Conversation 759: PIER / JOYCE ON EVRART

EVRART HUB and all such relevant information. Also tells you Discovery of Insulinde story.

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2 Joyce Messier "The pale was thought to be impregnable, perpetual." She points northwest. "Irene La Navigateur, the Queen of Suresne, sent *eight* expeditions, one after the other, into the mass at the edge of the world. Five of the crews did not return. Two did, but had lost their minds."
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3 Joyce Messier "Until after *years* of trial and error -- and the development of a *strict* psychological regime imitating the creation process of poetry..."
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4 Joyce Messier "The eighth expedition returned, sane and intact. They told of a new continent of matter. They told the queen and her councillor, Dolores Dei, that the pale had begun to condense, day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute."
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5 Joyce Messier "The nations who colonized this isola called theirs *Mundi*. The World. It was all they knew, all they thought would be. That there would be something more was a gamble. Akin to another world -- or life after death."
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6 Conceptualization Called Volta do Mar, or Return from the Sea.
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7 Joyce Messier "But they could not. They were sane and conscious, as islands began to appear on the horizon... There are 78,000 uninhabited islands in the Insulindian archipelago, officer. The freckled face of god," she smiles.
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8 Joyce Messier She nods. "The phenomenon has never again been encountered. For a time the crew thought they were experiencing a hallucination. The mast-hand proclaimed 'L´Insulinde! L´Insulinde!' -- the signal to wake up."
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9 You "This ocean?"
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10 Conceptualization You've thought it a million times.
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11 Joyce Messier "On the second day, a great skua was shot down above the flagship Lysergique. The bird was preserved and brought back. Along with pollen." She looks to the sky, then back at you.
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12 Joyce Messier "Four years later the queen’s councillor was proclaimed Her Innocence Dolores Dei, the elected world spirit. The age of humanism, internationalism, and parliamentary rule followed. We were *high*..."
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13 None
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14 Joyce Messier
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15 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_hub_reached"]
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16 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_hub_reached"]) == false
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17 Joyce Messier "Hmh," she nods with well-contained curiosity.
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18 None
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19 You "That money you gave me -- would that make things... *weird*? If I shared information, I mean?" Variable["pier.joyce_moneybave_smallest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_great"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_small"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_greatest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_middle"]
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20 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun." Variable["cargo.evrart_gun_getting_located"] == true and CheckItem("gun_villiers") == false
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21 You "He asked me to open a door." Variable["TASK.open_gary_door_done"] == true
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22 You "He asked me to deliver an envelope." Variable["TASK.deliver_mail_to_fishing_village"] == true
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23 Joyce Messier "Which isn't to suggest our talks constitute *corporate espionage*. Even *if* they did -- it would be fine. But they don't, since you logged the money as a donation and this is *clearly* just gossip between friends."
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24 None
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25 Volition She's not even asking you anything. It's so easy to just say...
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26 None
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27 Logic The lieutenant might have -- but I don't remember you logging anything as anything, Harry.
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28 You "I helped him turn up the heat on the borscht." Variable["whirling.goracy_evrart_electro"] == true or Variable["whirling.turned_the_brew_off"] == true
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29 You "Ma'am, this whole thing is a takeover." Variable["TASK.deliver_mail_to_fishing_village_done"] == true and Variable["cargo.evrart_logic_hostile_takeover"] == true and Variable["pier.joyce_tried_to_say_takeover_once"] == false and Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
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30 You "I'd rather talk about something else for now, if you don't mind." (Conclude.)
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31 Joyce Messier "Of course, detective," she simmers down. "Should something come up, later down the road -- don't be afraid to drop by for a chat."
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32 None
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33 Joyce Messier "Oh!" Her eyes become large and round. "That's so *helpful* of him..."
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34 Joyce Messier
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35 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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36 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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37 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant looks at you and you can swear his jaw muscle is trembling.
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38 Kim Kitsuragi "Unconventional police officers sometimes *lose* their guns. They then go around and tell people about this -- to gauge their reactions. It's all part of *detecting*."
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39 Joyce Messier "So very, very helpful," she repeats. "And how is that going? Do you have any *leads* on that gun?"
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40 None
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41 You "Mr. Evrart says it's *almost* ready to be found soon."
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42 You "Check it out!" (Pull out your gun.)
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43 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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44 Joyce Messier "Ah yes. As you said." She looks confused for a moment.
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45 Joyce Messier
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46 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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47 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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48 Kim Kitsuragi "Please don't get him in a loop. If he gets in a loop it will last *forever*. Ask him to say something else please."
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49 Joyce Messier "Of course. Thank you for the advice -- I'm glad you were here to assist." She turns to you: "Your *other* dealings with Evrart are still of considerable interest to me..."
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50 None
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51 Joyce Messier "Your gun, yes -- do you want to talk about something else now?"
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52 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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53 Conceptualization He seems to be in some sort of *loop*.
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54 Joyce Messier ...
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55 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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56 Volition Executive function is completely shot. I keep pushing buttons and nothing is happening.
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57 Joyce Messier "What is happening?"
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58 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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59 Electrochemistry Well, *that's* not good. Looks fine over here. You sure it's not some sort of *glandular* problem?
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60 Reaction Speed No, it's not that -- it's... I have no idea. This is bad.
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61 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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62 Joyce Messier ...
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63 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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64 Joyce Messier ...
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65 Joyce Messier "Sweetheart, please stop repeating that now." Her eyes look worried, frightened even.
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66 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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67 Joyce Messier "Please..." She looks around.
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68 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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69 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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70 Joyce Messier ...
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71 Joyce Messier "Yes, yes, Mr. Evrart... this gossiping idea was terrible on my part, I take it back."
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72 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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73 Logic How do we get out of here?
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74 Suggestion What makes you think we *will*?
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75 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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76 Joyce Messier The woman scans her surroundings as though a neurologist might magically appear.
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77 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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78 Half Light Fear seeps into you as you say it...
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79 Shivers ...your skin crawls...
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80 Shivers MR. EVRART IS HELPING HIM FIND HIS GUN.
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81 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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82 Joyce Messier ...
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83 Joyce Messier "Do you want me to take you to a hospital, sir?"
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84 Authority Things were going so well before. There's no other option. The process must be interrupted.
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85 Inland Empire You think we should... turn him off and back on again?
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86 Joyce Messier "Officer?" She waves her hand in front of your eyes.
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87 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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88 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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89 Joyce Messier "Good God..."
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90 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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91 Joyce Messier She clasps her thermal cup, uncertain.
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92 Joyce Messier She considers taking a sip. She doesn't.
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93 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
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94 Joyce Messier "That's beautiful..." She inspects it.
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95 Composure Keeping her calm, perfect posture. Her eyes move across the muzzle keenly.
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96 Joyce Messier "A Villiers 9mm, front loaded? Two or three barrelled..."
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97 You "Three. It was not easy to get this gun back, I'll tell you that."
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98 You Say nothing.
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99 Joyce Messier "Villiers & La Salle was one of the original 14 indotribes of Revachol, did you know? Artillery and ballistics. Before the Revolution of course, they belong to some Gottwalders now."
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100 Joyce Messier "Mhm," she nods. "Villiers & La Salle was one of the original 14 indotribes of Revachol, did you know? Artillery and ballistics. Before the Revolution of course, they belong to some Gottwalders now."
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101 None
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102 Rhetoric She phrases it as if it's a pity. She *also* phrases it as a transition out of you waving your gun around.
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103 Joyce Messier "What else? It helps to sometimes hold inventory of the things you've achieved, you know." A smile. "Clears the soul."
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104 You "No."
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105 Joyce Messier "Well, maybe he's not as *helpful* as you thought then? Is there anything else?"
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106 Joyce Messier "Did he now?" Her eyes narrow. "Well, then it should be any day now. Unless, of course, he's *lying* to you. Anyway, was there anything else you've heard?"
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107 None
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108 Joyce Messier "Did you now?" She's intrigued, if a little confused. "What sort of borscht is he making?"
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109 You "Unimportant."
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110 You "The cook makes it to keep the strikers drunk. Helps them strike."
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111 Joyce Messier
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112 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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113 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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114 Kim Kitsuragi "You're right detective -- that whole undertaking was *very* unimportant. Why did we do it?"
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115 Joyce Messier "The strike brew," she nods. "That's a classic. And by *turn up the heat* I presume you mean *put more alcohol in it*?"
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116 You "Yes."
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117 Joyce Messier "Why, if I may ask? Why make them *more* drunk? Aren't they corked enough already?"
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118 Kim Kitsuragi "Yes, detective -- what *were* you hoping to accomplish with this strange thing?"
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119 Joyce Messier
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120 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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121 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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122 None
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123 You "An act born of sympathy for the working man. I set fire to the fumes of struggle."
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124 You "I did it out of sympathy for alcoholism. It's a cause dear to me."
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125 You "It's uninteresting, I thought it would make the broth taste better."
