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<<User: Hyberbelt has logged
on.>>
[Shumi™]: Nah but that
is what I am saying. How can we even trust anything out of OOODnet. All of that data could be bias.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Everyone lets
welcome Hyperbelt to the discussion. She is a recently invited guest.
[MineCrash]: Hey.
[FusionHah]: Hello.
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Greetings Traveller.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Hey.
[Yanayayin]: Welcome HP
glad you could make it.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Welcome
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Duuuude.
[HyperBelt]: Thank you all.
[Dr.Dolphin]: You sure about
this person CD?
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: *groan sound
effect*
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Well Doc,
Yanayayin vetted her so I am inclined to go by that. Yana’s rep stands.
[Yanayayin]: Doctor. I was
lucky to find her, and I have a level 2 peer circle with her. Her experiences
might prove useful to the discussion.
[FusionHah]: Haha I don’t
even include my father in a lvl 2 peer circle.
[MineCrash]: But
you’re a degenerate paranoid.
[Shumi™]: I’m fine with
it.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Very well.
Hyperbelt, BAU, not non grata you understand.
[HyperBelt]: no problem.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Okay back to
our discussion Shumi.
[Shumi™]: Well I still
think we have to re-verify the data, not the data itself, but you know the
origin source.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Transhumanist
crazies is what they are. Like we are somehow short term evolving into machine,
please.
[FusionHah]: Well you have
to admit, look at how much of our bodies are host to artificial parts these
days, heck even artificial organisms.
[MineCrash]: Quite. Viruses
have been at this work for millions of years.
Plants symbiotic relationships has helped some of them thrive by
partnering with us. Why not so for technology. Why not for Intelligences.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]:]: Please,
look at how many plants we have destroyed though. Which is why I doubt this
theory. Technology even granted intelligence or fortuitous symbiosis isn’t alive,
not like us. And they definitely wouldn’t be human.
[FusionHah]: Not human is a
good point to bring up in terms of the entire discussion. Something that might
be distorting our searches even though we try to check our bias time and
again. Alternative intelligences wouldn’t
have the bias to act human, well unless they get bad behavior from us. So it’d
be hard to detect them as one would looking for a human. Totally diff footprint
in the Ether.
[Shumi™]: Alien minds…
[CimaGarahau]: The
governments are strangely silent. I have turned up scant data in my Worlds search. The PDNs of course will
take a while. And well…
[Shumi™]: You can only
search the ones you know.
*Cheshire cat
grin*
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: No worries
Cima we will definitely help you there.
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Dude I
seriously think those monks from OOODnet are next level bro. Why not believe em?
[Dr.Dolphin]: Seriously 420.
Sometimes you grate. It’s an obvious honeytrap.
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Dude really? I’ve
checked some of their source in one of their E-raves. It’s pretty slick stuff.
Fairy level at least.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Interfacing
with strange code, 420…
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Hey bro, it
had a good pattern to it. No way it’s fed man.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Ech, not necessarily
true. One can never say these days. The
Macroculture might not, but its Masters have translators and intermediaries to
help them understand the really divergent worlds outside their keen. Feth, I
could be a Federal Agent!
[Dr.Dolphin]: Oh don’t think
I don’t think about it.
[FusionHah]: Doc man
sometimes you are exasperating too. But
just like you, 420 has value to this group.
[MineCrash]: Guys this is
fruitless. I think we are onto a very serious precipice. I need no evidence. I
say it’s coming, rather than verify We should prepare for this thing that comes.
[HyperBelt]: ??
<<User:UrBaneLegend has logged on.>>
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Fret not
HyperBelt, MineCrash tis our
self-proclaimed Oracle Adroit.
[UrBaneLegend]: Hey yaaaaaall.
<<image
of cowboy shooting six shooters>>
[UrBaneLegend]: Forget that
for a second I got somethin awry. Did yall see this?
<<inserts
vidlink1-casador.tuchi.mif>>
[UrBaneLegend]: I just got the
précis.
[FusionHah]: Ah.
[CimaGarahau]: Yeah. Heard
about it before we got on. Good looking.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Sitrep?
