Looking For An Opening

[evil_storvik]

Torture and interrogation are an interactive process. By analyzing what techniques are used, and what questions are asked (and how), the subject may often learn as much (if not more) about his captors as they learn about him. unpleasant_ifix has thus far revealed, through his reliance on calibration and standard Imperial procedures, little specific knowledge or

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[storvik]

evil_storvik assured me, in our coded conversations, that unpleasant_ifix cannot possibly know about our tur pli am -- something I have only recently learned about myself, as a matter of fact. From my own observations, it seems that unpleasant_ifix has little experience with Vulcans in general -- we may be the first that he has ever met.
That has not stopped him from being as efficient and eager to learn as the ifix from my own universe.
Still, it provides us with our one primary hope for escape: the possibility that unpleasant_ifix will make a mistake and come into direct contact with either evil_storvik or myself, allowing us to telepathically attack him. Whereas it was a certainty that Janeway (any Janeway) would inevitably make a mistake (as her analog from this universe did while torturing me), it is only a possibility for unpleasant_ifix. Ignorance on the part of your enemy is an advantage, but not nearly as big an advantage as a completely pigheaded unwillingness to think before acting or to consider any opinions or courses of action other than your own.
We shall now play what humans refer to as "the waiting game

[evil_storvik]

The ifix of which I read in the uss_murgatroid's logs was a "hands-on sort of man", according to his reviews. Currently, he is allowing the agonizers to do all of the work in "softening us up"; but he may decide to take a more direct role in torturing us in the future -- directly slapping or beating us for unwillingness to cooperate. This would allow us a chance to briefly take him over to release us, and then leave him behind us helpless and comatose.
If I knew more about unpleasant_ifix and Hurrg culture in general, perhaps I would be able to incite him to attack us directly through the use of insults, blasphemies, innuendos, and other "colorful metaphors". Still, it should be possible to at least make the attempt...

[storvik]

evil_storvik is attempting to incite unpleasant_ifix to anger; but his speculations as to the nature of the Hurrg's mother, her wardrobe, and her occupation (along with estimates for the price of various services) do not seem to be having the desired effect. I know more about the Hurrg than he does, having served alongside ifix on the uss_murgatroid, and I believe that I can better manage a verbal assault against him. I shall begin be attacking his abilities; the Hurrg take a sort of religious pride in their capability to accomplish those tasks which are required of them.