@Kromer || audio

[gripper]

( Kromer's decided she quite doesn't like this place. It doesn't seem like her opinion is an unpopular one, looking at other posts that have cropped up, so that's great. Wonderful when all of humanity is on the same page.

smile.

A whistle comes through the phone first, then her voice. It's a little on the grating side. )

Testing, testing.... Looks like this works! How wonderful.

( It might also be a little familiar to certain people, too. )

What an interesting situation we've found ourselves in. ( "interesting". ) It looks like some of you are already starting to get to know each other a little and make allies, huh? Ahahaha...

( ...... )

Since everyone else is posing questions, let me do a few too. Did you get a waste-of-time text before you left the train? What did you answer? What is your "business"? What Nest are you from? And finally, of course, the most important question of them all...

( Kromer pauses deliberately, relishing in her own dramatics. )

Have we any heretics among our number? I'm looking forward to hearing your responses.

[ ooc: a reminder that her opt-out is here! i'd highly encourage at least glancing at it. ]

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[gripper]

( welllllll

confidential. she won't address the first part. the second part is good to hear--mostly. mostly, because... )

And if you could afford them, would you surrender your flesh?

( answer wisely. )

[gradenine]

[ sweats nervously ]

Probably not. Sure, there are pros to getting prosthetics, but they aren't for me. If I wanted a power boost, I'd just get enhancement tattoos or bioaugmentations - which are totally different from installing prosthetics, by the way.

[ one can't rise the fixer ranks without some form of augmentations to their body, and they don't have to be clunky and metallic either. is ncorp going to target them for that? 'cause if they do, they'd have to fight off all 12 associations for it and that's gonna be messy. ]

[gripper]

( there's a long silence as kromer thinks on it. they are different than prosthetics, that's true. one could graciously consider it empowering what you already have--simply building upon it past its natural limitations.

it would be too much trouble to regulate that with other districts unless they reached an accord, and even then, it would probably only... )

Yes, they're different. ( but it sounds a lot like "they're on thin ice". ) Good answer. I hope I have the pleasure of working together with you one day, Keter. In our City, it's rare to find others of the same mind as the two of us.




( no, he didn't say he abhorred them, but there's time for that. gonna buy some canned experience with her overflow rewards. )

[gradenine]

Didn't really say that we have the same mind, though.

[ he has a lot of buddies with prosthetics? there's nothing wrong with that kind of lifestyle. boy, if kromer ever met angela - ]

But, uh. You do your thing and I do mine, and if our paths cross at some point, we'll see where we can go from there. Is that better?

[ he'd never want to work for a zealot like that. how is she even crazier than the index themselves... ]

[gripper]

( he didn't not say it either, though. )

Whatever suits you. It doesn't ma... ( ...hold on, there's a delighted little laugh. ) Ah, it seems what's mine has come running, like I knew he would. We'll speak again later. Bye-bye for now.

( she has a boy to kill! good bye. )