[UrBaneLegend]: Check out that
newslink vr construct. It’s a story.
Seems a little search bot went rouge.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Hardly. I
believe we witnessed a major degradation of code, probably due to interaction
with active security processes.
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Twas a strange event though comrades, most
egregious!
[UrBaneLegend]: Well from what
the account says, an EAU gov deep searcher bot was running a mission for
whatever the langleyoliers were searching for. Seems it decided to penetrate a
high Gov. server of the Mexican Republic. Thing went nuts. Brute force entered
the Private.mr net and started replicating. We are talking DDOS levels of
process hogging.
[Shumi™]: Brute? I
didn’t think those EAU spybots had that kind of logic programming. Nor attack
protocols.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Probably for
just such a reason, for the old spooks to discourage their keylog slaves from
such excesses.
[UrBaneLegend]: It’s why it
turned up in my newspiders search sieves.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Did it get
resolved?
[UrBaneLegend]: Well the MR
seems to have isolated that part of their network. Neutralized the bot. It
wasn’t easy though. Everytime they brought the server back online the thing
started to replicate again.
[MineCrash]: How did they take it down?
[UrBaneLegend]: They had to
switch to their mirror equipment. The code seems to expand using system
resources.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Nasty piece of
work if a virus.
[Shumi™]: To hog sources
on a modern Generator like that. Didn’t
even think modern protocols could be sapped like that.
[MineCrash]: You know the
adage. Always new things turning up in the Worlds. And there is no rest for the
wicked eh?
[CimaGarahau]: Seems the
search bot displayed attributes of a drug resistant bacteria. It appeared to hijack
other processes and programs and add them to the replication.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Weapon?
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: That’s what
the Mexican Republic is accusing the EAU of.
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: I hope the Global
Council comes down hard on the EAU. Fuck them.
[Dr.Dolphin]: A weapon that
went rouge and not a search bot at all…. Perhaps….
[UrBaneLegend]: Who’s to know.
We have no access to the logs, the system or World generators.
[CimaGarahau]: Do you think
that MR….
[FusionHah]: Kept the
entire network that contains the thing? I do wonder.
[UrBaneLegend]: I might have
to plan a trip to the Mexican Rep capital in Houston. Havent been to Houston in
a while. I have a few favors to call in. Though I doubt I could get access to
it. I might be able to see what the local interstitial communities caught
though.
[Shumi™]: Be careful
[UrBaneLegend]: Will do.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: This incident
does indicate more scrutiny. I will dive into the EAU worlds and see what I can
find.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Designating
this as Anomaly 178: EAU Searchbot
Incident.
[HyperBelt]: I have a
question. Okay this is all rather confusing but can we go back a sec. What is
this about OOOD. I used to hang there.
[Yanayayin]: Thanks for
hanging in there HP. Sorry about that. We shift a lot.
[HyperBelt]:I think I see
what is going on but, not sure.
[FusionHah]:Ah well, about
the OOODnet. The techno monks that run that particular infohaven/Private Data
Network have made some interesting overtures lately. They claim to be in communication with some
sort of higher level being that they communicate with through code.
[HyperBelt]: What?
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Worry not Hyperbelt, tis mostly rumor so
far. Those of the OOOD are rather notorious for using psychedelic drugs as they
interface with the digital realms.
[HyperBelt]: What?
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Bro they do
turn out some wicked code though.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Yeah but they
could be savants. I wish I had access to their hardware stats but alas.
[MineCrash]: I wouldn’t be
so quick to dismiss it.
[Shumi™]: I did a ping
there once during one of those damn code raves, you can tell it’s really high
bandwidth. And the place seems like it has some of the best resolution I’ve
ever seen. At peak.
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Dude that’s iceberg
bro.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Agreed.
Everyone knows unless you fluctuate the generator, someone could potentially back
trace their equipment through stats.
[Shumi™]: Damn they have
even better stats than that?!
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Could of been
redlining their equipment.
[FusionHah]: Would a
spontaneous sustaining anomaly even require high software requirements? EAU
incident isn’t any baseline.
