[voice]

[radars]

These collars, from the ... Outer Authorities, is it?

What is their function, exactly? Does anyone know how they're made?

Or. How they can be removed?

Comments

[Audio]

[most_feared]

I've been around some containment technology. But I'm not a technician. I could take a look and see if any of it looks familiar, at least. Or specifically dangerous.

[Audio]

[radars]

Doesn't seem to have killed anyone yet.

[Audio]

[most_feared]

I'll come take a look at it if you're willing. That gentleman going to drop off those diagrams for you?

[Audio]

[radars]

Did I mislead you? I'm so sorry -- I didn't mean to say that I was one of the collared ones.

[ Technically true: he certainly didn't mean to say it. Because he doesn't want anyone to know. ]

[Audio]

[most_feared]

Sorry. Just assumed because they got a lot of people. [And the only ones he's really seen say anything about them until now have been those with them.]

Offer's open to anyone that has one, though.

[Audio]

[radars]

I'm an interested party. A professor of genetics.

[ Because that sounds more harmless than a veteran of the war. ]

Nem has given me a procedure he believes will be effective against the collars. It requires three people, acting in concert. Would you be willing to give it a try?

[Audio]

[most_feared]

I'm interested myself. And I'd be willing.

[audio ; locked]

[radars]

Then come on over.

[ text address attached; it's an abandoned, wrecked place with a half-out roof.

He'll need this man, and Raven, and one other to remove it. Erik, he thinks. Erik is the only choice. ]

[audio ; locked]

[most_feared]

On it. [And he will take off almost immediately. He's damn curious about these collars.]