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<li class="done2"> <a href="local/tycho/011.html">Tycho Brahe#Artemis</a> — Tycho, getting bored, directs talk to origins and path they’ve taken. Inexact answers, which has TN intrigued. She talks with the group after to discuss possibility that they might be being shady rather than just leaning on “oh we manipulate time” (day 3 after lunch/break) - 1635</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="ioan/011.html">Ioan Bălan</a> — Ioan and Codrin#Pollux exchange notes - 3124</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="remote/tycho/003.html">Tycho Brahe#Emissary</a> — There’s a conversation between TN and Turun Ka around how the various races manage sentiment. Tycho is surprised at it being frank, Sarah suggests that she might be working on many levels, Codrin starting to worry about their sanity - 1764</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="remote/codrin/006.html">Codrin Bălan#Emissary</a> — Discusses openly about news from Artemis and some of the problems the Systems have had in the past, Artemisians describe some of their own. AWNH and TN are both struggling now, each getting occasional flickers of Sasha/Michelle. They call a brief break, Turun Ko says take as long as you need b/c time is maleable, AWNH cries, refuses.</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="local/tycho/012.html">Tycho Brahe#Artemis</a> — Writes #Emissary a note during a lull about what the two parties are learning and how he’s reevaluating the History. (day 3 afternoon break)</li>
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<li class="done1"> Intensity - manipulations fail b/c whoops the Artemisians are way, way better at this<ul>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="remote/codrin/006.html">Codrin Bălan#Emissary</a> — Discusses openly about news from Artemis and some of the problems the Systems have had in the past, Artemisians describe some of their own. AWNH and TN are both struggling now, each getting occasional flickers of Sasha/Michelle. They call a brief break, Turun Ko says take as long as you need b/c time is maleable, AWNH cries, refuses.</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="local/tycho/012.html">Tycho Brahe#Artemis</a> — Writes #Emissary a note during a lull about what the two parties are learning and how he’s reevaluating the History. (day 3 afternoon break)</li>
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<li class="done1"> <a href="remote/codrin/007.html">Codrin Bălan#Emissary</a> — AWNH breaks down (revealing she’s AWNH, not WAQ), quits, break immediately called, TN is having a REALLY HARD TIME, Turun Ka shows up, TN comes clean, talks about getting lost, Turun Ka says Artante’s race ran into similar, but stops her from talking about AWNH further for now</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="local/codrin/010.html">Codrin Bălan#Artemis</a> — TN gets news re: AWNH (a fork enters the space, quits, merges - Artemisians like huh???), calls halt to meeting, preempts everyone getting news separately by announcing what happened, Codrin and Sarah confirm they’ve heard, tries to gloss over the swap quickly (b/c of course she’s planned), but Turun Ka speaks up, says that this is part of confirmation required. For what? Tune in next time…</li>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="ioan/009.html">Ioan Bălan</a> — Ioan meets up with True Name at a neutral place to talk about the cracks showing, death of Death Itself and I Do Not Know; growing empathy for True Name</li>
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<p>(True Name tries to guide the talks toward simply finding out more information thinking of gaining the upper hand to prepare for some sort of exchange or power imbalance, then simply to tries maintaining control over the situation, but for once, she’s out of her league. Their goal is basically ensuring greater continuity of all races (similar to TN/Jonas’s stated goals, stated later))</p>
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<h1 id="codrin-balanemissary-2346">Codrin Bălan#Emissary — 2346</h1>
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<p>The next note that came from Castor included a block of indecipherable text that was marked as clade-eyes-only for Turun Ka.</p>
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<p>Codrin puzzled over this during a private minute in fast time.</p>
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<p>Normally, clade-eyes-only or individual-eyes-only text for someone other than the recipient appeared as that header of, for instance, <em>Bălan Clade-Eyes-Only Material</em> followed by an indication that such text might be there, but nothing about its contents, including its length or composition. For em, this usually appeared as an ellipsis in square brackets, long-standing traditions of elision being what they were.</p>
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<p>This, however, appeared to be text of the type ey’d grown used to in encrypted blocks. Letters, numbers, punctuation, all crammed into a single unbroken chunk. More, some of the characters appeared to be restless. They strained at their form, as though they desperately wanted to be something else, and when ey looked away and back, they were indeed that other form, and some other character nearby would be itching to change, instead.</p>
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<p>Clearly, one of the delegates from the LV had instructed the Artemisians on not just how to send text back to Artemis, but how to do so in a private way. Artemis itself, however, couldn’t figure out how to represent that, and perhaps that’s what clade-eyes-only text might actually be in the perisystem architecture.</p>
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<p>Ey recreated the note on a few fresh sheets of paper, eir own message on one and Turun Ka’s on another, and headed back to the meeting.</p>
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<p>“Leader Turun Ka,” ey said, once they were gathered together once more. “I have received a message from your counterpart back on Castor. It is encrypted for your eyes only, though I’m not sure how well that functionality transfers between systems.”</p>