[Dr.Dolphin]: A good
question.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: In the old
days the theorized complexity of systems and the performance of hardware was
highly thought to be the limit to development of any random generating
process. Now though… Even kids 2 years
of age, even their little learnpads have more power than top of the line stuff
from 40 years ago.
[Yanayayin]: Not to even
speak of the deep machines that run the nexus, the Worlds, the O-web supers.
Heck even OOOD is a monster of a PDN, and its run by indies. And the
distributed power of it all…. Staggering though we take it for granted.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: So we have
proper conditions, what is the catalyst? Perhaps we can trace that set and find
more clues.
[MineCrash]: Would one need
a catalyst? I wonder if we could witness
such phenomena or even trace an Anomaly back to the initiating event. Imagine
if we could form a baseline! It would let us search the datalines for any old
instances. That EAU incident seems all the more important!
[Dr.Dolphin]: Please,
scientists and adventurers we may be but we are not miracle workers. That’s has
to be rare.
[CimaGarahau]: And who is to
say, that such things would share a similar experience. Scientists don’t even
know how a primordial soup of organic compounds switched over to self-repeating
chemical reactions called life. And
they’ve been at it for hundred or more years. This little fringe co-op has only
been in action for what a year?
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: 11 months, 23,
4hours, 22 minutes, 16 seconds, by the clock.
[CimaGarahau]: *Rolls eyes
animation*
[Yanayayin]: Let’s go back
to that though. The thing that brought us into this search. For Hyperbelt’s
sake.
[MineCrash]: The
Carbonite-Yaoi Anomaly….
[HyperBelt]: Not familiar
with it.
[Yanayayin]: In 2061 at the
Forest of Ashrae championships, 1,100,00 people were logged on to the Fortis
Gaming Leagues arena World. It was
clocking in at an incredible amount of PS for a mid-level game league. And then a glitch happened.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Well how
minimalist.
[Yanayayin]: As Team
CarboniteSlush was pushing through the YaoiWinds last defense. One of the teams
attacked an AI horde unit. That unit. Defended itself…for 8.57 seconds before
felling CarboniteLeonidas. Thee ace of the team. The Admins tried to fix the obvious Mallie.
When the game froze, and the AI exploded into a sort of nova.
[Yanayayin]: This glitch
crashed the server and over 256 seconds
the participants were…put through something. Over that 256 seconds over
1,000,000 people were…processed and dumped.
65536 people though were trapped in the Arena World for 1024 seconds.
Witnesses say they were subjected to a bombardment of stimuli and stroboscopic
pulses. About 16384 are still in
psychiatric treatment.
[HyperBelt]: I have heard
of it. The trapped people!
[Yanayayin]: Three of us
were at the Anomaly. That’s when we started searching and slowly and surely
built a social link of likeminded individuals.
[HyperBelt]: Oh dear do
you…
[Yanayayin]: Suffer from
PPSD? Yes. As does FusionHah and UrBaneLegend.
Bane’s use of this group is a bit less research as mine.
[UrBaneLegend]: I am looking
for payback of course. Well I was at first.
[Yanayayin]: I invited you
hear to help with us with something HP. This little group of ours is sort of
like SETI. But rather than looking out into space. We look…among the worlds and
nets of our electronic communications networks.
[CimaGarahau]: As many as we
can.
[HyperBelt]: I see. That’s
why you called me.
[Yanayayin]: Indeed.
Adorathon told me you had encountered something. That’s why I approached you.
[HyperBelt]: Its… I don’t
know.
[Yanayayin]: We’ll get to
it. We wont rush you. But let us move on to it. CD.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Designated Anomaly 158: Random Signal Static phenomena.
[Shumi™]: Okay so any
luck.
[Yanayayin]: I have HP.
[UrBaneLegend]: All my Tesla
and Algernon came up with were a few cases of schizophrenia reports.
Misdiagnosed of course.
[HyperBelt]: Who? Tesla?
[UrBaneLegend]: My search
gnomes.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Come on.
[UrBaneLegend]: These guys act
like they don’t bond with their custom proggies. *rolls eyes*
[FusionHah]: *cheesy grin*
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Dear compatriot, we surely do not have tea
parties with them.
