[b]Green![/b]

"Say what you will about the basicness of Fexono," said Green, "their game let me build a harem of three dragongirls while also becoming a dragongirl myself. But the thing there isn't so much, you know, how weird I want to get - there's as much in those games I need to avoid as really does it for me - but how intense I want to get. Like, there's this certain emotion - this feeling of absolute conflict, every part of one's brain at war with every other part of one's brain, wanting to give in and wanting to resist and having a list of powerful reasons on both sides. [i]That's[/i] what's hot. Bodies can be hot too, but in the absence of that kind of inner turbulence they're just bodies to me, no matter how weird you get with them."

She leaned back. "That's part of why I don't fully feel like I fit here, even if I kind of do. So many of these people find triumph in the bodies themselves while I'm more interested in stuff like the predator/prey dynamics that go with it. The Ultimate Werewolf's a great guy, but he doesn't wake up transformed in the forest wondering what he did last night - without the same methods as everyone else. Even when White becomes a dragongirl she won't have to deal with a rival dragongirl coming in, stealing her hoard, and merging it with hers, forcing her to live in the rival's cave until she can separate out every coin that was originally hers -" she waves a hand, cutting herself off. "That's kind of why I think that all of this becoming physical inherently means it's becoming normie. It doesn't matter what kind of sex tentacle appendage you have if you still recruit partners by swiping right and going to bars like every other person. Society could accept this tomorrow without missing a beat, and that's what Crystal is leaning on here. This is ultimately a liberal, not a leftist project."

She smiled. "Which is important because leftists have never achieved a single fucking damn thing without having the liberals on side."

[b]Black![/b]

"Maybe. Lot of preparation work to do before a direct maneuver like that," said Black. "It'd get their security branch involved if nothing else - whoever planted these bugs knew what they were doing and you don't assign someone like that to [i]only [/i]watch a single person. If I make contact they'll send that person to bug me too, and I can trace them back to the rest of their security apparatus. Let me start by looking at her calendar and doing some background work."

"Or we might get a solar flare," sighed Yellow.

"Yeah unless we find someone who's spent the last decade working on a deep space microfusion reactor we can't count on that," said Black.

"What an odd thing to say," said White.

[b]Brown![/b]

She barely needed encouragement. "Okay cool thanks back soon byeeee," Brown said, already heading for the door with her phone out looking into the logistics of deep space travel and restrictions into going to this Orochi testing site. It wasn't like she was ditching Monk, it was - yeah no ok, she was ditching, she clearly had her favourite and the biggest challenge for this operation would be avoiding pulling everyone else off the line to come with her on this one.