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[very_model_of]

Important announcement. Learned much about nanotech infection. Have created stopgap solution!

Have device

[He turns the camera so it focuses on something that looks like a big spike about a foot and a half long with a box about the size of a paperback book stuck on the blunt end.]

Should deliver current that disrupts nanites. Only problem, no effective method of delivery. Have to do it manually. Close quarters, dangerous, but should incapacitate EVO as long as battery holds out.

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[third_alternative]

Wait--seriously?

...That was fast.

[very_model_of]

Brute force solution. Took frequencies nanites communicate with, flooded with garbage data. If nanites have some sort of evolutionary function then adaptation is likely before long, but useful in short term.

[third_alternative]

Very useful.

I'm guessing there's only one of those things?

[very_model_of]

Correct. Need to decide who to give it to.

[third_alternative]

...Good question. Maybe someone who can't defend themselves without it?

[He pauses and thinks a little while.]

Ooooor...maybe it's not about who gets it, it's where you put it! If you can lure a bunch of EVOs into one place and then you use that thing, you could stun all of them at once!

[very_model_of]

Misunderstand. Need to actually stab EVO with spike.

[third_alternative]

....Oh.

...do you think an EVO shishkebob would work, then?

[very_model_of]

Only if very small.

[third_alternative]

So no shiskebobs. Guess that does mean we can only give it to one person.

[ridethelightning]

It's better than nothing. And plenty of us can hold our own in close quarters, even against those monsters.

[very_model_of]

Precisely. Only question: Who gets it?

[ridethelightning]

...Just one? Can't you have them mass produced?

[very_model_of]

Will eventually have more, but production takes time.

[ridethelightning]

Fair enough. I'd say doing that immediately should take utmost priority, so we're not stuck with just one.

[very_model_of]

Naturally. Can't fight without weapons.

[myimmunesystem]

So... all that device does is stop them? It doesn't reverse the process?

[very_model_of]

Correct. Believe there is a young human with ability to actually cure EVOs. Next best thing: incapacitating them until he can do it himself.

[myimmunesystem]

I...

[How does she even explain all this?]

I think I have too. Cured one, I mean. I'm not completely sure what I did, I just wanted that low-frequency hum and part of it just... fell apart!

[very_model_of]

Low Frequency Hum?

[myimmunesystem]

I'm still reacquainting myself with the functions of this suit, but one of them in particular is a variable haptic re-calibration system. I can widen the range of things I can sense through it, make it stronger or weaker... I must have bottomed out the frequency range accidentally while I was running from the monster.

[very_model_of]

Not sure I follow. Suit functions interfering with EVOs?

[myimmunesystem]

[Okay, calming down. One thing at a time.]

Not exactly. Thanks to the suit, I could feel the frequency they were using. I panicked when that monster picked me up, and did the only thing I could think of: I jammed the signal. That caused the whole thing to go dead and fall apart...

Well, that part of it, anyway.