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126 Joyce Messier "Very curious." She blinks both eyes. "A very curious thing to do."
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127 Kim Kitsuragi "Truly, but that's how he operates. He just does things, ma'am. And then talks about them -- even if it's inappropriate."
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128 Joyce Messier
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129 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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130 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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131 Empathy A strange equanimity has overtaken the lieutenant. He's just going with the flow now. Easier that way.
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132 Joyce Messier "What else?"
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133 None
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134 Joyce Messier "A referral, you mean? I take it this was for someone in the RCM..." She waves her hand. "Don't answer that."
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135 You "Yes, a referral."
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136 You "No, I mean like a real door. To someone's house."
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137 Drama My liege, this woman has half-convinced herself already. All it would take is a little nudge...
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138 Joyce Messier She nods, carefully, as though handling a match near a powder keg. "Such referrals may sometimes get you information from a man like Evrart," she says, raising an eyebrow. "Did it?"
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139 Joyce Messier "Oh my -- a real door?"
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140 Joyce Messier
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141 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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142 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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143 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant does not say anything, but you hear the nylon of his jacket rustle as he looks at you.
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144 You "I helped scare someone for Mr. Claire."
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145 You "I scared this Gary for Mr. Claire. He got pretty scared." Variable["whirling.lena_gary_confirm"] or Variable["coast.gary_apartment"]
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146 You "It was nothing."
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147 You "It had to be done -- I got information. It was useful to the case."
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148 Joyce Messier "Of course. The RCM has the right to inspect any premises." She nods: "How else would you catch the bad guys? The information was useful I hope?"
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149 Joyce Messier "That's good to hear, detective. Police work is rarely pretty, but it sounds like you did what you had to do."
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150 Joyce Messier "My-my! What I'm hearing is..." She says, slow and teacher-like: "You inspected a premises because you suspected that it was involved in the narcotics trade..."
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151 Logic Her bartering mind cannot fathom that you didn't ask anything in return.
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152 Joyce Messier
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153 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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154 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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155 Kim Kitsuragi "Frankly, what was done was not pretty at all -- but neither was it illegal. And it was not for nothing." He turns to you...
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156 None
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157 You "He didn't seem at all worried about the whole conflict that's developing." Variable["cargo.evrart_hes_happy_about_the_tribunal"] == false and Variable["cargo.evrart_logic_hostile_takeover"] == false
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158 You "The Union's militant wing organized the lynching."
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159 You "Evrart asked the Union's militant wing to fully cooperate with the investigation."
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160 You "This militant wing has singled out a suspect for me." Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
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161 Kim Kitsuragi "I advise you to be *very* selective with what information you choose to share. This may have consequences beyond our line-of-sight."
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162 Authority This seems serious...
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163 Visual Calculus He means beyond the coming days and weeks -- or the grasp of newspaper and radio reports that may trickle to your desk if ever you return to Precinct 41. In the far future.
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164 You "Evrart says the Wild Pines sent mercenaries after the Union -- and now one's dead."
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165 Joyce Messier "Misinformation..." She shakes her head vigorously. "This is all because we haven't shared information on the lynching yet. See, already the adversary uses it to their advantage. Don't let him."
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166 None
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167 Joyce Messier "I wouldn't have taken Evrart for a sabre-rattler. Was he surrounded by *Union men* he wanted to impress?"
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168 Joyce Messier "Yes," she leans slightly closer: "That's the talk about town. The *Hardie boys* they're called..." A crooked smile returns to her face. "I find the name rather amusing, honestly."
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169 You "He wasn't trying to impress anyone. I think he *wants* things to escalate."
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170 You "You're right. He was probably just showing off to me."
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171 Joyce Messier "Or he wants you and me to *believe* he wants to go to war."
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172 Drama Of course. Brinkmanship takes showmanship. We should have seen it before, in his office. He might well have been performing for us.
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173 Joyce Messier
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174 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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175 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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176 Kim Kitsuragi "There's always that risk, ma'am. But if I may offer my opinion..."
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177 Kim Kitsuragi "He means it."
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178 Joyce Messier
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179 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_drama_escalation"]
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180 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_drama_escalation"]) == false
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181 Half Light Don't be. He was not performing. He was already picturing a war. This woman underestimates Evrart.
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182 None
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183 You "Maybe he was manipulating me."
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184 You "No, I'm pretty sure I'm reading it correctly."
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185 Joyce Messier "I'll think it over, detective. Thank you for relaying this information to me."
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186 None
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187 Volition She tries to hide it, but some *great doubt* is spreading within her. There is a crown slowly cracking above her head.
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188 Joyce Messier
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189 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_volition_doubt"]
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190 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_volition_doubt"]) == false
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191 You "Ma'am? Is everything alright?"
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192 You What's this *great doubt* you're talking about?
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193 Volition You can't say. Only that she's hiding the magnitude of it from you.
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194 Joyce Messier "What? Yes, of course. Everything's fine. Perhaps there's more gossip you'd like to share?"
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195 None
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196 Joyce Messier "How benevolent," she thinks for a second. "Hopefully they'll help you sort this whole business out... if they haven't already?"
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197 Joyce Messier
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198 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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199 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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200 Kim Kitsuragi "We cannot discuss the specifics of an ongoing investigation, ma'am." The lieutenant adjusts his glasses. "Besides, you haven't exactly been forthcoming yourself..."
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201 You "That's all I've got to say."
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202 Joyce Messier "What you've said is quite enough. You have given me a lot to consider -- and may have helped me prevent this conflict from escalating."
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203 Joyce Messier She nods. "That is only fair."
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204 None
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205 You "I have reason to believe the lynching was a cover-up." (Variable["XP.discover_the_bullet"] or Variable["yard.hanged_got_bullet_out"])
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206 Joyce Messier "It looks like you may untie this knot yet!" Her eyes smile and a tingle runs down your spine.
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207 Electrochemistry There's something in you that really likes the way she's looking at you just now.
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208 Joyce Messier "Oh my... *very* interesting. So the militant wing is protecting one of their own..."
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209 Logic Her mind races to the conclusion that most benefits her interests. That doesn't mean she's wrong, though.
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210 You "I've said all I can."
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211 Joyce Messier "Well, I hope it yields something. Otherwise you'll have opened that door for naught." She smiles. "Anything else?"
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212 None
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213 None
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214 Joyce Messier
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215 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_wants_war"]
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216 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_wants_war"]) == false
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217 Joyce Messier "Naturally, detective. There are lighter topics to gossip about."
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218 Suggestion Hear that, hero? Feels good, doesn't it? You should relay confidential information more often.
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219 Joyce Messier "Sounds like he has you running errands, detective. A well-established dominance ritual..." She thinks. "Where did he have you deliver it?"
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220 Joyce Messier
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221 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
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222 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]) == false
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223 You "Here."
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224 You "To a nameless settlement, down the coast. Nearby."
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225 Joyce Messier "Ah yes, I've been meaning to go there..." She looks over the bay.
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226 Joyce Messier "Here?" She looks around. "Oh no... what does that bloated hellbat want with my little cinder block town?"
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227 Empathy It's clear the village has already grown dear to her... strangely so. Why *did* she come here?
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228 Joyce Messier "No, don't tell me. I don't want to know what he has in store for this place... Probably a statue. It's a statue, right?"
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229 Joyce Messier "A giant statue of him or, better yet, his twin brother. Practically the same thing, but makes him seem less like a psychopath."
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230 Empathy With longing... clear and simple longing. Strange. Why does she want to go there?
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231 None
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232 You "He wants to build a youth centre here. For the children of Martinaise."
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233 You "What size boots do you wear, madam?" Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_boots"]
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234 Joyce Messier "A youth centre with Edgar Claire's statue on top of it!" She looks down the jetty, remorsefully.
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235 Joyce Messier
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236 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
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237 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]) == false
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238 Joyce Messier "Go ahead, help him. Make it so. I have no power to stop him."
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239 Joyce Messier "A youth centre with Edgar Claire's statue on top of it..." Her eyes run across the water, remorsefully.
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240 Shivers The humidity crawls under your skin. Your eyes track her gaze: past the net picker... toward the concrete square of the nameless village off the coast of Martinaise.
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241 Shivers The concrete plates cross to meet in an abstract shape, in them: small footprints -- impressions left by rubber boots. Small rubber boots.
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242 Joyce Messier
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243 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_boots"]
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244 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_boots"]) == false
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245 You Close your eyes.
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246 You Keep them open.
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247 Joyce Messier "What?" She looks at the soles of her tiny green rubber boots: "Thirty-five, I think. Why? I have mutant's feet. Very small."
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248 None
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249 Joyce Messier "Yes. I'm sad I will never have the time, detective -- I've always wanted a dilapidating fishing village."
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250 Joyce Messier
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251 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_electrochem_imbibed"]
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252 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_electrochem_imbibed"]) == false
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253 You "Numb 12."
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254 Joyce Messier She smells the cold air, then withdraws her hand slowly.
