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[sistershoggoth]

( Kay, so. I conscripted a bunch of jackasses to give away jars of Annie goo to, uh, everybody. And then I spied on everyone. Now you know my heinous secret, my titty slime can watch you in the shower. )

[ You're welcome. Isn't it always such a pleasure when she speaks. ]

( You wanna tap in to me and get all I got, do it, otherwise here's the highlights:

CARPATHANS: Sketchy as fuck. They've got this one in a veil hiding in the tents, doesn't want anybody knowing she's here. Was talking about debts and new friends. Also somehow they're paying debts with blood. Bitch incurring the debts is somebody named Casiria. Need somebody to get on that, find out who it is and who their new friends are, why they're bleeding each other over it.

MERADANS: Are clearly idiots. They drank me. Fuck them.

DESCENDANTS: These guys are decent. Accepted our gift in the spirit it was given, blah blah blah. The 'mistress' thinks that participation in these events counts more than success. So, everybody get your butts out there and give it a shot even if you suck balls. I'll do it too, you can laugh at my failure if it fuckin' makes you feel better. Just sign up and get out there.

SECONDS: Watched one of these little wizard-lets get his work on, I don't know what it all means. This might be one you wanna watch outta my head. )

[ Okay? OKAY? She's made her report, does she get an A++ in spying now? She's silent for a moment before adding peevishly, ]

( Also. Sorry for flipping out the other day. I do that. I warned you. Sorry not sorry. )

Comments

[earthborn]

( You don't need slime for that. )

[Top five weirdest alien shit Shepard's had to deal with, certainly. Top three, maybe. Nicely done, Annie, that's super gross and weird. But she wouldn't be Shepard if she didn't take it in stride.]

( So, the question is how do we get a bunch of idiots who'd eat unidentified slime to the front of the pack? )

[sistershoggoth]

( If they can be bullied into eating slime, how could is possibly be to peer pressure them into, I DON'T KNOW, anything. )

[earthborn]

( You're the one who went to a girl's school, not me. )

[Though in all honesty, there's not exactly a dearth of peer pressure in Shepard's chosen profession either.]

( Seems to me that they're the LEAST likely to be the other side of the larger conflict, is all. Besides, they might be stupid, but they're also the only ones that actually put effort into trying to figure out what "mysterious fluid my rivals gifted me" was, so... They got my vote. )

[sistershoggoth]

( That's fair, cuz you didn't have to suffer their flippin' digestive tract. )

[ HUFF. ]

( Who knows, maybe giving it to the jazz band wasn't the most politically high profile guys to gift it to. )

[earthborn]

( We don't have to win this scratch-card, we just have to not lose. Would you be up for taking another shot at it, better target? I'm with you on "Not The Carpathans" but... )

[Gold star, A++ spying, see me after class winky-face, ect. Shepard's tired of this job. Sometimes the only reward for patience is that it keeps getting tested.]

( It's not like anyone else is bringing home a lot of actionable intel, here. )

[sistershoggoth]

( Main question: can we push our luck with handing out more of these jars? Yeah, it makes me puke, but the only way I'm gonna get any better is to keep trying it. )

[ ON THAT NOTE THOUGH: ]

( Fuckin' Carpathans shady as shit! )

[earthborn]

( We've got some engineers with us... we could try fabricating something less obviously a jar full of goo. Does that trick work with smaller amounts? Because I'm just not hearing a whole lot of better options, is all. )

[Sometimes, you just have to suffer for your cause. The consolation is that the Symbiote is unlikely to do anything that would cause Annie permanent damage.]

( Yeah, they're a little over the top, huh? )

[sistershoggoth]

( It'll work, might limit my field of vision and hearing though. It was all kind of fucked up and woozy as it was at the jar size. )

[ But she is proud of herself, that she's able to do fucking something with this disgusting shit... ]

( Maybe they're just dramatic, doesn't make them the baddies, but I sure as shit want to know for sure. )

[earthborn]

( Talk to Pidge and see what you two can do. Maybe run a couple of tests for clarity before you put it in action-- It sounded like you got a pretty good position with at least a couple of those drops. We just need to figure out how to do better for targets.

