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C&A is a neobotanics and nooscionics lab. In other words, they grow and train sophont AIs, “seedlets,” and design software and hardware to interface organic minds with digital systems.

It’s a small enough company to draw little suspicion, but credible enough to be contracted by big name operations (mainly military).

They accidentally trapped a person in a noospace, the “noosciocircus,” with Caine, a seedlet grown and owned by C&A. He’s a well meaning seedlet, tasked to keep the trapped person sane as C&A keeps their body alive as long as possible.

In an effort to recover the person from the inside, they sent in another only to trap them as well. Their cumulating mistake becomes harder to pull the plug on as it would kill both the trapped and Caine, an expensive investment who just also happens to be relaying immensely valuable nootic data from his ongoing simulation.

C&A continues to send agents to assist the trapped from within, each with relevant skills. They’re getting a bit desperate, since the pool of candidates is limited to those who work with C&A and would not draw too much attention if gone missing.

So, the noosciocircus becomes testing ground for lesser semiohazards.

Semiohazards are stimuli that trigger a destructive response in the minds of perceivers. Semiohazards can be encoded into any medium, but are generally easiest to encode into sights and air pressure sequences. The effect, “a mulekick,” can range in severity from temporarily disabled breathing, to seizure, to brain death.

Extreme amputations (“truncations”) occur when a trapped agent ingests a semiohazard that shuts off the brain’s recognition of some body part as its own. Sieving is a last resort to permanently mechanically support the life of the trapped. Thanks to modern advancements, this is cheap and sustainable. Those overexposed to the hazards become the abstracted and are considered lost. Their bodies are kept alive for archival.

Semiohazards being a current hotspot of discovery and design means C&A is sending in semiotic specialists alongside programmers. Ragatha was sent in to provide the trapped with nootic endurance training, but she underestimated the condition of the trapped. Gangle, too, was sent to help the trapped navigate their new nootic state, but her own dealt avatar clotheslined her progress. She wasn’t too stable entering to begin with, but C&A’s options are limited.

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Seminude lineup

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✨️ SLAY, RATKING ✨️

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count all the crosses and count all the tears these are the losses and sad souvenirs this devastation once was a nation so fall the dice, how high is the price we pay recently visited camp forlorn hope and got i dunno, inspired to draw something like this? the place where laughter turns into nervous chuckle through tears. though, knowing mr. curious' past, he's probably killed one or two soldiers buried in this graveyard haha. good thing he doesn't remember anything still

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things NCR have to endure to have an alliance with this guy... mr. curious is having a blast while in the mojave desert as you can tell a little bonus panel cause i feel like it:

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I have wandered many places But they’re all the same to me Nowhere I’ve found, to settle down A little bit further I’ll find my rest In the shadow of the valley That I love best so i guess i finally started playing fallout new vegas thanks to my friend! this is my courier 6 named Mr. Curious (Jonathan Frank Keith before running into Benny). he finds everything funny after doc patched him up. he also got amnesia for storytelling reasons and also because i kinda dunno a lot of stuff about fallout in the first place so i also drew his portrait as jonathan just to see the change bullet to the head made. he's got a pretty interesting past too as a brotherhood of steel's fugitive paladin but maybe i should make a character introduction sheet once again? or maybe i can just tell to anyone interested. we'll see

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...You smoke?

Only every now and then.

That stuff's bad for you, Buddy.

I know. But it gives me a choice:

Lung cancer, or 20x102 mm rounds?

(disco elysium styled portraits of Ciphixy bc im ill)

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these guys are ok.

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A little different from my usual stuff but yeah I'm proud of it so (sorry for the repost)

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Dan Smith sketch. I played killer7 again recently.

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Combusken if it were awesome.

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(to taste) only enough to know what you cannot have

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From the Wikipedia page on loons

Now with free ready-to-print .png and .tif file

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>> YOU BETTER STRAFE, VALENTINE

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