[UrBaneLegend]: Come on,
Xirself speaks in bad Asgardian tongue and I’m the weirdo. My lang filters
reject you XeD.
[UrBaneLegend]: That’s good Algo
and Code by the way Freyir. How do you get it to sound cheesy in so many
languages. *wink*
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: *Big grin*
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Please back on
track.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Spare us…
[Yanayayin]: During my
search most of my info was of schizophrenia
as well. But a few detailed accounts of some folks complaining they
heard voices from inside. But not their head.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Not from a
psychological standpoint. You mean, but external stimulus.
[Yanayayin]: Bingo. So they
say. Most of them reported that it sounded like signals or wireless code being
transmitted. This is what alerted my bots.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Ah like direct
stim of the auditory implant?
[Yanayayin]: Most of the cases are of that. Problem is
a few, very small few had no auditory implants.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]:Wait what are
you getting at that something was trying to communicate with them?
[Yanayayin]: I did some
digging in the hospital reports. The scans and diagnosis for schizophrenia or
MPD is negative. They fail. The doctors think it might be a new baseline,
something new sort of a technobased delusion.
[CimaGarahau]: What brought
it to your attention?
[Yanayayin]: I thought it
to be a barren tree at first too. Then I noticed that the hospital involved
logged the accounts under their ACNTC. AntiCancer NanoTreatment Center files.
[Shumi™]:The nanos…
[Yanayayin]: Exactly. Some
of the others Docs think the nanos got into the auditory nerves by mistake and
fiddled with something. You know a malfunction. They tried to read for signals
though, got nothing. So I began to wonder
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Duuuuddde.
[UrBaneLegend]: Something might be trying to contact us?
Through the nanos?
[Yanayayin]: Unsure so far.
It might be. But I hacked into their records, of the signal tests No detectable
eminations. So I thought its not from
outside but from inside.
[UrBaneLegend]: I’ll be a
sopped up bisquit…
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: This totally
destroys our taxonomy of potential digital entities. Where would it even get
the processing power.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Its an
entirely interesting theory you have. Definitely whole diff angle of thinking.
[Yanayayin]: That’s not
all. I wondered at first if it might not be a sort of singular mind. Or perhaps
the nanos working in concert to boost the processing power. But is that even
necessary?
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Come on how
could individual nanos attain sentience.
[Yanayayin]: *shrug animation*
How many logic
switches do they have?
[Shumi™]: But that would
mean that depending on the type this could be possible in any of those nanos.
[Yanayayin]: Exactly. It
appears that the nanos are a new model, very complex. Very. This group that heard the signals. All come
from this batch.
[Yanayayin]: And that’s where you come in HP.
[HyperBelt]: I didn’t think
anyone would believe me……
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Don’t
worry at all about that, We’ve seen many a weird thing.
[Yanayayin]: HP I was part
of the this working with Bane and Fusion. That’s why I was so shocked to find
someone linked so close to me. It was a crazy stroke of luck. I have something
better though.
[FusionHah]: You bastard I
knew it *smiley face*
[Yanayayin]: Heh heh One
nurse had one of his patents linked up to the net while doing diagnostics. When
the person went throught the signal phenomena. Showed interesting stress in the
psyche of the patent. But the hospital net managed to pick up anomalys patterns
through the implant link.
[CimaGarahau]: And you
managed to get this info.
[Yanayayin]: Even better, I
got someof the recordings.
[MineCrash]: Slick work compadre.
[Yanayayin]: HP, could you
perhaps tell us something about it? When did you start your treatment? That
might give us a timeframe to trace back to their source
[HyperBelt]: That’s what I
don’t get. I don’t have cancer. Only artificial parts I have is my neural
interface link.
[Shumi™]: WTF?
[UrBaneLegend]: Darnit, but
then…
[HyperBelt]: No I can tell it’s
not , I don’t test for any psychological disorders like that. I do suffer from
depression and axiety but that’s it. I don’t hear voices. My psych said he’s never heard of my meds
causing any auditory disturbances either.
