voice; @endcaller

[endcaller]

[Fandaniel has spent the last few days attempting to learn about the world's past. Now that Aldrip is no longer literally or figuratively on fire it's the closest thing he can get to relaxing. In his research, he's looked over old network posts and...

The feed starts with his sharp icy cackle. It continues for a few seconds before subsiding into a harsh giggle that Fandanial gasps around.]

Ahahaha!

W-was anyone intending to inform me that a man called Emet-Selch once walked this star or was I supposed to learn this on my own?

[There is a rattle of chains and rustle of fabric as he flops onto his back. His voice is more faint and distorted by echo.]

It makes a man wonder how and why the AI picks the people it does. How many others have been here that I should know about? That we should know about?

...How many of them lived among the Chosen who were absorbed into the simulation and are now forever lost to us?

Haa...haha...

So many questions, so many questions!

Comments

audio; un: spartan

[melnik]

You seem upset by this. But really, I have to ask: what does it matter? There is no consistency to what is real to us and what is not. Someone may disappear into the simulation only to keep existing in our own universes, or appear again at another time.

[ Would any of this stop him from getting upset if someone he knew had once been here? No... but perhaps it's easier to put into perspective when trying to assuage someone else. ]

audio;

[endcaller]

You are correct. There is no consistency...

Yet I feel that, too, is a factor worthy of study.

[melnik]

Sure, just like every other unsatisfying clue provided to us. The trouble is actually managing to add it up into something useful.

[endcaller]

That is all science is!

Adding up small clues into something useful, as you say.

[melnik]

Great, so, how do you propose we do that?

[ And would it satisfy Fandaniel in the end if he even did? Where he's concerned, he has dozens upon dozens of little tidbits like this and they all definitively prove nothing. ]