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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

[apeshift]

Wouldn't be the first time. Though I gotta say, they picked some real weird specimens if they're going for conservation of species.

Yeah, this tech's beyond my time and I never did that great in school anyway, but seems to me like with the head honchessa down, now's as good a chance as any to infiltrate the system. We shouldn't be rebooting the AI back up to normal, we should be taking the code apart.

[mightymorphin]

Conservation of... yeah, I'm not going there.

I'm all for that idea, but how long would it take to go through the code? If the tech's this advanced, there's no telling what's under the hood. We're running out of time, and I doubt we'll still have access to the terminals after a reset.

[apeshift]

That's what we have the tech club for, yeah? Aliens and androids and people born after the 90's who don't have to wait for someone to get off the phone before they can go online, which by the way sounds like a dream.

If they can really pull off the ol' copy paste routine, that's what we should be using the back-up for. Not a reboot, but a deep dive.

[mightymorphin]

Well, no one I talked to from the future had flying cars yet, so I wouldn't say their technology is perfect. [Priorities.]

I'm absolutely on board with that one. If we're going to be stuck here, getting our hands on information or anything that can help us get out of here oughta be a priority.