So, we can totally think she has some crazy disease then?

A crazy disease that makes her want to kill all humans, even.

I find this highly enjoyable.

I am torn between taunting Drac for his mistake, or giving him a chance to edit his character's admission. Because he really screwed himself over. What do you all think?

It would be really entertaining if we all acted like she was some diseased human killer.

Well, I kinda planned on Lind not really knowing about asyncs and shit, as that's more common, but either way Nyx/Johanna, can correct any misunderstandings had on the Watts-MacLeod strain.

I'd rather let Drac edit, though, 'cause other than not actually realizing how big of a secret being an async is, this was the closest I've seen him coming to Ellen actually being emotionally manipulative and not just creepy.

Considering that his entire character is based on "get your allies to trust you, screw them over when it's convenient", it would certainly force him to rethink his strategy.

Drac has basically screwed up royally, we can either exploit that and be all condescending to him, or we can decide to give him another chance, and still be all condescending to him.

Yeah, y'know what, if he admits to having made a mistake, to being at fault, let's let him take it back.

Edit: Because, even if Nyx told us how Watts-Mcleod does not automatically make for murderous killers, I believe Ellen is a socialite. Meaning she is at least to some degree well-known by her peers. And I think that Fame would be significantly less inclined to listen to words of reason than our little group.

Mind you, there's no guarantee that the information would get out...
But honestly, is there any that it won't?

It did, in much the same way you don't have to manually request every single picture and piece of text on this page to load. If you had to personally say yes or no to every publicly streamed AR feed pointed your way, you'd go crazy!

Anything being done maliciously should get caught by your AR filter or, failing that, your muse. Usually.

So yeah, you'd see it unless you were some kind of luddite who walked around with your mesh inserts turned off or (god forbid) didn't have any.

In which case Tyrfing's entrance would be completely invisible and inaudible to you anyway!

I'm all for not being a total prick, just because in this case it isn't all that fun as much as it is bastardly.

At any rate the only people who might even attempt to challenge her reputation and spread a rumor about her psychovirus would be Daniel, and he isn't keen to do it. If Spectre tried she could likely get his ass black marked.

Can't get any worse than level 3.
And the best thing about the Mesh is that you can easily remain anonymous. Especially when releasing classified information to the public. I mean, hire a public account? Fairly cheap. Buy a cheap ecto? Not too much of an investment. Hell, if you can anonymously hack into a hypercorps' private network, where's the difficulty in anonymously releasing a 5-second sound file, maybe with video as well?

And besides, he's black-marked already. Doesn't get much worse than that.

Well, fuck me. Yeah, in retrospect, having Ellen reveal she's an async was a royal fuck up. My bad.

Thanks for giving me a chance to edit that out, guys.