Also, you can tone IRL. It’s actually really simple and frighteningly effective. Ever run into a human who rabidly holds a political view/belives a certain (false) statement and refuses to relent? Repeats false stats like “You only use 30% of your brain”?

That’s pretty much the side effect of IRL toning. it’s not that hard, you feed people information in a way that they can understand while they’re stressed or distracted by other stimuli. They will belive what you say to be true without running the fact checking routines that humans normally run. It’s not *quite* the same as hypnoses, you’ll see it most often in advertisements when flashy distracting stuff happens on screen while a calm careful voice makes grandeose but false statements.

Also humans trust deeper voices, and are more likely to pay attention to female voices then male voices, so the voice is usually deep and male.

You’re also right about the smile, that’s what worries me the most so far…

That is practically the same smile she told off Ace when he was trying to decide who his lieutenant is.

I wonder if that grin comes with being a scout?

@Shad: I learned in the first 100 pages or so not to give away too much information because it would just ruin the suspense. Doubly so when the answers are already in a page in the buffer. :-p

But remember, certain characters can resist Toning (Daisy being one of them if you look at the detailed description of her on the cast page), though that doesn’t mean Daisy isn’t scheming herself.

Either waiting out the game or looking around to find out more about Gabriel’s operations is a possibility. In fact, the Toning system and what we’ve scene the whimsy do makes sense for a hospital ship with some mentally disturbed and others with advanced injuries.

I’m more suspicious of the glitter pool that had Daisy having Kittens over.

Well that explains how one of them could be made into a vampire even though nothing else could. If they were once humans, clearly there’s a great deal of genetic similarity between them and humans… something the other races would not have. Would, theoretically, be easy. Heck, I’m starting to suspect that Jigsaw isn’t our proficied Armageddon lady as, well, Talmi were/are human.