silk stuff

The memories you witness including Silk start en medium res - you don't really get to see them meet.  Silk was clearly sleeping in this lab - sleeping on a couch in the corner and living out of a suitcase.  She is often much less composed than you might have expected - and several of the memories start with Silk being awoken, stumbling off the couch, and flailing for the first coffee cup she can find.  Lots of them include her spitting it into a trash can (presumably because it's cold by now), and then swearing and asking Aurelie nicely to go get her a fresh brewed cup.

From a third person perspective, Silk likes to talk - a lot - and seemed to enjoy having a silent listener around.  She'd spend a lot of time rambling and lecturing on various topics from mundane ones to political and scientific.  Aurelie's usually blank expression seemed to give Silk the impression that the psychic girl didn't really absorb anything said, so Silk had pretty much no filter around her.  Sometimes Silk would make up fake responses from Aurelie, saying them in a high pitched, girly voice.  Silk also didn’t show a lot of regard for going along with whatever backstory Aurelie was imprinted with - she assumed her conditioning would just cause her to gloss over some of the details (which was largely true).

There isn’t a great way to indicate WHEN a thing is said, but the sort of things Silk talks about gives you a sense of time; for example, she brings up a few jokes about Valentines Day throughout the memories, and talks about New Years like it was not too long ago.  You’re able to tell what the “earliest” memory is by how clearly Aurelie remembers it - most the other ones are sporadic blurbs of content.

This first one involved an annoyed Silk explaining to Aurelie that her “guardians” are insisting that she should be the one to euthanize the failed test subjects.  Silk rants about how it’s not like she can’t do it herself - most the lab work involving Kamikaze isn’t even illegal to begin with.  Testing chemical reactions in rodent Pokemon, and euthanizing them once the tests are over are all perfectly common things, and the work they did on Kamikaze wasn’t even outside the scope of the law till she started going around the region, releasing test subjects into the wild.  This particular memory ends in Aurelie not being able to bring herself to snap the necks of a few Nidoran, and Silk showing a look of guilt before dismissing her with a promise that she won’t actually make her have to do it.

Most the other ones are mostly focused around one liners that Aurelie found funny or intriguing. From them, you learn that Silk was working on the following projects at once, and was clearly getting a bit scatterbrained over it.
Production of Kamikaze v2, Algernon v2, and Ascension
Mewtwo Production (whether this was a pet project of hers or something bigger, wasn’t super clear)
“The UB Project”
Developing various medications to assist with the psionic labs.

Some of the more important quotes included:

“Staring at Twisty’s [it’s what she calls the Mewtwo] tank again huh?  Does it give you some extensional dread or something?  That you might have been born by crawling out of the ol’ shittank too?  Well you don’t need to worry about that - all you kids were born the old fashion way - your mom and dad having lots of unprotected sex.  Well, all of you except one - Susannah Daria.  Not sure HOW they did it - I was only told as much as I needed to know about that.  All I know is she’s at least got her dad’s genes, whether the other half is even human,” Silk Shrugs.  “Apparently it worked a little TOO well though - she ended up being so powerful, that they had to suppress her shitwizardry.  Pretty glad they did too - cause what they made her for?  Remote assassination.  If people think the world is a big shitplay now - *whistle* just imagine how insane having someone like HER around would have been.”

“Tch, the closer we get to getting the v2 on Algernon and Kamikaze out, the more the shitapples in charge of this place are pushing us to work on this UB thing.  Least I’m getting to learn more about the gene therapy they gave you guys when you were little.  Seems this all started after the Camas explosion - kids just started naturally being born in nearby cities with special powers.  The Daria Foundation learned through clinical trials that the root of this was that these kids - for some weird as shit reason - were being born with scarce amounts of Pokemon DNA in their system.  They figured, hey, why can’t we do that ourselves, and a bit of Pokerus here, some DNA there, and bam, shitwizardry in a vial.  Took them a lot of trial and error though - a lot of the first tries ended up like the Nidorans we test on.  They made them too strong, and too crazy.  You guys though?  They think they held back TOO much on - but least you’re not in danger of going craycray.  I wonder how strong the natural born ones were, though.”

[EDM playing in the background]. “You sure seem to like D.J. Rhasha’s stuff huh - she’s actually a pretty smart bitch.  Turns out the other adults at this lab were interested in her research last year.  She’s the most knowledged person in the region about Unowns.  They were planning to hire her, and then when she turned that down, kidnap her, but she ended up publishing her findings for FREE!  Turns out those letters are drawn to the shitwinds those witches are stirring up, and they can be used to predict the movements of their perpetual shitblizzard.  Well, hopefully what we’re doing here will help quell their shitstorm.”

“YES! High five Aury!” *high fives* “Take these Pokeballs down to the mail room, I wrote the address they are going to here.  I already sent the data to Kale, so we’re officially donezo with these drugs, and we’ll get a few more Mewtwo tanks next week.  Now if only I could get the guys at engineering to start working on the armor…”

“What’s that you got there?” Silk opens a package and starts reading a note contained in it, while fiddling with a Pokeball lookin’ device with her other hand.   “...So not all the tanks are mine to use huh.  What the hell is an ‘Ultra Bea-WAHWHATTHESHIT” she had released whatever was in the ball with her free hand, releasing a Buzzswole ( a term your PC’s don’t know, you just see swolebug ).  “FUCKFUCKFUCK” she’s panicing, as is Aurelie, but this bug is just...flexing.  She finally returns it to the ball.  “Okkaaaaaay...shoulda read the shitmanual first on this one...oooooh...so that’s why Daria is so interested in the witch’s conflict...what the hell are we getting mixed up in here, Aury?”

Another one of the more clear memories involves Silk standing at the door, speaking with an unseen individual.  “This is complete Tauros shit  - you’re taking my lab assistant from me for a plan that’s fucked from the start, just so that you can make room for these UB kids, and you’re expecting me to single handedly manage that whole project on my OWN?  While also being in charge of supplying all your foot soldiers with already drugged Pokemon?  No, fuck this, just wait till Kale hear-” something this person says causes Silk pause and dread. “...Yes, I understand.” She closes the door and collapses to the floor behind it, clearly distraught.  “Shit, shit shit…”

The ‘last’ one is the one is the pill bottle one, which is as you saw it.  The only added context was, from Silk saying, “Did you know that camera is video only?  I swear the security team here is just ran by a bunch of shitpuppets.  Aury, after today, I won’t be able to see or speak with you anymore.  Make sure you hide those meds well.  The picture  I stuck in it?  If you see a person wearing something like that, go with them.  They can help you.”  The pictures are drawings of people in Watcher uniforms.