DLC...

[the_hacker]

Yeah.

Shit.

Okay, we can't do anything about it, you know? I mean... I just can't... I have to act like that didn't happen and I don't know about it.

She was using me the whole time, after what she let them do to Clay, she was using me, and Baby, and everything we worked on with Bill just for those--

I'm going back to the electronics store and I'm never coming out again.

Comments

[one_winged_demon]

Wouldn't you prefer a way to fight back, hacker-girl?

[the_hacker]

Why the hell would I want that? Look, it's complicated.

[one_winged_demon]

I'm listening but in the end you still have the Templars to contend with, right?

[the_hacker]

I don't know how much she told them, and until we get this thing finished I can't worry about the knife in my back. Yeah, okay, I want to punch her or shake her or something, but priorities are priorities.

[one_winged_demon]

That is true but I do wish I could help you out. Doubt I could break dimensional barriers like that though. If I could I'd make a deal with you to wrap this all up for you. Since I doubt we'd have the time for me to teach you about something that would turn Desmond on his head and make, the templars piss themselves.

[the_hacker]

It's not anybody's fight but ours, and dragging more people in is bad news.

[one_winged_demon]

But it would just be me and it would be over if I was involved. And if everything was equal if I was in your canon then I'd probably already know about it.

[the_hacker]

And using a big deus ex is any better than what they do? Don't we already have three angry gods and two dead guys on our side?

[one_winged_demon]

The difference between me and the gods? I'd honor my agreements. Besides it isn't like I'm not just an abnormal guy. Just think of me like a less-passive Buddha.

[the_hacker]

...I don't get it, and I don't think I'm supposed to.

[one_winged_demon]

For my species I've reached something call enlightenment. It's pretty damn powerful but I'm just an average guy in the end. I just figured out something a lot of others just haven't gotten to learning yet.

[seventeenth]

Retail therapy, huh?

[the_hacker]

More like hiding under a stack of dead computers and using Shaun as a verbal human shield.

[abstergo_mind]

For all intent and purpose, the possibility should have crossed your mind earlier, Miss Crane. This is no wonder we are winning the war when you are so... Short-sighted and gullible, to say so.

[the_hacker]

You're the one who manipulated her. You Templars hate everything about freedom and free thought.

[abstergo_mind]

What are you talking about, Miss Crane? Miss Stillman did everything on her own free will. she was one of our best agents, her death was truly a tragic event to us.

[the_hacker]

I don't believe that! She's not stupid.

[abstergo_mind]

Stupid? No, not at all, quite the contrary. You see, she saw how wrong your ways were. If anything, you are stupid for not realizing it earlier.

[the_hacker]

I don't think so. I think you're a megalomaniac who really needs to lay off the Kool Aid.

[assassino]

But if you had known, what would you have done differently?

[the_hacker]

Locked her up, and turned her over to Bill. I know, it's pretty hollow. Sometimes there's no choice.

[assassino]

One must wonder if that is a mercy she would have afforded you.

[the_hacker]

I don't want to think about that.

[assassino]

[Pause.]

My apologies, then. I overstepped.

[the_hacker]

Yeah. Do you want to think about, I dunno, Machiavelli being a Templar? Or Leonardo?

[assassino]

I've already had to.

[the_hacker]

And did you think about whether or not they'd turn you in or murder you? Because I'm thinking about that right now, and it sucks.

[assassino]

Yes, I did.

It may be unpleasant, but given the alternative, it may be for the best.

[the_hacker]

I just never thought we'd have another sleeper. And that's really what she is, at the end of the day. Just another Purge waiting to happen.

[the_historian]

There's no real guarantee that what he remembered is accurate; we've yet to fully understand the Bleeding Effect.

Between the two of us-

Between the two of us, we'd have noticed something was off.

[Denial, thy name is Shaun.]

oh. well, way to break my heart, love

[the_hacker]

Shaun... do you really believe that? We should've monitored her.

;~;

[the_historian]

Right, yes, because I'm just going to discredit everything she's done for us, based on a few barely lucid memories.

We don't know, Rebecca. There's no way we can know for sure. Not now.

dfklfdskjfdskfds hold meeeee

[the_hacker]

I know, but what the hell am I supposed to think? Who am I supposed to believe?

/holds!

[the_historian]

Funny, as it seemed as though you'd already decided.

[She was not right, and Clay was not right either. Lucy had been on their side - Had she been a Templar, they would have noticed. He would have noticed.

Even if it did fit. When presented with the explanation, it all suddenly made more sense - How she'd obtained that information from Abstergo, the designs for the Animus. How she'd been able to spring Desmond from their facility with minimal issue, and the timing of Abstergo's intervention in Italy...]

[the_hacker]

We can't trust anybody. I just... think Lucy'd have a reason to do it, and Clay doesn't have a reason to lie. Maybe Juno had him seeing things, but would the note be fake, too?

[Come on, Shaun. She can't handle this, as it is.]

You see it, right?