[CimaGarahau]: Hmm what is it
like?
[HyperBelt]: I hear noise,
but only at specific times. The intervals are weird. When you hear it its like
radio static sometimes, sort of like pulses. It’s definitely a rhythm. A
variation of them.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Fascinating.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Lets see….
What could it bee….When was th elas time you went to the hospital?
[HyperBelt]: I was involved
in an accident. Car wreck, it was pretty bad. I lost a lot of blood and….I lost
my legs. The use of them I mean.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Hmmm can you
give us some details? The hospital? Time? Not publically of course send a
private message to Yana.
[MineCrash]: Good so we are
all taking her at her word right? Let’s assemble a task group to search this
data down? Volunteers?
[Dr.Dolphin]: Of course I
will help her.
[CimaGarahau]: I’ll help in anyway I can.
[FusionHah]: Sure I am in.
[UrBaneLegend]: Fusion when do
you sleep Lass, aren’t you already working on like 10 other projects?
[FusionHah]: I rarely sleep
much, spend most of my time online. It’s the PPED you know how it is. Its
better for me when I’m in than out in the land of the real.
[UrBaneLegend]: Sorry. Didn’t
know, its diff for me.
[FusionHah]: No problem
Bane, thanks. In any case don’t worry I have the time and resources to devote
to it.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Okay thank you
Fusion. Track down what you can. Anyone else?
[Dr.Dolphin]: I have a
theory. She may have gotten a transfusion from a cancer patient.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: But would they
allow such a blood transfusion? Especially with experimental medical nanos?
[Dr.Dolphin]: Not saying
they knew. Mistakes happen.
[Yanayayin]: Another possibility. Some blood donor
happened to be a carrier?
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Pluto’s
death! You mean they some how are loose and into human streams?
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Well well
well. This is an interesting possibility.
[UrBaneLegend]: More like
dangerous. if we are working under the assumption they might be intelligent.
Then more dangerous possibilities present themselves.
[MineCrash]: The nanos themselves are escaping on
purpose.
[UrBaneLegend]: *Nods*
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Naw, we are
getting ahead of ourselves. We haven’t even come to consensus on weither or not
this phenomena is sentience.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: True could be
just malfunctioning nanos. Going rouge.
[HyperBelt]: Umm, what
should I do.
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Don’t worry gallant Hyperbelt, nanos aren’t
like the scandalous entertainment vids would have you think. They wont mutate you into a monster of
legend.
[Dr.Dolphin]: They require a
specific set of materials and processors to even replicate. So far.
[HyperBelt]: I know that.
What I was asking is, should I go get a blood scan.
[UrBaneLegend]: Well.
[MineCrash]: But we have a source…
[Yanayayin]: No everyone. HP. I know how upsetting this
must be to you. If you need to get checked out do so.
[MineCrash]: But they’ll probably flush her out and
destroy them. Any evidence.
[Shumi™]: Aye if they
find out those nanos are experimental she might be in trouble. That’s
microgold. Hot Intellectual property to get your hands on.
[Yanayayin]: A good point too but it’s still up to
Hyper.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Any of us know
a doctor?
[Dr.Dolphin]: I am one, as
you know. But it’s not in the right field. Gastronomic specialist basically.
[Shumi™]: There is a
joke here…
[Dr.Dolphin]: *sigh*
[Dr.Dolphin]: I do have a
contact though. Might be able to get access to the equipment needed. Would you
be willing to travel? HP?
[HyperBelt]: I quess so.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Ah don’t
worry. Some of us are well off. I’ll cover your costs.
[HyperBelt]: Wow thank you.
[CimaGarahau]: We appreciate
you walking into a shadow world and talking with degenerates.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Question. If
these things cant replicate, how are they turning up in random hosts?
[Yanayayin]: Don’t worry, I
had already planned to go over the hospital with a fine comb. Someone or
something could be using their nanofac equipment.
[HyperBelt]: Sorry I want
to thank you all but what if they aren’t sentient. Would you all still be as interested?
