The Merge: Agents & Powers (OOC for chapter 2)

[pathfinderq1]

With our luck, the cyber-raccoons will try to scrounge some parts off of the fancy motorcycle...

[jmucchiello]

How many times have I told you not to park the mech in that part of town?

[Neo-Paladin]

Nah, not during the daytime. As Amy put it, they're still raccoons.

[Tony Jones]

What is the 'West formula'? Would that be something to do with Herbert West, Reanimator?

[Neo-Paladin]

Exactly that. It's difficult to create and banned everywhere but you can get it on the darknet. One injection can bring the dead back to life. Unfortunately, corpses who have been dead more than a couple of hours devolve into violent, often cannibalistic beasts and fresh corpses often just go catatonic after coming back or commit suicide....which is not easy for them. " West Zombies" are not just fast but hard to get rid of, with only complete destruction of the brain or incineration working - even decapitation does no good.
Injection into body parts or organs gets you a gory mess that simply attacks everything in reach.

[Tony Jones]

Sounds lovely!

[kirinke]

Some prank. Educated idiots indeed.

[Tony Jones]

So can Lilly hear anything from inside the office?

[kirinke]

I figure Viv could use the help and Amy is going for sympathetic and friendly.

[Tony Jones]

Lilly doesn't know enough about ethics or how schooling works to be able to comment...

[kirinke]

Out of curiousity, what are the german laws regarding child healers like Amy? She does have a first responder's license (or the german equivalent) and studies under real doctors and more experienced healers, so I assume she is allowed under supervision in hospitals and in emergencies like being attacked by bad-guys for example.

Although that's a different order of magnitude than putting augments into people.

[Tony Jones]

'lrrelevant mental chatter'?! Rude! Viv doesn't think very highly of the rest of us does she?!

[pathfinderq1]

No comment. And it isn't like she would ever let you know, one way or another.

Might not want to read her AAR to Hagen though (though Adeleth seems to know what she is doing).

[kirinke]

And really Amy's mind speaking is sort of like a mental CB radio with a scramble option and while she's doing it, she can't do anything else, like read minds persae. So she wouldn't know what Viv is 'thinking' unless she 'speaks' to her.

[Tony Jones]

Oh yes, all of Viv's opinions on the rest have been very much OOC. And other people can write AARs too you know! Though Lilly's might be in crayon, or in the form of a song...