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<p>The firstracer’s head remained still, leaving no clues as to its opinion of this matter, and it accepted the note that Codrin passed over gracefully. It didn’t hold it up to see or bow its head to look down at it, so ey figured that as soon as it changed hands, it must have changed its form. Paper, after all, was only a symbol. Letters, words, and written language only signs.</p>
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<p>“Thank you, recorder Codrin Bălan.”</p>
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<p>As ey expected, this was followed up by a blurred meeting of the Artemisian delegates in fast time.</p>
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<p>Ey spent the time sneaking glances at True Name and Answers Will Not Help, catching Tycho and Sarah doing the same.</p>
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<p>True Name, despite maintaining careful control of her expression, still appeared to be beyond tired. The flickers of her human form came more regularly, now, and, while her appearance as a skunk remained polite, attentive, and receptive, that human face showed only exhaustion.</p>
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<p>Answers Will Not Help, however, was a mess.</p>
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<p>Her form rippled between species, and with it, so to did her expression. She would veer wildly between barely constrained laughter and agony, all while tears coursed down her cheeks or left tracks in fur. She managed to keep quiet for the most part, though occasionally a snippet of poetry would escape her: here a line of the Ode, there a bit of Dickinson. She had even startled Tycho at one point by quoting something ey didn’t quite recognize: “I have sown, like Tycho Brahé, that a greater man may reap…”</p>
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<p>This wild dissociation from the world around her was made all the more unnerving by the fact that ey could tell that she was having a difficult time staying within common time. </p>
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<p>She never veered far from it, only within a range of 0.1 to either side, but even that carried with it a sense of wrongness. They were in a unison room, which ey’d been told meant that she specifically <em>shouldn’t</em> be able to do that — something that she had specifically requested.</p>
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<p>Iska had hardly taken their eyes off her since they’d noticed, as well, as though they were trying to puzzle out just how it was that this was happening.</p>
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<p>They were only two and a half days into the conference and, while both sides had learned much about the other, ey wondered if they’d even be able to make it to a week.</p>
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<p><em>Or even the end of today,</em> ey thought. <em>Answers Will Not Help looks like she’s about to explode.</em></p>
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<p>“Leader True Name,” Turun Ka began, once the delegates had returned to common time. “While I am not able to divulge the contents of the note I have received, it has led to a discussion amongst us, and we would like to ask about your history.”</p>
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<p>“From the founding of the System?” she asked, voice tight.</p>
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<p>“Apologies, leader True Name. We would like to know about your history. You and your cocladist.”</p>
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<p>Her shoulders sagged. “Would you like information specifically relating to our appearance here on Artemis?”</p>
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<p>“This is a good place to begin.”</p>
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The next note that came from Artemis included a block of clade-eyes-only text for Turun Ka. When Codrin#Assist handed it to #Artemis, ey shrugged, saying only, "It appears Codrin#Emissary has instructed them on how to relay such. I guess ey did a while back, actually, but this is the first time they've taken advantage of it. Or, well..." Ey trailed off.
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"Hard to tell how much time has passed up there?" Codrin#Artemis asked?
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\#Assist nodded, smiling wryly. "Haven't the faintest. Anyway, I'm not sure how you want to pass it over. I figured a separate sheet would be easiest and you can decide from there. The news from #Emissary seems mostly to be about the Odists, so perhaps that's what Turun Ka is getting."
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Ey frowned, nodded, and skimmed quickly over the letter addressed to em. Eir frown deepened. "Thanks. Here, hold on--" Ey quickly jotted *Message received, will ask* on a slip of foolscap and handed it to the other Codrin. "Send this for now, just so we're on the same page at as close to the same time as we can manage."
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"Whatever that means," ey said, laughing and pocketing the slip. Ey prodded em in the shoulder and added, "Dear threatened to beat me up because of you, so thanks for that."
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Codrin#Artemis laughed. "Well, did it?"
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"No, of course not."
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"Just have to pull harder, then." Ey sighed and shook eir head. "Self-deprecating humor aside, tell them I miss them."
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Ey nodded. "Of course. I'd fork and merge back down if I could."
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"I'll see them soon enough, I guess. A few weeks, tops."
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<p>Discusses openly about news from Artemis and some of the problems the Systems have had in the past, Artemisians describe some of their own. AWNH and TN are both struggling now, each getting occasional flickers of Sasha/Michelle. They call a brief break, Turun Ko says take as long as you need b/c time is maleable, AWNH cries, refuses.</p>
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