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<p>“The same, <em>ka,</em>” Stolon added.</p>
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<p>Why Ask Questions nodded and stood. “I will provide a short primer if you need. Otherwise, shall we reconvene in nine hours? This will allow us time to recuperate.”</p>
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<p>“Ten hours would be preferable,” Iska said.</p>
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<p>“Can arrange sleeping area?” Stolon frowned. “Require additional warmth.”</p>
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<p>“Can arrange sleeping area?” Stolon frowned, adding, “Require additional warmth.”</p>
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<p>The rest of the table got to their feet while True Name said, “Of course. We will endeavor to make your stay pleasant. Why Ask Questions and I hold ACLs to this sim, including for your rest area. If you will permit us to enter, we will make any changes required.”</p>
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<p>Tycho watched as the Odists and Artemisians disappeared around the corner, and for several seconds after. It felt as though his eyes had been locked into place there, no matter how much he wanted to turn around and hunt down a chair more comfortable than those around the table.</p>
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<p>“Tycho? Coming?”</p>
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<p>They trudged off to the room, stepping around the corner in time to catch a second Codrin handing Codrin#Artemis a few sheets of paper. Ey waved.</p>
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<p>“Any news you’d like me to forward on to your #Emissary instances?”</p>
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<p>“Oh, uh.” Tycho frowned. “Not really, I guess. If you’re sending notes. I guess just wish them well. I hope Tycho#Emissary is getting a chance to talk with Stolon. They seem neat.”</p>
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<p>Ey grinned, nodded. “Lots of time, from the sound of it. Ey’ll tell you more,” ey said, waving toward Codrin#Artemis. I’m just the messenger, though. I only get a few minutes here at a time.”</p>
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<p>Ey grinned, nodded. “Lots of time, from the sound of it. Ey’ll tell you more,” ey said, gesturing toward Codrin#Artemis. I’m just the messenger, though. I only get a few minutes here at a time.”</p>
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<p>“I won’t keep you,” Sarah said. “But if you could send the other me a note asking about the overall mood and sentiment over there, I’d be grateful.”</p>
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<p>Codrin#Assist hesitated, a look Tycho couldn’t puzzle out crossing eir face. Finally, ey nodded. “I will, but you will find much of interest in Codrin’s letter. I’ll leave it up to #Artemis’s discretion to share, though.”</p>
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<p>The other writer frowned, flipping through the pages of the letter ey’d received. “We’ll find some time to talk, yeah. Thank you, #Assist. I’ll have another letter for you in the morning.”</p>
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<p>“Well…” Ey shrugged. “I guess I’ll just read you the pertinent parts. There’s some clade-eyes-only stuff, so I can’t just hand it over.”</p>
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<p>Once ey had finished describing the situation aboard Artemis, the three sat in silence.</p>
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<p>“Well, I guess that explains their sour mood,” Sarah said at last. “That rather changes things, doesn’t it?”</p>
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<p>“How?” Tycho asked. “Or, well, how do you mean? The mechanics have changed over their, but I’m guessing you mean something more subtle.”</p>
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<p>She nodded. “It’s no longer an even playing ground over there. Our leadership role is acting in reduced capacity and it sounds like one of our representatives has been all but taken out by the time skew.”</p>
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<p>“How?” Tycho asked. “Or, well, how do you mean? The mechanics have changed over there, but I’m guessing you mean something more subtle.”</p>
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<p>She nodded. “It’s no longer an even playing ground on Artemis. Our leadership role is acting in reduced capacity and it sounds like one of our representatives has been all but taken out by the time skew.”</p>
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<p>He sat back in his chair, feeling marginally more human now that he’d eaten. He tried to picture how this must look given the spotty descriptions provided in the letter and the few details Codrin had seemed willing to fill in.</p>
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<p>None of that seemed to jive with his experience with any of the Odists he’d met until now. Dear was weird, sure, but even it seemed to be completely in control of itself — more so than most anyone he’d met, at that. To think of True Name as being barely able to hold it together and Why Ask Questions all but non-functional beggared the imagination.</p>
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<p>“It’s weird,” he said, looking up to the ceiling. “I almost wish I was over there. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I feel sorry for True Name and Why Ask Questions, but the ability to literally steal some time to have a conversation sounds completely up my alley. Way more than forking, honestly.”</p>
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<p>“It’s almost impossible not to anthropomorphize to at least some extent,” Sarah said, nodding. “It’s just how our minds work. I’ll agree with you on that, though; even though they are still worlds different from us, it’s not like we totally lack commonalities. Most of the differences seem to be surface ones, actually. Gestures and body language are almost completely foreign, but the number of truly fundamental differences in how we think has been pretty low, and mostly restricted to the two firstracers.”</p>