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255 You "You're quite fond of this village, aren't you?" Variable["pier.joyce_electrochem_red_empathy_help"] or Variable["pier.joyce_feet_connected"]
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256 You "When you were a teen? *Slumming* it, like you told me before?" Variable["pier.joyce_slumming"]
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257 You "You've been to Martinaise before?"
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258 Joyce Messier "Yes, I was *slumming* it with some girl-friends of mine. We had boats and..." She smiles. "Don't hold it against me -- my *paramour* certainly did not."
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259 Joyce Messier "Hah! I think I was in my twenties actually. I'm ashamed to say I wasn't a teen anymore. It must have been my early twenties, because I remember a particularly *vile* disco track."
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260 Joyce Messier "I'm over-radiated, detective," she spurts out. "I do silly things sometimes -- out of pale-related sickness. Like sail over here. The moral of the story is..."
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261 Joyce Messier
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262 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]
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263 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]) == false
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264 Joyce Messier "I'm glad to see your *short-term* memory appears intact. In any case, I wasn't a *teen* anymore, I would have been in my early twenties. I remember a distinctly *vile* disco track..."
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265 Joyce Messier "Not overly so. It's not like this was the only place we visited -- me and my girlfriends from Ozonne with our shiny boats, like reavers..."
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266 You "Sounds like you miss those times."
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267 Empathy Oh no -- she's sentimental all right.
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268 Endurance And something more. Something deeper rooted, like a sickness.
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269 Joyce Messier
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270 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_ampathy_nostalgic_for_vilage"]
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271 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_ampathy_nostalgic_for_vilage"]) == false
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272 Joyce Messier
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273 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
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274 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]) == false
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275 Empathy Oh no -- she's sentimental all right. Why would she come here otherwise?
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276 None
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277 You "If you say so."
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278 You "Why did you come here then? To this jetty?" Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"] and Variable["pier.joyce_ampathy_nostalgic_for_vilage"]
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279 Rhetoric She is more defensive about it than usual.
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280 Perception (Smell) An imperceptible droplet lingers. Sweet like the scent of chewing gum on some letter, long ago...
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281 Joyce Messier "He's probably dead by now -- even his shack is long gone... not that it matters. These buildings are all carbon copies of one another."
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282 Joyce Messier "Do not spend 22 days a year in pale transit, don't waste your twenties slumming it with your stupid friends, and don't deliver Evrart Claire's mail." Her bony finger is pointed like an arrow at your chest...
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283 Pain Threshold She's pointing it *quite* hard in there. Feels like a knife.
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284 Joyce Messier "Are you satisfied, detective? What else can you tell me about your *mail delivery quest* for Evrart? Do you think it will *improve* the place?"
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285 Joyce Messier "Full of ghosts and ancient memories." She smiles. "Has this errand yielded you any... information?"
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286 None
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287 Joyce Messier "Until then -- is there anything *I* can help *you* with?"
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288 Electrochemistry The temperature between her skin and her hydrophobic raincoat rises, warming the Numb 12 perfume she's imbibed herself with. You have no other option but to say...
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289 Electrochemistry Below her hydrophobic raincoat, in the humidity between her skin and the neoprene. And on the silk scarf on her neck, a perfume. You have no other option but to say its name...
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290 None
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291 None
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292 None
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293 You "Disco isn't vile."
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294 You "Disco *is* vile."
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295 Joyce Messier "Not as vile as me..." She looks over the bay, her green eyes shining.
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296 Joyce Messier "It is -- but not as vile as me..." She looks over the bay, her green eyes shining.
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297 Joyce Messier
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298 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.electrochem_numb_twelve"]
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299 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.electrochem_numb_twelve"]) == false
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300 Joyce Messier "A takeover?"
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301 You "Yes. It's not a strike. You aren't being let in because there's nothing to negotiate. The Union is taking the terminal."
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302 Joyce Messier "If they're *taking* it..." She look toward the colourful mountain of crates, like toy blocks rising above Martinaise.
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303 You "He's ready for a war. They all are."
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304 Joyce Messier "They most certainly are not." Her eyes return to you. "Krenel has a thousand men on their payroll. The next batch will be a platoon of twenty men and a gunship."
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305 You "He has told me so in his own words -- he's taking it. He'll also use the drug trade to finance the harbour."
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306 Perception (Sight) Green livery changing into red, blot by blot.
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307 Conceptualization Like a cancer of the blood, metastasising...
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308 Joyce Messier "*Taking* it..." She looks toward the colourful mountain of crates, like toy blocks rising above Martinaise.
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309 Joyce Messier "Then we're talking about a *war*. Evrart needs to let me into the harbour at once. We need to talk about this."
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310 Joyce Messier "An insane goal." Her eyes return to you. "Krenel has a thousand men on their payroll. The next batch will be a platoon of twenty men and a gunship. You can't simply *trick* them."
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311 You "War is their goal. They think they can win before you even know it's started." Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_wants_war"] == false
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312 Joyce Messier "An insane goal." Her eyes return to you. "Krenel has a thousand men on their payroll. The next batch will be a platoon of twenty men and a gunship, the one after that, a hundred."
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313 You "The war *is* their goal. I told you before -- Evrart has always wanted this to escalate." Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_wants_war"] == true
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314 Joyce Messier "No," her eyes return to you. "It's naive of me. He sent you -- this *is* the negotiation now."
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315 You "I can ask him to let you in."
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316 Joyce Messier "And if he does not change course it will be a war negotiation, detective."
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317 Joyce Messier
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318 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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319 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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320 Kim Kitsuragi "I've seen the Union's forces. They're better organized than these mercenaries. They also have the support of the people of Revachol West."
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321 Kim Kitsuragi "It will take more than Krenel to wipe them out. Wild Pines will need to send more and better-equipped men. Make no mistake, ma'am..."
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322 Kim Kitsuragi "I am sure you have the money. The question is how many years and how many lives are you willing to sacrifice?"
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323 You "I have seen them. The Union is well prepared to take on Krenel."
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324 You "It will be a massacre, the Union is massively out-gunned."
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325 You "It will take a long time to kill them all. A lot of lives will be lost."
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326 Joyce Messier "You think Krenel is the only contractor Wild Pines employs? They'll only be the start. More will come. The question is how many years and lives will it take?" She falls silent.
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327 Joyce Messier "What do you suggest I do?"
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328 Joyce Messier "They have the support of Revachol West. They have the position... this will be a prolonged and bloody conflict. The only question is how long -- and how bloody." She falls silent.
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329 None
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330 Empathy Does it matter? Her mind's made up. It has been for some time. The choice was whether to *tell* her this. And you've already made it.
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331 Joyce Messier
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332 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_wants_war"]
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333 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_wants_war"]) == false
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334 Logic Does it matter? Or has her mind been made up for quite a while now?
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335 None
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336 You "It's not the RCM's job to make these decisions."
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337 You "The workers should have the harbour."
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338 You "Cut off the snake's head. Evrart's pushing all this."
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339 You "You've already made up your mind, ma'am. What is it?" Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_amde_up_her_mind"]
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340 You "First, will this affect your decision making process?"
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341 Joyce Messier "Everything affects the decision making process, detective."
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342 Joyce Messier
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343 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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344 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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345 Kim Kitsuragi "Officer..." The look on the lieutenant's face conveys uncertainty. He doesn't even sound angry.
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346 Rhetoric A constrictor knot of contrary motives: greed, fear. There may be a way to affect her through these microscopics...
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347 None
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348 You "It's a bluff. Call it. Have them open fire and see how long they last."
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349 You (Look at your wrist.) "It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming."
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350 You "I wish there was a *disco* option."
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351 Joyce Messier "I'm afraid we won't disco our way out of this one..." she says, with considerable regret.
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352 Joyce Messier "Like the previous leaders of the Union were assassinated? I suspect by Evrart and Edgar themselves..." She considers it.
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353 Joyce Messier "I admit there's some *poetry* in the idea. And like poetry, it's also useless. There would still be Edgar. They've factored it in. The Union is them and they are Martinaise."
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354 Joyce Messier "They will last as long as the drug trade in Jamrock provides them with support. With all due respect, that will be a long and bloody time."
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355 Joyce Messier
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356 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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357 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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358 Kim Kitsuragi "One day you will realize you can't simply go around saying these things about the citizens we're here to protect."
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359 Joyce Messier "Of course. Your job is to clean up after them. And it looks like there will be a *lot* of cleaning to be done in the near future."
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360 Joyce Messier "Do you think it's within my authority to give it to them? Do you think I can control the board and the shell-shocked mercenaries they've sent?"
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361 Joyce Messier "There will be no *gloaming*. There will be slow, simmering, hideous civil war. The beginnings of a failed state. No rapture, just ugliness."
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362 You "So, what are you going to do?"
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363 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant looks at his own watch and sighs. "Maybe so, detective, but that doesn't mean we're not obliged to try and stop it."
