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[spectates]

[ 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
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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! ]

Comments

[nightwild]

Or it'd just return us home. Whatever's holding us here might not be able to hold us if more stuff breaks.

[solitarysoul]

I don't have a home! People I know died before they got here and I got sucked into some sort of god. What happens to me, then? Do I become part of it again?

[The 'everyone will be fine and go home' is a bit of a sore subject since he can't do that.]

[nightwild]

I don't know. I don't have an answer- But you're going to condemn everyone else here so you can keep living in this hell?

[solitarysoul]

How is that different than you condemning everyone to die if you're wrong?

[nightwild]

At least I'm trying to do something instead of pretending nothing is wrong in this place.

I know I'm not smart, but I know that the dead need to move on. The dead staying around is where monsters and vengeful spirits come from.

[solitarysoul]

So you're telling me and my friends to just die?

[nightwild]

I'm saying if you're already dead, you need to move on. Go to your next life.

[solitarysoul]

This is my next life! You're trying to erase it on the off chance that you get to go home safe, no matter how many people it hurts in the process.

[nightwild]

This isn't a 'next life'! This is a hell created by a person! If we all die from what I do, at least I'll die as myself, not as something that isn't me wearing my body like a shell! How much do you want this place to twist your mind and soul?! Or are you okay with becoming something else- Some native who can't see anything wrong with this place?!

The dead who don't have hope don't get to dictate things for the living!

[solitarysoul]

[He could respond to some of this, but what he heard was 'you don't matter you just need to lie down and die.']

Fuck you.

[nightwild]

Same to you.

[She's hearing 'fuck you, die so i can live', so... same route.]

Get in my way and I'll show you to your next life myself.

[solitarysoul]

[Not even left on read, he just deleted the notif for this message.]