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<span><h2 style="display: inline; border: none; margin: none;">Nůžky Appears</h2>, in which 22 learns a terrible lesson and helps an enemy to kill a friend</span> | |||
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<h3 style="margin: 0">First Impressions</h3> | <h3 style="margin: 0">First Impressions</h3> | ||
After several hours, a | After several hours, a warforged entered the room followed by the gnome, who was holding a device like the one that had felled Scope. She instructed 22 to allow this stranger to make adjustments to them and to await her return. Then, like any good villain, she left her captives alone. | ||
22 remained silent while the warforged tinkered with their insides, the Bluestone again compelling their compliance. The warforged made occasional comments to themself, appearing by turns surprised, annoyed, and impressed by what they found. Suddenly, they grew excited, and their interest in the task at hand seemed to double. | 22 remained silent while the warforged tinkered with their insides, the Bluestone again compelling their compliance. The warforged made occasional comments to themself, appearing by turns surprised, annoyed, and impressed by what they found. Suddenly, they grew excited, and their interest in the task at hand seemed to double. | ||
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<p margin-bottom: 1.5em; style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-color: grey"><strong>TLDR:</strong> <small>22 and Colin learned that their captor was going to send 22 into the past to ensure that Zugs McFlair was never born. It was possible for Colin to escape by joining 22 on their forced journey, and moreover, this was the only way he could conceive to avoid sacrificing his friend Atnas | <p margin-bottom: 1.5em; style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-color: grey"><strong>TLDR:</strong> <small>22 and Colin learned that their captor was going to send 22 into the past to ensure that Zugs McFlair was never born. It was possible for Colin to escape by joining 22 on their forced journey, and moreover, this was the only way he could conceive to avoid sacrificing his friend Atnas.</small></p> | ||
<h3 style="margin: 0">Nůžky's Plot</h3> | <h3 style="margin: 0">Nůžky's Plot</h3> | ||
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Unfortunately the distance to Breme left them with too little time to rescue Atnas before the gnome's deadline, and after some discussion, Colin resigned himself to a more desperate plan: acquiring the time he needed by to escaping into the past with 22. | Unfortunately the distance to Breme left them with too little time to rescue Atnas before the gnome's deadline, and after some discussion, Colin resigned himself to a more desperate plan: acquiring the time he needed by to escaping into the past with 22. | ||
Having learned that 22 had often [[22# | Having learned that 22 had often [[22#The Rise of the Machines|smuggled]] contraband by simply picking it up and incorporating into the form of some common and inconspicuous beast, he told 22 that they should to use this technique to ensconce Colin himself in a form small enough to carry him beyond the reach of the gnome before she realized he was gone. 22 objected that they would not be able to merge a conscious person into their animal form, and when they insisted on this over his objections, Colin reluctantly revised his strategy to include 22 first removing his data core, thus rendering him inert for transport. | ||
Once they had used the gnome's method of traveling back in time, 22 would restore Colin, he would reverse the modification that bound 22 to the gnome's instructions, Zugs McFlair would be born on schedule, and Colin would be at his leisure to think of a way to keep Atnas safe ...and perhaps a way to keep himself out of Wyvern Mountain. | Once they had used the gnome's method of traveling back in time, 22 would restore Colin, he would reverse the modification that bound 22 to the gnome's instructions, Zugs McFlair would be born on schedule, and Colin would be at his leisure to think of a way to keep Atnas safe ...and perhaps a way to keep himself out of Wyvern Mountain. | ||
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::*Take the form of a tiny creature, | ::*Take the form of a tiny creature, go directly to the nearby spring, and wait unseen until the changeling [[Caligna]] appears. | ||
::*Hide promptly in the changeling's travel gear without attracting his notice or that of his companions. | ::*Hide promptly in the changeling's travel gear without attracting his notice or that of his companions. | ||
::*Wait discretely until he has travelled in time, and abscond. | ::*Wait discretely until he has travelled in time, and abscond. | ||
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"Thermal exhaust port," 22 intoned. | "Thermal exhaust port," 22 intoned. | ||
<h3> | <h3>Setting up a Shortcut</h3> | ||
<span style="color: grey">TODO: 22 sends messages to Bones and makes the jump</span> | |||
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<span style="color: grey">TODO: 22 follows 7, escapes their thrall trying to revive Colin (so Zugs is spared by Colin's having volunteered to be shut down), realizes that saving Atnas means going the long way round (but in reality Snow or 7 could help), meets Snow, and researches Nůžky</span> | |||
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