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[Weezel]

[Missons] Charion - Get Eli Hunt to email you back

[brodie]

As a secondary-Chariton, I've tried. I sent mine earlier today. I guilted him a bit, then informed him of what we've done, then told him we were worried about him. Three different tacks in one email - he's gotta reply to that!

[jasper]

So, we've got to charm him?

I was e-mailing him before he skipped out, demanding to know what he was so afraid of. Not so much a Chariton message from me, I guess.

[Lysithea]

I decided to play to my strengths, and appeal to his wisdom, which has previously yielded results with Eli. However I suspect that it will take a primary Chariton to draw him out this time.

[HitsHerMark]

*cracks knuckles*

[jasper]

What has worked to shake a reply out of him before? Do you think it matters more what we say or how we say it? Are we looking to ask the right question? Or do we tell him what we've discovered so far?

What's the magic touch here?

[krystyn]

[Weezel]

[mr.judkins]

I'm sure I've stated this at least once before, but the one time I've had a specific reply from him it was to a VERY specific question, with an offered answer which was correct.

This was when I contacted him to say I'd been chatting with Ariadne and we noticed there was only 11 sets of three answers in the personality test Codex chapter. I told him we thought there might be three answers missing, and asked him if he knew anything about that.

The next morning I found his reply

[jasper]

So that's a combination of asking the right question and telling him something.

In the March 16 e-mail, he said "The visions described in the first chapter, the visions that tormented Micha… I have seen the same things. I saw them when I went into the labyrinth, back when the agonothetai were not numbered as 696, but rather 695…
The visions felt more like memories. They were memories of a different version of my own life, a life in which my actions had consequences I could not bear.
It is hard to explain in words. I never suffered from amnesia, as our friends Ariadne, Diego, Markus, Noriko, Meihui, and Lucie do. But I think I must know what it would be like to wake up from amnesia. I think I know what it is like to suddenly remember your own past, a past you had no idea belonged to you. A past you desperately wish didn't belong to you, a past you wish you could erase even as you have no idea how you created it..."

I asked him if he was keeping up with our latest codex chapters because that sounds a little like a small scale synchronization, that bit about remembering a past you didn't think you belonged to. . . and his podcast sounds like the Neopangaea kind of synchronization.

I also want to know what labyrinth he was in anyway- has he ever said?

[krystyn]

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

[Elizabeth123]

[Lysithea]

I also received the extra New Atlantis email with the personality questions. I did ask a specific question, but it wasn't directly related to generating the questionnaire.

[krystyn]

Got a reply from Eli:

[krystyn]

I wrote back, because I am such a FOOL for haiku.