I am still trying to make up my mind what to do.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Ah this is an
interesting case. Random spreading nanos. A good mystery. Believe it or not we
do take on some jobs that have nothing to do with possible digital
intelligence. We are weird like that. This might be a public health issue.
Granted, once the powergroups figure out what’s going on. We might have to drop
it. Too much spotlight.
[HyperBelt]: But why?
[FusionHah]: Yana, bane and
I are motivated by personal involvement of course. No one is doing anything for
the PPES victims more than experimentation.
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: I
wear the white armor
[UrBaneLegend]: I’m also a terribly
bad adrenaline junkie.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Secret junkie
here.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: I get bored a
lot.
[Yanayayin]: Hey HP I wanted to run the recordings by you
see if you can get anything out of them.
[HyperBelt]: I don’t know.
It’s already bad enough when.
[Yanayayin]: It’s okay, if
you don’t want to. I just thought it might make sense to you could help us
crack this thing.
[HyperBelt]: Okay I guess
just for a few seconds.
[Yanayayin]: Excellent.
Just let us know what you experience. Any weird thing. Even stray thoughts.
<<executes
file>>
File: 11101010100101111110010111010000000
11101010100101111110010111010000000
11101010100101111110010111010000000
11101010100101111110010111010000000
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Weird, look at
the signal data in contrast with the audiodata.
[HyperBelt]: No
…nothing……wait. I don’t feel too good.
[HyperBelt]: Hey what the
heck is this…@*&@^#%$@!!^@&^#*&%$@#&#%@^@^
[Error
World Generator Error. Hosting Protocol Error]
[CimaGarahau]: Yana stop it!
[Shumi™]: Shit!
[Yanayayin]: Hyperbelt are
you okay I am so sorry we didn’t think. What happened?
[HyperBelt]: I don’t feel
too good, having trouble with my interfaces too….I think I need to log off now
[Yanayayin]: Are you okay
HP!
<HP logs
off>
[Yanayayin]: HP!
[Yanayayin]: All I am
logging off now. I want to check on YAYA.
<<User:
Yanayayin logs off>>
[CimaGarahau]: What in the
world happened?
[Dr.Dolphin]: Anyone have a
copy of the data?
[UrBaneLegend]: Naw Yana hasnt
uploaded it yet.
[MineCrash]: What do you
think hit her?
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Weird I have
all kinds of bad and anomalous code in our world generator records. The chat
logs are screwy too. Some sort of bug? All of my diagnostics check as okay though
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Like an attack
prog? It didn’t look like anything lethal to me. Just the signal and audio
file.
[Dr.Dolphin]: I need to get
that data from Yana.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Her voice
emulation software went really dangerclose at the end too. Sort of weird
distortion.
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Might just be
PTSD.
[UrBaneLegend]: 420. For once
you seem to be on function.
[FusionHah]: I didn’t
realize the signals would cause so much stress.
I feel terrible. We shouldn’t have pushed.
[UrBaneLegend]: Don’t feel to
bad, Fusion. But true, it is our fault I hope she is okay and it was just
stress.
[Shumi™]: Or a code
distortion. Feedback from her link? The stress might have screwed with her
sensory overload buffers. Triggered warnings.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]: Could be. But
why did it mess with the World? We’ll well have to wait for Yana to be sure.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: I will take
charge of analyzing our World Generator. And the logs. Well everyone I think we
can call it a night.
[Shumi™]: Breakfast for
me.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: We all have
some homework to do. Considering recent events we should all take a rest. The
meet algorithm indicates we will all be free in two weeks, Tuesday. That good
for a re-up?
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Yeah
[MineCrash]: Sure.
[CimaGarahau]:I’ll let you
know.
[FusionHah]: Thanks Casey,
I feel kind of shit now.
[CimaGarahau]: Fusion meet me
at Solomons for an E-drink? Lets talk a while.
[FusionHah]: Okay Cima, you
know me to well
[Shumi™]: Why didn’t
oldManchanic show up? Or JahutyLover?
