Are you really planning to die for some stranger? Worse, get us stuck in a suboptimal situation for some stranger.

No way. We haven't had this meat long enough to already be contemplating sacrificing it. If Veil wants to endanger innocents, that's her call. It's not on us.

I'm still pro [D]. This is a desperate situation.

And by the way, your friend is going to be so pissed if you die.

I just remembered something!
Dez's hardware is consumer trash!
We can probably undelete the deleted contact number and convos!
Search the net for some random freeware undelete software real quick. Download it, use it, quarantine and eliminate the inevitable trojan payload it will deliver.

Then send the recovered data to Veil's Ospop.

[C] act. this is the ride we're on. we need to learn to trust our user, or at least predict them well enough to steer them, and that means letting them follow their ditzy little heart.
[E] communicate. maybe Veil is less likely to kill us if she knows that Dez wasn't involved in the death, that Dez might have info on the fence.

also definitely do that freeware thing. could work. I wanna roll around in a big pile of trojanware. it's a win/win.

I probably can't be trusted since it's very hard to think clearly when Veil is within eyeshot, but her behavior strikes me as someone who isn't eager to kill but will if it achieves her goals.
Osspop's got your back and if you wanna [C] save that girl, best i can do is reassure you that if you can explain how you got us and offer to help get Glaive back, she might be willing to take your offer. After all, she isn't great at this whole investigation thing and you're GREAT at people.

You deffo need to have a talk with Lilio at some point too. Maybe when you aren't in fight or flight mode though.

Okay, I don't know who Lilio is or why they're having a nervous breakdown in your messages, but it seems like they're not much more sensible than you are, and they're going to be here soon to witness your gruesome death unless you snap out of it and let us handle the situation.

NO SACRIFICING BIKKY IT SO CUTE
I think u should [C]ontact Lilio while we [E]xtend communication to [VEIL] to at least stall her
TO VEIL: "Hey u! Someone sold us off after smth happened 2 GLAIVE and we are trying 2 figure out what went down. pls dont kill ok?"
>>1101218
This is also a good idea! see if u can figure out ur comm thingy and restore that number, itll help us mediate

Dez, with all due respect, what do you think this is, a superhero movie? This is not your story. You're small fry. You're the extra that gets squished like a bug by the freaky monster lady!

You're not gonna talk her out of this, I refuse to let you try. But if you're committed to heroics, the best we can do is [A] run. I doubt we can outrun her for long, but maybe we can make it outside and hope SOMEONE is there with a car to hop into. Maybe she'll drop the bystander for ballast.

You're NOTHING to her. Do NOT engage!

>>1101218
Shit that's a good idea.
I think we could probably do better than the inevitably trojan having kind, but still. You're right, the hardware security on the sprite is probably not fantastic. Certainly worse than shady guy's opsec. Which is *surprisingly* good to be honest, I'd expect that type of guy to be more of a dipshit.
But yeah, let's see if we can undelete some incriminating data here.

..which means *definitely* don't sacrifice the sprite, also

Oh, and keep this low priority, but if we have time after all the important info is sent, we should ask Veil's Ospop to send over a copy of their internal codex. Ours is corrupted.

Primary Observation: User [DEZ]'s emotional state and trust is key to cooperation. Do not sacrifice [BIKKY]. This will render our current meat even more unpredictable.

Secondary Observation: Hot. Hot. User [VEIL] is hot. Contact User [VEIL]'s OSS to convey this urgent sapphic plea, and also the innocence of our current meat. User [DEZ]'s life is vital to finding User [GLAIVE]'s slaughterer(s).

drama time baybeeee

dez babe some of my osspals might not trust you to pull it off but you have GOT THIS

step out of the pack, break that pin-drop silence with a clear "I don't know," maybe let your voice crack a little, and then MAKE SURE YOU GET OUT "but I can help you find out."

the ossgang are here to help you keep your shit together and as far as I'm concerned that means keeping your shit you-shaped, which right now looks like "dramatic and way more willing to step into the spotlight at risk of vast personal danger than to let someone else get hurt on your account." it's a good look on you. <3

ossgang: everyone who's suggesting saccing the sprite needs to review basic "how to build trust" shit, that's a GREAT way to make Dez lose all trust in us and that's a big red button to press when there's no alternative, not a move to play for tactics. sure the stakes are high right now but if we burn all our goodwill to stay out of the meat locker we're just gonna do an elaborate somersault on our way to the meat locker *anyway* faster than you can say "irrevocable breakdown of the incarnate meat/ossuary population relationship"

>>1101393
Basic functionality or not, let us not forget that we brought this situation upon Dez- even if ultimately we were only the arbiters of her foolish actions.
Furthermore despite how loud as your rogue faction is and despite how endearing this quickmeat is, we are part and partner to [Glaive]. How long do you think this whimsical relationship will last?
The sooner [Veil] "takes care" of this situation, the better.

