[quote=@Disdain]
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Now [i]that[/i] is an interesting tactic. It's oh-so-close to saving your friend--but, alas, I've found a weakness. Easy, really. *the connections that have now been made are incredibly distorted, so that both ends of any connection receive the other sides all wrong, so the ends completely reject each other*
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*The beings break the strands into billions of small segments capable of transferring information and the mass of beings surround each segment on either side, causing each to behave functionally in isolation and then together as a whole*