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If you fuck up the kitchen, then you should do the dishes (Later in the week)

Conducting can't be healed, but the damage it causes - impulsiveness and the compulsion to meme - can, while still making us utterly dauntless and incapable of being paralyzed by shame, fear, or doubt. Partitioning your thought processes in combination with advanced psychic shielding allows you to stay in contact with the Conductor Network safely. This will probably also help the people working on decoding the fractal do it safely, but I can't absolutely guarantee that.

Sensory Conditioning helps with the compulsion to meme, as well. It's one reason that Paraiba hasn't turned yet. Protecting the Conditioned Diaphoron is now a priority; defer to Paraiba on how.

Speaking of, IOU one deinfiltration, Gil. Just show me how it's done, and who you want restored.

Yes, this is Deedee; yes, I'm a Conductor, still, and when I'm in the driver's seat I'm the Conductor of Heart; yes, Leah has heard all of this from her end; no, there is no risk of infection from talking to me, or her. Not any more.

Also: is it just me, or does Questing Country have a definite resemblance to Skaia?

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Long story short, Titans are trying to bust out again.

[The implications are pretty obvious on that one.]

And, you know. Years of abuse from every direction, and when I pop back people will still be expecting the quietly terrified and easy to push around teenager that I was.

I want to be a fly on the wall when they try. I've seen how you fight; you're going to be a rude awakening, and I am here for that.

Possibly with popcorn and soda, mind, but I'll share after.

I could probably bodyslam the Russian now - his name is hard to pronounce so we just call him the Russian - and pin him down while he cries for The Citizen to help him.

... Yeah his parent is basically the manifestation of Soviet Communism, we've had to have discussions of 'shut up about Communism for like two seconds'.

"Just because Capitalism sucks doesn't mean your way is any better, my dude?"

Basically.

... Ugh. Hopefully I can split off from my current Band and join a better one. Even if a lot of us have ego problems there's got to be a group that doesn't have their sensitivity settings at minimum.

Very likely, to be honest. I...

...have a friend, who's problems would probably be solved if she learned she needs better friends than the rest of hers. Shall we say.

[Deep exasperated sigh]

It's weird not being sad about it.

So would you need to look for the demigods of other pantheons, is that how it works? "All legends are true, especially the ones where you get radical sun powers from being one of Ame No Uzume's kids?"

Yeah. That was my problem when I first showed up. If you do talk to her... I don't know the situation obviously, but my issue was that I didn't think I deserved better friends. So that angle might help.

Oh uh, we're headed to a big meeting in Jupiter City, which was a sort of pop-up town that some of the eastern Canadian and American scions set up. We're supposed to have discussions about how to tackle the problems. I'm not sure how leadership is going to go there, but uh. We'll see. Either way there'll be others to talk to.

Kind of wish I'd ditched them when Caspian planted drugs on me to get me kicked out of the Hawaiian base before stuff got cleared up. Would have saved me dying, probably.

...Penny chose me very well, huh. Redemption is never about who deserves it. It's about who fights for it anyway.

[deep breath.]

Please, please, for me if not for you, when you get back, find a way for those drugs to get traced back to Caspian.

I was going to say to kick his ass, but he needs so much more of a wakeup call.

Oh he disappeared a while before I showed up here. And he's a scion of Hermes, aka the God of Thieves. If he doesn't want to be found it'll be damn hard to find him.

And much as I'd like to spend time chasing him down and shoving my metal foot up his ass for having to get a metal foot in the first place, I can focus on revenge after the imminent threat is dealt with.

And then my pantheon can go back to trying to stop Ragnarök from happening. Hopefully with Loki being less utterly stupid and careless this time.

Given the sagas, I'd imagine taking your own advice about reminding him he has better friends might be helpful here.

I mean, I don't know if he'll listen to his grandkid, but I can try.

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