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364 Joyce Messier
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365 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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366 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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367 Joyce Messier "He's right. There will be slow, simmering, hideous civil war. The beginnings of a failed state. No apocalyptic rapture, just ugliness."
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368 Authority It is. It is well within her authority. It's been clear for some time that this woman is more than she lets on.
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369 Joyce Messier
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370 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_give_up"]
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371 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_give_up"]) == false
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372 Logic All that's left is the denouement.
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373 You "Bring in everything you have and wipe them from the face of the earth."
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374 Joyce Messier "Such a thing isn't in my character."
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375 Half Light It is. It is well within her character.
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376 Joyce Messier "I will take your advice, detective. I will surrender Terminal B to the Union."
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377 Joyce Messier "I will surrender Terminal B to the Union."
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378 You "Is that within your means?"
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379 Joyce Messier She puts her hand in the rain. She's silent for a second.
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380 Joyce Messier
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381 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_authority_she_has_power"]
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382 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_authority_she_has_power"]) == false
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383 Authority It is. It is well within her authority. It's been clear for some time that this woman is more than she lets on.
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384 Kim Kitsuragi "Ma'am... This may well unravel property law this side of the river. If that occurs, we may never see the end of this kind of confrontation. The next time there will be two strikes..." He looks toward the harbour. "Then four, then a hundred."
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385 Joyce Messier
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386 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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387 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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388 Joyce Messier "What happens will happen." She takes the end in her rain-slick hand and starts untying the knot.
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389 Logic And what about the next time?
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390 Joyce Messier
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391 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_logic_strike_spreads"]
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392 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_logic_strike_spreads"]) == false
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393 You "This won't be the last *strike*. There'll be another, then another, until the rule of law unravels."
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394 You Look to the water falling, without saying a single thing.
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395 None
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396 You "Is this... safe though? I mean... Won't they start doing it all the time?"
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397 Joyce Messier "What will I do..." she says slowly looking around.
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398 Joyce Messier The wind blows, waves crash in the distance. She crosses her arms and asks: "Did I ever tell you how they discovered this isola? During our talks?"
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399 Composure Her arms fall to her sides, her spine relaxes.
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400 Joyce Messier "It may be the only *break* we've ever caught as a species. The last one for four hundred years."
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401 You "No, ma'am."
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402 You "You said you would. One day." Variable["pier.joyce_discovery_story_will_tell_you_mentioned"]
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403 You "You said I'm uneducated, remember?" Variable["pier.joyce_discovery_story_will_tell_you_mentioned"]
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404 Joyce Messier "Typically arrogant of me.... Absent-minded as well. Interisolary travel has left holes in my consciousness, I'm afraid."
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405 You "Tell me."
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406 You "Do we have the time?"
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407 Joyce Messier
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408 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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409 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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410 Kim Kitsuragi "We do for this, officer."
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411 Empathy His arm rises for a second, as if he's about to put it on your shoulder. He doesn't, but the intention was there...
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412 Joyce Messier "We do for this," she nods.
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413 None
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414 You "Why?"
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415 Joyce Messier "It was anything but *normal*. There was no precedent, people thought she was punishing the admirals, or had gone mad, or both..."
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416 Rhetoric Each of those expeditions would have been led by an admiral. Sounds like a purge. Like she was purging her political rivals.
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417 Joyce Messier
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418 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_rhet_irenne"]
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419 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_rhet_irenne"]) == false
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420 You "Eight? Is that a normal number?"
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421 Joyce Messier "Slowly raining down until it formed a vast ocean."
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422 Shivers There are rain circles on water all around, humidity crawls up your back like a piano trill.
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423 You Put your hand in the rain.
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424 Shivers The droplets feel warm. Like spring rain.
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425 Joyce Messier
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426 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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427 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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428 Kim Kitsuragi So does the lieutenant. His mouth is slightly open as he looks to the sky.
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429 Perception (Smell) The air is cold and scented with petrichor.
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430 Joyce Messier
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431 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_concept_navigateur"]
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432 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_concept_navigateur"]) == false
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433 You "'After life, death -- after death, life again. After the world, the pale -- after the pale, the world again.'"
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434 You Say nothing.
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435 Joyce Messier "A total shift," she nods. "In human comprehension of reality. On the second day, a great skua was shot down, above the flagship Lysergique. The bird was preserved and brought back. Along with pollen."
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436 You "Sounds cruel."
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437 You "Sounds *political*."
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438 Joyce Messier She nods. "There was no precedent for such an undertaking. People thought she was punishing the admirals, or had gone mad, or both..."
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439 None
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440 You "Leaving us *here*."
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441 You "The great skua was the first bird they saw?"
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442 You "And this was the last break we got?"
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443 You "It's raining." Variable["auto.is_raining"] == true
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444 You "What will you do?" (Proceed.)
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445 Joyce Messier "On Caillou..." She studies your reaction. "The Pebble, the largest of the fertile, uninhabited islands of the northeast Insulindian archipelago. Four centuries and two revolutions later."
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446 Joyce Messier "The first living, autonomous organism. Proof of reality. It's the symbol of Insulinde, detective, the coat-of-arms of the Suzerain and the wings on the crest of the Commune."
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447 You "I seem to have it in for it. Or it for me. I broke one."
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448 Joyce Messier "In your defence -- it is a nasty creature, who plucks food from the throats of lesser birds. Yet much like Revachol, it is also magnificent. And rare. Imagine the suzerain of seagulls."
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449 Inland Empire There was a sting in your heart at the mention... before. When she said its name.
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450 None
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451 None
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452 Joyce Messier "The nations of Mundi proceeded to discover five more isolae -- or they discovered us -- all in the rush of the great interisolary reconnection..."
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453 Joyce Messier "But these others weren't uninhabited. We had to kill people there, wipe out indigenous populations, gunboat economies. Or they came to do the same for us. Or had done to each other. But here..." she spreads her arms.
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454 Joyce Messier "There was no one but the skua. The Liliacea. And the blood beech and the River Esperance. It was the New New World. The Mondials used it to amass the greatest concentration of wealth mankind has ever seen -- Revachol the Suzerain."
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455 Joyce Messier "Revolution, poverty, and the mercurial rise of capitalism," she nods.
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456 You "What happened?" (Look around.)
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457 You "Well done, Suzerain!" (Nod.)
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458 Joyce Messier "But what was done exactly? Revolution, the rise and crash of capital, international intervention..."
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459 Joyce Messier "It is." She pulls the hood over her head. "Soon it will be spring and everything will blossom."
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460 None
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461 Joyce Messier
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462 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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463 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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464 Kim Kitsuragi "The gangs will run wild." The lieutenant keeps his hand in the rain. "Jacking motor carriages, ferrying amphetamines through Coal City. Spring is tough in Revachol."
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465 Joyce Messier "We will see."
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466 Joyce Messier "The age of capital has only begun. I will talk to my employers in person. We will amputate and cauterize Martinaise -- if you handle the situation on the ground."
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467 You *We*? She generally avoids that term with her employers.
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468 You "You're going *now*?"
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469 Joyce Messier
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470 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_redcheck_rhet_we_employers"]
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471 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_redcheck_rhet_we_employers"]) == false
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472 Joyce Messier "Yes. Mr. Claire has a two-month head start. I can't let it grow any bigger. And I've exhausted all my options from here."
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473 None
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474 You "Understood." (Let her go.)
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475 None
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476 Rhetoric There are no employers. She's a member of the board. Probably a partner.
  • 478
477 Rhetoric You know what this lady needs? Some political advice. Even though she's a high-powered corporate executive and you're an amnesiac degenerate, you're pretty sure she needs to hear your opinion on this.
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478 You "You *are* the Wild Pines. There are no employers."
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479 Joyce Messier She turns to you, rope in hand: "You *are* the Citizens Militia. There are no superiors."
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480 You "What? Of course I have superiors."
  • 482
481 You "I am." (Nod.)
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482 Joyce Messier
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483 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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484 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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485 Kim Kitsuragi "That's right, detective. And next time you should confer with them before you go setting events in motion."
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486 Empathy Despite his words he's not really sure whether to be annoyed with you or not.
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487 Logic Events are already in motion. Whether your actions accelerated or momentarily retarded their progress, even the lieutenant cannot really say.
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488 Joyce Messier "That's right. We're all answerable to someone."
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489 You "I answer for my own actions. I don't hide behind some faceless organization."
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490 You "Even after all this time I still don't really understand who you are or what your angle is."
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491 You "Wait -- that must mean you're *really* rich."
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492 Joyce Messier "I am." She tugs on the rope.
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493 Joyce Messier "Here I am. I am the face and I'm here to answer -- Rejoyce Leyton."
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494 Joyce Messier "I have not deceived you. I told you who exactly who I was -- Rejoyce Leyton."
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495 None
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496 None
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497 You "How far along are they? The tribunal?"
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498 None
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499 You "Don't forget to shoot the bourgeoisie in the head."
