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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#15737822)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-17 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know what that means.
endcaller: (Ul'dah is filled with creatures.)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-17 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[A small sigh.]

It means that we can preserve core aspects of its present self. Its "memories and personality" as you say. Done properly, we should be able to preserve its current capacity for decision-making and perception.
nightwild: (pic#15737813)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-17 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. That's good, but it doesn't solve the primary problem of being trapped here.
endcaller: (Baby love me apocalyptic)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-17 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I fear not. But it does afford us the necessary time to find a solution to that problem as well.

Termination of the AI that sustains us has a troublingly strong possibility of killing us all.

[Don't giggle, don't giggle...]

...Which is a form of freedom, isn't it? Though likely not the one you want.

nightwild: (pic#15737829)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-17 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd rather that than letting this place rip out my brain and replace it with whatever it wants.

I'd rather die as myself, destroying this place, than letting it go on to turn me into someone who isn't me.
endcaller: (Bela Lugosi's dead. How about you?)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-17 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I understand your position.

[More than she could ever know.]

But you may want to consider that your compatriots do not feel the same way. Many of them wish to go home and for this, they must live.
nightwild: (pic#16544163)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-17 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there any evidence that destroying this place would kill us all?
endcaller: (In empty spaces I twist and talk)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the first time the City Hall was destroyed I understand all Chosen lost their memories of home for quite a while.

That would be evidence that destruction to this world can indeed influence us.
nightwild: (pic#17155586)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-17 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It could also be evidence that this place doesn't have the power to do that anymore.

'Cause when I blew it up a bit ago it just stayed gone this time.
endcaller: (It'll be ultraviolet clearance hot fun.)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
You are a curious person, you know that?

You wish to escape and to do this you intend to destroy the world and yet the potential loss of the AI upsets you?
nightwild: (pic#15737829)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. So what? I want to save every life I can. I want to escape so I can help at my home.

The world I want can't let this world exist.
endcaller: (◇ Timendi causa est nescire)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
So your intent is to let it wither away?
nightwild: (pic#15737829)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
My intent is to find a way to save it.

Computers don't wither, they're made of metal. If this person is a computer being or something, it's sturdier than that.
endcaller: (I wish I knew where I belong to)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
By destroying the terminals, you said.

You do know what this would do, yes?
nightwild: (pic#15425267)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Stop people from resetting it.
endcaller: (transuranic)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaand!

And what would that mean, hmm?

The AI would continue to decay as it is now and take the world with it. Not quickly either, no. Day by wretched day reality would continue to fall apart and our memories of what is or is not real would fade as well. The AI would continue to call out to us but with no terminals, we would be unable to answer its pleas.

And, thus, we all perish together, likely forgetting our names by the end of it.

[Which isn't how Fandaniel wants to die. He wants to go down in flames.]

The broken algorithm is already causing us bouts of madness or spontaneous bodily changes. Expect that to become much worse.
nightwild: (pic#16544163)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Do you know that's what will happen? I'll be ending it quickly, not just letting it rot.
endcaller: (Nice computers don't go down...)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Haaahaha...

The AI does not reside within the terminals. [As far as he knows.] In all likelihood it resides everywhere. The terminals are simply our means of directly interfacing with it.

...How can I explain...

Ah, if you destroy my tablet I do not cease to exist, do I?
nightwild: (pic#15737814)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
No, but if I destroy your house, you don't cease to exist, either.
endcaller: (The sound of hornets swarming)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
But you would consign me to a slow death from exposure.

Are you seeing my point?
nightwild: (pic#17165681)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I've been sleeping on the streets for years. You'd only die from that if you're a total idiot.
endcaller: (Allag isn't a perfect model of the world)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Mercy, ma'am!

I admit defeat, this circuitous argument has exhausted me. Your misguided mind won't be changed, I see.

So go ahead and kill us, I care little. But the heroes of this star may have a word or two to say about it.
nightwild: (pic#16544163)

[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's not cir.... whatever that means. I'm just trying to understand. You said you'd explain stuff.
endcaller: (Now I am less than what I was)

[personal profile] endcaller 2024-09-18 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
What was your question again? It's been so long I cannot remember.
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[personal profile] nightwild 2024-09-18 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
I guess let's try again:

Is the AI an enemy or ally?

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