millwright</li>
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<li class="rejected"> 009 — (MERGED DOWN)</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="010.html">010</a> — Clade representatives form a group, contact chill phys-side systech, learning even more about both what happened WRT CPV bomb and collectives, plus how phys-side is seeing things, various changes to the System, AWNH and Jonas Fa are into knife play — 5877</li>
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