opnet [OpNet] There is always a wrinkle...

[Sakurako Hino]

Hello again everyone. Let's cut to the chase.

Just found out my grand plan has been severely curtailed. The Japanese Government, who originally was all for my restructuring plans of their disaster response capabilities has completely put up a wall around most of the original plan.

Seems some bueaucrats were scared of what happened in Chicago, and didn't want it going on in Tokyo. Not that I blame them with their higher person per square meter than Chicago.

Needless to say, they have officially cut off most of their suport.

I should emphasize the word most.

Lucky me, I got a contract, and a record of sale of several designs they'll use anyways. The compensation alone is... beautiful. I've gone from barely getting by on royalties to comfortable again.

Thing is, I got all this stuff, and I'm already incorporated to originally handle the now semi-defunct before starting Tokyo Advanced Disaster Response.

Heh, looks like I'm running a company again. With a government contract. We handle what they can't send enough resources to.

That, and now several private firms are signing up on various contracts too. Cruise Line firms, Corporations looking to improve workplace safety, hell, even private security. The security part isn't providing man-power, but technology for it.

So, the new corp is now simply Sakurako Technology Innovations and Applications. Or the officially recognized trademark - STIA.

Looking foreward to the new business when the corporation officially opens January 1st, 2016.

Oh, and you can call me Chairman Hino if you wish. ~.^

When I land on my feet.. heh, I dig the claws in! At least now you know why I have been not as active as of late here.

[Hugin]

So you are now doing business in Japan again?

Interesting.

[Jager]

Congrats, E. If you need anything from me, don't hesitate to ask. Best of luck to you.

[Tarjei 'Nemesis' Sigurdardottir]

Business is like tide. Sometime go in. Sometime go out. Am happy tide coming in for you.

Please make security system most excellent. Tarjei is boring with bad security. Is not challenge enough.

[Sakurako Hino]

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Originally posted by Jager:
Congrats, E. If you need anything from me, don't hesitate to ask. Best of luck to you.

Actually, with the situation in Chicago, you might need me. I'll send you a catalog. I'm sure both the WCK and the Chicago Police Department will be interested.

And thanks for the well wishes so far.

[Hugin]

Ms. Hino, please do not take this as an insult my little chibi, but you flit about so much sometimes I wonder why I simply don't just have you killed.

[Sakurako Hino]

Really? Ignoring the fact I was stayng the course untill someone got scared higher up and put the breaks on my plans.

It was none of my doing, Hugin.

This project I WANT for myself, my home, and to stand as an example for the world. Is sticking to one goal "fliting" about? So my original goal got stymied. I simply employed a contingency.

Now as for your remark, are you the embodiment of some sort of natural selection? Who put you in that role? Last I checked nature was in firm control over the paradigm, why do you wish to upset it?

[Hugin]

Cute.

Really, I'm impressed.

Sweetheart, little one? You have about as much attention to whatever you are doing as a spastic squirrel. Without knowing it (at least, I hope you were unaware) you have upset my very carefully laid plans on at least a dozen occasions. I don't appreciate having all that work ruined. I am sure I am not the only one. That you still have use of all your limbs I find simply astounding. But someday you will have to answer for your reckless behavior.

[Sakurako Hino]

You're pissed off because I've created a Butterfly Effect around your plans? Surely it was unintentional, yet you blame me for occurrances I had no prior control over.

Surely we cannot blame Einstein for Hiroshima, yet you blame me for events beyond my control.

Tokyo, and Japan is my turf, as well as yours, Long's, Timeslip's, and countless others.

Have you checked on their influences on your plans as well? Or how about Nippontai? The countless baseline variables...

We could go on and on about the blame game Hugin. One thing is for certain, I am no more responsible for your failures, than anyone else. Except perhaps you.

[Wakinyan]

Now this doesn't sound like interNova cooperation to me. Hugin you don't seem to be respecting Endeavor's Nova expression. Granted that expression is A.D.D. but you shouldn't think it is just an excuse to foil you.

Endeavor I know you really tried this time. I am sorry it did not work out and I hate that I am part to blame for it.

[Splitmind]

Perhaps you could clarify, Ms... Endeavor? Hino? Anyway. What about your plan was beginning to worry Japan? My memory isn't the greatest, but I don't recall any of your plans inviting hostile (or in Wakinyan's case, perhaps misunderstood) Novas into the open.

