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Black Physaric: We *do* not have the ability to control other creatures without touching them.
Socrates: But we *can* receive telepathic signals from the Syncytium. If he can tap into that channel...

Plato: Even so, the Syncytium does not "control" us, unlike our former adversaries, whose rank and file have no will of their own. We are *equals*, each part of the greater whole.
[[The Grand Protuberance is looking begrudgingly at Plato.]]

Socrates: Still, a channel exists. We cannot deny the possibility that a foreign, dominating will could potentially exert control, however unlikely that may be.

Black Physaric: Such an individual would have to possess a *massive* ego...
Nick (while pointing): Oh, believe me, *that* describes him to a "T".