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<p>“They do seem to be operating on a different level,” Codrin said. “I think if they had expressive faces, True Name would like them immensely.”</p>
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<p>She nodded, then asked, “Has your opinion of them changed?”</p>
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<p>Ey shrugged. “Not particularly, I guess. I am curious about this time skew thing, but not nearly to the extent that Tycho is. I think it’s tempered by being in a relationship with an Odist. It’d be cool, but Dear will never be able to experience it, or at least never agree to. I still bear a lot of the same anxieties, but I’m getting more comfortable with the process, because this role is familiar to me, at least.”</p>
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<p>Ey shrugged. “Not particularly. I am curious about this time skew thing, but not nearly to the extent that Tycho is. I think it’s tempered by being in a relationship with an Odist. It’d be cool, but Dear will never be able to experience it, or at least never agree to. I still bear a lot of the same anxieties, but I’m getting more comfortable with the process, because this role is familiar to me, at least.”</p>
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<p>“Doing a job you know how to do?”</p>
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<p>Ey nodded. “It’s my job to observe, to take in information and form it into something coherent.”</p>
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<p>“Which is fascinating to me,” she said, laughing. “It’s got me thinking about how I approach this, too.”</p>
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<p>“I’m glad to have you about either way,” Tycho said, surprising himself with the earnestness in his voice. “You’re really…I don’t know. Grounding, perhaps?”</p>
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<p>Ey laughed. “What does that mean?”</p>
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<p>“Like, you’re here to witness it, and so everything that happens will have to have at least some basis in reality.”</p>
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<p>The writer crossed eir arms and leaned back in eir chair, expression thoughtful. “Thank you, Tycho, I’d not thought of it that way. That’s a role I feel more comfortable with.”</p>
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<p>He nodded, then stifled a yawn. “Weird times. Weird, but interesting. I’m at least feeling better about just inviting aliens over without consulting anyone first. For now, though, I’m going to try and sleep, and see if I can snag some extra time wit Stolon in the morning.”</p>
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<p>The writer crossed eir arms and leaned back in eir chair, expression thoughtful. “Thank you, Tycho, I’d not thought of it that way. <em>That’s</em> a role I feel more comfortable with.”</p>
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<p>He nodded, then stifled a yawn. “Weird times. Weird, but interesting. I’m at least feeling better about just inviting aliens over without consulting anyone first. For now, though, I’m going to try and sleep, and see if I can snag some extra time with Stolon in the morning.”</p>
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<p>Codrin#Emissary</p>
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<p>I am finding myself started by the strangeness of the goings on during this whole venture. I know that you have it worse, such as it is, given the fact that you are having to deal with meeting four alien races as well as experiencing an entirely new system, complete with an entirely new take on reality.</p>
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<p>Still, this remains strange for me. I’m curious to hear what sort of information you are getting from the social and political side of the talks, as I think it will help me form a more coherent picture of the Artemisians so that I may ask better questions when I’m so very, very out of my league, here on the science side. I asked True Name about this, and she just shrugged, saying, “So long as you do not forget what we are here for in the DMZ, I see no reason to prevent knowledge sharing.</p>
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<p>Still, this remains strange for me. I’m curious to hear what sort of information you are getting from the social and political side of the talks, as I think it will help me form a more coherent picture of the Artemisians so that I may ask better questions when I’m so very, very out of my league, here on the science side. I asked True Name about this, and she just shrugged, saying, “So long as you do not forget what we are here for in the DMZ, I see no reason to prevent knowledge sharing.”</p>
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<p>First, here is what we are finding, seen through the eyes of the scientifically inept:</p>
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<li>Iska is quite upset about the lack of “time skew”, as they call it, and has stated that they refuse the single fork they’re permitted in their rest area. They have not elaborated on this, but I find it interesting that some scientific feat that they have accomplished is so thoroughly engrained in their society (remember, secondrace has been on Artemis for nigh on four millennia by now). I know that forking is integral to our society, but it does make me wonder if it has reached that point yet. Dear would be furious without it, of course, but would that sentiment be universal after only 231 years? Are you missing it? Are the other Odists?</li>