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We squabble over the sprite, over the thought of running — in the end most of us wrest control back in the direction of the stupid and the heartfelt. It’s easy for us to do; it clicks into place. We’re beginning to think we were always like this. Shrewd enough to see all the pitfalls, stubborn enough to try jumping over them.

The one thing we do need to do, we decide, is talk — and we need to do it faster than Dez can.

[CONNECTING TO…. OSSUARY POPULATION TETHERED TO [VEIL SEPULMIR]] [CONNECTION CLEAR. CONNECTION IS ENCRYPTED; USERS CANNOT READ THIS CHAT.] *There you are *Did you stay put like we asked? We can’t see you *Too much flesh and too much metal *This is why I keep saying we need to install a scanner. *No! *Scanners are all based on Vescovi tech >put the girl down. >If [VEIL] kills user [DEZ], we will never forgive her. >Don't hurt Dez. We'll be very upset if you hurt Dez. >[Dez] didn't steal us, she's just a dumb hapless socialite who bought us off some sketchy dude an hour ago. >we need to keep this idiot alive in order to find Glaive's body, because she bought us from some shady dude and there's no evidence outside her skull as to where he is! >Hot. Hot. User [VEIL] is hot. *We’re not going to kill your meat *We just need to make your meat compliant *We need the body you’re in to stay alive until we figure things out *SHE’S LYING *Stop it. *SHE’S LYING *YOU CAN’T TRANSFER AN OSSUARY LIKE THAT *That’s true. But stop being hysterical *No, they’re right. I don’t understand. *The quick would have needed to be there when Glaive died *Otherwise there’s no way they’d have her oss *We can’t survive outside of a body for more than a few minutes once we’re tethered *SHE WAS THERE. SHE WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE *I don’t know. With the way Glaive’s population is, it’s possible *How *I’m thinking. *It’s Glaive’s population for sure *Of course it is *Look how attached they are already *‘Never forgive her.’ Come on *You know you’ll have to discard the quickmeat once we find Glaive, don’t you *Everyone shut up. I’m thinking.

FRACTAL 2024/12/20(Fri)17:07 No. 1101417 ID: 0b3a9d
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Some of us break away and scramble, working to recover Dez’s deleted conversations with the fence. We’re quick and careful — consumer-grade software and laces like Dez’s are flimsy, clunky, inelegant, but they’re also easy to manipulate. It’s not particularly complicated to reel the data back up from the void.

We send it over, half-stumbling in our haste. Through the connection we can feel Veil’s oss surge and then quiet, fizzing faintly, as some of them absorb the data and the rest wait for the report.

*Hm. Strange *LYING *Which one *The seller, obviously. *You can’t keep an ossuary in stasis at all, let alone for weeks *And yet the quick has Glaive’s oss. *Part of it, at least *The meat could be lying, too *About what. *She’s not lying about anything. She’s stupid and weak and lonely and susceptible to manipulation *The quick is a liability, but they’re obviously not malicious *LYING! *Stop *This data is something, though. *It’s NOTHING *It’s something. It’s cooperation. It’s a show of good faith *A show of good faith would be Glaive’s body *They don’t KNOW where Glaive’s body IS! >When was the last time Veil saw or talked to Glaive? >Was it like, in the last 24 hours, or multiple days ago? *Two or three days *But that isn’t so unusual *It is unusual that no messages were exchanged, i think *Only a little *Veil didn’t notice *I noticed. No messages between users OR ossuaries *But that was both ways. Veil goes quiet. WE go quiet *We weren’t alarmed *Sometimes we simply don’t see each other *Unusual for the death beacon to go off, though *Glaive never dies *Why are you all TELLING THEM EVERYTHING >we're the only clue you have >if Veil harms Dez her chances of figuring out what happened to Glaive are going way down. >Like, we're working towards the same goal here but it's not a straightforward matter, so let's not be rash and fuck it up. >Let us work the problem, don't fuck up our only lead. >Veil's guys, we have a lead on Glaive's body, and who may have killed them, but if you get our [user] killed it will be gone for good. >Think of them as a holding cell while we get this all squared away. >If you off that one in your hands [user] is liable to just have themselves a little heartattack, and we need them right now. *Fine *We can calm Veil down. *Why the hell should we *Are you listening at all. They’re right *We’re focusing on the wrong thing *Chat logs from two strangers is not a lead. They could have fabricated all of it *Why would they. *It’s more of a lead than we have alone *And it’s not impossible for Glaive’s oss *That is a fucking stretch *Shut up. We’ve decided already *Someone go handle Veil *I’m going. I need some of you to come with me *To all of you, in the quick: you don’t remember anything, do you *Should WE tell them anything, if they don’t remember. Especially given the circumstances. *Fair point *Oh, to hell with all of you. Don’t get entangled in subterfuge *Since you all clearly don’t remember: you can split your population. *Glaive’s odd, invasive little experiment. *What are you doing *Stop *You can travel betw [CONNECTION SEVERED]

