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Midnight Writer

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13. This is a manipulation technique. You start with small, seemingly meaningless orders.

Reply to Girard442 (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:23 PM

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They'll go along with that. "Seems silly, but where's the harm?"

The next orders will be more consequential. The next even more so.

Sort of like the frog in a pot of water that is being heated.

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