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Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*
Posted By: GradyDate: 11/15/04 8:37 p.m.

In Response To: What happened to Regret? *SP* (Shawn)

: Maybe I just missed something.. but what happened to Regret after he was
: attacked by the Flood. I remember the MC going up to him and (if I recall
: correctly) tossing off the flood that was attacking him. Is it possible
: that Regret became the Brain Form of the Flood and maybe that is what
: Gravemind is?

Regret was killed by the Chief, then reanimated by the Gravemind. I would guess that after he was allowed to talk to the Chief and the Arbiter, he was probably subsumed completely into it; certainly something unpleasant was happening to him, the way he was screaming... As for the Prophet that the Chief tore the infection form off of, that was Mercy, and I don't recall seeing what happened to him afterward. Probably taken by the Flood as well, given that they stormed that platform immediately afterward. (We also see that the Prophet of Truth was lying when he said later, over the High Charity PA system, that "Noble Mercy is by my side, his wise counsel ever in my ears." Truth lied about a lot of things...)

: And all this talk about the Flood being of one mind blah blah... does anyone
: know if this Brain Form of the flood can exist in more than one place at
: one time? Maybe this brain form is the 'one mind' being mentioned a bunch.
: For those who have read the 2nd book (The Flood), it seemed the Flood was
: very smart in the way that it was able to (or at least was able to attempt
: to) take Keyes' thoughts from him. Humans sure as hell can't do that.. yet
: the flood seem so ridiculously stupid.. yet they don't. Confused a bit
: here.

Speculating here... Unless the Flood can transmit thoughts faster than light, probably each infestation has its own mind. The stupid-individual, smart-collective behavior could be explained by the brain-form having only limited low-level control -- it gives general orders to the lower forms, and leaves it to them to carry them out. Also, on a tangent (though not a penitent one ;) ) it seems to me that both the Keyes Blob and the Gravemind were brain-forms; the only difference between them was that the Blob was newly-formed, while the Gravemind had countless years to grow and learn.

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Replies:

What happened to Regret? *SP*Shawn 11/15/04 8:04 p.m.
     Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*ARCHANGEL 7 11/15/04 8:06 p.m.
           Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Shawn 11/15/04 8:21 p.m.
                 Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*ARCHANGEL 7 11/15/04 8:50 p.m.
     Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Grady 11/15/04 8:37 p.m.
           Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Shawn 11/15/04 8:44 p.m.
     Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Werny 11/15/04 11:05 p.m.
           Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Darkstar 11/16/04 2:02 a.m.
                 Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Count Zero 11/16/04 10:15 a.m.
                       Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*MC vince 11/16/04 9:53 p.m.
           Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Jonathan Goss 11/16/04 3:35 a.m.
                 Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Count Zero 11/16/04 10:13 a.m.
                       Re: What happened to Regret? *SP*Jonathan Goss 11/16/04 1:34 p.m.
     What DIDN'T happen to Regret? *sp*Vid Boi 11/16/04 6:32 p.m.



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