Timoti shouts some instructions to his crew and shows you to a small side room. It looks like some kind of repurposed store room, with a body bag strapped to a table at one end. The bodybag is opaque, but you are pretty sure there are no morphs that should be that shape. He moves towards the bag, gleefully rubbing his hands together and smiling like a loon as he goes. As soon as the door swishes shut he spins around, the grin vanished.
Timoti wrote:Holy shit am I glad to see you guys! Dont worry, i've rigged this rooms surveillance. Anyone looking in will see us prodding at that poor sod and cackling to each other. There is a lot of shit going down here, none of it good. Nazon, you know who Nazon is yeah? Nazon has his hands on some new, super effective behavior modification tech. Its crazy good, i've never seen nothing like it. Makes regular Egos into these fanatically loyal fucking zombies, they are like dogs with their master. No fear, no confusion, just yes boss, right away boss, stab myself in the eye with a hot poker? No problem boss.
Thats not the only thing though. Normally, we get our Egos sent to us from the servers in Guinee, down the secure network link called Styx. These brainwashed Egos we sleeved didnt come from there. Came on stacks instead, personally delivered here by that creepy little shit Elleggua. We sleeved them, they walked off after the guards with big happy grins on their faces like they were going to a picnic. Saw a couple of those morphs later. One had died of blood loss from its feet that had apparently been mushed to stumps from too much dancing, the other had been spaced. Guy who brought me that one said it had spaced itself just because someone told it too.
Now, I think all this has something to do with the debate thats coming up. None of these weird egos turned up till Lam Cong Dong, leader of the Rada Nanchion, farcast in from Venus a few weeks back. She came down here a little while back to personally oversee me resleeving Bertrand Theo, leader of the Petro Nanchion, they walked off deep in chat about something. Whole thing stinks of conspiracy, but to what end? I dunno.
He produces a device from his pack, similar to the small server you hooked into before. This one has a slot for a stack, with a stack currently connected to it.
Here, I managed to take a fork of one of those Egos I was supposed to resleeve. This is a little simulspace environment so you can take a look at it. Dont worry, its like a digital version of one of those medical isolation cells, its completely safe to hook up to. Not that infection is an issue anyway, i've made thorough scans of the Ego, no sign of any kind of virus or dangerous payload or nothing like that. Here, you should see this for yourself.
He offers you a bunch of cables, enough for all of you to connect if you want.