I don't know. I've been thinking about it, and--they could bring them here, right? But everyone says that Mayfield never follows through on this sort of thing.
[Implied throughout that whole thing is "but if Mayfield isn't bluffing..."]
What? Mayfield is suddenly going to be able to accomidate an extra two hundred thousand people? That's the minimum of what it would be for simply the nations I've interacted with here. I'm assuming there's others I've not run into yet. It would be an impossible threat to follow through on. And even a fraction of our populations we can keep safe. We've fought too hard to do just that in the past to let this city get them.
[Estonia's obviously been thinking about this, too, since he got his letter. He just needed someone to set him off so he could go ranting.]
That doesn't make any sense, Leedu! If they were capable of terrorizing us -- any of us -- at home, why would we have been brought here in the first place? No, obviously the extent of their abilities is the transportation of people and the acquiring of minimal information from our home. I haven't collaborated with anyone outside of our normal and expected timeline to verify this is true, but I'm going on a hunch here. It only follows, logically, that whoever is in control here has limited powers. Which means that there's got to be a way to get around their system.
Then it must be a bluff. The photos are realistic, but they've inserted memories into our heads before, so I guess in comparison this isn't that sophisticated...
Photoshopping is easy. Despite everything native here saying it's the nineteen-fifties, obviously they've been able to pull us from later times. All it takes is some generic shots of people or even images from our tourism websites and whoever is running things has all the incentive we need to start panicking about our citizens.
I don't see how Mayfield could feasibly do anything to them.
It all depends on what you are in Mayfield--since you're in a child spot, you can't buy them. Do you have a preference for which kind? I'll go buy a few now.
You don't think they'll really be able to do anything to our people, do you?
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I don't know. I've been thinking about it, and--they could bring them here, right? But everyone says that Mayfield never follows through on this sort of thing.
[Implied throughout that whole thing is "but if Mayfield isn't bluffing..."]
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[Estonia's obviously been thinking about this, too, since he got his letter. He just needed someone to set him off so he could go ranting.]
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I suppose it would have to grow exponentially for that, but the other option is that if they can't do that, can they attack our people at home?
[Secretly he's hoping for another rant about how illogical that would be.]
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That doesn't make any sense, Leedu! If they were capable of terrorizing us -- any of us -- at home, why would we have been brought here in the first place? No, obviously the extent of their abilities is the transportation of people and the acquiring of minimal information from our home. I haven't collaborated with anyone outside of our normal and expected timeline to verify this is true, but I'm going on a hunch here. It only follows, logically, that whoever is in control here has limited powers. Which means that there's got to be a way to get around their system.
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Then it must be a bluff. The photos are realistic, but they've inserted memories into our heads before, so I guess in comparison this isn't that sophisticated...
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I don't see how Mayfield could feasibly do anything to them.
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I suppose you're right. Maybe I let myself get all worked up over nothing.
[Because that never happens, right?]
Well, this situation is still something to worry about...
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[Estonia quiets, ever so slightly.] And despite my best attempts at rationalizing this, I'm not sure I can take the risk that I might be wrong.
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Don't get yourself killed.
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[Internal systems error. Press ctrl+alt+del to shut down and reboot.]
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