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500 You "Don't forget to purge the world of degenerates."
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501 You "What further plans do you have for the age of capital, ma'am?"
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502 You "Use vague rhetoric obsessed with its own legitimacy -- like I do."
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503 Joyce Messier "I will try to do so, detective. If not for you, then for Revachol."
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504 Joyce Messier "In short, detective, we will revoke the pigment standard. Your money will no longer need to be black like chitin -- and there will be *so* much more of it."
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505 You "Wow."
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506 Joyce Messier "I *know*." She tugs on the rope.
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507 Joyce Messier "I don't want to do that, detective."
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508 Joyce Messier "I do not want to shoot myself in the head." She tugs on the rope.
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509 You "Why not?"
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510 You "Good."
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511 You "Very good."
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512 Joyce Messier "I will try keep the interests of the Moralist International in mind during our talks, detective."
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513 Joyce Messier "Is it?" She tugs on the rope.
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514 None
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515 Joyce Messier "Keep the peace -- and I will keep my end of the bargain."
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516 Joyce Messier "One last thing, Lieutenant Du Bois." She starts the engine. "I've given the matter much thought and come to this conclusion: You're not an amnesiac. You're *insane*."
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517 Joyce Messier "I know -- because I, too, am insane. I just hide my illness better. And I'm rich."
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518 You "What do you have?"
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519 Joyce Messier "I'm over-exposed, baby. My travels take me through the pale dozens of times a year. I've got the longing -- and I've got it *bad*." She points to her heart.
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520 Joyce Messier "The same strict psychological regimen the eighth admiral developed when he crossed the pale and discovered this isola -- the *Volta do Mar*. It's used by interisolary travellers and other troubled souls even to this day."
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521 You "How do you keep your shit together?" IsTHCPresent("shit_together")
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522 None
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523 You "How do you keep it together?" IsTHCPresent("shit_together") == false
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524 You "Goodbye, Rejoyce Leyton." (Conclude.) Variable["pier.joyce_vesper_and_rejoyce_seen"] == true or Variable["pier.joyce_rejoyce_name_given"] == true
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525 Joyce Messier She smiles. "Watch out for yourselves. They will strike soon."
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526 You "Goodbye, nether creature of the forbidden swamp." (Conclude.) Variable["pier.joyce_nether_creature"] == true
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527 Joyce Messier She smiles. "Watch out for yourself. They will strike soon."
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528 Joyce Messier "No, detective -- no one's as insane as you."
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529 You "Isn't *everybody* a little insane?"
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530 Joyce Messier
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531 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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532 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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533 Kim Kitsuragi "Don't worry madam. I am very sane."
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534 None
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535 None
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536 Joyce Messier
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537 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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538 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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539 Kim Kitsuragi "How far along is Krenel's *investigation*?"
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540 Joyce Messier
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541 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"]
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542 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"]) == false
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543 Joyce Messier "A confrontation is imminent. They have followed in your footsteps..."
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544 Joyce Messier "As your investigation reaches a climax, so does theirs. They are your shadow. Arm yourselves. Armour yourselves..."
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545 Joyce Messier "Protect their targets. Violence may be unavoidable, but we can limit the casualties."
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546 Joyce Messier
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547 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"]
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548 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"]) == false
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549 You "When will they make their move? Where?"
  • 550
550 Joyce Messier "Soon. I do not know precisely. They have cut off all communication, you see. They know I've been feeding you information."
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551 Joyce Messier
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552 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
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553 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
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554 Joyce Messier
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555 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]
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556 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]) == false
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557 You "Goodbye, Joyce L. Messier." (Conclude.)
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558 Joyce Messier
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559 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_harrier"]
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560 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_harrier"]) == false
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561 Joyce Messier "One last thing, nameless detective." She starts the engine. "I've given the matter much thought and come to this conclusion: You're not an amnesiac. You're *insane*."
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562 Joyce Messier "'*Après la vie, la mort*,' they summarized it for the queen and Dolores Dei; '*Après la mort, la vie encore! Après le monde, le gris. Après le gris, le monde encore!*'"
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563 Joyce Messier
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564 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_shivers_raining"]
  • 423
565 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_shivers_raining"]) == false
  • 9
566 Joyce Messier
  • 567
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567 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_shivers_finding_gun"]
  • 80
568 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_blackc_shivers_finding_gun"]) == false
  • 82
569 You "You would prefer something else? Not a youth centre?" Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
  • 570
570 Joyce Messier "First, there won't *be* a youth centre, whatever he's told you or the residents. It'll be something horrific. Perhaps even *worse* than a statue -- so yes, I do."
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571 Joyce Messier "A *fishery*. I've been speaking with Lilienne here. She gave me the idea. The infrastructure is all here, and with my connections..."
  • 572
572 Joyce Messier "Sadly, it's just one of the million things I'll never get around to. I just have to accept that I'll never be the rich candy-girl who goes around solving people's problems with money."
  • 792
573 Composure He's able to contain the anger and surprise.
  • 935
574 Joyce Messier
  • 575
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575 Joyce Messier CheckItem("gun_villiers")
  • 735
576 Joyce Messier (CheckItem("gun_villiers")) == false
  • 39
577 Joyce Messier
  • 578
  • 579
578 Joyce Messier CheckItem("gun_villiers")
  • 735
579 Joyce Messier (CheckItem("gun_villiers")) == false
  • 40
580 Rhetoric Of all the things to be stuck looping this has got to be one of the most witless.
  • 66
581 Interfacing Okay, I'm gonna do it. Hold on...
  • 600
582 Joyce Messier
  • 583
  • 584
583 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_loopcounter"] == 4
  • 638
584 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_loopcounter"] == 4) == false
  • 71
585 Joyce Messier "I disagree. It sounds like a strike brew -- *and* you made them *more* drunk? Aren't they corked enough already?"
  • 122
586 Joyce Messier "Weird? Oh no. One of the positive things to come from the Revolution is the *unhindered* exchange of information, you see, even when it comes to *trade secrets*..."
  • 23
587 Composure This is going to be hard to recover from.
  • 68
588 Encyclopedia What if he forgets everything *again*?
  • 581
589 Joyce Messier
  • 590
  • 591
590 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_loopcounter"] == 4
  • 637
591 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_loopcounter"] == 4) == false
  • 82
592 Joyce Messier
  • 593
  • 594
593 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_loopcounter"] == 4
  • 595
594 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_loopcounter"] == 4) == false
  • 87
595 None
  • 631
596 Joyce Messier
  • 597
  • 598
597 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_harrier"]
  • 599
598 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_harrier"]) == false
  • 86
599 Joyce Messier "Lieutenant Du Bois? HARRY!" She waves her hand in front of your eyes.
  • 88
600 Joyce Messier
  • 601
  • 602
601 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_harrier"]
  • 603
602 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_harrier"]) == false
  • 604
603 Joyce Messier "Harry! Are you alright?"
  • 605
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604 Joyce Messier "Detective? Is everything alright in there?"
  • 605
  • 606
  • 607
605 You "What happened?"
  • 609
606 You "Judging from your tone of voice, probably not."
  • 610
607 You "I'm *great*. Are *you* alright?"
  • 608
608 Joyce Messier "I'm much better now that you're back. You seemed to be caught in some sort of *loop*."
  • 612
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  • 614
609 Joyce Messier "I'm not sure, exactly, but you seemed to be caught in some sort of *loop*."
  • 612
  • 613
  • 614
610 Joyce Messier "No, not at all, I'm afraid. You seemed to be caught in some sort of *loop*."
  • 612
  • 613
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611 Joyce Messier "Never mind the details, we've wasted enough time as it is. What matters is that you *seem* to have got out of it..."
  • 615
612 You "Loop?"
  • 611
613 You "That sounds like me."
  • 611
614 You "I have no idea what you're talking about."
  • 611
615 Joyce Messier "Now please, ask me something else before it happens *again*. Something that *preferably* doesn't include the words *mister* or *Evrart*."
  • 616
616 None
  • 18
617 You "Nope -- you misunderstand. I turned the knob like this." (Turn the heat *down*) Variable["whirling.turned_the_brew_off"]
  • 738
618 Joyce Messier "*And* in the process you turned up some information relevant to your investigation. Only from Evrart, surprisingly!"
  • 151
619 Joyce Messier "Yes. Evrart is a showman at heart."
  • 172
620 Joyce Messier "I should be." She nods -- there's that crooked smile again. "In my youth I had a brief dalliance here in Martinaise. He was an older man, with impossibly broad shoulders..."
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621 Joyce Messier "We told ourselves we were the worst thing to happen to the coast since the Coalition landed in '08. Imagine!" She tosses her head.
  • 912
622 Joyce Messier
  • 623
  • 624
623 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 625
624 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 626
625 Kim Kitsuragi "You're wrong, detective. And next time you should confer with those superiors before you go setting events in motion."
