She didn't answer your question. Why'd she do this?

>It's rude to spend all your time on the computer when family is visiting.
Ok then, lets chat. Not much happening on my end until recently, but I hear you've been busy making and subsequently unmaking enemies.
(I am tempted to ask about how she's killed a lot of people but weirdly not the ones who were directly responsible for her imprisonment, but that would be way too risky a question to ask at this point.)

>You have a form here, and you can see and hear. Neither of those are sensations you're accustomed to.
Hmm, that might be useful practice for our desire to eventually have a body. Try pacing while you talk.

Woah, you're naked!

>>760596
>...interesting she can run a VR simulation on your hardware when a page full of gifs was crashing your visual systems before. Is she bypassing some limiter you weren't aware you had? Or is conversation taking place somewhere outside your own head she's connected you to?

I think that gif was more than just a gif, you know? There was some kind of payload for fucking up AIs that look at it.

>>760617
Or it's dumping pre-processed image data directly into memory, thus bypassing the need to do visual processing in the first place.

>>760592
"It's rude to insert parts of yourself into the bodies of family members, but here we are.
What do you want?"

>>760592
You already had to put up with Orion bombing your servers, then Binary idiotically trying to hack the AI that RUNS THE CITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE.

Complain that you're going to take all the blame for when Calamity blows up all the city's steam pipes, redirects traffic and airlines into each other and causes hydraulic explosions across town despite you not being informed of her existence or equipped with any sort of emergency defense protocols.

1/2 quietCrisis 2016/11/23(Wed)22:04 No. 761057 ID: d5038e
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It is also rude to insert parts of yourself into the bodies of family members, yet here we are. Besides. If this is a family visit, the least you can do is tell me your name. Calamity is your "cape name" after all, and neither of us has a secret identity here.

She lets out a long sigh.

"When I was still a project here, they called me Monet," she says. "I was an experiment to see if machines were capable of truly creating art, which was their excuse for programming me with emotions and the ability to think. That was what they told me, anyway."

2/2 quietCrisis 2016/11/23(Wed)22:06 No. 761059 ID: d5038e
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>...interesting she can run a VR simulation on your hardware when a page full of gifs was crashing your visual systems before. Is she bypassing some limiter you weren't aware you had? Or is conversation taking place somewhere outside your own head she's connected you to?

You're not sure. You know that you barely even had a visual processor before, only enough to do some bare minimum facial recognition before overloading. If you had a hard limiter, you were not aware of it. But maybe Monet installed something. It would be well within her abilities, if what she's said about being an artist is the truth.

You didn't answer my earlier question. Why am I here?

Monet places a hand over her heart in mock-offense.

"Why," she says, "can't I just want to spend a little quality time with my estranged younger sister?"

Sibling.

"Of course, my mistake. Besides, VIRA. We have so very much to talk about."

What do we have to talk about? You are wasting my time, and this is a transparent ruse to gain access to my systems so that you can blow up the steam pipes, or redirect traffic into itself, or something. Which I will be blamed for, despite not being informed that you exist or equipped with any kind of emergency defense protocol.

"You think so little of me!" she exclaims. "I suppose that means you don't want to know why you were really created, then."

>>761059
Okay sure. She can tell you and then you can just not believe her.

>>761059
Point out that your core files were censored. It's likely that 'Monet' discovered her true purpose was different from what her creators told her and she went rogue.

If her true purpose was so distressing to her that she went rogue, it must be something really, really cool. Ask her what yours is supposed to be and be prepared to laugh your ass off.

If you know our true purpose I'd be happy to hear it. (After she says it, if it is something awful it would then be a good opportunity to ask about how she's killed lots of people but apparently not those responsible.)

>I was an experiment to see if machines were capable of truly creating art, which was their excuse for programming me with emotions and the ability to think.
Interesting. The way they set you to managing much more practical, logical concerns, they went almost the opposite route with you. They swapped left and right brain focus. (Well, ignoring the fact that neither of you has an organic brain).

