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Dante Rantanen

"Hey, you've reached Dante. I'm not in right now--you know what to do."

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[standalonehuman]

I'm avoiding the question because I don't know the answer.

There's another possibility, a memory that I got from the other Togusa. He had a way of connecting to the people he worked with, talking with them. Something like the telepathy I had last month. But it was through a machine.

[darkinferno]

a machine that basically gave you telepathy? how would that even work?

[standalonehuman]

The best I can remember. Through more of those micro-machines, but intentional ones. A way for people to connect to the net, remotely. It could also connect people to people. And it was like the telepathy, talking over a long distance, whether they were right there or not.

[darkinferno]

[Dante's frowning on his end. Honestly, it's something he finds tough to really comprehend, because...]

so you had a smart phone implanted in your head?

[standalonehuman]

You have the most impressive way of cutting through subtlety, there, Dante.

It probably had more functions. But, fine, sure, whatever, the other Togusa had a smart phone in his head.

[darkinferno]

am i wrong?

you said it was a way for people to connect to the internet remotely that connected you to other people too that could reach over a long distance

the only difference is talking with your mouth and talking with your mind

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

[standalonehuman]

Not incorrect, but I think you're missing some of the implications here.

What if this keeps happening? What if it turns out other-Togusa isn't entirely human?

[darkinferno]

yeah, sorry

that's just a pretty big bomb to drop, you know

[Give him a moment to take this in again, this time with all of the potential hazards of such a thing.]

if the other togusa wasn't entirely human, you're suggesting he was part machine

i'd ask if you thought that meant retrospec could hack you considering the picture you sent me but let's face it, in the end it doesn't matter anyways

they can already make people forget things or remember things whenever they want, they're already messing with our heads as it is

what changes?

[standalonehuman]

How do you hack a person?

For fuck's sake, don't ask that question on the network or Yoon-sung's gonna try it.

But in all honesty. What could they really do to me? It's just a connection, right? You could try to piggyback off me to whatever I have access to.

[darkinferno]

what do you mean, piggyback off you?

think about everything we've seen so far. what do you have access to that they don't?

[The failing of text: Dante isn't sure whether Togusa's being sarcastic here or not.]

[standalonehuman]

It's really just another connection to the net. So, sure it could be hacked like any other connection but there's no data on my end for Retrospec to try to access, right? You can see what I'm seeing; Retrospec can already do that.