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[rubikscomplex]

you're not using punctuation or capitals
so you're writing yourself
1889 and you can write?
figure out typing?
profession that requires writing and some level of education
"ofcorpse" and the rest of your messages say you missed your calling as a stand-up comedian
to run a funeral parlor
fun times

we've about doubled your life-expectancy by my time
if you're a white male
i mean

[exequies]

see? you had no trouble at all.
i admit im impressed by your deductions so far
though you have a large advantage being where youre from.

but youre right. im just a humble undertaker tossed into an unfamiliar place.

doubled. that seems like an impressive leap in that amount of time.
why is that?

[rubikscomplex]

humble
right

and we figured out antibiotics
they're gonna be big on medical treatments
plus systematic labor reforms so that people weren't getting killed on the job
also fewer wars

[exequies]

ah medicine. i shouldve guessed that would be the avenue.

[For various reasons. But the rest is... a mixed bag. Labor reform he could see, but fewer wars?]

what did everyone decide to make peace overnight?
doesnt sound very likely.

[rubikscomplex]

nope
you've got two world wars and a shit ton of minor conflicts
plus proxy conflicts out of the cold war
but mostly people cooled down
once we dropped a couple of nukes and wiped out two cities in japan
mutually assured destruction
usually works as a deterrent

usually
we're living in the nuclear apocalypse now
so
basically someone got really stupid
either because everyone nuked each other
they nuked each other's nuclear power plants
someone was a complete moron on the job
or utility regulatory agencies across the world let people build their nuclear power plants on fault lines or right along the ocean
and a natural disaster came along

@godsend, text - bit of a threadjack

[termineur]

Are we sure nukes did this? Could've been an asteroid strike. Something big enough might've had the effects we're seeing here, too. That could explain Winter not remembering any particular escalation.

[rubikscomplex]

dude
srsly?
it's radiation all around us
and it wasn't a radioactive comet

[termineur]

Something big enough to kill the dinosaurs could kick us into a new ice age. There'd be firestorms first, supervolcanoes. Any buried radioactive substance would get kicked up into the atmosphere and be trapped by the remaining debris. Voila, everything's both dead and radioactive. I'm sure it wouldn't be great for nuclear power plants or active weapons either.

I'm not saying it's more likely than people being idiots, but it might be an alternate possibility.

[rubikscomplex]

yes
and we should consider and disregard patently stupid possibilities
if there's an asteroid coming towards the earth
we'd know about it, kid
we're not dinosaurs
that's not something that just sneaks up on you when you've got hundreds of telescopes dedicated to studying near-earth objects
they'd have done a hell of a lot more than shove people in cryopods 500 feet underground
if something big enough to destroy surface life on the planet was headed our way

[termineur]

[ Many replies are typed and deleted before he finally settles on this one. ]

I don't think there's enough data to rule it out as a possibility, that's all. Although maybe I did watch too many disaster movies growing up. You'd think it'd be more helpful in this town.

[rubikscomplex]

should've played more video games
this place is VERY silent hill meets i have no mouth and i must scream

[exequies]

[World wars on the other hand, sound about right.]

and who is we?

im not familiar with nuclear. [Obviously.] its some sort of weapon?

[rubikscomplex]

we are the called
we are the chosen
we are the cultists for one another

oh, sorry
wrong script
we are the u s of a
amurica, fuck yeah
who else would have the balls to unleash an attack that killed 200,000+ civilians in under a week
and left hundreds of thousands more with radiation sickness that would poison the places for more than a generation?

nuclear weapons refer to weapons that employ nuclear energy for their explosive force
do you know what tnt is?
imagine you've got something like a 2,000-lbs nuclear bomb
that's roughly equivalent to setting off 1 million tons of tnt

[exequies]

[America pulled the switch? That was a bit unexpected, though not entirely out of reason. Still, he's genuinely surprised that it wasn't England.

He's missing pieces, he's sure. But it would probably take too long to go over it all, especially on a public network.]

i see.
so america is the one who lays their hands on the ultimate weapon. how interesting.

i can see how something like that would wreck a place like this.
the guides mentioned something about MN poisoning. does this radiation sickness fit into that category too?

[rubikscomplex]

no
mn poisoning is separate
tied to the radiation, though
the air around us is saturated with radiation to the point you'd die within minutes
the machines swimming around our bodies prevent that from happening
a byproduct of their constantly repairing our vital systems is some sort of waste
that's what causes mn poisoning

[exequies]

the lesser of two evils i suppose.

[The idea of tiny machines crawling around inside of him should give him a momentary freak out. But surprisingly, he handles it well.]

and the anomalies are also separate from all that im guessing?
and those in turn are separate from the shadow hauntings?

[rubikscomplex]

some part of them are likely connected
the anomalies may appear a certain way because of the nanomachines messing with our perceptions
the shadow hauntings are probably data ghosts
the memory patterns of people who were here before that have been copied and trapped in the system that's running the machines

[exequies]

is that really possible?

[He's one to talk, but this level of technology is lightyears out of his range. It's a lot to wrap his head around.]

[rubikscomplex]

it's very possible
and much more likely than magic

[exequies]

dont recall saying anything about magic.
but is it just likely or is it the truth?
i wonder.

[rubikscomplex]

i was just pre-empting that line of thought
"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
one of clarke's laws

people who don't understand tech typically turn to magic as the explanation

[exequies]

ah is that so?
well i suppose i woulndt know about any of that.

[Haaaaah.]

though i should probably expect as much from a doctor.

[rubikscomplex]

yep
and you'll get the "it's magic" explanation from the vampire
we've got a bet going

[exequies]

theres a vampire?
i think ill hang onto my own theories as they come to me.
magic seems unlikely though.

[rubikscomplex]

@mnemosyne
and probably a good strategy
report any of the weird crap you find
we like to share here