[network] @featherydouche; not much hope for survival if the neon bible is right; night 182 [open]

[mrcreamsicles]

[It's in the evening, after lockdown when this goes up on the network. Instead of his usual text, Davesprite is posting in audio.]

Hey, guess who found something? I got to talking with Natasha the other night when we were all messed up with the eyes, and we got to thinking, you know who else had glowing eyes? Andromeda. Plus people saw her in the dreams, and Winter said she might have a backup at town hall... My point is I thought it was worth asking her about this, since she might know something, y'know? Turns out she did. Check it.

[Davesprite uploads an audio file of two women speaking.]

So, I can hear Winter first, but I'm not sure who the second is. I'm guessing Andromeda since it's her house, but I ain't exactly heard her voice. I know some people talked to her in the dreams before, so can one of you confirm?

Point of interest speaks for itself, though. Cult hates robots, lady number 2 thought she could fix it, and I'm pretty sure that didn't work considering the situation we're under. We know they both died, after all. But if you ask me, that only raises more questions about the prophet.

Go ahead and talk if you've got your own ideas. I've been reading up a lot, but I'm still a newbie next to most of y'all.

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@SceptredIsle; voice

[keepscalm]

That's definitely Andromeda.

I have to wonder how she planned to fix it. Cultists aren't usually the type to be easily swayed from their beliefs.

[mrcreamsicles]

Sweet, thanks man.

And yeah, that's the question, isn't it? People get hella up in arms about religion even when it's the non-cult kind, sometimes, so now we got murderous cultists to worry about. And they've both been pretty cagey about what their purposes were, right? Classified fancy AI stuff, beyond the general thing.

@hotstud_xxx; text

[rubikscomplex]

it's obvious
look at the last exchange we had with winter
andromeda screwed with the nanomachines to adjust the way people were thinking

[mrcreamsicles]

No problem.

[He planned to anyway, but he definitely appreciates the thanks. He did a useful thing! Feels good.]

And nah, she didn't say anything. I just talked to her a while, asked her stuff—asked her weird not-ghost, I mean. She wasn't actually there, and I didn't see her eyes or anything show up. But once I finished talking, this SD card dropped outta somewhere I didn't see, and this is what was on it.

[keepscalm]

Correct. Miller claimed they were both spies, but Winter is either unwilling or unable to say. And we haven't been able to communicate with Andromeda on that level since she appeared in the dreams. It's difficult to say what either of them were capable of prior to their deaths.

[mrcreamsicles]

Yeah, exactly. Robo-spies are pretty much bound by nature to be mysterious, right? More trustworthy than the regular kind since you can just program them not to say the classified stuff, especially if all we've got now is a weak AI backup version.

Makes me wonder how much this had to do with their deaths, too. Before I was thinking maybe the nuclear attack had something to do with it, if not directly then from whatever else came with it... But then, we don't really know when this cropped up, or why the city got attacked, do we?

[He speaks with the tone of someone thinking out loud.]

We don't even know what the prophet saw, or what her role was supposed to be, or why it was some little kid that got all that importance put on her. See, this is why I don't bother with religion.

[That, and it turns out his universe was a frog made by trolls, but that's off topic.]

[mrcreamsicles]

My thoughts are that you need to respect your elders and ask nicely, you overgrown gremlin.

[mrcreamsicles]

Just because you injected testosterone into your vocal cords doesn't mean you're not basically a 10-year-old, kid. Besides, I'm a tall glass of Tang. I'm orange with style. I'm a bird dude on purpose. What's your excuse?

@SceptredIsle; text

[keepscalm]

Assuming she had either the security clearance or the knowledge necessary to forcibly take control of those systems, that's a possibility. Also assuming that she was able to tamper with them without damaging herself, since she would have been equally susceptible to an attack as any of the other technology in town. Plus, she likely had nanomachines of her own if she was a citizen of Norfinbury.

I'm not discounting the possibility, but I doubt it would have been such an easy task.

[mrcreamsicles]

Who the hell summons a gradeschooler who sounds like James Earl Jones with narcissism?

@featherydouche; text

[mrcreamsicles]

why would a robot ai have nanomachines
where would they even go

[mrcreamsicles]

Not a bad idea. Wonder if I can find a harness in your size around here...

@SceptredIsle; text

[keepscalm]

Why would some of the people here now have nanomachines? I know there have been robots brought into town that were injected with them just like everyone else.

[mrcreamsicles]

Aren't you too young for that?

[No homo.]

I told you already. Ask me nicely.

[mrcreamsicles]

ok i dont pretend to know why robots now would have them either
but the admin is already altering the blood of nonhumans and suppressing other weird stuff weve got going on
this was before we showed up with our "anomalies"

[mrcreamsicles]

[What the fuck, Andersen?]

You threatened to murder me is what, and you were a jackass before that. And hey, look at that: second verse, same as the first. You're some trumped up little shit who got at the internet porn too early, and you think I'm gonna up and say, oh sorry, I didn't realize you were the world's most prepubescent grandpa? I hear there's a retirement home waiting for you down in the ice tunnels.