  • 486
626 Joyce Messier "You misunderstand, detective. We're all answerable to someone."
  • 491
  • 490
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627 Joyce Messier "On the contrary, detective." She tugs on the rope. "It's a real *drag*."
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628 Joyce Messier
  • 629
  • 630
629 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_logicloop"]
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630 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_logicloop"]) == false
  • 71
631 Interfacing Yeah, we need to pull the plug, there's nothing else to do.
  • 634
632 Empathy Are you not afraid it'll kill him?
  • 633
633 Endurance *Physically* he should be fine. Or at least no worse than usual...
  • 588
634 Joyce Messier
  • 635
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635 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_interfacing_loop_interrupt"]
  • 632
636 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_interfacing_loop_interrupt"]) == false
  • 89
637 None
  • 631
638 None
  • 631
639 You "So you're sad you can't buy the place?" (Conclude.)
  • 249
640 None
  • 393
  • 802
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641 None
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642 Joyce Messier "Oh," she raises her brow as to say -- *and*?
  • 26
643 Joyce Messier
  • 644
  • 645
644 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_volition_easy_to_talk_of_evrart_showed"]
  • 642
645 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_volition_easy_to_talk_of_evrart_showed"]) == false
  • 17
646 Joyce Messier "You have?" She smiles, carefully. "And how did you like Mr. Claire?"
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647 None
  • 648
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  • 650
  • 651
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  • 653
  • 654
  • 655
648 You "I didn't."
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649 You "He's a beautiful man. Beautiful and *just*."
  • 689
650 You "Evrart Claire is a hero of the worker's movement. He is the champion I've sworn fealty to."
  • 697
651 You "He's a bloated rainbow-socialist."
  • 656
652 You "I can do business with him. For a socialist he's reasonable."
  • 666
653 You "He is not the champion I have chosen -- I wish to swear fealty to you and the Cause of Capital."
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654 You "I have the feeling the international community does not approve of him." IsTHCPresent("moralist")
  • 656
655 You "It's not important if I liked him. I was doing my job."
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656 Joyce Messier "Oh, come on now! He has his uses -- how else would he have stayed in power all these years? Or wait -- actually..." She answers her own question:
  • 657
657 Joyce Messier "Corruption! That's how he's done it. Fantastic, würm-like corruption reaching into the bowels of the Earth." She looks at the ground and nods.
  • 658
658 Joyce Messier
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  • 660
659 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 661
660 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 669
661 Kim Kitsuragi "The position of my *unusual* colleague does not reflect official policy. I hope you understand -- the RCM does not pick sides."
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662 Kim Kitsuragi "The RCM does not pick sides in this, madam. I hope it doesn't come off any other way."
  • 668
663 Joyce Messier
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  • 665
664 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 662
665 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 669
666 Joyce Messier "Of course, he must have his practical uses -- how else could he have kept his position all these years... Or wait, actually..."
  • 667
667 Joyce Messier "He *could* have kept it with corruption! Fantastic, würm-like corruption that reaches into the bowels of the Earth." She looks at the ground and nods in agreement with herself.
  • 663
668 Joyce Messier "Of course -- and I don't expect you to share anything he told you with me. I am not a *corrupt würm* myself." She turns to you: "However, if you felt like *discussing* something..."
  • 688
669 Joyce Messier "Of course I don't expect you to share anything he told you with me. I'm not a *würm* myself." There's a pause. "But -- if you felt like passing *some* information..."
  • 688
670 Joyce Messier "What?!" She laughs. "I am afraid you have mis-read the situation, detective. This is not some feudal conflict, it is a negotiation."
  • 671
671 Joyce Messier
  • 672
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672 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 674
673 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 675
674 Kim Kitsuragi "And if it *were* a conflict, the RCM would not pick sides. My colleague's *unusual* approach to police work does not represent the organization at this time."
  • 675
675 None
  • 676
  • 677
676 You "I've seen him and believe me -- it's a conflict. I've picked my side in the coming storm and it's you."
  • 679
677 You "Okay, yes, perhaps I misread the situation. And the era -- it's not feudal."
  • 678
678 Joyce Messier "Of course. And I don't expect you to share anything he told you with me. I'm not a *corrupt würm* myself." There's a pause. "However, if you felt like passing *some* information..."
  • 688
679 Joyce Messier "Well, I can't stop you, can I? Just understand that I don't *expect* you to share anything he told you with me. I'm not a *corrupt würm* myself." There's a pause. "However, if you felt like passing *some* information..."
  • 688
680 Joyce Messier "Of course, detective. Excuse me for implying otherwise."
  • 681
681 Joyce Messier
  • 682
  • 683
682 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 684
683 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 685
684 Kim Kitsuragi "The RCM does not pick sides in this. I hope it doesn't come off any other way."
  • 686
685 Joyce Messier "I don't expect you to share anything he told you with me. I'm not a *corrupt würm* myself." There's a pause. "However, if you felt like passing *some* information..."
  • 687
686 None
  • 668
687 None
  • 722
688 None
  • 722
689 Joyce Messier "Just? Hmm... in what way?"
  • 690
  • 691
  • 692
690 You "In a funky socialist way. He looks out for the people."
  • 694
691 You "In a nice, crunchy, white working class way of course."
  • 695
692 You "Yeah, he's not actually just, is he? He's useless."
  • 693
693 None
  • 656
694 Joyce Messier "Of course. *Some* of them, at least. The ones who work for him -- how else would he have stayed in power all these years... no wait, actually..."
  • 696
695 Joyce Messier "Of course. How else would he have stayed in power all these years if it were not for *ethnic nationalism*... or wait..."
  • 696
696 None
  • 657
697 Joyce Messier "Huh!" She nods, understandingly.
  • 699
  • 698
698 You "There may still be room for another bigwig in my life -- in the future. Be on the lookout for a side-shifting class knight."
  • 703
699 You "Yes -- I have *chosen* his side in the class war. My loyalty does not have a price and is non-negotiable. Sorry."
  • 700
700 Joyce Messier
  • 701
  • 702
701 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_moneybave_smallest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_great"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_small"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_greatest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_middle"]
  • 806
  • 706
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  • 708
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702 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_moneybave_smallest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_great"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_small"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_greatest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_middle"]) == false
  • 714
703 Joyce Messier
  • 704
  • 705
704 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_moneybave_smallest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_great"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_small"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_greatest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_middle"]
  • 807
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  • 711
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  • 713
705 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_moneybave_smallest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_great"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_small"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_greatest"] or Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_middle"]) == false
  • 715
706 Joyce Messier "And here I thought my modest payment of 30 reál would stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneybave_smallest"]
  • 716
707 Joyce Messier "And here I thought my modest payment of 100 reál would stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_great"]
  • 716
708 Joyce Messier "And here I thought my modest payment of 40 reál would stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_small"]
  • 716
709 Joyce Messier "And here I thought my modest payment of 130 reál would stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_greatest"]
  • 716
710 Joyce Messier "Side-shifting? Of course, *that's* why my payment of 30 reál didn't stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneybave_smallest"]
  • 716
711 Joyce Messier "Side-shifting? Of course, *that's* why my payment of 100 reál didn't stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_great"]
  • 716
712 Joyce Messier "Side-shifting? Of course, *that's* why my payment of 40 reál didn't stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_small"]
  • 716
713 Joyce Messier "Side-shifting? Of course, *that's* why my payment of 130 reál didn't stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_greatest"]
  • 716
714 Joyce Messier "Of course," she curtsies slightly. "You are an honourable man -- *way* above the money I could offer, so I won't even try. And of course..."
  • 721
715 Joyce Messier "I will. I've *always* wanted a side-shifting class knight on my side, sir," she curtsies slightly. "Now, of course..."
  • 721
716 Joyce Messier
  • 717
  • 718
717 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 719
718 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 721
719 Kim Kitsuragi "In all good humour -- that was a donation. It has been registered and it will yield you no favours." He nods. "Another thing --"
  • 720
720 None
  • 661
721 Joyce Messier "I do not *expect* you to share anything Evrart told you with me -- not being a corrupt *würm* myself." She pauses. "However, if you felt like passing *some* information..."
  • 722
722 Joyce Messier "...how could I stop you? Are we not human? Are we not *curious* to hear another person's take? It's only natural. We would only be..." she smiles, "gossiping."
  • 723
723 Volition Don't fall for it, it's a ploy to get you talking. The honey-mouthed syllables, the smiling, the conspiratorial jokes, all of it!
  • 724
724 Conceptualization Intellectually speaking... it would be quite *interesting* to hear what she has to say about these things...
  • 887
725 Joyce Messier "Incredible," she shakes her head. "Simply incredible -- and how is it going? Has this *detecting* produced a gun?"
  • 577
726 You "No need to flash my gun around. Let's just say I have it now. Thank god." (Pat your gun.)
  • 727
727 Joyce Messier "Thank god -- and indeed *Mr. Evrart* as well. In this investigation one may have *use* for a firearm -- you wouldn't want to get caught with your pants down..."
