I don't think so. Information is the only bargaining chip I have. But I imagine that leverage has limits, so, one answer for another: did you warn House, or anyone else?
I'm working with what I have. If you've just lied to me, this is the last piece of information you'll get, so I hope you're sure of that answer.
All three of us that have worked on the grave have suffered physical and mental effects including anxiety bordering on panic, a feeling of distress and being unwelcome, dizziness and nosebleeds. Nothing so severe as to stop us working, though, merely unpleasant.
That wasn't another answer it was the one I asked for in the first place.
Either MN poisoning or I have at a statistically improbable age spontaneously developed an uncommon mental illness that does not run in my family and is unlikely to occur with other conditions I have and should have been almost entirely prevented by past surgeries.
Interesting. If you could elaborate, I might be able to put together things I might not have noticed before. Is this different from the usual Nonfinbury-patented disorientation and anxiety?
Your skills, the help I need from them. The ability to tell certain people what I asked you to do, which could have unpleasant results. It's all leverage.
So, open discussion: How do I know I can trust you?
I'm not trustworthy. However, I am determined to get out of here by whatever means necessary, and gathering information on every facet of our captivity.
Oh, that makes two of us, but it's also entirely irrelevant. If you aren't trustworthy, then the only way I have to stop you using the aforementioned leverage against me is to have some leverage of my own on you. And if I give you information freely, there goes that.
Convince me that I don't need to worry, and you'll have my full cooperation.
Not a bad start, except I suspect you don't like me any more than House does, either.
We can make this simpler. Give me something on you, something I can use as a counter. Then we'll have us a nice little balance of terror and can exchange all the information we want.
You either severely overestimate how much that would "terrify" me, or you're dodging. All I need is something that, in case you decide to point Steve and his friends my way, I can use to point back at you to distract them.
Don't you think the fact that I was willing to do it would be enough for them? Human laws are selfish and arbitrary, they won't need much of a reason to go after me.
Balance of terror? I thought you'd be familiar with the figure of speech. It's a human expression from the nuclear arms race. Handy, but maybe a little overdramatic.
Most laws are selfish and arbitrary. And you weren't willing to do it, not the way I asked. I'm not sure how much I'm ready to count on them taking my moral principle over yours.
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Date: 2016-04-24 01:10 pm (UTC)text;
Date: 2016-04-24 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-24 01:40 pm (UTC)That doesn't mean we can't compare notes. Just answe the question
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Date: 2016-04-24 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-24 02:03 pm (UTC)No.
Have you experienced any continued altered mental issues, possibly increasing in severity as time passes?
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Date: 2016-04-24 02:12 pm (UTC)All three of us that have worked on the grave have suffered physical and mental effects including anxiety bordering on panic, a feeling of distress and being unwelcome, dizziness and nosebleeds. Nothing so severe as to stop us working, though, merely unpleasant.
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Date: 2016-04-24 02:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-24 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-24 03:14 pm (UTC)Either MN poisoning or I have at a statistically improbable age spontaneously developed an uncommon mental illness that does not run in my family and is unlikely to occur with other conditions I have and should have been almost entirely prevented by past surgeries.
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Date: 2016-04-25 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-26 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-27 06:50 am (UTC)And look, questions and answers are happening again. I think I might stop now, pending that little condition about you telling me the truth.
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Date: 2016-04-27 10:48 am (UTC)Why wouldn't you want to share information? Anything could give us a clue for getting out of here.
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Date: 2016-04-27 03:00 pm (UTC)And please don't try to tell me anything about how we should all work together as friends. You've seen how well that works out here.
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Date: 2016-04-27 11:22 pm (UTC)If we don't have open discussion we can't progress.
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Date: 2016-04-29 03:09 am (UTC)So, open discussion: How do I know I can trust you?
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Date: 2016-04-30 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-01 08:47 am (UTC)Convince me that I don't need to worry, and you'll have my full cooperation.
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Date: 2016-05-01 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-03 10:07 am (UTC)We can make this simpler. Give me something on you, something I can use as a counter. Then we'll have us a nice little balance of terror and can exchange all the information we want.
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Date: 2016-05-03 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-03 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-03 11:45 am (UTC)Don't you think the fact that I was willing to do it would be enough for them? Human laws are selfish and arbitrary, they won't need much of a reason to go after me.
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Date: 2016-05-03 12:37 pm (UTC)Most laws are selfish and arbitrary. And you weren't willing to do it, not the way I asked. I'm not sure how much I'm ready to count on them taking my moral principle over yours.
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