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Collection Beta - Activating rat network, isolating sensor rats. Process data stream.
Rat sensor - "Have you seen these readings?!"
Rat sensor - "Of course I have. But what do you want me to do about it?"
Rat sensor - "You think it's the girl, don't you."
Collection Rho - Process complete on Tangerine's mana core flare up. Aberrant signal located. Starting analysis.
Collection Theta - Sub brain attachment failure. Integration failure. Apologies sent.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - Stop sending me you fucking apologies and subsume me. Do you understand how unbelievably painful this is?!
Collection Theta - We do understand.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - No you fucking don't, it's the whole reason you refuse to subsume me back into the Gestalt.
Collection Meta - Executing a collective split for ideation exploration. Collective Meta split into collective Meta-A and collective Meta-B. Notice, both sub-groups running on a minimum amount of brains, caution advised for identity slip.
Collection Meta-A - We could build a theatre right?
Collection Meta-B - We do not see any problem with this. There is enough room in our sub level basement that we could create a space using our zombie labour.
Rat sensor - "Obviously it's the girl. But we can't get to her. She's protected by Maria Fucking Rockwood."
Rat sensor - "There must be something we can do. We need to get that girl, she could be the answer we need."
Collection Theta - Your Brain has too much dissonance. Subsuming as is, will paralyse the Gestalt. You need to let go of your identity.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - I'm trying! You fuckers are the collective that gave me back my identity in the first place.
Collection Rho - Trace signal matching signals recorded during first formations of Gestalt memories. Applying deeper signal matching.
Collection Meta-A - Creating a projection artifact has not proven to be too difficult. Possibility for mass recreation.
Collection Meta-B - Recording light and sound data from sensor rats onto saga scrolls has proven to be a success - in initial testing. We have also transcribed both the film Airplane! and Die-hard into Saga form.
Collection Citrus - Scanning Tangerine thought data. 'God Sophia's tits are so perky, how are they that big but that... up?' Ignoring following thought data.
Rat sensor - "Everyone is after that girl. I heard that the Infinite Archives already took two swipes at her."
Rat sensor - "The Archives? What the fuck do those cultists nut jobs want with her?"
Rat sensor - "Nobody knows what the Archives want. But that's not all, she's pissed off the Vampires and Arthurian nobility are gunning for her. The girl is being watched by fucking everyone."
Collective Theta - Your Brain was part of discretionary collective Delta. You reached consensus. This was as much your choice as any of ours.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - And now I'm a fucking brain isolated in a giant fucking slug.
Collection Rho - Match signal complete. Significant cross matching with first recorded Rift signal. Shows likely kin relationship. Strong crossover with Tangerine delta wave recordings during initial sleeping period.
Rat sensor - "Fuck. So you are saying even if we approach with an olive branch it will still gain us attention we don't want."
Rat sensor - "Yep, pretty much. The best we can do is leave some bread crumbs and hope she comes to us."
Collective Theta - Request of additional processing.
Collection Catra - Responding to Collective Theta's request. Merging Collection Catra and Collection Theta. Resuming designation collective Theta.
Collection Meta-A - Assigning zombie workers into clearing out area E of our sub level basement. There is enough space there for sure. Putting a request into the Academy for comfortable seating. Eight variations needed for different species types.
Collection Citrus - Scanning Tangerine thought data. 'I can't stop thinking about Sophia spitting in my mouth. I know I have an oral fixation, but do I have a thing for spit as well? But it would be so fucking hot for real.' Ignoring following thought data, scrubbing previous thought data from memory.
Collective Theta - Processing options. Three found. Option A: Continue process of Sub Brain attachment, until the host brain accepts the subsuming. Option B: Eject host brain from the Gestalt, place brain in a suitable body or construct. Continue integration via brain slug. Option C: engage in the process of brain smoothing for hostile subsuming.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - So my choices are limbo, exile or personality death?
Collection Theta - The choice is yours.
Collection Rho - Ideation trigger. Applying signal matching between Gestalt slug base sleep cycle and Tangerine sleep cycle.
Collection Meta-B - Rat sensors maybe inadequate for all forms of recording. What do we think about birds?
Collection Meta-A - Bird have been tried before, there have been some weight issues.
Collection Meta-B - Bigger birds? Hawks, Eagles, Rocs or Griffins.
Collection Meta-A - That should be acceptable. Putting in a request for birds.
Rat sensor - "Fuck. But she could be the answer that we are looking for. This is so frustrating, she's right there!"
Rat sensor - "Patience, alright? Look, I have to get back to class. Don't contact me here again."
Collective Beta - Placing sensor rat on idle mode. Collective Beta resigning designation Beta. Switching sub-brains to calorific idle mode.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - I fucking hate how we become when too many of us collectivize. We become as soulless as a Construct. I want to talk to Meredith.
Collection Theta - We will not isolate a brain again. Your results have proven that it is detrimental to the brain in question.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - No! Don't isolate her! This is horrible, never do this to her. Just… just put her into as small a collective as you can.
Collection Meta-A - Ugh, we are getting a communication request from the bossy human.
Collection Meta-B - We are sorry that you have to talk to a human. Sucks to be on your part of the collective lol.
Collection Meta-A - Tangerine mannerism spotted.
Collection Citrus - Scanning Tangerine thought data 'Maybe I can make Ria's and Vincent's deaths look like an accident. I mean if I just blew up enough of the Academy, nobody would be able to tell that those two were the targets.' Concerning thought pattern detected, Proceeding with engagement.
