opnet [OpNet] So my hair is now purple and I read minds...

[Lyn 'Indigo' Ross]

Okay, my hair is blue-violet, but who's being technical?

I have been lurking on these boards and making smart-alec comments in various threads over the past few days, but have now decided to introduce myself like a proper lady ought to. Not that a proper lady would have done half the things I had to in the course of my life.

(And no, this not a confession of torrid sexual affairs. Sorry to disappoint you all).

My name is Lynette Ross, also known as Indigo, and I am a recent member of the nova community. Eruption does that, I'm told. I have decided to come and socialise with you all now that my Rashoud training is completed and the Project has decided I'm fit to be unleashed on the populace.

Yes, I am the Lynette Ross/Indigo who was a information handler for ASIO in Europe during the Cold War and the profiler with the AFP afterwards. Yes, that makes me distressingly old, though the little node in my frontal lobe has rendered the effects of age a moot thing for several centuries to come... I hope.

I was too busy being a spy during my first youth, so I've come to ask you for a little help in my second lease on life.

I am open to road trips, XWF matches (I meant what I said, Stellar. I nearly had a heart attack during your fight with Sneaux), visiting dens of ill repute or just sitting down and talking over drinks. I do have one thing to say before you make any offers though: I am mute because my vocal cords were destroyed during eruption, but I am certainly capable of communicating telepathically. If having a professional information handler in your head is discomforting, I understand totally.

No, I am not looking to join the Project, the Teragen, the Directive or DeVries at the moment. I just want to get my head wrapped around the fact I'm a freakin' nova.

So no recruitment drives.

Thank you,

Lynette 'Indigo' Ross.

[Doctor Nova Madigan]

Welcome to nova-dom. I'd offer advice, but it sounds to me like you already know more about this than I do. Cheers for being an independent!

Good to meetcha,

--Flicker

[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

Welcome to the boards Indigo!

[Tempest]

Hey there hi and, uh, all that other stuff. I'm new too. So should I be doing this too. Starting a whole thread just to intoduce myself?

[Kultra]

Who knows? Im new to this place myself, and have done little but lurk around and read threads.

I guess I should, but Im currently on a lazy spell. One of this days Im going to get around to doing it.

[Loge]

Originally Posted By: Tempest

Hey there hi and, uh, all that other stuff. I'm new too. So should I be doing this too. Starting a whole thread just to intoduce myself?

I didn't and no one seemed to mind but its up to you.

Hi Indigo.

[Matryoshka]

I find it most interesting to find a new nova who can understand the threats, and horrors of a cold war in more in depth ways than simple words in history books.

I know I am not well liked among this board, this mainly do the fact I am rarely stirred to talk to most of these children in any way than to say how stupid I think they are. I mean really we are talking about people who confuse religion with Christianity and the moral debates of self with the debates of one's sexuality.(and these people have the nerve to call themselves posthumans?) I hope you prove to be more interesting.

[Lyn 'Indigo' Ross]

Thanks for all the welcomes, people. I look forward to meeting some of you in person (assuming my retirement fund can afford my new food bill).

Signy, I don't know how old you are, but can I offer some advice? Never call another adult a child, even if you feel they're acting in such a manner. And for God's sake, don't call them stupid - it's no wonder you're not particularly popular.

Besides, the best conversation on morality I ever had was in bed with a Soviet spy... about ten years after the Cold War ended.

Ah, no matter what they tell you, even old people like to have sex.

[Cade]

Welcome to the boards. It's always refreshing to meent new novas.

[Leliel]

Welcome to the boards Lyn, and my personal congraduations on surviving that long in the Intelligence community. Not by far the easiest of jobs.

Also nice to hear from someone from the "old days". I remember well the Cold War, where one had to wonder if the next day was the one a triple-RV bus from an SS-17 would pay you a visit.

Compared to today, those days were almost calm in some ways

[Matryoshka]

I think you miss read my point about sexuality and the did not see the fact that I do know why I am not liked.

I was stating that some people here, confuse the sexuality with their self. They make themselves based on who they have sex with. I find this to be narrow minded and the to be childish.

If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck quacks like a duck. What should I call it?