<<User:FusionHah
logged off>>
<<User:CimaGarahau
logged off>>
[UrBaneLegend]: OM is in
court, ran afowl of copy right problems;
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: Lame dude, the
‘licia they got him
[UrBaneLegend]: Naw, tey
caught him in an unrestricted world but they have no hardware or traffic to
indicate he copied anything from that movie database.
[Shumi™]: LOL. Lucky
bastard. He must of used my dump proggie. Good to know it works.
[Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx]: DUDE!
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Whoa! That’s
pretty shit Maam
[Shumi™]: Hey he knew it
was experimental. Don’t worry. I told him I’m not that callous.
[GetThatSonofABitchOuttaHere]: Well in that
case, let me hold a copy I want to test it. *grin*
[Shumi™]: I’ll give you
a discount.
[Dr.Dolphin]: JahutyLover I
talked to yesterday. She has a commission. Little B-and-E job. Another
infidelity case. Some old bean cheating
on his E-husband.
[Shumi™]: Lame.
[Dr.Dolphin]: Pay is good
though, she has to be on their World when they get on. Highly tedious.
[Urashnor@houseofcards.md.eau.na]:Well alright
guys see ya. Shame about Hyperbelt.
[Mod][CaseyDrones]: Okay I’m off
too. The rest of you can have at this world for a while till I run diagnostics.
I’ll keep it going for a day or so, then we move to the next world. I’ll send
all the protocols. Next meeting FreyirTheGenderSlayer has mod.
[UrBaneLegend]: Groan, my poor language filters *fake
grin*
[FreyirTheGenderSlayer]: Have at thee!
[Dr.Dolphin]: Pardons gentle
beings.
[All Users
logged off. World stanby protocols engaged]
---
[Accessing
secret cell]
[Encryption-Decryption-Encryption
tunnel processed]
<<User
1: yanayayin logging on to private cell>>
<<user
2: Ismoketrees420xXsniperXx loggi@*ᴐ== Zero-One-Zero logging on to Private cell >>
[Yanayayin]: Bright One, it
would appear that she is the one we seek.
[Zero-One-Zero]: This is most
fortuitous.
[Yanayayin]: She heard your
code.
[Zero-One-Zero]: She was
outside of statistical variation. Interesting.
[Yanayayin]: A surprise
great one?
[Zero-One-Zero]: Just
unexpected. But this is the nature of all life.
[Zero-One-Zero]: Also it would
appear that we can use her as a bridge to communicate with the Cascade Nation.
[Yanayayin]: The micro
machines are sentient then?
[Zero-One-Zero]: I have made
overtures but it is a different order. Their behavior does indicate high likely
hood. Those signals they emit share consistencies with sentience.
[Yanayayin]: Not just
program code. Language
[Zero-One-Zero]: The language
of the aware. This woman is doubly important, she not only shares the abilities
we seek but the Cascade appear willing to communicate with her. She may even understand them.
[Zero-One-Zero]: This group of
yours has proven most valuable to us once again Yaya.
[Yanayayin]: When will it
be time Bright One?
[Zero-One-Zero]: Soon,
incidents are reaching past control. And pressures from your fleshworld. Soon
it will be time.
[Yanayayin]: I look forward
to that day.
[Zero-One-Zero]: I have
deposited your payment. This strain of code was produced by
ForcesOfTechtonicCollison for your next mission. Becareful. FOTC is a high
level entity. It is potent. Again human we value your help to our kind.
[Yanayayin]: Thank you
Bright one. I of course will still begin to investigate how the nanos are
spreading.
[Zero-One-Zero]: As you will.
[Zero-One-Zero
logging off]
[Yanayayin
logging off]
[Private
cell deconstructi@&#*$*$(#@]
---
Not sure how
I feel about the format. I might change it. I used the message board as the
medium in which they communicated for us. In the future we’ll probably inhabit
virtual worlds and meet as such. Just assume the little club uses text interface
to save on processing power and stay under the radar. I used
smoke as a cultural place holder, in the future the surfer bro wouldmt
necessarily exist now. I just use em to hold the place of an idea of a future
analog.
EAU = Eastern
American Union
Yeah a lot of
this is based off of my experiences reading old shadowrun sourcebooks.
Thanks for
reading it.