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<li>Artante and Sarah are almost as perfectly aligned as Tycho and Stolon; they are both psychologists, though it sounds like the Artemisians’ approach to such bears some striking differences. Notably, there are some time-related disorders that have largely gone over my head (something about “lacking a feel for common time” and “unison rooms”? Perhaps you can enlighten me), and there are some approaches that Sarah has found interesting, including forms of proactive therapy using, you guessed it, time. Something about practicing.</li>
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<li>It is almost impossible to get a read on the firstracers. It’s not just that they do not have facial expressions, so much as their penchant for absolute stillness unless a gesture is required (I’ve begun cataloguing those: uplifted head = nod; head tilt = shrug; chin tilted far down, exposed neck = bow; turning head far to the side = frustration, maybe?). This has led to some frustration, primarily on True Name’s part. Ioan’s mentioned in the past that May Then My Name calls the root of her manipulation a sort of ‘registering’, as though she’s gotten very good at figuring out what her ‘target’ needs in order to be convinced. Sounds like she’s struggling to use that to her full abilities, here.</li>
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<li>Turun Ko and I have been getting on quite well. I asked it about its speaking style (which, in case the same is not true over there, includes lots of synonyms strung together throughout its speech. At first, I thought this was a way to find a more exact wording for a concept, but the more I listen, the less I think that’s the case. Why Ask Questions suggested that it might be trying to fit the ambiguities of their <em>lingua franca</em> to ours. When asked, though, it said that it was a deliberate effort on its part to remain in the mindset of an Artemisian (they’ve adopted that word quite readily) in order to better record from an Artemisian point of view. I don’t think we’ll be struggling with this much, as we haven’t learned their language well enough to think like them.</li>
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<li>On that note, everyone seems to have learned our common tongue quite well <em>except</em> Stolon. Don’t tell Tycho, but I think the similarities between them run quite deep. Neither of them seem particularly interested in language except inasmuch as it allows them to talk about astronomy better.</li>
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<li>On that note, everyone seems to have learned our common tongue quite well <em>except</em> Stolon. Don’t tell Tycho, but I think the similarities between them run quite deep. Neither of them seem particularly interested in language except inasmuch as it allows them to better talk about astronomy.</li>
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<p>Now, for my questions:</p>
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<li>Given Dear’s reactions, how are TN/WAQ taking to this “time skew”? Not well, I imagine. Dear sounded worried for us (which, I suppose, is its job); are you or any of the other emissaries in danger? TN says she has received a message from her counterpart already, but gave no indication as to its content.</li>
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<li>Given Dear’s reaction, how are TN/WAQ taking to this “time skew”? Not well, I imagine. Dear sounded worried for us (which, I suppose, is its job); are you or any of the other emissaries in danger? TN says she has received a message from her counterpart already, but gave no indication as to its content.</li>
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<li>Tycho is in his element here, but Iska seems relatively out of theirs. I imagine Iska is doing better on their home turf, but is Stolon put out by the relative paucity of scientific conversation as Tycho said he’d be?</li>
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<li>How are you all taking to time skew? I’d like to know more specifics of the mechanics and social implications so that I can understand Iska’s reticence better.</li>
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<li>The Artemisians ask for regular breaks, where they always retreat back to their rest area. Probably five minutes every half hour. When asked, Turun Ko said, “Consensus synchronization, planning-strategizing responses,” by which I infer that they are used to being able to step aside for conversations to ensure they are all on the same page. Does that hold true there?</li>
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<p>For reasons I’ll get into momentarily, talks are going somewhat slower here than I think anyone expected. The Artemisians are incredibly patient with all of us, though, for which we’re grateful.</p>
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<p>The reasons for this are almost entirely up to the Odists. True Name and Why Ask Questions are struggling with the time skew, WAQ more so than TN. Michelle quit forty years ago, and since then, I’ve not seen the shifting of form that she struggled with.</p>
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<p>WAQ, however, immediately fell back into that. She’s hardly spoken at all, and seems to be continually on the verge of getting sick or losing control completely. She seems to be able to either speak or maintain her form but not both, and even then, it comes at a dear price. When outside unison rooms (see below), she has a very hard time remaining in common time. Often, the best she can manage is to stay within ±1 of it.</p>
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<p>TN is also struggling, though to a lesser extent. She is striving to remain as in control as she can, but there will still be the occasional silence as she struggles. During these, she will clench her fists or grit her teeth, and there will be the occasional glimmer of Michelle in there. As such, this has put a damper on our discussion, though, to Dear’s worries, no, we don’t seem to be in any danger. </p>