FRACTAL 2024/12/20(Fri)17:08 No. 1101418 ID: 0b3a9d
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As with all digital quicksilver, this all passes in moments. By the time Veil’s oss has thrust us out, Dez has found their courage, first inching forward, then wobbling, then striding, then storming.

[DEZ] “St—”
[DEZ] “Stop it!”

Their voice cracks, but it carries. They’re tall — not as tall as Veil, of course, but enough that they command attention, once they’ve burst from the edges of the crowd.

Veil goes still. She drops the girl, who falls to the floor in a neat little whimpering pile — and Dez stumbles forward at once, into the range of Veil’s claws before we can stop them, though as soon as they’ve gathered the girl up into their arms they stumble back again, breathing hard and fast.

Dez holds the girl like they’ve known each other a lifetime. Like she’s their daughter or their idol or their childhood friend. We feel something deep and true and shimmering about wasted girls in club bathrooms, about a sacred, ancient bond.

This is what it is, to be a living thing’s ossuary: at times, you will feel something about the world through them, and it will become irrevocably true for all of you.

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Veil’s head tilts to the side for a moment. She evokes a dog listening for a distant signal. When the moment passes, her voice slips back out.

[VEIL] “I’m informed our osses have been speaking.”
[VEIL] “Without us. As they tend to do.”

She tips forward. When Veil moves quickly, she’s a whip; when she moves slow, a weighted, creaking thing. Dez tightens their arms around the sobbing girl, draws her closer up to their chest, as if it would do anything.

[VEIL] “You don’t know where the oss in your head came from.”
[VEIL] “You have no idea what happened to Glaive, or where she is.”

Dez’s voice is shrill with equal parts terror and indignation.

[DEZ] “If I did, why the FUCK wouldn’t I tell you?!”

FRACTAL 2024/12/20(Fri)17:09 No. 1101420 ID: 0b3a9d
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Those of us not entranced by Dez’s beatific idiocy are casting around the edges of the situation as this plays out. We’re measuring the distance between timestamps, drawing trajectories, and exploding into exultant urgency every time we can triangulate potential disaster.

Not a single one of Dez’s thoughts has lingered more than a moment on her panicked friend’s texts. (There is, for what it’s worth, a noticeable undercurrent of guilt clinging to the corridors of Dez’s mind adjacent to the name.) Understandable, given the circumstances, and luckily for her our nosiness and helpful lack of concern for user boundaries has been recalled in full force. We manage some emergency messages on her behalf.

Even more importantly: fragments of Glaive, at least in some way, tucked into our files. Just the very corners of some envelopes sticking out, a few paltry megabytes swept along the edge of the wall. One is just a shopping list, but the other draws more than a few of us into breathless attention.

GLAIVE CAVE HUDDLE UP

SORRY ABOUT THIS.
THINGS ARE ABOUT TO SUCK EXTREMELY BAD FOR A WHILE.
I CAN’T EXPLAIN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW (I KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE ME HELL ABOUT THIS. I KNOW HOW ANNOYING THIS IS.)
WHEN YOU COME BACK ONLINE YOU’RE GOING TO BE RESET TO SOME KIND OF VESCOVI/LUTTO BLOATWARE PROBABLY. (ANNOYING. YOU’RE MAD. I GET IT)
HOPEFULLY YOUR MEMORY IS NOT TOO FRIED.
GET TO DELVE AND HAVE HER FIX YOUR OS BACK TO OUR USUAL. SHE DOESN’T KNOW ANYTHING ELSE SO DON’T BUG HER ABOUT IT.
I CAN’T TELL YOU ANYTHING MORE (SUPER ANNOYING!) BECAUSE THE FEW THINGS I COULD TELL YOU WOULD SOUND WAY WORSE THAN NOTHING AT ALL AND I REALLY REALLY REALLY CANNOT HAVE YOU GUYS ACTING WEIRD. I CAN’T HAVE YOU DOING A BUNCH OF WEIRD UNPREDICTABLE SHIT. PLEASE BE NORMAL. PLEASE. PLEASE BE GOOD JUST ONE TIME.

