lung, meet rewind

[msrewind]

She gets the note just before lunch. She's in the PHQ in less than twenty minutes, then she knocks on Piggot's door politely.

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[thinkering]

"Oooooh."

[mrglam]

"I managed to do something almost invisible by mimicking those stupid monkeys, surely I can do the real deal."

[thinkering]

"When do you wanna try it? What else should we try while you're under?"

[mrglam]

"Whenever, and I'm not sure. Can you think of something that'd work on Miasma?"

[thinkering]

"Spiderweb sorta thing, if he moves it tells you where he's at."

[mrglam]

"Ooh. I don't think I'd need to be under for that, though? I can just," and there's a spiderweb and a little black widow between his raised index and middle fingers.

[thinkering]

"Did you have to include the spider? Did you have to include that spider?" exclaims Lorica, sitting up in bed.

[mrglam]

The spider disappears and he sits up, too. "Sorry! It's a fake spider, it wouldn't do anything! But sorry."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, I know, it just startled me and I'm mostly naked which is not a condition in which I like to encounter spiders. I don't mean actually a spiderweb, anyway, more like a three dimensional grid."

[mrglam]

He makes the spiderweb disappear, then brings both hands together and spreads them apart, generating a spiderweb-like thing between them. "What properties should this have?"

[thinkering]

"Maybe it can constrict suddenly if something touches one of the strands."

[mrglam]

"Hmmm... Without an actual mechanism for that it'd be relying on my and whoever-else's expectations."

[thinkering]

"Okay, maybe it does need a spider in it. For effect."

[mrglam]

"But then he'd notice the wires and not actually be tripped by them."

[thinkering]

"Tripping isn't the point, locating and holding is."

[mrglam]

"Right, that's what I meant, he'd need to not know they're there otherwise he could just avoid them."

[thinkering]

"Not if they were dense enough."

[mrglam]

"Oh, you mean, like, conjuring them around him? Or around the area where he was?"

[thinkering]

"Yeah, what were you thinking?"

[mrglam]

"Conjuring it somewhere he might go so he'd run into it. His own expectations would run counter my conjuring around him so I'd need some witnesses on our side who knew what was about to go on, probably."

[thinkering]

"Wouldn't be too hard to get."

[mrglam]

"No, indeed not, especially if we were broadcasting bots' vision to tactically relevant people here in the PHQ."

[thinkering]

"Of course then we'd have to be authorized to take potshots at the S9."

[mrglam]

"They all have a kill order on their heads, I'm pretty sure we're authorized pretty much whatever's not immediately and obviously terrible."

[thinkering]

"I mean authorized in terms of risk-taking, not in terms of desired results."