Week 2

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[Other than the reappearance of the Overseer, there's no real change in the routine. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets.

No other floors unlock, but Cece and Kip will still be appearing randomly to chit-chat.

All you know is... something has to change soon.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 1 and submit your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[myocordial]

[...Roland, what.]

...Are you alright?

[And that's this drunk mess asking that, damn Roland.]

[honoraryembryon]

... No, I'm sad it's gone.

[ ... He wanted to eat it. ]

[myocordial]

...Sorry? [He didn't even fight it why is he apologizing.] But... why? We don't even know what that thing... it... what was there.

[honoraryembryon]

When I'm sober I'm going to hate myself... but all I can think right now is that I'm hungry and you guys let that thing run off.

[ Look how sad he is, Heart. ]

[myocordial]

[...]

I'm sorry, you were going to... eat it?

[honoraryembryon]

I was trying...

[myocordial]

I don't think you should eat it.

We need to know what it is. First. We should know. [...] Maybe then, I guess...

[honoraryembryon]

... Ravana?

[ HELPFUL COMMENT, ROLAND

THEY DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS. ]

[myocordial]

[???]

[?????????]

What?

[honoraryembryon]

[ ... He makes a very serious expression and then makes a sideways rhombus-shape with his hands over his mouth. ]

Purple lizard-guy. As'ra.

[ He's trying to say "Asura", but... tone is hard. ]

He could... turn invisible... Varin Omega... also known as... Colonel Beck. I don't... think... I ever heard about him sparkling though.

[myocordial]

He's got a lot of names... [This is important? No it's not.] ...Would he be out here? This is... space is really big. I don't know how far we are.

[honoraryembryon]

Weird reincarnative bullcrap... we're not really sure how it worked. Somehow an AI version of him... got put into a simulation and it became Varin... one of them shouldn't exist. Both of them are dead now though. Or they... shooooould be? I think? I mean... uh.

[ Headscratch. ]

I'm not sure how there could be another thing like him running around but it really seems a lot like Varin. Just sparklier. Maybe... tastier...

[myocordial]

Oh. Yeah, that happens. People coming back as AI. Even when you kill them, just... coming back... it's cheating.

[If he sounds a bit bitter, it's because he is. If that sounds like personal experience, it's because it is.]

I guess we'll find out if we find him again? He's gotta be somewhere... This place is only so big. And then I guess you can eat him? If we don't need him.

[honoraryembryon]

They definitely shouldn't do that at all. They should probably stay dead. I'm glad Varna didn't die, though. ... I mean Serph. ... I'm a little confused right now, sorry.

[ Indra shut up. ]

I mean... where would an invisible glitter demon run off to? And... how do we know it's male, anyway? I mean sure it reminds me of Ravana but I don't know it's him...

[myocordial]

Hm, right... right, when you kill someone, they're supposed to be dead forever. Not... not turn into demon AI. Or into belts.

[...........yes that makes all of the sense without context, Heart, well done.]

Them, then. Until we know for sure. And... I don't know, I'm not an invisible glitter demon, I don't know how they think. But they have to be somewhere.

[honoraryembryon]

... Whoa, someone you know turned into a belt when they died???

[ STARING. ]

That is... really something.

[myocordial]

My creator's old partner, hm. He uploaded his... himself into a belt. So now he's an AI in a belt, because he's just... too stubborn to die.

[honoraryembryon]

... Whoa. That's... pretty crazy. Almost as crazy as the people getting uploaded into the Junkyard and then coming back to life after they shouldn't have existed in the first place...

[ W e i r d. ]

Not a friend?

[myocordial]

That sounds... confusing. Really confusing. I'm not sure if that's just because of the alcohol or not.

[He'll figure that out later.]

No. I mean, I'm the one who killed him, so definitely not.

[Sure let's just causally put that out there, why not.]

[honoraryembryon]

Well, they WERE just AIs, but mind you, ones that hadn't yet developed into people? So when they were uploaded they were blank slates of "real people", but... it was weird that people like Cielo who were... definitely very dead for sure as far as I know came back. He's the for-sure one I know of...

[ Chin tap... ]

So I guess we both have weird situations kinda... like that... what if we're all just AIs?

[myocordial]

...

[See as Heart processes this he knows he should focus on the "all" part of the sentence. But instead it stops at "what if we're AIs" and runs with that. So.]

...I mean. I am.

[honoraryembryon]

... Well you already are so we already have precedence then. So maybe we all literally are just AIs.

Shit, there's an idea. Like, even the people that think they're not?

[myocordial]

I don't think... I mean, that's the sort of thing you'd notice, yes? I assume?

I've never not been an AI, I don't know.