[network] @@@@@@@@ Event: Circles [Night 058]

[snowblindmods]

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It has been very quiet today, has it not?

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HELLO

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What's up with the blank post? Were you trying to embed a picture or something?

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HELLO

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What's going on? No one is answering my messages. No one... I found flour, butHELLO

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HELLO

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HELLO

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@ADMIN
Please stop.

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@ADMIN
Stop.

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@ADMIN
Termination protocols activated.

@ADMIN
Process complete.

Comments

@quark | text

[averytinyparticle]

what?

[Not an incredibly eloquent response to this, but...just...what.]

it's like they all got brainwashed or something
but how is that possible? how can anything do that?
and why hello?


@admin sounded sad.

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

whydo you think
sad?

text; @hotstud_xxx

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, screw this noise.]

"hello, i am here"
it's what the thing that ate hot fuzz's pal said

[House will even add a link for anyone who wasn't here for that.]

nice to know we've got that to look forward to

Text, @Griever

[canyouhandlethismany]

Good, I am really relieved now, I always wanted to become a furry monster.

May 'anomalies' be previous residents that somehow survived the termination?

[0thingsonmymind]

if anomalies monsters are
past groups
why not
more?

text @dorianpavus

[whiteknightnecromancer]

that's alarming

we've seen possessions but the usernames changed for those.

is this the final stage of mn poisoning/ in my world there are substances that destroy thought and memory. they can cause speech difficulties and hallucinations.

Text, @Griever

[canyouhandlethismany]

It may also be a third part overriding the communications. Also, now we know that if we start seeing blank posts from someone it may either be our mind playing tricks or this whole thing affecting us all.

We should set a 'never say hello' rule from now on.

Text; @Summoner

[ninjainviolet]

On my world, it's possible to turn people into creatures by letting their mana run wild. Sometimes they remember who they were... Sometimes they don't.

text - @claytonator

[dr_unconscious]

@Admin:

I'm not sure what happened, but I know you didn't enjoy it. I'm sorry.
Is there anything we can do? To keep from putting you through this again, maybe?

text - @determination/action for Building 29;

[despiteeverything]

Please @admin tell us what happened to them.

Please.

[It's meant to be more of an addendum to what Clayton's saying, rather than a reply.

As for anybody stuck in the shed that night, they might notice Frisk's hands shaking ever so slightly on the tablet as they punch letters out. They'd... they'd made their peace with it, over the day. Toriel wouldn't have come back if they'd all died, and then everybody would have known it back home. Since she never had disappeared, she must be fine.

These new texts sure are doing their best to undermine that idea, though Frisk isn't entirely willing to let it go so easily.]

text; @dreamsnhonor

[heroproceeding]

[ The last message he had discovered and Kunsel had shared had at least sobered him up to the possibility that maybe... maybe there's a third party involved in all of this.

But...

That doesn't stop him from asking: ]

is termination what I think it is? did you kill those people? did you kill CLOUD? answer me damn it!

Text, @Griever

[canyouhandlethismany]

It seems like 'termination' is the emergency protocol. so far we encountered no issues, as far as I know, in communicating to each other, I doubt @Admin was involved in his death. Even if Cloud is the only one who could tell us what happened.

@guardian; text

[phaseshifter]

You see??
She doesn't want to hurt us. She has feelings. If you can't see the reluctance there then I don't even know what to say

@admin
I don't know if you know anything about what we were doing before we arrived here, but if you do
Is your situation anything like mine was?
Can you tell us that much at least?

text

[averytinyparticle]

You know more about AIs than I do.
Is there a way we can help her help us despite her programming?

Text, @Griever

[canyouhandlethismany]

What do you suggest we do, then, to help her helping us better?

voice/possible action for the group @Enoch

[warriorscribe]

[So this is the culmination of everything. Possibly losing contact outside the network entirely, and then this.

He's told himself he's okay with being able to die for good. Told himself it's not so bad if he'll just grow old and wither away like any normal person. That's how he's dealt with learning his immortality has been totally revoked here.

Except for some reason, that doesn't work here. Seeing this, under MN poisoning making his existing problems worse, he finds himself fighting a distinct lump in his throat, for everyone who came before, for them, for the prospect of losing everyone around him despite being in the same room, for the prospect of being "terminated" after being reduced to this.]

Dear Lord... Is this what-...what will-...

Administrator, are you sure they're not-...

[He can't bring himself to say any more. These were people who failed, failed like they likely will, and one of them sounded familiar to Frisk, like their mother, and, and that's it, the dam breaks and he starts sobbing quietly instead, curling over his tablet, doubled over in fear and sorrow.

The thing that made death acceptable again was the idea that at best he would grow old with everyone (mostly). But they'll drift apart again, if not in presence, in sanity. Even if they're right next to each other, they will die alone. And it's hard to dismiss the feeling that they can't escape this, because it's been so long since they've found a way into someplace new and this seems to be as far as this group ever got, too.

At some point he presses the button to stop recording his voice, but he can't seem to stop crying.]

voice; @guardian;

[phaseshifter]

Hey, don't cry. It'll be alright. Things will be different for us.

@TW; text

[maskintape]

well
that figures

[ It's how the sickness progresses, after all. Normal people turn paranoid, violent, pained, and then... Poof. Gone.

Tim has known this was where things were heading, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant to see. ]

@greed; text

[ossifragant]

Good god.

All of those people...

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

why hel lo?

*That one comment had said the network had been wiped hundreds of times...*

@admin
isthis how
all
groups end ed?

Text, @Griever

[canyouhandlethismany]

As crazy as it sounds.. it may either be a third party overriding their communications or... trying to get @admin or someone's attention?

Text, @Griever

[canyouhandlethismany]

@Admin: Are you the only AI present in this place?

@MarbleHornets; text

[genreblindness]

[Nope. NOPE NOPE NOPE]

this is so messed up

action;

[maskintape]

Don't freak out.

[ Easy to say when you're stuck in a room with operator symbols scribbled all over the walls by your other self, but

yeah ]

Not like it's a surprise, so.

@dickcheese; text

[headjacked]

Is that going to happen to us? And just keep happening?

[ He doesn't wait for a response. They're not really questions anyway. He flops over, cybernetic arm dead and uselessly clanging to the ground.

Jack appears, but it's a bit of a stuggle. He's flickering, and his voice keeps glitching. "This can't be your response to everything, kiddo. You're killing me here. Like, literally. Killing us both." ]

action;

[phaseshifter]

Oh, will you stop that?

[ Angel can't exactly lift him up, so she has to settle for folding her arms and looking kinda peeved.

It's not the most effective tactic. ]

That's not going to help anybody!