<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a0/Leotard_and_Lace_profile.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Antimony</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243890.msg12052526#msg12052526)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Context</strong></td><td>Cleanup</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging</strong></td><td>Drop, Fallen, Hachi, Open</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Fate Points</strong></td><td>1</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Ego Stress</strong></td><td>1( ) 2( ) 3( ) 4( )</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Morph Stress</strong></td><td>1( ) 2( ) 3( )</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Muse Stress</strong></td><td>1( ) 2( )</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Mild Consequence (2)</strong></td><td>---</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Moderate Consequence (4)  </strong></td><td>---</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Major Consequence (6)</strong></td><td>---</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><hr/>Antimony found it a bit odd that Drop's equipment was not set up to support a Muse, but she did not really have the time to mull it over at the moment.  There was work to be done, and a TITAN artifact to be transported out of the city with as much speed as possible.<br/><br/>She did frown a bit when the powered armor-clad combat spec joked about the possibility of an incoming tactical nuke, however.  Or at least, she hoped it was a joke.  Even with all the miles they were putting between themselves and New Shanghai at the moment, it would take too much work to develop a good cover story for one of those.  It was probably ultimately possible to cover up, but only with a huge expenditure of resources and favors owed within the offices of the various media hypercorps around Mars.  There would not be any justification for something that drastic unless the canister containing the nanovirus was broken open, and when she had checked earlier, the seal had been intact.<br/><br/>Was it just that Drop had a tendency to always assume the worst?  Some level of innate pessimism, or maybe paranoia?  She had deliberately avoided the initial face-to-face meeting that the rest of the team had attended at the beginning of the mission, choosing instead to participate in the chat while taking up an overwatch position.  And then there was the fact that her equipment was not set up to interface with a Muse, which suggested rather strongly that she did not have one...  Trauma from the Fall was not exactly unusual amongst the members of transhumanity that had survived that event, in Antimony's experience, though extreme paranoia to the point of refusing to even harbor a standard Muse was quite a bit more rare.  Still, so long as it did not hamper their mission, it was not something that she was overly bothered by, and given the professionalism Drop had displayed thus far, hampering the mission seemed to be the opposite of what the combat spec wanted to do.<br/><br/>"I think they're more likely to divert another team to meet us,"  She commented after a few seconds, more to reassure Hachi than to respond to Drop.  "Though I don't know much about the protocols for this sort of situation, so I couldn't speculate beyond that.  We might get led to some sort of black site for these types of 'artwork', or they might just take it off our hands and send us on our way."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div>