Harris and Ross: How Fucked Are You? (Cleaned Up)

(9:48:38 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "Harris" ( ...and I think I'd like to start by wishing I could offer you a cup of coffee and a plate of cookies, because this can't be easy on you. Spenih and all. )
(9:49:41 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Do you hhave a ghhost image?)
(9:50:43 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "Harris" ( I'm Pre. I could snap you a photo of what's around, or....I guess you could raid the folder. There's good hot TalkingCoffee1.png. )
(9:53:31 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (I hhave been hhanded off. Do you know whhat hhappened?)
(9:56:07 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "SocFla" ( I. Uh. I'm guessing this is follow-up after, well...my sister. But the Ambassador came up. And poaching. And Deals. )
(9:57:06 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (...ahh.)
(9:57:19 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (I may hhave done somethhing verry stupid.)
(9:58:44 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [ You stop breathing. ]
(9:58:55 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs societalFlame ( You didn't. )
(10:00:11 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (...)
(10:00:41 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (...if you arre trrying to tell me it was not stupud, I do not believe you.)
(10:01:00 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "Harris" ( You poor bastard. )
(10:01:52 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Hha. Well. Thhis shhould hhelp Spenihh, at least.)
(10:02:29 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "Harris" ( He got you good, didn't he? It's not going to do a damned thing. )
(10:03:05 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Shhe will have bouts of frreedom and rrest, if I do my parrt.)
(10:05:34 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "Harris" ( ...Do you think she's going to rest easy, knowing you're doing His work? )
(10:06:11 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [ >....wait shit you promised you weren't going to twist the knife. )
(10:06:30 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (...)
(10:07:01 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (And shhe turrned me overr to you?)
(10:08:31 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (I thhink I will need somethhing strrongerr thhan coffee if you arre going to be thhat blunt.)
(10:09:39 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "Harris" ( Er. Well. I think she wanted me to have a discussion with you about our Ambassador and looking into seeing if the deal was....something that could be mitigated and worked around. So I'm going to take a few minutes to calm down and let you look for something to put in your coffee, and then I need to know exactly what you and she talked about, and as many circumstances of that Deal and it's forging as possible. )
(10:10:09 PM) ventricularPipefitter: (( ...that Deal and it's forging as possible. ))
(10:10:41 PM) socFla|online: [>Harris: Pour yourself some wine]
(10:11:19 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Shhe wanted me to rrevoke thhe Deal somehhow.)
(10:11:51 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (And suggested talking to the Ambassadorr forr assistance.)
(10:11:58 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (As forr terrms...)
(10:13:16 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (I do tasks for James. If I do parrticularrly well, we will be able to spend uncorrrrupted time togethherr. Spenihh will not be alone. Othherrwise, Spenihh will hhave perriods of rrest and frreedom.)
(10:13:32 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (If I rrefuse or fail a task, hhoweverr...)
(10:13:43 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Hhe trrailed off ominously thherre.)
(10:14:32 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter PMs "Harris" ( Is that as specific as it got? )
(10:15:11 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Hhe said "don't fail" as well.)
(10:15:40 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Hhe was wearring Spenihh's body.)
(10:19:04 PM) ***socFla|online PMs "Pipes" (Hhe /papped/ me)
(12:46:41 AM) ventricularPipefitter: ...You must feel pretty skeeved out about all that.
(12:47:34 AM) societalFlame: Verry. Thhat is not forr /hhim/ to do.
(12:49:15 AM) ventricularPipefitter: That's why he did it.
(12:51:09 AM) tenaciousTheseus is now known as Bookwyrm
(12:51:50 AM) societalFlame: You do underrstand thhat thhat is not somethhing you do to a trroll, I hhope? It would be like me going up to you and sticking my tongue in yourr mouthh.
(12:52:01 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Yes, /exactly/.
(12:52:23 AM) ventricularPipefitter: I know James, Harris.
(12:52:29 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Better that I'll ever want to.
(12:56:38 AM) ventricularPipefitter: It's...longstanding. She doesn't actually remember.
(8:34:33 PM) societalFlame: Shhe doesn't? Was it Void d away frrom hherr?
(8:35:09 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Yes, I believe so.
(8:35:53 PM) societalFlame: Hhow hhas shhe escaped hhim in thhe past?
(8:38:40 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [ > Ross: Bite your tongue. This won't be easy to talk about. ]
(8:42:11 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Her sessionmates cleared her on the Bed, a few times. Or...they'd prevent her from leaving the Session's boundaries, with blood and at the cost of lives. I...we'd keep her socially engaged, and with us, until she was more herself.
(8:42:44 PM) ventricularPipefitter: ...It took a few weeks, the once. And she'd come on, Speaking intermittently, until then.
(8:43:06 PM) ventricularPipefitter: ...Mornei was good for talking her down.
(8:43:27 PM) societalFlame: And shhe doesn't hhave Morrnei now.
(8:43:43 PM) societalFlame: Shhe is outside thhe session, and alrready God-Tierr.
(8:45:53 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Which, given that James pushed her to slay Ressna, means her death would be Just, and permanent.
(8:47:16 PM) societalFlame: ...did hhe do thhat so shhe couldn't be clearred by temporrarrily killing hherr?
(8:51:15 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Well.
(8:51:17 PM) ventricularPipefitter: What do you think?
(8:51:43 PM) ventricularPipefitter: You cannot act against a Speaker, or a suspected corrupted player, alone.
(8:52:00 PM) societalFlame: Hhow can we get hherr back?
(8:52:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: You must fight them as a group, and you must support them as a community.
(8:52:53 PM) ventricularPipefitter: You're not in this alone. *She's* not in this alone.
(8:53:32 PM) ventricularPipefitter: How can we get her back...