User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/An ever-present detail/@comment-3146930-20150120213220/@comment-26018514-20150122052307

as far as the conversation darkcloud... I don't think you are getting it... she needs to "touch" the item once as in 1 time... ever, not per encounter, and mercury watched her entire takedown of CDRL, so when he quit... he had already seen all he needed to know. If you fight someone who only needs to touch you to make you their puppet... you don't engage unless you are about to kill them, there was no point in allowing her to touch his other boot, or learn more about his fighting style.