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exsilium2013-07-04 11:37 am
interspace) wrote in exsilium2013-07-04 11:37 am
oo1 [ voice → video ] (July 1st)
Testing, testing... Is this thing on? ALFRED?
[ Despite the sound of rain mostly being filtered out of the audio, there comes a slightly-computerized male voice with none of the background interference. As if it's speaking from inside the microphone. ] We're transmitting.
Positive?
Positive.
All right, and now... [ Video! Here's a young woman with some bright red hair tamped down by the wet rain falling all over her as she walks down the street. She does have a rain jacket on with the hood up, but that never really helps completely. She's wearing a frameless visor over her eyes, but even with that, she may look pretty familiar to some of the Transports here, though her "user name" identifies her as 4d 69 73 68 61 20 48 75 6e 74. ] Voi la! Are we in business?
Not only that, but it's booming.
Great. Okay, now to finally have a point to this instead of just futzing with my new toy. What's the current progress? I mean, sure, all these links to history and general info is great, but there isn't a whole lot of talk on how far we are now, what's left to go, how coordinated the actual effort is... Basically, how much shit is this Initiative still in and how much do we "Transports" have to keep digging?
... also. [ She flips the notepad around to momentarily show the street that she's on, heading toward the apartments. ] Am I going the right way?
[ Despite the sound of rain mostly being filtered out of the audio, there comes a slightly-computerized male voice with none of the background interference. As if it's speaking from inside the microphone. ] We're transmitting.
Positive?
Positive.
All right, and now... [ Video! Here's a young woman with some bright red hair tamped down by the wet rain falling all over her as she walks down the street. She does have a rain jacket on with the hood up, but that never really helps completely. She's wearing a frameless visor over her eyes, but even with that, she may look pretty familiar to some of the Transports here, though her "user name" identifies her as 4d 69 73 68 61 20 48 75 6e 74. ] Voi la! Are we in business?
Not only that, but it's booming.
Great. Okay, now to finally have a point to this instead of just futzing with my new toy. What's the current progress? I mean, sure, all these links to history and general info is great, but there isn't a whole lot of talk on how far we are now, what's left to go, how coordinated the actual effort is... Basically, how much shit is this Initiative still in and how much do we "Transports" have to keep digging?
... also. [ She flips the notepad around to momentarily show the street that she's on, heading toward the apartments. ] Am I going the right way?
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Thus our questions. If he's a machine underneath, then not a cyborg, but maybe...
An android. Curious, isn't it?
Increasingly so.
Androids being things that were born mechanical like that, as opposed to cyborgs who were human but had technology grafted onto them for either upgrades or life-saving maneuver sort of stuff.
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Whatever his provenance, whoever his mother was--
[ With an abrupt, almost murderous viciousness: ]
He's a bastard for sure.
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What did he do to you?
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He--
It.
[ He wants to kill something. He'd killed a lot of somethings, that day. But it hadn't been enough. ]
His forces followed one of us back to his world and harvested it. Culled people as if they were cattle. No, not even that. Because cattle are valuable, to a farmer. They...
[ He was going to say we, but he is not quite there, yet. Keeping it impersonal, still. ]
They were swatted down like flies.
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... Did anything stop him? Or is that world...?
1/2
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Twitch. ]
Ha! Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
[ Mad, barking mad laughter, that goes on and on and on. ]
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Did we break him?
[ Misha merely dips her head a little more than necessary to keep sipping at her tea. Who knows, man? ]
Let me know when you're done, dude. You're letting your... sugar... get cold.
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Large numbers. It's hard to wrap one's mind around them. I tried to count to a billion. I only made it as far as 350,000 in one day.
Then I realized I'd have to do it every day, for nine years, to count so many. Six billion would take me 45.
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That entire whole world?
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[ A beat ]
One hundred seventeen, that's a nice number...
[ He brings his teacup to his lips and tries to drink; but there's no tea left, so he grabs (awkwardly, he has to feel for it) a teaspoon and scoops up the undissolved sugar/tea sludge at the bottom of his cup. ]
I suppose I ought to tell you about the Initiative's AI.
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That would be appreciated.
How much do you know about it?