a farspeech announcement

[yourattention]

Emotions. [The lack of introduction is partially because Connor rarely bothers anyways and partially because he's trying to minimize the amount of speaking he's doing.] They were banned on Ai'tuoh and I couldn't figure out why then but that's - the more you bottle it up, the faster the flowers grow. Every. Single. Time. You say "I'm f" -

[There's a hiss of pain and then a slow, shaky breath. Yeah, alright. That was maybe not a great idea, given that he knows that's literally how it's triggered.]

Every time you lie about how you feel, something new grows. Every time you tell the truth, I think - I think that's how you cure it. That's why the robots didn't get it at first. That's why the rates of dying were all different.

[Should he take his own advice? Probably. But he's not gonna.]

I have fluro, if you want it. It makes the nausea worse, but it makes it easier to breathe.

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[prettypurpleparlor]

[Somehow, you can just hear the exhausted facepalm Muffet is doing in her voice.]

They did say the animals succumbed to it last- less emotion for them to feel in the first place, I suppose. And one of the very first entries we discovered talks about how the robots were steadily becoming more and more complex, better at understanding the subtleties of human actions- there's only so complex a being can become without eventually qualifying as a person in their own right. They weren't affected when they were using the simple, early models, but once they hit that tipping point...

[She sighs.]

To anyone who'd like to try confessing something for their health, I'm currently on Umui, near the mana pool. I can promise you that whatever you say to me, I will do my utmost to keep it in confidence.