IC Contact - Snowblind

[phaseshifter]

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[devoutish]

Honestly, I can't remember. I introduced myself. He seemed confused about why I would contact him at all.

[phaseshifter]

Yyyyeah, that makes sense. He's no used to being contacted by bandits unless they want to turn in a bounty or something. Pllllus he was kinda in denial about the whole criminal thing.

[devoutish]

It's just as well. If we had made an alliance, it wouldn't have lasted long.

[phaseshifter]

[ Okay no even feeling as gross as she does SHE HAS TO LAUGH ]

I - yeah, I can't really imagine the two of you getting along enough to work together. Even for five minutes. It's... actually kinda hard to think of a worse combo.

That's a compliment.

[devoutish]

Yeah, why is that?

[He knows why he doesn't think they'd work well together. He's curious about why she thinks they wouldn't.]

[phaseshifter]

Well. On the most basic level, you're both used to leading. And not only do you approach that very differently, I doubt that either of you would ever even approach having enough respect for the other to take direction. Or even compromise!

 

 

Plus, you know. He was an asshole.

[devoutish]

[Angel, Alfie is an asshole, too. But he's... not going to point that out.]

Mm, yeah.

The examples you gave, about what he does - experimenting on people with whatever slag is. How did you find out about it? How did Rhys?

[phaseshifter]

[ o.....h. ]

I'm not sure if Rhys does know. Jack may have mentioned it. The AI, I mean. It - it wasn't exactly covered upinternally at Hyperion, but it wasn't common knowledge either? Not unless you were involved in organic R&D, and Rhys wasn't. So I doubt he ever had cause to stumble across the information even though it was technically available.

[ Just gonna. Skirt on by the question of how she knew herself. Al casual-like. Yeah. ]

[devoutish]

He didn't know because he didn't bother to know. All right.

And what about you?

[Sorry Angel, he notices stuff like this.]

[phaseshifter]

Saying he didn't bother to know is pretty uncharitable. He was involved in the business side of things! There was no reason for him to go poking around in all the sciencey... stuff.

Whereas I - erm. Ihad access to everything on Hyperion's network, a lot of time, and a personal interest in eridium. That's what slag is - a byproduct of the eridium process. Plus I was involved in many of Jack's pet projects by default.

[devoutish]

Yeah, you've said. He used you for them too, didn't he?

[phaseshifter]

[ ... ]

No. Not exactly. I was never a test subject or anything. Not like that.

[devoutish]

You were a collaborator? And then you rebelled.

[phaseshifter]

Pretty much. I didn't actively collaborate in slag experimentation, but if it weren't for me then Jack wouldn't have been mining and refining eridium in the first place.

[ Which sure makes it awkward when Fiona's talking about Pandora getting ravaged for it, fyi ]

[devoutish]

And why is that?

[phaseshifter]

It's com-- You're not going to accept "it's complicated," are you.

To wake the Warrior - the giant monster I talked about - Jack needed a siren to charge up an ancient artifact. Which was achieved by pumping me full of pretty much all the eridium he managed to dig up. Plus he said that all his plans and ambitions were just to protect me anyway, but I'm not too far gone to realise that his motivations got really freaking warped over time.

[devoutish]

Angel, if that's not experimentation, I'm not sure what is.

[phaseshifter]

He knew it would work beforehand. We knew that a fellow siren was able to charge her own abilities by processing smaller quantities of eridium; there was no experimenting involved.

[ SEMANTICS ]

[devoutish]

Mm, still. Same sort of idea.

[phaseshifter]

Mmmmh. Maybe. Um - you seem pretty curious about all this stuff. Are you planning on talking to Fiona about it? I'm not gonna ask you not to, I just. Want to know.

[devoutish]

I'm not gonna bring it up. She doesn't already know?

[phaseshifter]

She knows bits of it. And honestly, she's probably worked out most of the rest? But it isn't something we've talked about much. There isn't really a good time to mention willingly collaborating with Jack for a while, or to drop deets on being the reason her planet got mined in the first place.

[devoutish]

Mm.

I won't promise I won't ever tell her.

[phaseshifter]

That's cool. Just saying that you're not planning on bringing it up is more than I deserve, really, so. Thanks.

[devoutish]

I haven't got plans, but she deserves to know, and if she wants to, I'll tell her.