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expiationnet2025-04-18 08:47 am
manifestering) wrote in expiationnet2025-04-18 08:47 am
video, un: howe
Hello. Octavian here as ever.
[Octavian slightly too close to the camera, specifically, with glimpses of Rumpitur's streets behind him, beautiful springtime, all of it. He looks wildly out of place here, as always looking like a wasted Victorian in a sweater vest who's never seen daylight, but: here he is.]
Previously I shared with you all the visions shown to me by our previous AI iteration. The former Chosen turned into something else. I believe this is them.
Watch.
[And he moves, device still in hand and camera rolling, to approach one of the Naga. He asks them quite directly, "Do you remember what you were before?"— and the Naga blinks at him for a second before something changes in their expression, a clarity coupled with a strangeness of feeling, like they are seconds away from remembering exactly what he's talking about. It's there, definitely, under the surface—
And then it fades, and the Naga brushes him off with a dismissive wave and turns away.]
You see. They are nearly there. I have asked them many variations. "Do you remember being Chosen." "Were you human once." "Do you know where your people came from." All who react do so in this same way.
[A beat; he makes a little face, lips pursed.] The others have informed me I am either insane or rude. Belligerent. What did you all do.
[It can't have been him, he is a weird hermit who barely goes out. The rude questions and abruptly accosting the Naga totally unrelated.]
Somewhat unrelated. In her departure Root has left me with a small pile of her computers and other devices. I am not especially gifted with them. Will someone help.
[Octavian slightly too close to the camera, specifically, with glimpses of Rumpitur's streets behind him, beautiful springtime, all of it. He looks wildly out of place here, as always looking like a wasted Victorian in a sweater vest who's never seen daylight, but: here he is.]
Previously I shared with you all the visions shown to me by our previous AI iteration. The former Chosen turned into something else. I believe this is them.
Watch.
[And he moves, device still in hand and camera rolling, to approach one of the Naga. He asks them quite directly, "Do you remember what you were before?"— and the Naga blinks at him for a second before something changes in their expression, a clarity coupled with a strangeness of feeling, like they are seconds away from remembering exactly what he's talking about. It's there, definitely, under the surface—
And then it fades, and the Naga brushes him off with a dismissive wave and turns away.]
You see. They are nearly there. I have asked them many variations. "Do you remember being Chosen." "Were you human once." "Do you know where your people came from." All who react do so in this same way.
[A beat; he makes a little face, lips pursed.] The others have informed me I am either insane or rude. Belligerent. What did you all do.
[It can't have been him, he is a weird hermit who barely goes out. The rude questions and abruptly accosting the Naga totally unrelated.]
Somewhat unrelated. In her departure Root has left me with a small pile of her computers and other devices. I am not especially gifted with them. Will someone help.
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[lol.]
Root had a copy if I recall. But she is gone now.
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You've mentioned that all her stuff is still here, so that part can still be accessed, right? [He can try and help but his knowledge of this stuff amounts to 'I know how to turn on a computer.' Scott's sure there's someone here that can assist better than him.]
Got any volunteers yet?
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[He can open files? He can run a program? But he assumes Root would have hidden it well, and in a way inaccessible to anyone below her skill level.]
My only volunteer thus far is Fandaniel. [and he's so........]
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[Scott sighs, not that he's blaming Octavian. But man.] So we got the crazy guy volunteering. Cool.
[He's never talked to that guy but he's seen enough from his messages. It's all basically surmounted into a giant 'yikes.']
Oh hey, maybe Viktor can help? He's like a brainy scientist guy.
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Quite. [Anyway,] Viktor does not need to ask my permission. It is already available to him because it is available to me. Unfortunately neither of us are experts in non-magical programming technology.
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[Face scrunch. Damn, why can't you guys just be good at all sciencey stuff!! That's how it works!!!!]
Is Fandaniel really the only guy we have left that knows anything about Root's tech?
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Thus far. I am loath to involve him myself. He will not be permitted access to more than one machine.
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[But they're stuck between a rock and a hard place, huh?] You know there's like a 70% chance that the machine would just...
[He brings his hands close before pulling them apart, making an exploding noise along with it.]
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[Ha ha. He shrugs, like, the options are let people see these machines or do nothing at all, which...]
Root would have wanted her work to continue.
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[BUT. Sigh.] I guess so. Although I know she'd be pissed if something were to happen to the AI. She was kind of attached to it.
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[And he doesn't know how to find out, not really. Somebody come click these files for him.]
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[He knows Peter was, but he's gone. Along with the other Peter. And Gwen. More friends missing from this place and it suck, but he's trying to keep going.]
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[lmao..... he's just not that social, even with other nerds.]
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If Fandaniel starts laughing maniacally, that's when you pull him away.
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[...] But good luck with that. If I suddenly stop existing or if the world cracks in half, I'm talking to you first.
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[Ha ha.]
I will do my best.