Mr Frog - "whosawiddlebirdie" is undoubtedly the funniest thing I've read all day, as I tried to imagine dwarf Mr Frog saying that, and that didn't go so well... lol
If dwarf Mr Frog has any sort of warning that Talvi hasn't had a total mindwipe, he'll be prepared. And no, I don't like how the immunity (not quite immune, it messed up her brain even more) thing works either, but all the same, if her mind gets wiped she's more or less taken out of the Spearbreakers story.
There wasn't much I could do.
You did a bit of god modding while I was away, knocking Talvi out and drugging her - though, frankly, even had I been here the same would've happened. She thought she was a cavy. She would've run and hid under the bed and waited for Mr Frog to come drag her out.
What's really been bugging me is that I feel it's kind of against unspoken rules for me to be roleplaying two characters at once. Especially as I'm currently planning on giving the unnamed character a role a bit past the silent narrator. Essentially she's not too much more than an extension of Talvi, since her journal won't really go anywhere where Talvi isn't around, but all the same... Like I said, it's bugging me.
Seriously, is what I'm doing "against the rules"?
Anyway, I figured Mr Frog is basically an "I-can-rig-anything-up-in-less-than-ten-minutes-because-I-know-everything" mad scientist. Then again, he's focusing mainly on Talvi and probably doesn't expect our controversial (at least to me) narrator to be hanging around, right?
And yes, you've implied that Mr Frog is a different species than Talvi, but what if Talvi isn't fully dwarf anymore? What if some of Mr Frog's genetic experiments spliced her with cavy DNA (as she's implied that she paranoidly believes), thus explaining why Mr Frog would want her cavies in the first place? Perhaps he was trying to discover a way to make dwarves immune to the Holistic virus? But now I'm just branching off into the unknown, so... back to firmer ground.
Plus, if she was part cavy, Mr Frog would know it, and would probably utilize that knowledge.
Splint - "redneck heartland" as in a couple hours from Atlanta, Georgia, where the first Redneck Olympics were held. I grew up in Memphis, though. Few people have southern-drawl accents there. What's your definition of "pretty fairly oriented"?
Oh, and I should probably add - if the numbers in that recon report you put up are anywhere near accurate... I think we've gone past "screwed" into "oh god we're all going to die messily".