  • 728
728 None
  • 18
729 You "Mr. Evrart helped me find my gun." Variable["cargo.evrart_gun_getting_located"] == true and CheckItem("gun_villiers")
  • 731
730 Joyce Messier "Oh!" Her eyes become large and round. "That's so *helpful* of him..."
  • 34
731 Joyce Messier
  • 732
  • 733
732 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_helping_with_gun_mentioned"]
  • 734
733 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_evrart_helping_with_gun_mentioned"]) == false
  • 730
734 Joyce Messier "Stupendous!" She nods, more than a bit surprised. "I didn't think he'd pull through."
  • 736
735 None
  • 42
  • 726
736 None
  • 735
737 Drama Hmm... perhaps he is?
  • 107
738 Joyce Messier "*Beyond* curious. I will *choose* to interpret that as you turning the alcohol in the strike brew *down* -- for the sake of our professional relationship."
  • 740
739 You "Actually, I turned the knob like this." (Turn the heat *down*.) Variable["whirling.turned_the_brew_off"] == true
  • 738
740 Joyce Messier "And because I don't like the idea of them any more drunk than they already are." She nods. "What else?"
  • 133
741 You "I actually *lied* that I opened the door. I didn't really do it." Variable["cargo.evrart_lying_about_the_door_drama_rc"]
  • 742
742 Joyce Messier "Stupendous." She takes a little bow. "Pulling one on the old würm. Commendably done. And... did this trick yield anything interesting? I assume it was necessary -- for the case..."
  • 745
743 None
  • 156
744 None
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • 147
745 Joyce Messier
  • 746
  • 747
746 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 748
747 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 743
748 Kim Kitsuragi "Detective, I advise you to be *very* selective with what information you choose to share. This may have consequences beyond our line-of-sight."
  • 749
749 None
  • 163
750 You "The man whose door I opened planned to write an article into a local paper." Variable["XP.evrart_weasel_hackpiece_journos"]
  • 751
751 Joyce Messier "About what?"
  • 752
752 You "The strike being funded by a protection racket."
  • 754
753 Joyce Messier "Precisely," she smiles. "Don't worry about that article -- regional papers are useless anyway. You probably spared the man his kneecaps. And *I* can be sure that the local shops have a bone to pick with Evrart." She smiles.
  • 764
754 Joyce Messier
  • 755
  • 756
755 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 757
756 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 758
757 Kim Kitsuragi "One that has apparently driven local shops out of business."
  • 758
758 Joyce Messier "That would explain why the Whirling-in-Rags -- where the Union congregates -- is the *only* bar left open in Martinaise. Well that and Frittte because..."
  • 759
759 Joyce Messier
  • 760
  • 761
760 Joyce Messier Variable["tc.no_one_fucks_with_frittte"]
  • 762
761 Joyce Messier (Variable["tc.no_one_fucks_with_frittte"]) == false
  • 763
762 You "Nobody fucks with Frittte, ma'am."
  • 753
763 Joyce Messier "Don't worry about that one article, dear -- regional papers are useless anyway. You probably spared the man his kneecaps. And *I* can be sure that the local shops have a bone to pick with Evrart." She smiles.
  • 764
764 Reaction Speed A flash of satisfaction. She can use this, in the future. To turn the tide against Evrart on the streets.
  • 765
765 Empathy This is good. It pleases her.
  • 766
766 None
  • 156
767 You "I told him about the mercenary tribunal -- he didn't seem too worried." Variable["cargo.evrart_hes_happy_about_the_tribunal"] and Variable["cargo.evrart_logic_hostile_takeover"] == false
  • 768
768 Joyce Messier "Brinkmanship -- or sabre-rattling... Was he surrounded by *Union men* he wanted to impress?"
  • 782
769 You "I told him a drug trader might be somehow involved in the murder. He denied participating in the trade." Variable["XP.evrart_no_rubys_running_drugs_for_me"]
  • 771
770 Joyce Messier "Well, of course he would -- that still doesn't mean he's not benefiting from the arrangement -- the lorries, the harbour, all of it. It just means he doesn't outright admit to it."
  • 774
771 Joyce Messier
  • 772
  • 773
772 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.probe_drivers_about_drugs"]
  • 770
773 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.probe_drivers_about_drugs"]) == false
  • 775
774 Logic That is very, very likely yes.
  • 777
775 Joyce Messier "Well, of course he would -- I really hope you and I get to talk about this drug trade matter in the future. The company has been suspecting foul play for years. Anyway..."
  • 776
776 Suggestion Sounds like she'll solicit your help with something -- when she gets the chance.
  • 777
777 None
  • 156
778 You "We were alone. And he seems very sure of his ability to keep things in control."
  • 780
779 None
  • 778
  • 169
  • 170
780 Joyce Messier "Or he wants you and me to *believe* he's calm and in control. He's a politician."
  • 781
781 Drama Of course. Politics is showmanship. He is constantly performing for us... and lying too. I am sorry I don't catch more of his falsehoods, there are just so *many*...
  • 178
782 Logic No. It was more like he wanted things to get *worse* -- in secret of course.
  • 779
783 You "Nowhere. Let's change the topic."
  • 784
784 Joyce Messier "Of course -- to *other* matters you've discussed perhaps?"
  • 785
785 None
  • 18
786 Joyce Messier
  • 787
  • 788
787 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
  • 260
788 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]) == false
  • 789
789 Joyce Messier "I'm over-radiated, detective," she spurts out. "I do silly things sometimes -- out of pale-related sickness. Like take this job. The moral of the story is..."
  • 790
790 Rhetoric So it was a factor in her coming to Martinaise in the first place? Interesting.
  • 282
791 You "Like what?"
  • 571
792 None
  • 231
793 Joyce Messier "Of course, detective," she simmers down. "You can always drop by later, should something come up -- now, what else can I do you for?"
  • 32
794 Joyce Messier
  • 795
  • 796
795 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_exited_evrart_hub_once"]
  • 793
796 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_exited_evrart_hub_once"]) == false
  • 31
797 You *Now* say it: "Ma'am, this whole thing is a takeover." Variable["TASK.deliver_mail_to_fishing_village_done"] == true and Variable["cargo.evrart_logic_hostile_takeover"] and Variable["pier.joyce_tried_to_say_takeover_once"] == true and Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"]
  • 300
798 Esprit de Corps For once, I don't seem to know what the right thing to do is.
  • 347
799 Joyce Messier
  • 800
  • 801
800 Joyce Messier Variable["whirling.garte_skua_inspected"]
  • 447
801 Joyce Messier (Variable["whirling.garte_skua_inspected"]) == false
  • 451
802 You "Good. They will start asking for more... And more..."
  • 395
803 Joyce Messier
  • 804
  • 805
804 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown"]
  • 831
805 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown"]) == false
  • 834
806 Joyce Messier "And here I thought my modest payment of 70 reál would stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_middle"] == true
  • 716
807 Joyce Messier "Side-shifting? Of course, *that's* why my payment of 70 reál didn't stick..." She shakes her head in mock regret. Variable["pier.joyce_moneygave_middle"] == true
  • 716
808 Joyce Messier
  • 809
  • 810
809 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_interfacing_loop_interrupt"]
  • 812
810 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_interfacing_loop_interrupt"]) == false
  • 818
811 Endurance We're pulling the plug on this. Nothing else to be done. Good luck, everyone.
  • 808
812 None
  • 600
813 Joyce Messier She looks beyond you, despondent.
  • 814
814 Inland Empire Here comes the dark. The plug will be pulled... now.
  • 826
815 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
  • 816
816 Joyce Messier She enjoys a small sip.
  • 817
817 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
  • 813
818 Joyce Messier She reconsiders that sip.
  • 815
819 Drama Could it be all my fellows have failed? Alack and alas, sire! Forgive me! I shall do my best to end this pantomime...
  • 829
820 Joyce Messier ...
  • 819
821 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
  • 822
822 Joyce Messier "Sir..."
  • 823
823 You "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun."
  • 820
824 Joyce Messier ...
  • 821
825 None
  • 600
826 Joyce Messier
  • 827
  • 828
827 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_interfacing_loop_interrupt"]
  • 825
828 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_interfacing_loop_interrupt"]) == false
  • 824
829 None
  • 600
830 Inland Empire ...is what you're about to say when a cold streak runs through your heart. Once said, there's no going back, Harry.
  • 845
831 Joyce Messier
  • 832
  • 833
832 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown_done"] and Variable["tc.pale"]
  • 834
833 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown_done"] and Variable["tc.pale"]) == false
  • 830
834 Joyce Messier
  • 835
  • 836
835 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"]
  • 300
836 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"]) == false
  • 830
837 Inland Empire Yes. What if something happens to her and you've left *one* question un-asked. Sneaky little question escaped your eye.
