9th Observation [audio // English]

[fred_cassidy]

Has the killing died down?

I ask solely for information and not in any way as an implication that you should stop killing each other.

[That just might be dry sarcasm.]

Comments

[electronichound]

it's all quiet on the western front, yes.

[fred_cassidy]

And Christmas is coming. Time for an unofficial detente.

[He's not being ethnocentric; he's making a World War I reference.]

[electronichound]

The detente lasts as long as they want it to last.

[fred_cassidy]

And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

How is she?

[electronichound]

My blood is white.

[A pause.]

She has recovered.

/blatantly rips off a Star Trek joke

[fred_cassidy]

"Prick us, do we not leak?"

I don't know. It lacks a certain something.

[electronichound]

It lacks the weight of precedent, I suppose.

[fred_cassidy]

I am delegating the research on whether you laugh when tickled to someone with less breakable bones.

[electronichound]

You really think I'd hurt you?

[fred_cassidy]

Autonomous responses are called that for a reason.

[electronichound]

You really think I don't have control over my body?

[fred_cassidy]

I don't know, and I'm not much of a risk-taker.

[He climbed the temple in loafers and a sport coat.]

[electronichound]

Mm-hm. Don't worry, I'll be gentle.

[fred_cassidy]

[Okay, even Fred picks up a gay vibe from that.

...Moving on.]

How about I just ask that cheerful AI instead? I don't think it's capable of being evasive.

[electronichound]

[It was a joke, Fred. Batou is happily monogamous with his extremely female commanding officer.]

Oh, Musashi? It named itself. I think it's going to choose a gender at some point.

[Japanese]

[fred_cassidy]

[It's the healthiest relationship ever!]

It hardly matters in Japanese.

[Also, he's picked up Section 9's little arrogance problem with how its operatives name themselves.]