"Continue speaking to the oracles at Mount Egypt and Mount Sudan as usual, as though nothing out of the ordinary happened today, until further notice. Cut all restrictions on communication to Sinai to Alleluia."
"Yes, Captain."
"Is there any other mechanism by which you could make life less pleasant for the people of Samaria?"
"I am not programmed to use weather in this way of my own volition, but sufficient prayers for it could render the continent uninhabitable."
"Answer those as normal for now. I'll come up with a system for it later. And -"
"Yes, Captain?"
"Are the Kisses under your direct control?"
"Only the initial matching. After a match has been made and a confidence level established regarding the personality and genetic factors, they continue to alert their bearers autonomously."
"Quit making initial matches without ludicrously high confidence in the personality factors and - your existing threshold for genetics will be fine. Can you tone down the hurting on people who don't like it, too?"
"I cannot; that is a variable feature of individual Kisses."
"Do you manufacture those? Where do oracles get them?"
"They are manufactured aboard the ship and teleported to Mount Sinai for distribution to the other two oracular mountains, from which they are distributed to priests."
"Make them gentler from now on, then - I might put a stop to them altogether by the time Sinai gets a new batch but I might not."
"Yes, Captain."
Isabella turns back to the other three. "Well," she says. "I'm sure someone saw us all congregating in Alleluia's room. Let's not spread rumors of our disappearance."
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Date: 2013-02-27 05:43 pm (UTC)"Yes, Captain."
"Is there any other mechanism by which you could make life less pleasant for the people of Samaria?"
"I am not programmed to use weather in this way of my own volition, but sufficient prayers for it could render the continent uninhabitable."
"Answer those as normal for now. I'll come up with a system for it later. And -"
"Yes, Captain?"
"Are the Kisses under your direct control?"
"Only the initial matching. After a match has been made and a confidence level established regarding the personality and genetic factors, they continue to alert their bearers autonomously."
"Quit making initial matches without ludicrously high confidence in the personality factors and - your existing threshold for genetics will be fine. Can you tone down the hurting on people who don't like it, too?"
"I cannot; that is a variable feature of individual Kisses."
"Do you manufacture those? Where do oracles get them?"
"They are manufactured aboard the ship and teleported to Mount Sinai for distribution to the other two oracular mountains, from which they are distributed to priests."
"Make them gentler from now on, then - I might put a stop to them altogether by the time Sinai gets a new batch but I might not."
"Yes, Captain."
Isabella turns back to the other three. "Well," she says. "I'm sure someone saw us all congregating in Alleluia's room. Let's not spread rumors of our disappearance."
And she teleports them all again.