Act 2; part 3; part 2

You are still Gregory, you're starting to get used to the confusion, apparently it's the prize for being in this game, or maybe it's the weird voice you've been hearing that makes you want to do stuff, you have no idea how it works

== Gregory: do something with the machine

You can get behind that, you were curious after all, you press a certain key and the screen lights up showing your parents, they look kind of young so you guess this is the past, the aim seems to be your father, you decided to try and bring him over

You press the button and a slime copy of your parent appears and is quickly absorbed by the machine into a tube, you repeat this with the newly appeared target, a red-haired woman that makes you think of Robin, the slime goes to the tube. You still have two tubes left on the other side so you decide to repeat the process two more times

Your new target is a male that kind of reminds you of Casidy, you have no clue as to why, he goes into tube number three and you decide not to think about it. The last target in a woman that definitely has an air of Benedict, whom you seen so it's normal to be reminded of, and her slime copy goes into the last tube

== Gregory: press the green button

In an act of rebellion... you press a random grey button, the slime goes to the lower container mixing up in the process

Well... that was uneventful, guess you should press the green button now, the slime of the first container, which is your father and the red-haired woman who you think is Robin's mom, drains and two things are being created, there's a greenish light

The machine has created what can only be the baby versions of Robin and yourself... you're rather weirded out but press the green button again, this time the slime creates baby Benedict and what you guess is baby Casidy, if the white hair and red eyes are anything to go by

Someone seems to be pestering you

== Gregory: answer pesterlog

You don't really have any problem with doing that

lampostScavenger [LS] began pestering GameMage [GM]

LS: It's always good to s33 that p3opl3 actually list3n

LS: Which my f3llow trolls should l3arn to do

GM: Hello Regan

GM: You seem to be on a good mood

GM: I'm guessing I haven't messed up yet

LS: Hav3 you figur3d out what I was trying to t3ll you y3t?

GM: Not quite

GM: This i rather confusing, to say the least

LS: That's fin3, I lik3 83ing th3 smart on3 for a chang3

GM: Are you not as smart as I make you be?

LS: I am smart; it's just that I'm surround3d 8y g3nius3s

LS: Or trolls who can s33 th3 futur3, thos3 ar3 th3 worst

GM: Oh, that's an interesting subject

GM: Is it a normal occurrence amongst trolls?

LS: Ah, y3s, I som3tim3s forg3t that you humans don't shar3 th3 sam3 8iology than us

GM: I would ask more about it

GM: But I have other matters to attend

GM: Namely ectobiology

GM: Could you shade some light on the subject?

LS: W3ll it's a 8it to much for your human think-pan

GM: I take that means my brain

GM: I assure you I'm smarter than I look

LS: W3ll, sinc3 you insist...

LS: L3ts just say that th3 first four you tri3d to bring into th3 gam3 w3r3 th3 par3nts of th3 r3sp3ctiv3 four play3rs

LS: Th3 paradox copi3s you cr3at3d of you and your fri3ds ar3 th3 r3sult of th3 combin3d g3n3tic mat3rial

GM: Ok, I must admit that my brain is frying

GM: Maybe you could say this "in English"

LS: To put it mor3 simply, or in 3nglish as you said, it works kind of lik3 human s3x

LS: M3ning you'r3 r3lat3d g3n3tically to th3 l3ad3r of your t3am

GM: So you mean that Robin is my sister

LS: I think that's th3 human t3rm for it y3s, you'r3 3cto-sist3r to b3 mor3 pr3cis3

GM: Well that's an interesting development

GM: I reckon it works the same for the others

LS: You'd 83 right

GM: You sound very proper now

GM: Why the change?

LS: It's th3 con of b3ing surround3d by g3nius3s

GM: Huh

GM: What does that make you?

LS: Nop3

LS: I am not going to l3t you g3t to m3

LS: Talk to m3 wh3n you giv3 up on a black-rom

lampostScavenger [LS] became and idle chum

GM: Well, you're no fun

GM: Seems like I'll have to ask someone else what "black-rom" means

GameMage [GM] ceased pestering lampostScavenger [LS]