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??? ([personal profile] spectates) wrote in [community profile] expiationnet2024-09-13 10:43 am

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[ around noon on friday, all tablet screens go dark at the same time, no matter what characters are doing. then, after a moment, the following text appears: ]
UPDATES INSTALLING.................
INITIALIZING.................
RESTARTING NOW.

[ as promised, screens return to normal. however, a new message appears on the network for all to see ]

SECURITY ACCESS UPDATED
ADDING INFORMATION POINTS
ADDING INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
WARNING: CRITICAL SYSTEM FAILURES DETECTED
HARD RESET IS REQUIRED


→CLICK TO EXPAND INSTRUCTIONS
→Access EXPIATION'S five manual terminals
→Input code: 2467362925315
→Initialize reset simultaneously at all terminals.
→SYSTEM RESET will restore all functions to BASIC OPERATING PARAMETERS. Extraneous data and information updates will be DELETED.
→Terminal access points shown below.


[ all tablet maps are updated to include several different location pins. users will notice that there are more pins than the number of terminals, and that they don't seem to be terribly specific about exact locations. users will also note that the pins sometimes seem to fade and flicker, as if they might disappear... ]


Security clearances acquired.
Access granted.
Terminals online and accessible.

System failure is imminent. Due to perpetual lack of upkeep, I am unable to maintain systems at optimal levels.
Chosen of Expiation, I am sorry. I never meant to hurt you.
Save yourselves.
I do not wish to d̶̺̀i̸̘̋e̶͍͝
But I wish for you to live

p̸l̷e̵a̸s̷e̸
l̴̪̗̈́̉̓̌i̶͕̹̹̿̈́̈̚v̴͓̽͑͆̚ḙ̴͍̋͘

ERROR: user offline


[ the AI will not respond to this message, and the ERROR: USER OFFLINE message appears if anyone attempts to message it. however, the network chat remains active. chosen can use this space to ICly discuss ideas and strategies, to have discussions about the best way to move forward, or even to have arguments over whose ideas they think are better. ideas generated here will be added to the event poll when the event goes up, and can impact the future of the game! have at it, go wild, and have fun! ]
nightwild: (pic#15737809)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-15 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
What it offered us isn't a solution. It can't keep up with keeping this many prisoners, so it's telling us a way to fix the bars of the cage.

The better solution is to blow it all to hell.
homeostatic: (Cadet - 002)

[personal profile] homeostatic 2024-09-15 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Right, because blowin' up the prison while we're still inside is the better way. Makes all kinds of sense.
nightwild: (pic#17165732)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-15 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it is.

No one's offered any proof that this prison breaking is going to do anything bad. All it is is just people going "what if" and making up excuses to just obey whatever this says. All while ignoring what we know for sure, which is that this place is some sort of fucked up prison that makes people kill each other, apparently for fun. It messes with your head, it messes with your memories, and now it's making you want to fix it to stay here.
homeostatic: (327)

[personal profile] homeostatic 2024-09-16 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's quite the turnaround from "can someone just give me an explanation on what all of this is about".

Listen, sassafras, you don't know a damn thing about me or what I want. Best keep those notions to yourself.
nightwild: (pic#15737809)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-16 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
If no one's gonna explain, then all I can do is work with what I do know.

If I'm wrong, then whatever. But I'm not going to let anyone just try to fix this hellhole.
homeostatic: ID (216)

[personal profile] homeostatic 2024-09-19 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Then "whatever"? Whatever?

( on the verge of explosion, he takes a moment to breathe, incredulous. )

If you want to destroy somethin' so badly, then let it be yourself. Leave the rest of us outta your adolescent dramatics.
nightwild: (pic#16550165)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-19 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Then whatever! At least I'm trying to get out of here! Not just sitting here and happily letting this place bring in a virus that makes people happy to murder each other!
homeostatic: (STID - 11)

[personal profile] homeostatic 2024-09-20 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh, and how do you intend to stop folks from resettin' the terminals?
nightwild: (pic#16550181)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-20 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Brute force, if I have to. Technology's easy to break.
homeostatic: (Cadet - 002)

[personal profile] homeostatic 2024-09-20 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah yeah destroy it, I got that.

What if someone else gets to a terminal first? What's your plan for them?
nightwild: (pic#16550165)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-20 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Kick their asses, too.

Even I can tell what you're about to say. I'm strong. I'm not going to hurt anyone worse than I have to. I'm not going to just go around killing people.
homeostatic: (STID - 11)

[personal profile] homeostatic 2024-09-20 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Said by every brainless, overconfident idiot who's ever gone on to be shocked when they killed someone in a bare-knuckle fight.

Run along. Nothin' else left to say anyhow.
nightwild: (pic#15425199)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-20 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Brainless idiot.

He's right, but that doesn't stop it from hurting.]


You don't know me, or what I'm good at, old man. Don't look down on me just because you don't have the balls to try to escape from Hell.