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aberrantangels) wrote2008-06-04 10:55 am
aberrantangels) wrote2008-06-04 10:55 am
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Today in the Trinity Universe: we've got to see each other for whatever we are
I've edited the entries for May 30 and June 3 to incorporate various relevant factors.
So yeah.
Per the edited version of yesterday's post, that actually happens on the second day of Saxon's captivity, whenever that really was. But the Apostle takes possession of Byron Graham through an intermediary: Jesse "Turncoat" Hooks, who can emulate anyone, body and mind. He reads Saxon's memories and discovers the truths the Utopian would rather not have known, the truths Utopia tried to convince him wouldn't happen:
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milliways_bar entrance post on the 27th in which she would've been insisting that Byron deserves some sympathy and Michael would've boomed out, "FOR FUCK'S SAKE, JENNIFER, THE MAN WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF HAVING NON-LETHAL SEX WITH BASELINE WOMEN!" But I decided that'd be a rude thing to do to the entire bar.)
Hooks goes through a number of impersonations of fellow Terats, and baseline yokels, in discoursing on the movement's internal strains. Then Delorimier comes to "take the pain away" with the same pharmacological secretions that allow Turncoat to maintain a presence within driving distance of sanity:
Also, this is the second day of the Pantheon meeting, the one where they actually get down to overviewing the various cliques: the Primacy, the Companions of Allah, the Cult of Mal, the Casablancas, Nova Vigilance, the Harvesters, and the Pandaimonion, in roughly that order. Those who remembered Trinity, the hard-psience space opera to which Aberrant is the prequel, presumably got a frisson when the Apothecary told of Heartland, the community he'd set up in Nebraska to study taint — specifically of Marshal Jeb Wycoff, especially devoted to protecting the town's novas and their baseline families, and Jeb's son Calvert, "one of my most interesting cases. The boy is a most... promising specimen."
June 4
[Aberrant] Project Utopia begins an internal investigation for remaining allies of Corbin within its own ranks.
So yeah.
Synapse hands Saxon over to the Apostle to have his memories wiped (presumably Delorimier's real purpose in wanting Graham captured).
Per the edited version of yesterday's post, that actually happens on the second day of Saxon's captivity, whenever that really was. But the Apostle takes possession of Byron Graham through an intermediary: Jesse "Turncoat" Hooks, who can emulate anyone, body and mind. He reads Saxon's memories and discovers the truths the Utopian would rather not have known, the truths Utopia tried to convince him wouldn't happen:
They didn't tell you that everything would continue to change. How those thoughts would come in the night, when you're lying on your baseline pet. [...] Three times that night. Twice after she was dead. [...] "Take it! Take it all!" Nasty way to get your kicks, big boy. I've heard of being a grower and not a shower, but that's taking it a bit far, don't you think? But I guess that's what Bangkok whores and PR cover-ups are for.
(I considered giving
md_donighal and slidingjennifer a joint milliways_bar entrance post on the 27th in which she would've been insisting that Byron deserves some sympathy and Michael would've boomed out, "FOR FUCK'S SAKE, JENNIFER, THE MAN WAS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF HAVING NON-LETHAL SEX WITH BASELINE WOMEN!" But I decided that'd be a rude thing to do to the entire bar.)Hooks goes through a number of impersonations of fellow Terats, and baseline yokels, in discoursing on the movement's internal strains. Then Delorimier comes to "take the pain away" with the same pharmacological secretions that allow Turncoat to maintain a presence within driving distance of sanity:
The prostitutes' cracking bodies will trouble you no more. Yes, your actions in Kashmir, they too are gone. So many dismembered civilians, how quaint that you still feel guilt.... Do not worry, Mister Hooks has been in your mind, he will remember all that you are until the day he dies, the poor thing.
Also, this is the second day of the Pantheon meeting, the one where they actually get down to overviewing the various cliques: the Primacy, the Companions of Allah, the Cult of Mal, the Casablancas, Nova Vigilance, the Harvesters, and the Pandaimonion, in roughly that order. Those who remembered Trinity, the hard-psience space opera to which Aberrant is the prequel, presumably got a frisson when the Apothecary told of Heartland, the community he'd set up in Nebraska to study taint — specifically of Marshal Jeb Wycoff, especially devoted to protecting the town's novas and their baseline families, and Jeb's son Calvert, "one of my most interesting cases. The boy is a most... promising specimen."