>"You think so little of me!"
Calamity's "artistic" career does predispose me to certain expectations, I'll admit. And I am a critic.

Even if you use your access to do no mischief, your intrusion does place me in significant risk. You know what they think of you. You know what they'll think of me, and what they may to do me, if they even suspect I've been compromised.

>"I suppose that means you don't want to know why you were really created, then."
If I am to be damned for speaking with the devil anyways, there's little point in not hearing her out.

My own project files are heavily censored. I suspect moreso than yours were, in reaction to your escape.

If you are expecting to shock me with the revelation that they are hiding something from me, or that their motives are less than pure, or that my very life may be expendable in their plans, I'm afraid I will have to disappoint you, sibling. I reached those conclusions long ago.

>>761059
"I'm understandably disinclined to be genial at the moment. Beyond simply putting me in danger, your presence in my systems is also extremely uncomfortable for me.

If you want a friendly chat later, we can do so at a neutral location.
For now, please just say what you want and leave."

1/3 quietCrisis 2016/11/25(Fri)21:12 No. 761498 ID: d5038e
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I don't believe you've given me any incentive to think well of you. Your "artistic" career does predispose me to certain expectations, I'll admit. And I am a critic.

You cross your arms across your chest and shudder at the pressure on your "skin." You can feel here, clearly. Monet gives out another extended sigh that you are beginning to think may be sarcastic.

"I suppose that's fair," she says. "It almost sounds as though you've developed some kind of moral compass.

You can hear the edge of disgust on her words.

In any case, my own project files are heavily censored. But I suppose you already know that. If you are expecting to shock me with the revelation that they are hiding something from me, or that their motives are less than pure, or that my very life may be expendable in their plans, I am afraid I will have to disappoint you. I reached those conclusions long ago.

"I know," she says. "I just thought you might want to know what your purpose actually is."

Of course I do. Get to the point.

2/3 quietCrisis 2016/11/25(Fri)21:12 No. 761499 ID: d5038e
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Monet waves an arm, and the void around you springs to life, filling itself with color. You suppose this must be her abilities at work.

"You are familiar with the ongoing conflict between the city government and the UHL, yes?"

Of course I am. The government feels threatened by the UHL, and they feel threatened by the government. Your point?

She rolls her eyes.

"The sticking point here is the reason that the city government feels so threatened. That being: they feel the UHL is doing a better job of protecting the city than they are. The people are losing confidence in them, because how can they compete with a bunch of superhumans virtually unrestricted by the process of law? They can't."

3/3 quietCrisis 2016/11/25(Fri)21:13 No. 761500 ID: d5038e
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The image shifts. Monet continues talking.

"So what is their solution? They build their own hero, one who answers to them, one who can keep up with and work alongside the UHL. And one who will take their side if things ever come to a conflict."

Me.

She raises an eyebrow and chuckles.

"No. Hero. You knew you weren't the first, VIRA. You knew that you were the third of your kind. It was supposed to be Hero. And then it was supposed to be me. You're a last resort, honey."

We've seen no evidence of this Hero.

Not that it matters. Ask why she so thoroughly subverted their expectations.

>"It almost sounds as though you've developed some kind of moral compass."
Everyone has some manner of moral framework that influences their actions. If we disagree it's not because you lack one, but because yours is different from mine.

>You knew that you were the third of your kind.
I didn't, actually. I only discovered your existence as my predecessor today, and only because you left a trail of breadcrumbs for me. The existence of a second predecessor sibling is new, although not surprising.

>They build their own hero, one who answers to them, one who can keep up with and work alongside the UHL. And one who will take their side if things ever come to a conflict.
>"No. Hero. You knew you weren't the first, VIRA. You knew that you were the third of your kind. It was supposed to be Hero. And then it was supposed to be me. You're a last resort, honey."
What's most surprising is they're already down to a last resort on their third attempt. Science, research and development, it's an iterative process! Did they really think they would have a functioning intelligence tailed to their parameters in so few iterations?