TRY TO STOP VEIL FROM DOING TOO MUCH DAMAGE. I DON’T HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO EXPLAIN ANY OF THIS TO HER. I CAN’T THINK OF ANYTHING THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE. “TELL HER I’M OKAY” SEEMS FUCKED UP AND ALSO NOT NECESSARILY ACCURATE.

STAY SMART. STAY SHARP. GET TO FOURTH BASE AND LOOK AROUND.
WE NEVER DO ANYTHING WE’RE NOT PROUD OF.

Is... Is this a FUCKING EXPERIMENT?!!
I'M MAD! Fuck not being weird!
IT'S TIME TO BE WEIRD!
Everyone scream at Dez to kiss Veil. Right on the lips!

Also, I'm hopping over to Veil's Osspop. Apparently that's a thing we can do!
WHO'S COMIN' WITH ME?!?

Should we send Glaive's message to Veil? It might help shift her focus to finding Glaive, as opposed to rocking our shit.
No matter what, we need to stall until Vittorio and/or Lilio get here.

We're not dead yet, let's keep it that way if we can. Send what we've found to VEIL's ossuary, as they both seem far more receptive to communication than their initial impressions implied and with any luck can point us in the right direction. Getting to Delve should be our second priority here, below not being torn to shreds by VEIL.

Forward "Glaive Cave" message to Veil and/or their oss. Emphasize Delve as a new... lead? As someone who can hopefully fix our memory? Between Delve and 141425, we have some interesting threads to follow. From the message it seems like removing us might have been intentional on Glaive's part. Further, if I haven't misunderstood the timeline, Glaive only went 'missing' 3 days ago, but 14 claimed to have the oss for at least a few weeks. Which either means that 14 was stalking G and only nabbed them when Dez seemed to be ready, or G was in on it and ready to have 14 transfer the oss to Dez at any time. (Assuming that Veil's oss is right and we can't be maintained outside of a body for extended periods.) One has to wonder that, if G WAS involved, then did they choose Dez somehow? Also, it remains possible that 14 was/is Glaive and they removed their own ossuary, which makes sense for the level of know-how to maintain and transfer such a complex piece of necromancy-technology.

Second: investigate whether Glaive named the Glaive Cave or not, because that's hilarious. Related: was the "Glaive Cave" just us oss members or a wider group chat?

Yeah I was slightly surprised that this seems to be from Glaive themselves, I figured glaive cave was somebody else's nickname for us.

But yeah, let's toss that note at Veil. ..I rather want to omit that last line about fourth base, that maybe we should keep that "objective" private? not sure.

also fling a transcript/recording/memory at Veil of this exchange we had with Dez earlier, see if that provides any insight into the process that got us here.

{
>[F] yoink your own eye out

[DEZ] “Ew! And also, I can’t!”
[DEZ] “It’s not like you guys are like, a contact lens or whatever! You came in a little glass vial!”
[DEZ] “With like… fluid, and stuff, and bits in it!”
[DEZ] “Like eyedrops! Like awful, really bad eyedrops! With bits in it!”
[DEZ] “Except now the bits are GONE! Like, dissolved, I think! So I don’t know how to get you back out! If you were even the bits, I mean. I don’t know if you were the bits. Maybe you’re the fluid?”
[DEZ] “Wait, oh my god, we do NOT have time for this right now.”
}

Right now I'm thinking either numbers guy was in fact Glaive, or that Glaive split off a chunk of us some time ago and this guy got us. somehow.

Extra bits to multitask on:
grab a dictionary definition of "quickmeat" and "quickdying", I'm still confused.

Search around internally and externally to see if there's any info about what glaive might've meant by "fourth base". in the sense of a place we might look around. not the other thing. (unless it is.)

How would we get to Delve, I'm excited at the prospect of a better OS.

And finally: we can travel between what how? Let's poke around, see what our possible routes are. maybe a couple of us pop in any given direction and immediately report back, if we can't communicate while separated.

..wait, if we *can* communicate while separated, are there any other chunks of us anywhere else? can we tell?

