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"- I don't think that's a great idea."

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"Well, I'd change my face, too. No need to terrify people when they see me later and figure things out from my face being the same. I probably won't actually do it, though." 

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"I mean, sometimes people don't call MHN as soon as they should, you know?"

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"Yeah. And anyway even when they do call the whole organization isn't the same thing as whoever you happen to get, if one of them screws up that isn't policy like Tapa killing babies is, you know?"

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"Yeah, that's fair. If I did try underhanded tactics it would probably make more sense to sneak in invisibly and read their stuff." 

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"You can turn invisible? Neat."

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"It's a little tricky, and I have to be extra-careful if I expect to fool anything that detects infrared, but yep." 

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"Amentans can't see infrared, so that's convenient for you."

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"Humans can't either, that's why it's tricky, but sometimes people have cameras that pick up infrared and translate it into visible-spectrum colors." 

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"I think we have those, we just don't make all cameras like that because we don't expect to be able to see it."

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Nod. "But they do security cameras that way sometimes, so I wanted to check." 

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"Yeah, they do."

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"And security cameras are most of what I have to worry about if I'm sneaking in places." 

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"People hire greys when they could get away with just cameras, but yeah."

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"I mean, you kinda have to do something with greys when you're not at war..."

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"Yeah, that's why, there's a bunch of policies people make to placate grey interest groups saying they'll hire so many."

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"It's a little concerning, having that many people whose purpose is to find makework until a war happens, but I can't say I've thought of a fix yet." 

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"I mean, it's better than committing war crimes about it."

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"--Generally committing war crimes is a bad thing, yes. Which war crimes are you thinking of?" 

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"- well, having non-greys in combat positions is a war crime. So you need to maintain enough greys to fill all your combat positions in case you need them."

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"Oh. Yeah, that makes sense, where I'm from we have war crimes that are consequentially rather than deontologically bad but when we talk about war crimes it's usually 'and then they massacred a village,' not, 'and then they impersonated members of the Red Cross.' --Uh, that's a medical organization." 

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"Oh, we have that one too. It's the Unaligned Orange League though."

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"Are green doctors not allowed in?" 

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"You know, I'm not sure? Most places have orange doctors. And a lot of the UOL is nurses too."

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