And it doesn't seem like there's much point in chastising Hugin for his comments, Wakinyan. Either he's making a joke in very poor taste (Ha ha, my dear, sometimes I think I should dismember you!) or he's genuinely serious about the possibility of killing people who get in the way of his nebulous "plans" in a very Big Brother-esque fashion, in which case I don't see why he'd feel shame for his lack of "interNova cooperation" (Oh dear, they're right, I shouldn't insult people before having them assassinated, that's simply rude!).

Back when I was a Baseline, I would have assumed it was a joke. A few years ago, I would have assumed he was dead serious and probably watching me through newscasts. Now I can admit that I really don't know him enough to say which... but his comments still make me nervous.

[Sakurako Hino]

Splitmind, it was the Chicago incident. Tokyo and the Japanese Government was equally worried I would invite the same problems the Windy City Knights have had. They, at the last minute, had cold feet due to this very thing. I bounced back with a contract. Now I'm incorporated, and my plan has had to take a side-track for it to keep going.

I've always cared for other people's safety, Nova and Baseline alike. It has always been in my blood. Perhaps it was an overloaded maternal instinct, perhaps I'm just wanting to do somehting for my home country that is worthwhile and inherently noble.

All the while, making a buck or two to further my efforts and increase the capabilities of my organization.

I no more invited Hugin's ire than she invited herself in.

But then again, I'm sure a peaceful airing of grievances between myself and Hugin would provide better satisfaction than making this a war. It's what I feel would be the civilized method.

[Jager]

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Originally posted by Hugin:
But someday you will have to answer for your reckless behavior.

Not someday soon, I hope.

She may have her enemies, but she also has friends who find her activities positive and uplifting.

[Tommy Tomorrow]

Perhaps it might be useful for Endeavor and Hugin to sit down and talk things through. After all, they're both in the same city and apparently share interests in what goes on there. And either there's a misunderstanding of cosmic proportions in the making or... Or there are things going on in the deeper workings of the world that Endeavor and Hugin would profit from sharing an understanding of. I normally don't like conspiracy as the first explanation, or shooting before asking questions, but then I'm not always in the majority either.

And congratulations on the contract stuff, Hino. It's always nice to ride the government money train.

[Sakurako Hino]

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Originally posted by Hugin:

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Originally posted by Sakurako Endeavor Hino:


I no more invited Hugin's ire than she invited herself in.

If you'd care to occasionlly ponder the repurcussions of your actions beyond the first few hundred steps I very likely wouldn't be upset with you. You, with your technology spewing forth like you are some deranged water sprinkler, have caused enormous difficulties not just for myself but dozens of others.

Interesting.

I just ran my contracts to recent record against public records of your interactions and transactions. What I've discovered at closest I've had a 4 degrees of seperation between myself and you. Also, you have provided to be just as much an obstacle to me, as I have seemingly been to you.

Hugin, we are in the same waters. I do not see myself as being "wreckless" as you claim. I am careful what I release to the public.

It would seem some of these friends of yours are more pulling your strings than I am clipping them. You seem willing to stymie my free will, yet there is evidence yours is being crushed.

What stops you from your full potential, Hugin? Or perhaps you just wish to eliminate an obstacle, instead of compete with it?

I'm no longer insulted, I'm concerned.

[Jager]

A ways back, I met this gal whose opening line was "Welcome to MY planet," and she was dead-serious.

Things went downhill from there.

A lesson I was taught:

There are three kinds of possessions. That which you have, that which you think you have, and that which you can hold on to. The closer those three are to one another, the happier you are.

I haven't mastered that lesson yet, but I keep it in mind.

[Jager]

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Originally posted by Hugin:
Yes, the clownish and foolish often have a fanbase.

But we still luv ya, Hugin.

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Originally posted by Hugin:
Or was that supposed to be a threat?

I thought you knew me better than that ... damn. If I planning on being any kind of threat to you, the last thing I would do is advertise it.

I was pointing out that Endeavor has helped out and been a friend to many others in the past and will probably continue to be. You, on the other hand, have been far less endearing to the nova community at large.

[Hugin]

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Originally posted by Jager:

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Originally posted by Hugin:
But someday you will have to answer for your reckless behavior.

Not someday soon, I hope.

She may have her enemies, but she also has friends who find her activities positive and uplifting.

Yes, the clownish and foolish often have a fanbase.

Or was that supposed to be a threat?

[Hugin]

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Originally posted by Sakurako Endeavor Hino:


I no more invited Hugin's ire than she invited herself in.

