Talk:Infinity Inc/Chimes/Clamor

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Stuff Happened in Chapter 3

Some readers may not care to read "Discordant". I'll sum up:

You're now caught up!

Connections for Chimes

On-screen cast consists mostly of Infinity, Inc products and personnel: the Hybrid Delta Brigid's Verse who still thinks of herself as "Opal", the Hybrid Delta Kinba Kushi (a retrieval-and-containment specialist), the early Hybrid Alpha Series prototype Fehral, and Ricardo Scriven (an employee of the Corporation who never does manage to get his name introduced). Killing Dance is heard speaking off-camera, and a few unnamed extras in the Security Division get a cameo early on.

Assorted nameless minions of in-game NPC groups such as Arachnos, the Tsoo, the Freakshow, and the Marcones appear in this chapter as well. Street sweeping can be a lot of fun sometimes!

Also brought up in conversation is the command system programmed into the Hybrids. The Alphas don't typically say the words of the commands when talking only among themselves; they use associated hand motions. When speaking to a mostly-oral communicator such as Opal or the corporate employees, they have to deliberately remember to say the word, and the gesture probably happens reflexively.

Some parts of the dialogue happen simultaneously, alternatingly, or even exclusively in the gesture code taught to the Alphas starting in the earliest stages of their training. Many Alphas wake up from capture or acquisition (and then, in either case, the largest chunk of their genetic redesign and accompanying surgery) with their speech ability physically reduced by surgical redesign of body parts. They're taught a proprietary hand-and-body-movement language to communicate reports and request instructions. The earliest practitioners promptly expanded that "gesture code" language to cover content beyond the minimum requirements of "do this" and "report results". Pieces of various pre-existing sign languages crept into place, including ASL with a northwestern US accent and fragments of Plains Indians Sign Language, and a lot of things made up on the spot by whichever Alpha was most obstinate or inventive in their attempt to get a concept across.