Someone mentioned the infection in Network Effect potentially unlocking memories Murderbot had otherwise lost due to all the resets. So I'm calling it now based on the clues in the first chapter, [redacted] is related to being abandoned on a planet.
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realized i hadn't actually posted any fic snippets of eots with my boy maxie in them so here he is
also. i think groudon and kyogre should be scarier. as a treat.
“Maxie,” she says, tugging gently on his hand. He stops and turns partway around, glancing at her briefly, and follows the direction of her flashlight beam across the cavern to the spot where it illuminates a small x on the rock wall, drawn in white chalk.
“Again?” he mutters.
“This is the third time,” May says, voice high and tremulous, “that we’ve been through here. Every single one of these exits just, I don’t know, loops back here somehow.” She gives him a look that’s halfway between critical and pleading, and he holds her gaze steadily, expression neutral. “Have you seen the passageway that leads back to the entrance? Because it should be right behind us, but we got here through that turn.” She points ahead with her flashlight, to the branch of the cave that heads off to the left. “I mean, how does that even make sense? Coming through the same exit four times from four different directions?”
He turns away, falling silent for a moment. The cavern echoes with the quiet sound of water dripping from somewhere nearby; of Maxie tapping his foot. His hand is warm in hers, and she realizes she’s squeezing it. It’s selfish, but she’s too afraid to let go.
“I think,” he says evenly, “that this is normal.”
She takes a deep breath. “Normal.”
He nods once. “Relatively speaking, of course. But I’ve seen something similar to this before, back at our base.”
She frowns up at him. “I thought that was an abandoned mine?”
He catches her gaze again briefly. “Why do you think it as abandoned? People thought it was haunted, and when they couldn’t find out what was haunting it, they abandoned the project rather than stick around and risk irritating something powerful enough to rearrange a cave system at will.” He looks around the cavern briefly, flashlight beam skating across dripping stalactites on the ceiling. “You have to remember the scale of power we’re dealing with, here. A reasonably powerful psychic-type could achieve something similar to this, and people used to worship Kyogre as a god.”
Maxie’s words hang in the still air for a moment, and May shifts back and forth on her aching feet. She turns and looks behind them, but there’s nothing there except the dark passageway they just walked through.
“You think Kyogre’s doing this.”
“Not doing,” he corrects. “Well. Maybe doing, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a conscious control.” He takes a deep breath. “Obviously, I’m not sure. But have you ever seen anything like this before? Since Groudon… left, we’ve been able to map the entire mine and the cave structure it intersects with. We tried several times before, of course, but were never able to do that successfully while they were still there.”
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That nine eleven post I just reblogged reminded me that my dad was prolly the first person in town to hear about it. He was a broadcast editor for the only TV station in town (a sucky Christian network that will not be named) when he got the Breaking News over the waves and he was the one who broke into the gospel reading to report on the first plane. And then after going back to regular preaching TV he was keeping an a eye on the news and when he saw the second plane hit he called my mom immediately first before he broke in again and switched the preaching to the nearest CBS station. This is absolutely of no consequence to anyone because everyone would have known soon anyway, but it's an interesting piece of trivia for my dad's life
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(this is a repost because i think i accidentally deleted the original post :/)
fun (actually quite sad and not fun whatsoever) fact: when rincewind described what he thought was a crush on conina to himself he only listed physical "symptoms" such as fast heartbeat, feeling too hot to a "molten iron" extent and sweaty palms; he never brought up or even tried to bring up psychological stuff like being drawn to the person you have a crush on or finding some of their features or interests attractive or even something like wanting to get to know them better
he only found physical symptoms that could correspond to many different things other than infatuation and i personally think he just said to himself "well she's a woman and im a man and men are attracted to women right? therefore all this i feel must mean that im attracted to her, can't imagine anything else" but actually if you look at the aforementioned symptoms a little closer....i honestly am of the opinion he was just constantly stressed and anxious and scared on such a deep level already that he couldn't understand why was he feeling all that so he went for the only explanation available; he got so used to fear and anxiety he stopped noticing it and when it expectedly produced bad physical symptoms he already stopped even thinking about the fact that he's afraid and anxious because it became the default state of being to him; he forgot that feeling the way he feels all the time isn't normal
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I had a really shitty panic attack at like 5am this morning and just...didnt go back to sleep. Got a lot done. But now im like blehhhhhhhhh -_-
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