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Noise

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

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And if they need to, they'll make a difference. Push you out, and keep you there -

[That's quick; she mostly catches the color. And it makes her wonder about what Donnie's reading, but she can't look into everything all at once. She falls back on her usual time management: try to scan the schematics with the goggles, to at least have data to review, before turning back to the red box.]

You've made them?

[Starting to step over to the box.]

Do you...have something that's going to overload?

That too. April suffers that. She's a perfectly charming human, and yet she still gets treated like an outcast just for being a little eccentric.

[He's flipping through the screen, scanning through the info.]

I did. Its more recent. Took almost two years after I made holograms, and they do take a lot of power. Mystic fabrications are good to make up that difference, the energy converts easier, but I have managed real ones.

No. This is the room with all the safeties confirmed, everything in Beta is still in the lab.

An outcast. . .I’d like to meet her.

[She makes a face at the confirmed safeties. How many people say things like that to her, only to immediately find out about hubris? Aloy will sit down next to the box, and start investigating it. Seams, latches that the goggles can find?]

Well. I don’t know much about mystic fabrications. But if the snake can repress your, uh, ninpo, then a reliable power source and hard light projectors will be the best approach.

Everyone should meet her, April is great.

[Donnie is full of hubris, but to be fair, he does mean it. Its Lab that might explode.]

[The box is vibrating and this closer, it certainly sounds more like something is actually hitting it on the inside? Though even with the goggles, it appears to be a perfectly sealed box. No latches or seems, though the camera part of the goggles don't seem able to see the red energy?]

That is the hard part. There isn't any efficient energy source around yet that ISN'T magic. Anything mundane will take something big and that makes it hard to cart around./

What about something the size of a backpack? Even if it puts a limit on how long it can run at a time. We had Erend carry something like that - if he could do it, I probably could, too.

[Is there something sharp around that she could use to start cutting her own seam? If there is, she’ll do that.]

Eeeeeeeh. Maybe I can make a generator like that with the parts we have, but it will be heavy.

[She does have an axe in her crafting table toolset and there are also things like swords and kunai about.]

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Do your best. It's the plan to keep me safe, remember?

[She'll select a sword for this job! Doesn't want to accidentally harvest this box for crafting material. Besides, maybe she can use the sword later.]

Scoff! Of course I always do my best-

[She starts to try and cut the seam-]

[Which is enough to allow the box to break open in energetic red burst as suddenly there is a red light construct of Raph there.]

Donnie, stop using Kraang stuff! [And he is Very Concerned]

[A shout, and she drops the box as it bursts, bringing up the sword!

-Oh. A hologram?

[Pokes Raph to confirm.]

Holo-whatsit?

[She can poke. He is a Very Solid Presence.]

You know what a hologram is, Raph.

Raph don't usually get accused of being one!

Not a hologram, either. . .So this must be their version of hard light?

[Shakes her head.]

Okay, I don’t think we have time for a full family argument. Raph, I’m. . .starting to think he’s got a point, here.

Nah. This is ninpo mystic stuff.

Or a splinter mental manifestation. I haven't determined it.

Do you know what the Kraang are?

A ninpo splinter, then.

[Glancing between them.]

I've been muddling through but - I don't really know, no.

Parasitic hivemind alien that wants to conquer everything.

I have it HANDLED, Raphela.

You're growing real tentacles!

Parasitic -

[WELL OKAY. Raph knows how to shift opinions.]

I don't like the sound of that. A conquering hivemind? That sort of thing usually spirals out of control, fast.

I have it under control. They can only do so much without compromising what they want from me.

Tell Raph you hear what's wrong with that? [He looks at Aloy with the most fretful big brother look.]

[Fretful big brother look is a one-hit KO.

She’ll step in close to Ralph, and lower her voice.]

What then, though? A purge protocol of some kind? Wipe the data in his systems?

Uuuuh. I think you just need to get rid of the Snake's corruption and whatever Dee playing with Kraang stuff is doing to his brain to make him summon Kraang tentacles.

You holding the chain is actually helping keep Protection here under control, but Mind Raph is pretty sure you can't stay.

I’ll have to move. And the only way I can be in two places at once - is Beta.

[Big frown.]

Find a place to confine him? [Cask of Amontillado a turtle.] Or cut the chain at the base, and tether him to me.

Is Beta like a Mind Raph and a Real Raph?

Clones who act as twins.

Oh, a Leo and Donnie situation. [Nod nod.] You probably shouldn't talk about her like she's you? That can't be good for like. Identity stuff.

But Protection can't leave the room and he usually has a leash. Its just our leash holder is out of commission.

It’s worked before. Uh - long story.

[Yeah, probably not healthy.]

The leash holder wouldn’t happen to be a man who used to caution you to get back to the sewers?

Doesn't make it healthier. Trust Mind Raph, he has experience.

[Confused look.] Oh! That's dad. No. Well, a bit?

He's got strong influence in one of the rooms.

Selfishness and Relations usually act as the leash, but those will be like. Donnie shaped.

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Experience has to count for something.

Your father - it sounded like he was careful.

We talked about cost - so Selfishness is probably the higher priority. But Relations sounds like he might be easier to talk to.

Experience counts for a lot and big brothers have loads of it. [Also potentially DID, there is Legit Strong Evidence.]

And yeah, pops was. We couldn't go live with the yokai because Big Mama and Draxum wanted him and us, and we definitely couldn't live with humans without them wanting to make us experiments. So he did what he could to take care of us on his own.

He...he worked really hard to try and be good for us. [Rubs the back of his neck.] Raph did what he could to help.

Relations also has Mikey whose a lot better at this mental stuff. I'm not sure all that's going on in Selfishness, except he's out of commission and he's usually one of the stronger voices.

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