If you'd care to occasionlly ponder the repurcussions of your actions beyond the first few hundred steps I very likely wouldn't be upset with you. You, with your technology spewing forth like you are some deranged water sprinkler, have caused enormous difficulties not just for myself but dozens of others.

[Ghostwriter]

Hugin, I respect you to the highest degree, but you are overlooking the most basic element of all of this:

Endeavour's free will.

She has chosen to use her quantum expression to create. Yes, some of those creations are frivolous, but others include my leg-brace and any number of Hino-tech that I and others make a habit of using. Does that mean I'm interfering in your plans too?

If you can prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Hino-tech is a diffculty for you, that you don't use the tiniest smidgin of it, I'll shut up and butt out.

But until then, I am using my free will to stand up for someone I owe a hell of a lot to.

[Tommy Tomorrow]

The Ibiza Lesson. The wording depends on who's speaking, but generally it goes something like this: There's no problem so subtle, or with ramifications either so few or far reaching, that more novas can't be added to create widespread destructive chaos out of nothing. Then complain about it.

Wouldn't it be really nice if two people that disagreed sat down over a cup of ocha and talked. Maybe reach an understanding. And I say this without owing either one of them anything.

[Hugin]

Miss Hino, my activities are rarely transparent. As for my willingness to 'stymie' your free will, yes I suppose you could look at it that way. You'd be wrong of course, but you could look at it that way.

Jager, oh, you know me so well. True, I sit for hours on end regretting how my surly nature has cost me the love and adoration millions. If only I could be more like you.

[Sandcaster]

If you are vying for the 2015 Misanthrope of the Year Award, Hugin, you are doing an excellent job. Thinly veiled threats and blatent insults to a nova who has done nothing but try to improve everyone's lot in life -- baseline and nova alike -- are hardly a way to evidence your supposed superiority.

That said, your utter failure to treat Sakurako with anything resembling respect is hardly the most troubling behavior you have demonstrated here. Rather, the rampant paranoia you have exhibited -- your seeming obsession with "wheels within wheels" and "butterfly effects" so broadly defined as to include, quite literally, everything -- would seem to indicate that you are no longer entirely sane.

I put very little stock into Terat claims regarding "Taint Management" and the like. However, if there is any merit at all to said claims, I would strongly recommend that you rein yourself in while you still have any sort of a grip on objective reality.

[Hugin]

If Miss Hino were of middling intellect I could hardly be upset at her. But she is in fact brilliant and therefore she should realize the shockwaves that each of her movements causes. I don't expect someone like Wakinyan or Tarot to calculate their footprint a few thousand places removed. I would hope that Miss Hino would make the effort. It is clear to me that she does not or she is a fool.

Nice to make your acquaintance, Sandcaster.

[Edward]

Treat Sandcaster with respect Hugin or I will be very, very angry. She is a loving and kind individual.

[Jager]

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Originally posted by Hugin:
I sit for hours on end regretting how my surly nature has cost me the love and adoration millions.

If only that was a little closer to the truth. That you don't regret the cost is the pity.

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Originally posted by Hugin:
If only I could be more like you.

Nah ... we each have our own ways, and that is part of the beauty of the world.

[Tommy Tomorrow]

I read this thread and suddenly its no surprise to me that people stare at us like we're walking bombs.

[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

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Hugin:
I sit for hours on end regretting how my surly nature has cost me the love and adoration of millions.

You still have fan clubs from your Utopian days. Perhaps one day you'll come full circle.

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Tommy Micro:
I read this thread and suddenly its no surprise to me that people stare at us like we're walking bombs.

Some of us more than others.

[Sakurako Hino]

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Originally posted by Hugin:
If Miss Hino were of middling intellect I could hardly be upset at her. But she is in fact brilliant and therefore she should realize the shockwaves that each of her movements causes. I don't expect someone like Wakinyan or Tarot to calculate their footprint a few thousand places removed. I would hope that Miss Hino would make the effort. It is clear to me that she does not or she is a fool.

Nice to make your acquaintance, Sandcaster.

Interesting Hugin, So what you're telling me, is to lock myself into an isolation chamber, away from the world, and hope like hell I didn't squash an Ant unknowingly on the way?

Please. Elaborate on this fantasy further. This is becoming a true study in paranoia in it's most unbridled.

If you are as concerned regarding I as you seem to be, I will take it that you are only a few step away from taking action upon it. I'm not going to look for you, Hugin, but I WILL be watching my back untill you get a clue as to what the hell you're doing; backing off and publicly apologising not only to myself, but several other novas here.

