countermeasures | (animal noises) ............... 3!

I did, yes. If that means it may be used more than once, there is more leeway and less need to preserve its use.

riff said since we know each other, there's probably no need for us to flag each other in public using those forms, but that we could use them more strategically.

i still plan to use mine to defend myself if i have to.

strategically how?//

[CAN HE USE HIS MAJESTIC WINGS TO FLY TO THE GRAVEYARD OR SOMETHING riff please help them]

I have used mine to investigate.
But there are also offensive and defensive applications, I guess.

Edited 2022-03-29 04:54 (UTC)

I would be willing to use mine to investigate, but it is not as if an elephant is stealthy.

Mayhap I could break something, I suppose, but...

Not sure if stealth matters as long as you're smart about it.
But I investigated the back alley as a cat and something forced me to transform back into a human.

...is that so.

What forced it? Did this simply happen?

I offered color to the wall and it erupted into purple glitter.
When I sneezed, I turned back into a human immediately and a four leaf clover was in my hand.

What color did you use? Your own?

Yeah, I think so.
It was the week our colors were glitching pretty badly.

[but ftr oocly i, kyuu, did not specify which color in my cyoa request.]

people can get very sick from cat scratches and bites!
if someone tried to kill me i was going to make them miserable.

I would drag them down to the deepest pit of hell with me as well.
Having the element of surprise is convenient...
Well, but it would only work as long as none of us become refracted.

i wonder about that, actually...
what causes the refraction in the first place? the prism?

Before, when Ishtar-san reached the final stage of the infection, Steel described it in three words:
Imbalance, change and disorder.
Those are words we've heard a lot lately.
But I can't tell if the Prism has always been responsible for it, or if we're facing the repercussions of whatever happened to the last group.
By the way, you might already know this, but the people who have been cured of their refraction aren't immune from falling into it again.
Riff-san described what you've done as putting a bandage over it.

I am inclined to think it to be a consequence of whatever occurred.

You were not with us when I showed the note we found, I believe.

[he sends a photo.

Vax and I found this in the central node, last week, and for a few days after we were marked with a tattoo of a purple eye.

What the hell?
The Central Node is where I got in touch with the Dreamer... the first time.
It's interesting that we keep discovering new things there and in the back alley. The two places that didn't change after our first week.
Did any side effects come with the tattoo?

that's unsurprising but a little disappointing
but at least if we've seen them refracting once, we'd have a baseline for their behavior while they're refracting... it might make it easier to identify them if something happens again.

...
the other thing i wonder is
well
about us, actually
if the prism is ultimately what gave us our tasks
are we affected by it in some way?
i can't help but wonder what our color would look like if emet-selch were to use his sight on us
although i wouldn't want to waste it, lest we need to use it to confirm whether or not someone is refracting during or after a trial.

ive wondered about that too
if its possible for us to refract like the others have
or if being chosen like this prevents it somehow

it would be nice if we were immune
but that seems like a little much to hope for, as well

but i do wonder what it is about us that made the prism choose us, too

Mayhap I ought to have tested one of us.

I used it on Bass, when it was not needed to locate a second refraction- I was curious as to what a resident's soul would look like.

and? what was the result? was he okay?

He was. He is balanced, but he is nearly too bright to look at.

Too bright, huh?
With that amount of color...
It's terrifying to think what would happen if they refracted for real.

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countermeasures - 2022-03-29 15:03 (UTC) - Expand

After hearing about that ability, I have wondered about that too.
What would we look like through his sight?
Not only as ourselves but also under the effects of the rainbow gumball.

if we have another opportunity to do it safely... maybe we could find out.

but only if we don't have need of it for other reasons.