Still, if i were looking for kinship, tact and sweet lies are the keys. I just find that most people are stuck in fantasy realm,thinking that this threat is the biggest, that this day is the brightest, that nothing that came before can match what is now. In other words, people who are doomed to repeat the past, claim blissful ignorance when their live lay in ruin and point their fingers to the one next to them saying it wasn't me. Now, this is a cynical stance but I have seen too many futures and too many lives ruined by those who act too kindly.

So, I walk my way, and I act kindly to those who I think are worthy of it. Just as most of the people here do. I just do not lie about my intent with most people I could go into details but I would have to fill pages, and that is nothing I wish to do. I would not think they would change, and they would in fact most likely be what they are now but more so after seeing what I have to say.

[Lee Jones]

Greetings Indigo and Tempest. Welcome to the boards. I'm always up for a good talk.

[Lyn 'Indigo' Ross]

Originally Posted By: Signy Malory

I think you miss read my point about sexuality and the did not see the fact that I do know why I am not liked.

I was stating that some people here, confuse the sexuality with their self. They make themselves based on who they have sex with. I find this to be narrow minded and the to be childish.

If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck quacks like a duck. What should I call it?

Still, if i were looking for kinship, tact and sweet lies are the keys. I just find that most people are stuck in fantasy realm,thinking that this threat is the biggest, that this day is the brightest, that nothing that came before can match what is now. In other words, people who are doomed to repeat the past, claim blissful ignorance when their live lay in ruin and point their fingers to the one next to them saying it wasn't me. Now, this is a cynical stance but I have seen too many futures and too many lives ruined by those who act too kindly.

So, I walk my way, and I act kindly to those who I think are worthy of it. Just as most of the people here do. I just do not lie about my intent with most people I could go into details but I would have to fill pages, and that is nothing I wish to do. I would not think they would change, and they would in fact most likely be what they are now but more so after seeing what I have to say.

I don't know what I find more amusing about you: the condescending attitude, the two-buck philosophy or the fact that you must be completely and utterly anti-social. I hope your vibrator works, honey.

Originally Posted By: Leliel

Welcome to the boards Lyn, and my personal congraduations on surviving that long in the Intelligence community. Not by far the easiest of jobs.

Also nice to hear from someone from the "old days". I remember well the Cold War, where one had to wonder if the next day was the one a triple-RV bus from an SS-17 would pay you a visit.

Compared to today, those days were almost calm in some ways

Well! Another Cold Warhorse. Those were the days, weren't they?

Today it's either the Utopians and the Teragen calling each other 'the evil empire' or the Directive running the real professional operations.

I'm a little jaded. Age does that to you.

[Lou Anne Burgess]

Greetings Indigo. Please don't take this the wrong way, but have you thought about communication difficulties should you meet someone with whom you wish to speak that doesn't want anyone, professional information handler or not, in their head?

I ask as a member of the Medical community and thus someone that must keep other people's secrets for them. The legal and intelligence communities I'm sure would have similar concerns.

Welcome to the board

Lou Anne

[Lyn 'Indigo' Ross]

Thank you for bringing this up, Lou Anne.

I can communicate by writing on a pad. I haven't yet had the opportunity of learning sign languages.

[Machina]

Hey, Mata Hari. Voice boxes for the mute are nothing new, but if you're interested, I could hook you up with something that'll make those invasive models Triton peddles to the rubes look and sound as clunky as Stephen Hawkings' WillowTalk program. Or maybe you're one of those "this is how it is now" self-flagellating martyr types who aren't interested in fixing shit like this, but I can only imagine how much shit it must suck to not be able to talk. Fuck, that'd be like if I broke my middle finger or something. I'd lose all ability to communicate.

If you're interested, my rates are rather reasonable.

[Lyn 'Indigo' Ross]

I can just well imagine how you communicate with your middle finger, my foul-mouthed, smoke-fuming friend.

As for reasonable rates, I've heard of reasonable by nova geniuses' standards, and I would have to prostitute myself for a month to be able to afford it.

And I'm a little too old to be doing that.

Thanks for the offer anyways.

[Warren Verona]

A purple haired telepath with a penchant for Oscar Wilde quotes... sorry, we already got one.

Blow.

[Lyn 'Indigo' Ross]

Cute, Revenant, real cute.

I intend to swing by Club Babylon and meet Velvet.

[Loge]

Do you really? That could be interesting. Let me know which one of you wears the goatee.

Good luck.