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>also i wonder whether at some point we could use the snaketongue to freak snickers out somehow? idk if we have dirt on him but feels like throwing him off his game could be good
I was going to say that that was an option here >>6307848, but I think I originally had [Snaketongue] as targeting #314 and then changed it for consistency. So tl;dr yes, you can-- you would've gotten to it faster if you decided to scare Ramsey instead of anger her, but I'll save time for it. Great minds think alike?

>and my memory is v fuzzy, could we keep burrowing into lower levels of the manse to the point where our snake mascots dont function anymore? i imagine this would be more of a debuff for us than for ramsey though

Snake mascots being #314 and Richard? If you made it to a lower layer of Ramsey's manse, you'd get Richard squished into you, yeah-- but it's tough to say whether the same thing would happen to #314. Richard is particularly vulnerable to this because, when you force him into a human body, you're stripping him of all the psychic safeguards that come along with being a snake. One of the advantages of snake-form is that he's not exactly "present" with you in the real world-- crudely, he's on a "video call" when less engaged (/when the snake isn't visible) and has "VR goggles on" when more engaged, but his lizard body in Satellite remains awake/semi-responsive and can still, e.g., use his computer. I mean box.

But when you drag him into a human body (which you're able to do because of his epic genius dad-replacement scheme; it's not normal for agents at all), you're going, uhh, Sword Art Online on him. His lizard body is now comatose in Satellite, and 100% of his mind is now inside the fake (paper) body you assign him-- which works okay for getting drunk and things like that, but offers zero protection against the crushing pressure you get when descending through a manse. Meaning he gets squished.

Obviously #314 is still a snake, and Ramsey couldn't make him* human even if she wanted to, because he's a sensible lizardman who followed procedure and didn't cook up a crackhead alternative. So he'd probably keep being a snake even if you did descend...

...Not that any of that matters too much, because you don't have much in the way of tools for getting deeper. You used your last shot of [OPEN] to get in here to begin with, and you already blew all your [Communion] last thread, meaning Ramsey knows you can do that and has probably set up safeguards. Best to stay right here.

*Aside literally nobody cares about: most agents are "it" (the Wyrm didn't give a hoot about differentiating them), but Correspondents pick an imaginary gender for ease of human interaction, so #314 is either "it" or "he." Richard rather likes being a "he" and would get upset if you called him "it," one of many, many reasons he's considered a nutcase.