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[mutemail]

[ The magitek had made the most sense to him as a kind of smartwatch, so that's why he's talking up into his wrist right now, sitting somewhere in the village by himself. He's looking particularly scruffy, like he hasn't bothered to shave the entire few weeks he's been here.

He's having a hard time, obvious from his face even before he says morosely, ]

Couldn't be with my family in the first place, but at least I knew... where they were. You know, in relation to me? One of those cliche 'we're looking at the same stars' kind of things.

[ He tongues one of his canines, wrinkling his nose. Not the kind of sentiment he was usually good for, but it's how he feels even if it sounds like it's out of a kids book. ]

I'm homesick. Been homesick a long time. Want to see my kids. Anybody else out there got kids? I promise not to get my wallet out again with the pictures. Just wanted to... commiserate.

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[mutemail]

Weapons experiments on the patients of a mental institution.

[ He has abbreviated that so deeply. ]

Extremely... extremely unethical.

[heavyhitter]

Holy shit, yeah, that's kinda the poster child of unethical. So, what, they threatened your family?

[mutemail]

Would have, but when I escaped with the video and the documents... I knew what I was getting in to. They were in protective custody before the leak hit the web.

[heavyhitter]

Oh, I see how it fell. Nice thinking. [ a pause ] I mean you'd have to be kind of a fucking idiot to do it otherwise, but still, nice.

So how bad'd it blow up for them? People love this kinda shit, right?

[mutemail]

I was... kind of a fucking idiot, first. They caught me sending out the emails, had the orderlies beat me up and put me in with the test subjects. But then...

[ He doesn't want to talk about this. It's not about being cagey, it's about what had happened then. He clears his throat. ]

All went to hell. Place burned down, pretty much everybody dead. Big scene. Company's in ruins, although... you know how it is. The real big players are still sitting rich in some off-shore hidden behind layers and layers of cover-up subsidiaries. That's what I was working on... before the whole recruitment to the Audentes thing. Me and some others, from ViraLeaks.