opnet [OpNet] I can officially say this...

[Sakurako Hino]

I must either still be crazy, or at one time I was plum frickin insane.

I think I did something completely different than what has happened to me.

I took a bone sample from myself. With help from a local doctor. The goal was to do a carbon dating on the bone. What I discovered is this.

Remember that little "trip to another dimension" happened? It didn't. My bone age should be close to 50. It's more where it should be now, if I didn't take the 25 year trip that I thought I did.

This explains the amnesia I have of certain events. Everyhting is a blur for the most part. With a flash of some event here or there. I don't know what I did... but now I'm scaring myself. I just thought I'd let people know because...

Fuck, let me just be blunt. If I go crazy like that ever again... Someone has to stop me. I don't know what I did to myself or why...

Damn... I'm sorry everyone... I'm an ass.

[Tarot]

Hey, no problem. It's just...

You want me to "stop" someone that has a boat the size of the Queen Mary, submarines, battle armor, energy weapons, her own company, more money than Viacom and Devries put together and who despite severe overcrowding and rampant commercialsim still managed to get Japan to give her chunks of land. Not to mention gene spliced cat servitors. And I'm suppose to know its time to take this drastic action because you're acting...

Strangely?

Oh.

Yeah.

That'll be easy to figure out.

[Typhoon]

Well I feel much safer bringing you two and a large group of inexperienced divers to the deepest point on the surface of the earth!

[Jager]

Endeavor ... you did a bone sample carbon dating procedure on yourself?

Okay ...

You realize your bone is

a)alive and

b)you are a highly adaptive being, called nova.

Yes, you might have gone completely bonkers. No doubt about it. Sometimes the boundries of sanity are something we have to play with, redefine, and apply at a personal level.

Buck up, E-chan. If you really feel you are in need of a reality check, give me a call.

[Sakurako Hino]

Typhoon: That incident is in my past. As far as I know, and those taht have been with me recently, I am 100% Sane. Well, as sane as an eccentric inventor can be. I hope that is providing some conciliation.

Jager: Yeah... I should keep myself well grounded. When I let fly my inhibitions, I tend to forget what is important. Now I have a clear idea of what I want from myself, but I have yet to find the means.

As for the carbon dating, I do not think it was reliable enough, since the subject has to be... well... dead first before the sampling is done. You raised a valid point, Jager as to the effectiveness with my physiology as well.

But, there are ways to figure this out. My theory is that I can compare my quantum signature and the residual energy thereof at rest (in other words, dormed). In my dormed down state, there should be a residual quantum radiation surrounding me like a haze. The longer I am a nova, the more residue I pick up. Factoring in a reading I haad made well before the "event", I should have more firm answers to prove this nagging issue in the back of my brain.

Although the chances of me finding out why is slim to none.

[Typhoon]

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Originally posted by Endeavor:
Typhoon: That incident is in my past. As far as I know, and those taht have been with me recently, I am 100% Sane. Well, as sane as an eccentric inventor can be. I hope that is providing some conciliation.

I trust you, but if you start shaking and acting paranoid I'm turning that sub right around!

[Edward]

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Originally posted by Endeavor:
If I go crazy like that ever again... Someone has to stop me.

Okay.

[Sakurako Hino]

Actually, looking at the records of how I flipped out, Cull, we'd be probably not to dissimilar.

Your... eagerness to fill my request though puts me at a pause.

[Edward]

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Originally posted by Endeavor:
Actually, looking at the records of how I flipped out, Cull, we'd be probably not to dissimilar.

Your... eagerness to fill my request though puts me at a pause.

I'm just trying to be sociable. If you want someone to kill you that's your right. I'm willing to.

[Tarot]

Always good to have friends. Right?

Its not that I'm against more conversations along these lines, really its pretty interesting, but I do want to know something. When you leave the pretty pastels of Eccentricity Suburb and make that trip to the bright lights and stark primaries of Psycho City, how are we suppose to know its a permanent move and not just a day trip? Are you planning on giving us a safe word or phrase to clue us in? I was thinking maybe something subtle like "I have begun Operation Population Zero and you're all dead in one hour. Please proceed to the eradication centers in an orderly manner." would be a great clue. Or how about taking over the opnet to laugh maniacally with your pink cape snapping in the wind? That would be another good one. Going gonzo on a submarine ten miles down would just be tacky. Its been done to death on opnet movies. You should definitely just chill on the submarines and let the dashing young artiste do the pilot thing.

Asking people to "stop you" is not exactly something you see a lot of in real life. Why would it give you pause when one of the whack-o's slides out of the shadows to offer his services for that very task? You do realize this is the guy that refers to people as 'the other white meat'.

[Edward]

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Originally posted by Tarot:
Why would it give you pause when one of the whack-o's slides out of the shadows to offer his services for that very task? You do realize this is the guy that refers to people as 'the other white meat'.

Whack-o? I'm hurt. I thought people here would be a bit more understanding of novas with lifestyles and world views different from their own. I mean really Tarot, some of your work would be quite offensive to a Muslim. Am I really so different?

[Tarot]

Let me think about that for a moment...