You think we could roll some under their tents or... something less about people? Now that they have the jars, would they think anything of seeing one inside their perimeter? )

[shiro2hero]

(... Wait. Drank you?)

(Do I want to know?)

[sistershoggoth]

( Fuckin' DRANK ME. I have sacrificed myself to alien digestive tracts TWICE NOW. When is it someone else's turn?! )

[shiro2hero]

(Annie... what are you talking about?)

[sistershoggoth]

( I'm talking about spying! Spying so good that they drank my fuckin' spy cam! That's how innocent that shit looked: they tried to eat it. )

[shiro2hero]

(How does someone drink a spy camera?)

[sistershoggoth]

( When it looks like jello! )

[shiro2hero]

(Okay.)

(You have spy cameras that... look like jello. Moving on.)

(Is there any way to know when this veiled person is around that you could tell?)

[sistershoggoth]

( I know which tent I saw her in, because it's where the jar of jello is. )

[wille]

( Annie, this is good. It's really good. )

[ But give her a moment to digest the information, parse through the scenes and try not to miss a thing. The hardest part is paying attention to the entire picture, when the human mind is so given to drawing a coherent narrative where there is none, at the cost of missing the details. ]

( Do you think she could be the Empress Karidian herself? A relative? Striking deals behind her own diplomat's back? The manual did say they're on the brink of civil war. )

[sistershoggoth]

[ Oh it's her. Annie is conflicted about how she feels about Misato's praise. Mostly due to feeling conflicted about Misato. She has accepted that they are probably frenemies, even though Annie thinks that entire concept is dumb. Then again, her feelings about Misato were dumb and self-inflicted rather than rational, so why wouldn't the whole thing be a theater of idiocy. That sounded like Annie. ]

( No idea, maybe. Need intel on how to spot a royal Carp. )

[ Cue fish. ]

[wille]

[ Contrary to the impression she might give, Misato isn't unaware of any lingering hostility or milder dislike against her on the part of many. But knowing something doesn't mean she has to give it significance. Her disregard for it is her concentrated effort to drain it of power. She wouldn't let it stand in her way of asking for help from even her enemies, and well, Annie is distinctly far from one. ]

( What do you think would happen if we offered this information to Black? )

[sistershoggoth]

[ Annie thinks about that, and answers with a bit more clarity and focus than she has thus far. She is capable of not being a total moron, it's just more of a switch she throws than her usual state, and she's always just as eager to flip it back off again. ]

( Think it might raise more questions than we feel like answering if we actually attached ourselves to that information. If we distance ourselves and send some kind of anonymous missive, that also takes some of the control out of our hands. Could flip that domino and see where it lands, but there will be fallout we can't contain.

Not opposed though, could be a good way to get the Black to do our dirty work for us. )

[wille]

[ It's probably unfair of her to expect so much similarity between the two of them, to see her antics as nothing more than antics, just as her own deflection is a coat she can don and take off. Annie's reasoned answer should, but doesn't, surprise her. A person can have many faces. ]

( If nothing else, it could destabilize the Carpathans and any infighting would weaken them. Even better if it spills out to the public and the eyes will be turned away from us and toward them. Best still, if like you say, they're the sketchy ones doing deals with our enemy.

An anonymous missive then. It needs to be untraceable back to us -- honestly not my strong suit. )

[sistershoggoth]

( Why don't we have a single fuckin' shape shifter on this crew, that'd be really fuckin' convenient right about now. )

[ And the idiocy is back on. ]

( Could probably goo a note into somebody's tent. )

[wille]

( We had one. He fell asleep. )

[ Asleep, she says of her darling Petre, because the thought that he's forever gone isn't one she's willing to entertain. He fell asleep before and woke up, so he can wake up again anytime. ]

( I can help you do that. Just tell me how. )

[sistershoggoth]

( Well shit. WELL. Fine. )

[ A long suffering sigh. ]

( Do a little recon, figure out who we should be trying to get in contact with, where they like the hang out for breakfast or what the fuck ever, somewhere we can reliably slip the thing over. And then I'll have to get it there without showing off my goo. If somebody could make me a casing that it could still move inside that might be good. Make it look like it's a little mechanical something something, that'd sure throw 'em off the scent since the rest of us aren't supposed to be able to do technomancy. )