  • 838
838 None
  • 18
839 None
  • 300
840 You Yes, there is still reality-based knowledge I can glean from her. Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown_done"] == false or Variable["tc.pale"] == false
  • 837
841 You Right. She hasn't even told me what she knows about the lynching. Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"] == false
  • 844
842 You (No. Say it.) "Ma'am, this is a takeover."
  • 839
843 Endurance Almost gave you a heart attack, that one...
  • 838
844 Inland Empire Yes... come back to this later. This information could be explosive.
  • 843
845 None
  • 842
  • 840
  • 841
846 You "Actually... this is not Evrart-related, but I tracked down a suspect." Variable["TASK.locate_ruby_on_the_coast_done"]
  • 847
847 Joyce Messier
  • 848
  • 849
848 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 850
849 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 852
850 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant narrows his eyes.
  • 851
851 Esprit de Corps I do *not* think that's a good idea.
  • 852
852 Joyce Messier She looks positively surprised. "That's great. For the investigation, I mean."
  • 853
853 None
  • 854
  • 855
  • 856
854 You "It went really badly. She killed herself." Variable["boardwalk.ruby_killed_herself"]
  • 857
855 You "It didn't go too well. She got away -- *and* it doesn't look like she did it." Variable["boardwalk.ruby_killed_herself"] == false
  • 861
856 You "That's really all I can say about that."
  • 866
857 Joyce Messier "A *she...*" The negotiator does not seem to be shocked at first.
  • 858
858 Composure Not even a flinch. That must take willpower. Yet below it, some little crack starts running in the foundation.
  • 859
859 Joyce Messier "I hope she wasn't a serious suspect then -- as to the suicide -- that must be *difficult*. Yet, in your line of work..." She tilts her head.
  • 860
860 Rhetoric Not be too rare an occurrence.
  • 869
861 Joyce Messier "A she..." She raises a brow. "I hope she wasn't too serious a suspect. If she got away..."
  • 862
862 Joyce Messier
  • 863
  • 864
863 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 867
864 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 865
865 Kim Kitsuragi "We're not at liberty to discuss that ma'am."
  • 866
866 Joyce Messier "Naturally. I completely understand. But... you mentioned something about Mr. Claire? Or something in conjunction with the Union even? I might have gotten the wrong idea, but..."
  • 868
867 Joyce Messier "But -- I won't pry further about the case. You mentioned something about Mr. Claire, I believe? Or something in conjunction with the Union? I might have gotten the wrong idea, but..."
  • 868
868 Suggestion Curiosity for the Union burns brighter in her than curiosity for the case...
  • 875
869 None
  • 870
  • 871
  • 872
870 You "She didn't do it. She was framed."
  • 876
871 You "It's... not good. I did not do good there."
  • 878
872 You "I don't even know why I told you. This isn't about Evrart..."
  • 873
873 Joyce Messier "Oh, we humans just like to discuss things -- it's absolutely normal. I won't pry further. If anything regarding the Union has come up..." She raises a brow. "They won't talk to *me*."
  • 874
874 None
  • 18
875 None
  • 18
876 Joyce Messier "Unfortunate." She shakes her head. "I won't pry further into the details of your investigation, but let me just say -- I have *full* trust in your competence."
  • 880
877 None
  • 18
878 Joyce Messier "This thing is what you call a..." she pronounces the word with sudden carelessness: "*clusterfuck*. I am saddened to hear the news, of course. But we must continue. Lest the situation worsens."
  • 879
879 None
  • 869
880 Empathy There's turmoil in there now -- but still she keeps it in check.
  • 881
881 Joyce Messier
  • 882
  • 883
882 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 884
883 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 877
884 Joyce Messier "And you too, lieutenant," she turns to him and stresses: "The situation is perilous, but I am *sure* you're dedicated to avoiding further loss of life. Unlike the Union, who won't even let me talk to them."
  • 885
885 Kim Kitsuragi A barely perceptible nod.
  • 877
886 Physical Instrument Finally -- time to choose SIDES.
  • 647
887 Electrochemistry Tell her, she'll *like* you for it.
  • 888
888 Joyce Messier
  • 889
  • 890
889 Joyce Messier CheckEquipped("neck_tie") and Variable["whirling.necktie_personified"] == true
  • 891
890 Joyce Messier (CheckEquipped("neck_tie") and Variable["whirling.necktie_personified"] == true) == false
  • 18
891 Horrific Necktie Yes! Your disgusting tie agrees completely. Let's *gossip*.
  • 18
892 Joyce Messier
  • 893
  • 894
893 Joyce Messier IsTaskActive("TASK.meet_lilienne_for_a_date")--[[ Variable[ ]]
  • 238
894 Joyce Messier (IsTaskActive("TASK.meet_lilienne_for_a_date")--[[ Variable[ ]]) == false
  • 240
895 Logic That's wrong! You don't get into loops!
  • 896
896 Reaction Speed Totally slanderous. Maybe you've gotten into *one* tiny loop once.
  • 49
897 Esprit de Corps The lieutenant will be more lenient toward sharing those, hopefully.
  • 50
898 Joyce Messier
  • 899
  • 900
899 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce"] and Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"] == false
  • 902
900 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce"] and Variable["TASK.what_does_joyce_done"] == false) == false
  • 165
901 None
  • 156
902 Joyce Messier "The company did not 'send mercenaries after the Union'. I told you, in great detail, about the mistakes my side made. And of course I accept them completely."
  • 903
903 Joyce Messier "I just hope you don't share Evrart's view on things. After all, as he said: one's *dead* now. The Pines certainly hasn't killed any of theirs."
  • 904
904 Rhetoric Let's keep it that way -- she means to add, but then doesn't.
  • 905
905 Empathy Look who's defensive suddenly.
  • 901
906 Joyce Messier "Hurry up on that probe. The moment you tell me you're finished at the traffic jam, I will *gladly* tell you the company's side of the story."
  • 907
907 Logic She must really want you to look into the drugs -- otherwise she'd tell you.
  • 908
908 Empathy She was *worried* for a moment. That she's overplayed her hand by not sharing info sooner. Then she settles down, curious to hear more.
  • 166
909 Empathy This gave her pause. She's pensive, suddenly. Hard to say about what...
  • 910
910 Logic Have I underestimated the Union's ferocity? She *has* to ask herself by now..
  • 186
911 Logic The prints are *hers*.
  • 248
912 Joyce Messier
  • 913
  • 914
913 Joyce Messier Variable["tc.pale"]
  • 272
914 Joyce Messier (Variable["tc.pale"]) == false
  • 915
915 Suggestion She's sentimental all right. You don't know enough about her to find out why exactly. She will keep her secrets for now.
  • 916
916 None
  • 231
917 Joyce Messier
  • 918
  • 919
918 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_amde_up_her_mind"]
  • 372
919 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_amde_up_her_mind"]) == false
  • 335
920 Joyce Messier She nods. "It may be the only *break* we've ever caught as a species. The last one for four hundred years."
  • 414
921 Inland Empire After life, death. After death, life again. After the isola, the pale. After the pale, isola again.
  • 11
922 Empathy She would die to return to it. The pale. The past. Anything one can return to.
  • 535
923 Volition You could use a little of it yourself.
  • 535
924 Esprit de Corps With worry in his eyes. He does not know if it was the right thing to do. But he doesn't say anything.
  • 925
925 Logic You wonder what Evrart has to say about this...
  • 939
926 Perception (Sight) Slowly, the sails turn a grey blue as more oxygen gets between you.
927 Joyce Messier
  • 928
  • 929
928 Joyce Messier IsKimHere()
  • 930
929 Joyce Messier (IsKimHere()) == false
  • 939
930 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant watches her boat grow smaller on the bay, its white sails fluttering.
  • 924
931 Joyce Messier Another woman gone.
  • 551
932 Joyce Messier
  • 933
  • 934
933 Joyce Messier Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown"] == true and Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown_done"] == false
  • 931
934 Joyce Messier (Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown"] == true and Variable["TASK.get_reality_lowdown_done"] == false) == false
  • 551
935 Joyce Messier
  • 936
  • 937
936 Joyce Messier Variable["pier.cindy_kims_plan_of_action"]
  • 938
937 Joyce Messier (Variable["pier.cindy_kims_plan_of_action"]) == false
  • 38
938 Esprit de Corps When I said *be wacky* I didn't mean *wildly, grossly irresponsible and damaging to the RCM*.
  • 38
939 Joyce Messier
  • 940
  • 941
940 Joyce Messier Variable["tc.pale"]
  • 926
941 Joyce Messier (Variable["tc.pale"]) == false
  • 943
942 Endurance Your stomach gurgles... something tells you that your chance to track down the reality rhizome has left. Better return to Measurehead, see what he has to say.
  • 926
943 Joyce Messier
  • 944
  • 945
944 Joyce Messier IsTaskActive("TASK.return_to_mhead_once_you_understand_reality")--[[ Variable[ ]]
  • 942
945 Joyce Messier (IsTaskActive("TASK.return_to_mhead_once_you_understand_reality")--[[ Variable[ ]]) == false
  • 926