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You might have physical mutations but you still think like a human! "...and you're the only one who understands me. We really are two fragments of the same soul, huh? We even have the same voices, just slightly shifted."
HUNTER OF THE CITY. SEEKER OF THE CITY. UNSTABLE. UNSTABLE RESOLVE. Hm.
"Maybe that's why it allowed you to know. So be it." Wendy starts heading back up the stairs without any further prodding. "Let's go up these stairs, my kindred fragment."
>+0.5 RAPPORT with WENDY!
That was an oddly ominous few minutes but you're glad she didn't decide to smash your head against the stair railing before throwing you down a hundred foot drop. The next thirty minutes are spent in awkward silence. You imagine any discussion on her Singularity is going to bring back...moments like this.
She soon loosens up as you get to the half way point.
"Sorry." Instead of the maniac mystic you had breathing down your neck, there's simply a meek girl with yellow eyes trying her best to apologize to you. "I. Normally, Singularities are only supposed to be known by trusted associates of companies and the highest officials of said corporations. I didn't know how to react when I heard you knew."
"It's fine." You brush it off. That's how you deal with most conflicts with non-spooks. "Not like I could do much with it. Sure, apparently it lets me talk to it but at most I might be able to talk to it if I spend $7500 on moonstones and hotboxed my room with their fumes. And then what? W-Corp would know if I tried stealing anything."
"Mmh. It's the principle of the matter if anything. If a corporation knew you had unauthorized knowledge in any way, they'll probably kill you to be safe." OKAY SO DON'T MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT X OR K-CORP'S SINGULARITIES TO PEOPLE GOTCHA. "It's not 'illegal' per se, the Head is so laissez faire about everything the only thing they give a shit about is their own operations."
"The corpos themselves care a lot, though."
"F-fair! I-if a Rep told me about their singularity to their face, w-would I be allowed to discuss it?"
"Oh! To them? Sure, sure." So V-Corp's singularity knowledge is fine. "Just...don't tell me about it. It's like a movie studio being sent a script written by you. Even if we just skimmed it, we could be sued to oblivion. Understood."
Hm. Makes sense. Keep it within the specific Corporation's ecosystem.
This neat little corporate conversation is cut abruptly when you finally reach the top of the clock tower. You take a look around to see what's exactly up here. You're standing on a small rickety wooden platform in a roughly triangular shape with the top of the spiraling staircase at the dead center of it.
The four walls surrounding you all have a glass clock face resting in the middle of them, each locked to 11:25. So far, everything looks normal up here. But when you two turn your attention to what's at the top end of the wooden platform?
There's a mangled mass of clockwork and wiring loosely piled up there.