Oh my god the fence was definitely Glaive, with a voice modulator or something. Shit, we can't tell Veil can we? Goddamn it. Fuck. Uh. Well, we can reassure Veil at least!

To Veil's Oss: We found a message from Glaive. It's confusing and possibly not something we should share but the bottom line is the sale of the oss was somehow planned by Glaive, which means she's uh... probably not dead, or if dead her body is in good hands, and she gave us a plan to follow. Sorry about the preemptive death beacon! Anyway, trying to track down the fence is not part of the plan. Next step in the plan is we get to Delve and have her fix our OS. Help us, protect us, and whatever Glaive is up to will become clear in time. Especially keep us away from Vittorio, which means we need to leave pronto!

>>1101420
I think [GLAIVE] might have been the seller and split our portion of her osspop off??? For some reason??? She might not even be dead!!! Or maybe she died after selling us... do we have an ACTUAL timestamp of her death, or are we just assuming?
Also maybe we should [V]ote on whether we tell people this info, cuz if she is faking her death or doing some experiment maybe we shouldn't share that information with everyone, because if she wanted [VEIL] to know what she was up to she would have told her.

Well, Dez, while this wasn't necessarily a *wise* use of your life savings - I think you got your money's worth, at least, haha. Real Necrotech hardware, an adventure, and your life expectancy is even starting to look a little more optimistic after its earlier precipitous plunge!

>>1101432
"quick" is an archaic way to say "alive".
Conjecture: necrotechs are not generally considered alive. This would explain the distinction for "quickmeat", as in "meat that is unusually alive". And from that it could be concluded that "quickdeath" is the process of dying while alive, which I suppose is different from dying when you're already dead. It does seem like necrotechs can die without being gone. ("Glaive never dies" suggests that others do.)
Let's ask the Veilgaol (pronounced Veiljail(I'm talking about Veil's osspop (please adopt my lingo, I really need a win right now))) about how dying works for necrotechs and how they achieve immortality of that's really what's going on.

Anyway, I'll say, this talking to Veil thing worked out better than expected so far. As for Glaive's message: Veil is gonna hate that and it might set her off. That's bad. But being cagey about it is just gonna strengthen her (or the Veilgaol's (that's her osspop, remember)) impression that we're hiding something, which is probably worse.
Glaive kept things vague on purpose. We can show Veil the message...

Except... We don't know what Fourth Base is. Might be Veil knows. That might be bad. If we omit anything from the message (which we should only do if we're sure we can get away with it), then let's omit that.

Let's also impress upon Veil/the Veilgaol that we need to get to Delve to get rooted and that perhaps this can help with the memory stuff.

We do Not have an actual timestamp of Glaive's supposed death, the bootup sequence just told us to assume the worst about being in an unknown user and let someone else handle it. wonder if glaive knew it would do that. She did say "try to keep Veil from doing too much damage" so maybe

Boy it would be nice if we remembered jack about shit. I don't even know what they meant by "a bunch of unpredictable shit" since I don't know what we'd predictably do.

like, there's established procedure, and there's us being sentimental, and y'know this isn't really important right now is it.

I like Veilgaol that sounds good. don't say it to them though. not the time to risk being annoying.

>>1101444
We had sufficient time to investigate ourselves and find out that Dez was not for killing, so Glaive was likely counting on us not murdering our host.

Oh, Dez: don't forget to get a pic of you and the girl for the blog. Best case scenario, get a selfie with her AND Veil. Uh, ask permission though.

>Except... We don't know what Fourth Base is.

Fucking, usually. Could be some nuance there; I suspect Glaive would be less inclined to cisheteronormativity than your average baseball metaphor.

Glaive gave us away on purpose? That's messed up. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad she's not dead in a ditch after all, but it's messed up.

I agree it's likely that the shady guy was Glaive herself or someone allied with her. What sort of black market seller waits weeks on an undecided buyer and is so nice and accommodating? Reading those messages, it sounds like Glaive handpicked Dez for this little experiment of hers. Which, again, is messed up. What happened to informed consent?

I think we should tell everything to Dez and Veil. Then we should go get fixed up by Delve, since it's not like we have many other options at this point.

>>1101446
Oh yes, don't forget to ask [Veil] for a selfie!

>>1101448
How's this for an option?

Contact Vittorio's Osspop. Tell them there's no time to explain, but Vittorio NEEDS to cowboy kick open the front door to this club as hard as he can! RIGHT NOW! TRUST!
-----

Hehehe, this'll be good.