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<p>TN is also struggling, though to a lesser extent. She is striving to remain as in control as she can, but there will still be the occasional silence as she struggles, as did Michelle. During these, she will clench her fists or grit her teeth, and there will be the occasional glimmer of Michelle in there. As such, this has put a damper on our discussion, though, to Dear’s worries, no, we don’t seem to be in any danger. </p>
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<p>To that end, we’ve moved the talks to a unison room. These rooms ensure that everyone within them remains synchronized to the same time skew, though the room itself can skew faster or slower than common time (which, I’m assured, is the same as ours, based on similar constants; managing time skew feels much like most System interactions, and common time feels like a pin in a lock clicking into place as you move faster or slower). To that end, the unison room has become TN/WAQ’s rest area while the other three of us have our original room. I don’t know what to call the opposite of it. Phasic room? They haven’t been able to provide an answer because it’s just “the rest of the world” to them.</p>
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<p>As you mention, Iska is somewhat out of their element because of this. They’re a skew artist, analogous to Dear’s instance artistry. They seem uncomfortable in a unison room, though they remain very polite about it.</p>
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<p>To your question about breaks, you’re right that they are used to stepping away to talk about something before providing an answer. Before our shift to the unison room, they would readily shift up to fast time to discuss topics. After about skew +1 (moving twice as fast as common time), sound does not transmit the barriers, so it acts as a cone of silence, in that sense. Tangentially, I’ve found that touch also does not transmit after skew ±0.5, probably to prevent injuries.</p>
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<p>All in all, though, I quite like it here. It is very different, and I find myself missing my family (and the food!) quite a bit, but honestly, I am also finding that I truly enjoy time skew. Codrin#Assist, don’t tell Dear this.</p>
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<p>In terms of knowledge share, you’re spot on in much of what you bring up. The firstracers are hard to read, as you say, though you can add ‘rocking head side to side = amusement’ to your list. You don’t mention much about Iska, but they’re really quite nice after one gets past the clipped nature of their speech. I like them plenty. I’ve already spoken plenty about Stolon.</p>
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<p>Artante is quite curious. Her mannerisms are incredibly familiar, which I originally chalked up to the similarity in species, but it’s come to light during discussions that she has picked up an obsession with the media that was embedded in the Dreamer Module broadcast. She’s watched all of the videos several times over (more than seventy hours worth!) and listened to all of the audio enough to know how things sound. (Iska’s speech is clipped, I’ve mentioned, and occasionally misses intonation around questions/commas <em>qua</em> pauses/etc., and the firstracers’ melodious speech often sounds more like singing than speaking.) She and Sarah have had much to talk about, though both leaders nudge them often back to sociology and psychology as it relates to political systems, rather than therapeutic applications of forking or whatever.</p>
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<p>TN here struggles with the 1racers lack of expression, though I had been chalking much of that up to her struggles with skew until you mentioned it. There have been a few misses in the conversation, where the two leaders will wind down a conversational blind alley and have to back up to the point where they turned the wrong corner. So patient is Turun Ka that this has been frustrating for us, as it’s difficult to tear down the assumptions that we’ve built up in the interim. Now that I say that, though, perhaps it is also frustrating for it, too, we just can’t see it.</p>
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<p>TN here struggles with the 1racers lack of expression, though I had been chalking much of that up to her struggles with skew until you mentioned it. There have been a few misses in the conversation, where the two leaders will wind down a conversational blind alley and have to back up to the point where they turned the wrong corner. So patient is Turun Ka that this has been frustrating for us, as it’s difficult to tear down the assumptions that we’ve built up in the interim. Now that I say that, though, perhaps it is also frustrating for it, too, we just can’t tell.</p>
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<p>Anyway, I should head back to common time and catch up with Sarah before we head back to it. I want to make sure we talk more about the reasons why they picked ‘recorder’ as a required profession for this meeting. If it’s about telling stories, I’m all for it.</p>
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<p>Codrin#Assist, pass on my love. Can you also check my work with Dear? I think I remember that Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things was initially forked to shape sentiment sys-side during Secession, and that Why Ask Questions When The Answers Will Not Help was forked to shape sentiment outside the System. Is this correct? I’ve only met the two of them recently, so I’m unsure how that plays out in their social interactions.</p>
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<p>Thanks for acting as go-between for us. It’d be nice to be able to send a message directly to #Artemis, but alas, DMZ.</p>
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