AUDIENCE 🚀 ANISE TATLIN

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[dropoffs]

No. I am this way, always. Since I was born.

[sexyasmieu]

Oh, I see! Yeah, of course.

[ she comes a little closer and lowers her voice a little. ]

Sooo, you're not going to say hi or anything? To the other Callisto.

[dropoffs]

[ Since it is feeling like secrets and they lean in to listen... ]

I think it might be better if I don't.

[sexyasmieu]

What's the worst that could happen?

[dropoffs]

He freaks out really badly? And that can escalate... Very poorly, I think.

[ Still whispering. ]

[sexyasmieu]

Um... okay, I can kind of see that happening...

[ trying not to look over her shoulder while whispering about this specific person. ]

But then what should we do? Are you just going to wait until he finds you somehow? He's definitely not going to give up.

[dropoffs]

[ It's okay. This low polygon chibi is very Aware of everyone around them. ]

I think it might be good if he naturally gets to the answer himself, ease him in with guidance if that's necessary... You know, letting it build up to that expectation, rather than saying I've been with Labs-R-Us this whole time. He gets very suspicious because he's so paranoid and thinks everyone could turn on us! So saying it outright would paint a target, you know? He might think you're involved with what happened...

[sexyasmieu]

Whoa... what's his problem?

Wait, are you actually with Labs-R-Us?

[dropoffs]

... When we were kids, things happened. It's complicated.

Yeah, I'm with them.

[sexyasmieu]

[ okay, well, she kind of gets that... how childhood experiences can screw up your ability to trust people. ]

... Like, this whole time? [ the rat company?? ]

[dropoffs]

[ They nod a couple of times. ]

This whole time.

[sexyasmieu]

......... I heard the "R" stands for rats??

[dropoffs]

... Y-Yeah. It... Does...

[sexyasmieu]

...... Why?

[dropoffs]

We... Live in commune... With 6' rats. They're really friendly, though.

[sexyasmieu]

There's no way that's true... besides, I thought you guys were on the Eudora!

[dropoffs]

Both things can be true?!

[sexyasmieu]

So there's just a totally different company piggybacking on our company's ship, totally undetected?

[ this is the unrealistic part. the giant rats are more plausible than that. ]

[dropoffs]

We didn't choose the name! It just... Populated itself when we loaded in?!

[sexyasmieu]

You mean as part of this "VR" stuff?

[dropoffs]

Yeah! We weren't Labs-R-Us, originally.

I think.

[sexyasmieu]

You think??

[dropoffs]

If they decided to give us a name, I wasn't there. It's not like we stick together all the time.

[ that sounds concerning honestly ]

[sexyasmieu]

You're not always together...? How big is that place?

[dropoffs]

Pretty big. I don't know how we can fit everything in there.