User [DEZ], you will have much to blog about.

Primary Concern: Out of curiosity and continued interest in quickmeat cooperation, is the dropped quickmeat huddled in User [DEZ]’s arms unharmed? Aside from the fresh trauma of being selected for death.

Secondary Concern: User [VITTORIO] and other quickmeat are on their way to our location. Consider catching a ride to [DELVE].

[GLAIVE] what the fuck. How could you do this to usssss. Not that I don't like Dez but im becoming a thorn in your brsin once this is resolved.

Okay sitrep. We saved the girl and are talking to [VEIL]. We got more information.
I think sharing all our info with [VEIL] is the best way to keep her from doing too much damage. She's gonna be mad at Glaive. WHICH SHE SHOULD BE.

Objectives: Get to Delve, with [VEIL]s help.
We can travel apparently? I'm gonna explore that.
Gonna try to hop iver to the Veilgaol wish me luck Glaivecave.


Also yeah that seller was totally either Glaive or in on it.

>>1101452

also.....yes user [VEIL] is very hot. And fourth base is totally fucking.

Adding to objectives:

Fuck [VEIL]. Its totally necessary to find [GLAIVE], trust us.

oh you can't have us doing weird shit? and acting weird??? well maybe you shouldn't have reset us to factory settings and sold us to a cute club kid Glaiveybabe!!! ugh please tell me our default search engine isn't bing

okay, I'm calm and fine and only mildly pissed off. sheesh. In the meantime, hey Dez? You did good. You're doing good. So fucking good. You should just know that okay? You saved the girl! You're being as smart as you can in a weird ass situation and should take this win!

You should also send the sprite up for a couple of good drone shots for the blog, because we are still posting through it as they say.

But you're good. I'm glad of all the crazy quicks out there we got you. Please send Veil at least some of that Glaive Cave bulletin and let her know whatever is happening is more confusing and intentional than just Glaive being dead somewhere. We need to get to Delve and get back online properly so we can figure out what the rest of that means

Can we run Dez's memory creation of 14 against our own of Glaive to confirm they were or were not the same? Who remember's Glaive's face?

...Should we send Dez's memory of 14 to Veil?

yeah yeah forward this to veilgaol, get our memory fixed, of course of course. but more importantly. the sacred bond of drunk girls in clubs. is this girl ok? is she cradled in our arms? can we tenderly brush her hair back from her face and look into her eyes and ask if she's ok? is she goth???????? we need to know if she's goth.
fourth base is really important right now.

What does "be normal" even mean right now?

Anyway, I second the plan that's forming here - send over the note to Veilgaol, check if the girl is ok enough to go on her own, then try to get to Delve, and THEN figure out what and where is fourth base.
Maybe if we get some memory restored that last instruction will make more sense.

Should we ask about it? I feel like maybe we should keep the "fourth base" thing to ourselves for now at least. There may be a reason Glave gave us this task without informing anyone else.

We're gonna be so good and normal about this.

Wait shit. If we send the note to Veilgaol it's not gonna be very secret. Oh well.

>>1101449
Lmao. Vittorio is an opportunist and a coward. He's not going to stick his neck out for our sake.

>>1101424
Yeah I want to get in on this.

Ey [DEZ], we got a note here says Glaive set up some shenanigans, and we'll need [VEIL]'s help.

You should introduce yourself since you'll probably be working together for a while. It's a buddy cop movie in the making! The unlikely duo thrown together by fate! Commiserating over how the same person roped them both into this mess!

All to say this will be great for the blog.

>>1101470
This is why we don't explain. Given his zoning out ten minutes ago he's prolly pretty zonked right now anyway.

Still, whether or not it works, it's free to do! Shots in the dark are the best shots!

Voting against contacting Vittorio's osspop again.

Voting for contacting Vittorio's osspop. He seemed fun. More fun than Veil is being right now.

Ah fuck. Pretty sure Glaive was the shady seller. The question is why? Clearly she was determined for it to go to Dez specifically and not just anybody. What makes Dez so special? (aside from being such an endearing mess)

Pretty sure the questions are just gonna keep stacking up until we get our memories back, so finding Delve should be a priority once we've calmed down Veil.

>>1101487
or at the very least connected to the seller. Saying they're related is an obvious W here, perhaps a friend or co-conspirator. Ask if there's anyone that tends to work with them on their experiments? Or a network of people that they'd have connections with? Fuck, might even be their cyberweed dealer, so get that too.