[size:9]YES!

[Sakurako Hino]

Tarot, I have a few people already in the know of my request. I won't name names, but they are my most trusted friends.

They know me good enough to know whento pull the trigger.

Not that I want it to happen. I would hope they just find a straitjacket for me, nothing more. But these people I know, if the situation warrants, pull the trigger despite me being their "old friend".

I prepare for all potential problems that the corrupting forces of power may cause.

Failsafes as it were.

After my last... episode... I realized I needed such a failsafe, not just for Humankind, but for Novakind as well. Who knows what I'm capable of if properly... unhinged.

And Cull seems too... eager. If I have a bad day and read someone the riot act, he might take it as some sort of signal and *bam* abstract art time.

Bah... This conversation is getting damn morbid.

[Lee Jones]

Endeavor-I would be interested in seeing the results of your test. Aside from the mentioned issues, I wouldn't mind looking at your doctors notes, if s/he is willing to share them. I would love to include it in my own research. This is the first time I have ever heard of a nova participating in something like this.

As morbid as it is I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a dead nova (donated to science of course). I'd like to perform several tests, including bone isotope and carbon dating. I'd be interesting to see the results.

[Tarot]

Sure but by the time you take the long dive into the concrete bottom at the shallow end of the reality pool, you'll have probably arranged the messy ends of all of those people. So just in case El Gato Negro is busy and I happen to be the only one that didn't have a date for the night, I want to make sure there isn't a misunderstanding.

Besides, its not that easy to figure out when one of you is talking more than the normal amount of insane cr@p. If you only started screaming about extradimensional invader novas from beyond the pale of reality and blowing the Earth up to save it, it would be just another day around this place. So make sure you leave a decent clue that something out of the ordinary is going on at Casa de Lunatic.

[Sakurako Hino]

Lee: That's... creepy... but science must march on.

Tarot: Indeed that's true. Then again, most of the people that are my "Failsafes" could kill me without trying. Or apprehend me if things haven't gotten too far yet. If worse comes to worse, Nippontai and Utopia know my address.

[Tarot]

I bet you never miss a chance to tell that to them that too. That's one of the things I find less than attractive about the brainiacs. Face it; if you do lose it you'll have already accounted for all the people you 'entrusted' while sane and probably everyone else you think might have a chance to stop your logical yet diabolic plans. And of course they'd kill you. You wouldn't give the job to someone smarter than yourself so they'd have to assume that you know or could guess anything they might come up with. Faking sanity is par for the course with mad geniuses which they'd have to know as well.

Its just the way it works. I mean, how smart would you be if you couldn't do all of that?

[Jager]

Tarot, you are being insanely paranoid now.

...

I see you understand. Good.

[Tarot]

Yeah. I have got to stop reading Doweling's Conundrum series before I go to bed. Her conspiracy stuff is way too hardcore. Realistic, or at least as realistic as conspiracy books ever are, but I liked the movie. They're suppose to be casting a Bollywood sequel from the fifth book.

[Lee Jones]

Endeavor-Hey, MDs carve up cadavers when they are in school. I just want some bones from a concenting adult...hm, it's still kinda creepy.

[Jager]

Yes, Dr. Jones, kinda creepy.

You think Doweling is too hardcore, Tarot?

Bwa-ha-ha-ha ... if some of it wasn't so close.

You were a fan of Valor of Heroes (first few seasons only), right? Was that too over the top for ya? I certainly hope not.

[Tarot]

Valor was way too over the top, but I think that's one of the things I liked about it. The violence was very much in your face and gratuitous, but it was the jokes that made you spew your drink out your nose. I think that's what the later episodes really didn't have going for them. A sense of humor and a little heart

Some of the second season episodes, like Moonlighting, were hilarious. That's the one where the Triton Foundation lost their minds trying to figure out what the assassin Multiplicity was up to, only to find out she'd opened her own escort service with herself as the sole 'provider'. I almost wet myself when the ShadowForce agent was trying to make his report while justifying the ten million he'd spent on 'checking out her story'.

"I just thought that, at some point, she'd stop and admit something."

"Did she? Stop, I mean."

"Oh, HELL no. I mean no, Sir. She completed the contract exactly as specified. Particularly attentive to the, ahem, spirit over the letter as it were. Great skill and... Enthusiasm."

"Enthusiasm. I see. Anything else to report? Something unusual perhaps?"

"Well, I wasn't going to mention it but there was this freaky tantric thing..."

"Unusual as in justifying an expenditure of funds large enough to finance a revolutionary coup of any number of small nations on the planet."

"Oh. I don't think she's into it for the money, Sir."

"Really."

"Absolutely not, Sir. If it were the money she wouldn't have given us a discount."

"Us?"

"That would be an aspect of the, umm, tantric thing, Sir."

[Walker]

Endeavor At the end of the day it doesn't matter what actually happened in the objective physical sense. You had an experience which lasted a couple of decades as far as you're concerned. Nuff said.

In no way consider going into a straight-jacket, be as insane as you want to be. No ones convinced me that any Baseline standard of sanity applies to Novas. Besides like Tarot says how would we tell the difference