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[malnosso]

All of you, think real hard about why these experiments do what they do.

Get back to me with your ideas and then we'll talk.

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[chikaidestroyer]

...So you use our deaths as opportunities to test the anomaly's ability to negate effects.

[Something tells him he probably should be surprised by this. But he really isn't. The cynical edge of his personality always knew they were disposable in some form.]

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[malnosso]

Ohhh, no no no. Much vaguer than that.

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[chikaidestroyer]

So you're not even that far in your experiments. [That's slightly troubling.] You're just looking for some sort of effect there.

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[malnosso]

Wrong turn. The Death Penalties have nothing to do with the experiments.

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[chikaidestroyer]

[There's silence as Albert tries to draw lines between the jumps in conversation.]

So the experiments have something to do with the anamoly's effects. Observing the varied effects?

...But not the death penalties. The death penalties aren't being observed for effects.

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[malnosso]

Nope.

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[chikaidestroyer]

No, you aren't observing the anomaly's varied effects? Or no, the death penalties aren't being observed for effects?

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[malnosso]

Second part.

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[chikaidestroyer]

The Malnosso instill the death penalties, John intends to reverse them. The barrier falling removes them completely. ...But that isn't the point.

Where did your technology come from?

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[malnosso]

Thousands of minds and years.

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[chikaidestroyer]

Do you still have the same level of technology as when you first arrived?

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[malnosso]

When I got here, maybe.

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[chikaidestroyer]

Do you consider yourself one of them? A Malnosso?

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[malnosso]

Yep.

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[chikaidestroyer]

Why? What makes you a Malnosso? Not being an experiment?

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[malnosso]

I'm not a Malnosso. But I'm one of "them."

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[chikaidestroyer]

...You said before that the researchers had to be careful. Is that still true?

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[malnosso]

Tried and true method to control people is to keep them ignorant.

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[chikaidestroyer]

It must be empowering, knowing just how dependent we are on you. And it doesn't matter if anyone gets tired of you; the endless cycle gives you new, sympathetic bodies when the old ones become apathetic.

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[malnosso]

I find it a little disturbing, myself.

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[chikaidestroyer]

Your inability to be more forward with information doesn't help matters.

Besides picking your brain, is there anything we can do?

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[malnosso]

You wouldn't believe me if I told you. You have to see it, which is what I'm trying to do.

What do I need to do to get you to believe me? Don't say "give me the entire story," either, I can't.

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[chikaidestroyer]

It doesn't matter whether I believe you or not. You are providing us with an option that is more favorable than sitting idle.

There is no apparent standard to the experiments. Excluding a few times, none of the effects to the residents have been the same.

The few times the experiments have been "repeated"... Were those attempts to replicate past effects?

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[malnosso]

Yes.

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[chikaidestroyer]

The only thing that I believe changed between the original, to us, experiment and the second one ... was the barrier changing and the ruins appearing. But that had been awhile before the repeated experiments.