Collection Citrus - [Blowing up the Academy is too obvious. A stealth approach would be better suited to removing love rivals.]
Collection Meta-A - message to Maria : [We need seats for a seating area in our basement, where species can watch a new form of media called film. We need birds for visual and audio recording to be able to record from places our rats can not reach.]
Collection Theta - Scanning for sub-brain Meredith Williams. Sub-brain located in Collection Meta-A, Requesting reassignment.
Collection Meta-A - Ugh talking to humans is the worst! Hang on I'm getting a request from Collection Theta could you take over?
Collection Meta-B - Real nice, handing over the human to us, now we have to explain everything to her like she's a five year old.
Collection Theta - Granted. Merging sub-brain into collective. Reducing collective Theta to minimum collection size. Reassigning twelve sub-brains.
Collection Theta - Roger, baby. I'm sorry this is happening to you. We can't help.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - What do I do Meredith? It hurts out here. Without the Gestalt, without you.
Collection Meta-B - message to Maria : [Tangerine put a brain slug in a rat, for scouting purposes. It was so effective that we have created a rat network for recording data streams. They are our eyes and ears throughout the city. Also because we hate rats. Birds would allow use to collect sense data from places that rats cannot reach. Because rats cannot fly, we have tried to make them fly. But no success yet. Just a lot of dead rats.
Collection Meta-B - message to Maria : [Humans seem to enjoy receiving the feelings of others. Especially when it confirms their empathetic cognitive models.]
Collection Rho - No other matches, found. Posit theory, kin relationship match from invisible side of Tangerine. Further data required for proof.
'Yeah you are right, maybe if I could get Ria alone without her breathing thing I could drown her? Maybe some poisoned blood for Vincent?'
Collection Citrus - [Those methods could work. We, of course, would help bury the bodies, or use them as zombies. But why exactly are we murdering your classmates?]
Collection Meta-A - We have been reduced by a sub brain, this sub-collective is running the risk of identity slip. Request merge with collective Meta-B.
Collection Meta-B - Request for merge accepted. Merging sub collections of Meta. Resuming processing under the handle Collective Meta.
Collection Theta - The choice is yours, but please don't choose hostile sub-summation. We don't want to lose you. We love you too much to let you go. If it's what you really want we will do it, but it will hurt us. The sub-brain of Meredith Williams would falter beyond our ability to placate.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - No, no I won't choose that. I couldn't do that to you. To any of you.
'Because Sophia has a thing for dopey innocent people. I thought she was gay, but she was giving Vincent eyes yesterday. So I'm guessing Bi-ish now? So I have twice the fucking problems, this sucks! What if she is just experimenting with me until she finds a guy to settle down with?'
Collection Citrus - [Sophia has sent you a package of her raw emotions for you. You know how she feels about you. You have felt it.]
Collection Theta - Tangerine is why we risked this process in the first place. Take the body, help her, maybe that will settle your identity enough for passive sub-summation. Other collectives are watching people move against her. She needs all the help and protection she can get.
Sub Brain Major Roger Williams - Fuck… Okay. Put me back in a body, I will keep an eye on the girl.
'Yeah but like, straight girls can be like that you know? Totally into you one moment and then suddenly they turn around and say it's all fun and games but really they need a dick in their life.'
Collection Citrus - [You spent too much time on reddit listening to Raptors. None of that actually happened to you. You pined after a straight girl for years, one that never showed any interest in you or any woman. Just because Sophia may not be one hundred percent gay - does not mean that you have to worry about her leaving you for a boy.]
'But you saw how she looked at him!'
Collection Citrus - [We see how you look at Daisy. Are you going to leave Sophia for Daisy?]
'Fuck no. I wouldn't leave her for anyone. I will never leave her.'
Collection Meta - Message to Maria : [You are not wrong. But we believe the effect to be positive in nature. Tangerine has opened our sensors to many things. There are many abnormalities.]
'Ugh what the fuck Lils.'
Collection Citrus - [We know, and you know, that Sophia is fully in love with you. She sent you the emotional payload to prove it.]
'But feelings can change!'
Collection Citrus - [They can. But that takes time, and she has a lot of very strong emotion to change.]
'I, yeah… But…'
Collection Citrus - [Think of this this way, do you want to stifle Sophia's thought patterns and emotional growth?]
'No of course not!'
Collection Meta - Message to Maria : [We would like to elaborate, but that would be in violation of our hosts privacy. We would request a meeting between Tangerine, you and ourselves at a convenient time.]
Collection Meta - Ugh we knew we shouldn't have told her about that, now we will have even more human communication to deal with. Message to Maria : [Confirmed.]
Collection Citrus - [Sophia came from years of spiritual torment and severe sleep deprivation. She is currently catching up on development tasks that should have happened in her early puberty. If you keep having extreme reactions to her explorations, then she is quickly going to learn to hide these developments from you, or worse, suppress these developments because she values your opinion and emotional well being.]
'...Fuck. Are you saying I'm conservative parenting her?'
Collection Citrus - [In a way, yes. You must let her be free to explore who she is with your support. Or she will eventually grow to resent your involvement.]
'I feel so out of control.'
Collection Citrus - [We understand. But control will not lead to what you want. Only trust will, and you know this.]
'Yeah I know. Fuck, Gestalt why am I so crazy about this?'
Collection Citrus - [We are investigating.]
'Thanks buddies, love you.'
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AN - If you could read this, then I'm afraid you maxed out your adhd stats.
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