Video from Mexico

[mammal_robot]

[Various security encryptions are in place to keep this video away from Soviet eyes. Are they successful? All Robo can say to that is "Hopefully." Either way it at least won't be easy for soviet eyes to find this.]

It sounds like everything is getting really weird up there.

So listen, I'm sure most of you want to stay and fight. Or...stay and support your knew communist overlords. That's great. If you DO want to get out, we've got room.

More importantly, all evidence suggests that your heads are getting messed with pretty heavily. We should get as many ImPorts out of there as soon as we can. Especially since some of us are, well, kids. Kids shouldn't have to go through this. We've already got a sort of underground railroad for getting people south of the border, and I've been working on transforming one of the apartments they gave us into a secure area for holding people who might not strictly want to be there.

I don't like the idea of imprisoning ImPorts any more than you, but we've got to get them away from the Russian influence before we can make any serious attempts at breaking their conditioning. I don't know what the US government is doing right now, but if they're not going to take any action, we're going to have to do it ourselves.

Good luck.

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[driftsintobuffetline]

Currently in Mexico.
Anything you need from us here, please advise.

[mammal_robot]

I'm actually down there too.

[driftsintobuffetline]

I know. Ok, I'll forget trying to be cute with spy messages. What do you need from us, dude? We're kind of going nuts trying to come up with a plan and I'm really tired of being useless.

[mammal_robot]

Try to read up on Deprogramming techniques if you can. I've been doing some reading on my own, but it's not really my area of expertise and I'd hate to mentally scar someone for life.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Mental health isn't my area of expertise either--I'm a doctor, but not that kind of doctor--but I don't really trust the imPort psychiatrists with this, so yeah. Will do.

[mammal_robot]

Likewise. This is the weirdest goddamn week.

Except for that time Heropa got replaced by a jungle for a few days. I think that was weirder.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Weirder, maybe, but I'd take Jumanji over this, though.

[mammal_robot]

That was infinitely less likely to start a nuclear war, so...yeah I'm with you on that one.

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[bestever]

Wait, what? There's actually people hanging around, still?

[mammal_robot]

I guess the soviets are keeping a pretty close eye on them.

[bestever]

Fffff. Sucks to be them, I guess.

What's this train system you're talking about, though?

[mammal_robot]

Not a literal train. I mean we should just smuggle people out of there whenever we can.

[bestever]

... Then why the fuck did you call it a railroad?

[mammal_robot]

You've never heard of the underground railroad? Moving slaves out of the South in secret during the Civil War?

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[garrick]

It sounds like a plan. Is there anything in specific you're going to need for this?

[mammal_robot]

A skilled psychiatrist would be ideal. I'm not exactly an expert in deprogramming. I'm mainly just hoping whatever they're doing up there will wear off when we take them away from it.

[bestever]

Oh! Uh, yeah. Totally. I knew that's what you were talking about. Shit, what kind of idiot do you think I am?

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[mammal_robot]

2/2

[mammal_robot]

ANYWAYS I'd say it's a pretty high priority getting people out of there. Last thing we want is having to deal with a bunch of reprogrammed ImPorts that are fanatically loyal to the Soviet Union.

[bestever]

Yeah, well. Is there anything folks can do to help from the outside?

[mammal_robot]

Mainly what I need right now is underworld contacts who can give us alternate routes to get people down here.

You don't happen to know any gangsters, do you?

[bestever]

Gangsters? That's a bit oldfashioned, isn't it? I know some mercenaries back home, but they're not exactly the type I'd trust to help with emergency procedures. If you get my drift.

[mammal_robot]

Sort of the "Shoot first, get so excited about shooting you forget to ask questions later" type?

[bestever]

Yyyyeah. Something like that. Usually more like... Setting you up to shoot yourself, and then questioning you about that. It's real fun.

[mammal_robot]

...How do you end up shooting yourself?

[bestever]

Well! You know! If you get tricked into it! Or something! [he is really losing his grasp on this conversation.]