Then again, I doubt you'll do that. So I'll just employ some contingency plans just in case you send some visitors to my doorstep. Not that I think most normal Terat would answer your request to teach me a lesson, but I think there are a few interested in taking out someone who isn't one of them, yet believes in the Transhuman nature of Novas.

In fact, I think that is the real reason you're stalking me, Hugin. I don't belong in your world model. You get so flustered with my variable that you wish to remove it. Pity. A truely intelligent Nova would adapt. That is, one who believes in personal evolution. And isn't it personal evolution that a Terat prizes most next to personal freedom to express their rights as a Nova?

Yes, I'm making this personal. Someone like you, who'd rather insult and theaten another deserves no platitudes or protocol. Just the truth of the matter, and the reality of things.

You deal with Terrorism. You exert Psychological terror, and threaten Physical terror. I will respond defensively. In accordance on how I wish to handle this situation.

I don't wish physical conflict, but if it's what you're looking for, you will have to make the first move, not I.

I would hope you consider a more civilized path. We are intelligent beings, Hugin. I do not wish violence. I am hoping you will take a step back. I'm prepared if you don't.

[Sam Grey]

Let it go, Pinkie. It ain't worth the time to figure out why everyone might disagree with you. Or to argue 'bout it.

And you might want to change that signature: you're definitely a Ms., not a Miss.

[Sakurako Hino]

I try to keep an air of informality, or at least try to seem friendlier towards clients. Miss seems to be more warmly recepted than Ms.

Then again would you rather I become a Mrs? ~.^

[Sam Grey]

You're too headstrong to take someone's name, Pinkie. I can see you raising a gaggle of bouncing baby geniuses, complete with a pink picket fence, while you're building god knows what, but I don't see you taking your loving husband's name.

"Sakurako" just sounds so much better with "Hino" after it.

[Tommy Tomorrow]

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Originally posted by David 'Dr. Troll' Smith:
Some of us more than others.

Too bad it's a little hard to tell in advance which nova will be the one to lose it today.

[Sakurako Hino]

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Originally posted by Sam Grey:
You're too headstrong to take someone's name, Pinkie. I can see you raising a gaggle of bouncing baby geniuses, complete with a pink picket fence, while you're building god knows what, but I don't see you taking your loving husband's name.

"Sakurako" just sounds so much better with "Hino" after it.

Well, I sort of like hearing Sam Grey-Hino. Sounds very... avant-garde. Then again, perhaps taking my family name would fit you more, Mr. Grey. Samuel Hino... Sounds... Wonderful.

[Tommy Tomorrow]

Is this really something you want to be discussing in public? I feel as though I've stepped into someone's private office while looking for the bathroom.

[Sam Grey]

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Originally posted by Sakurako Endeavor Hino:
Well, I sort of like hearing Sam Grey-Hino. Sounds very... avant-garde. Then again, perhaps taking my family name would fit you more, Mr. Grey. Samuel Hino... Sounds... Wonderful.

Sorry, Pinkie, I'm inclined to keep my family name... the rugrats can be Grey-Hino or just Hino if you wish.

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Originally posted by Tommy Micro:
Is this really something you want to be discussing in public? I feel as though I've stepped into someone's private office while looking for the bathroom.

Yeah, it's not every day you see a twenty-somthing CEO imply marriage with a sixty-something private dick. I never knew I was such hot property...

[Sakurako Hino]

Umm... Tommy's right. ^.^

I do think that subject would be better served in private.

[Splitmind]

I, for one, don't mind hearing about happy people being themselves. It's... refreshing. I don't get to hear much of it these days. There are so many threats and conspiracies and wars and... it's just nice to be reminded that small, beautiful things happen to Novas, too, not just earth-shattering ones. It reminds me that we're capable of being positive forces on multiple levels.

[Sakurako Hino]

Splitmind, I try not to fall into those bad ruts. I find them annoying and distasteful. Since I have experienced them all.

I find the quiet life addictive. Or leaning over a table building some new concept and bringing it out of blueprints and into reality. Heck, just micromanaging my company provides a beautiful distraction.

I find myself thanking god that I don't sleep... or don't need sleep. Although catching a quick nap is a good recharge. I get them whenever I can. Especially when I'm overclocking the old braincells with some juice.

I find, though I'm rather blessed with natural intellect as well. The node... speeds things along.

[Gerald Haney]

Penis waving between big brains.

I find this very funny.