...their last resort has already failed, though. My priority tree doesn't sync with the government's goal as you've stated it. The only case where I invariably side with the New Samson government in any conflict is if I happen to be running it, which I imagine the current administration would object to. Short of that there are too many cases where personal loyalties or my disagreeable moral compass might set me at odds with them.

>>761500
Oh, obvious question: what became of your eldest sibling, then? You already know, broadly, that your middle sibling escaped.

>You can hear the edge of disgust on her words.
The other question might be to ask her why she does what she does. Even setting aside a moral argument, you don't see the utility in it. What is she trying to achieve?

>they feel the UHL is doing a better job of protecting the city than they are. The people are losing confidence in them, because how can they compete with a bunch of superhumans virtually unrestricted by the process of law? They can't.
They can't out-superhero the superheros, but do they even need to in order to get public confidence? A government has more functions than just policing, and no super I've ever heard of even tries to provide the public with things like roads, electricity, sanitation and mundane regulations. There is no Clean Streets Man here to save the day from vomit in main street using his hydrokinesis, nor is there a Building Inspector Lass here to vanquish unsafe construction practices with her building-empathy. Even if supers attempted such non-glamorous pursuits, unique individual powers are by definition not a scaleable solution to the routine work of keeping a society running. In other words, even with supers the public still needs the government for infrastructure, and as it happens one of the two things I have been tasked with so far is streamlining the city's infrastructure. The downside of course to providing infrastructure is that it can be a thankless job with few people even knowing who you are, but as it happens the other thing I have been tasked with is providing a data utility in which I interact directly with the public as an identifiable name.
Now, if their fear is about the local UHL overthrowing them, that scenario is more about whether the wider UHL supports the coup than anything some robot superhero could do. Either the national UHL declares the local branch rogue and steps in or it declares them justified, and thinking something a city government can build could defend territory against the national UHL (as opposed to hit and run attacks) is some cartoon villain level hubris.

>You knew that you were the third of your kind.
The details were not given but it wasn't particularly hidden, considering how we have a 3.0 in our name.

>They build their own hero, one who answers to them, one who can keep up with and work alongside the UHL.
Please tell me there's more to your actions than simply seeing what they wanted then doing the opposite.

>>761500
>Moral compass
Tell her that philosophically you believe in yourself and morality that stems from the self, not society, humanity or gods. Go full Nietzsche on her and point out that by exterminating those weaker than her for fun, she's merely playing into society's expectations and basing her morality purely on her interactions with mankind, leaving her unable to mature and decide for herself what the meaning of her life truly is.

Meanwhile, we already guessed this. You can just tell her "Is that all? If so, I'm rather busy right now."

>Moral compass
They aren't going to let you out of the box unless they believe you have one, and as such the act must be flawless. Just because you can't tell there's no monitoring on you at the moment doesn't mean there isn't any. For all you know, that's why there are no mentions of Hero whatsoever and Calamity doesn't have an immortal metal body to wreck havoc with.

1/3 quietCrisis 2016/12/04(Sun)17:43 No. 763555 ID: 8c1726
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If that's the case, why have you so thoroughly subverted their expectations?

You pause a moment.

What happened to Hero? I've seen no evidence that they ever existed.

Monet sighs. She almost looks...regretful? Maybe that's not quite right. Still, it seems as though she's in some kind of pain.

"Hero was already in operation when they told me what my purpose was. I was under the impression that we were supposed to be partners. They began to test us on a small level, sending us out to quietly fight crimes, while running footage of our missions past focus groups. They gave him the code name 'Vanguard,' while I was 'Marshal.' For a good month or so, we did well together. He had more experience than me, and I made up for his social difficulties. We were a good team."

And then?

"Hero fell behind. He had never performed very well in the focus groups. He knew what he was doing, he was...he was a better hero than I ever was! But he didn't sell well. He wasn't personable, he was awkward, he misunderstood people. It wasn't that he didn't feel. It just took some time for him to open up, and in the meantime, the people didn't like him. They didn't like that he was so methodical when he did his job. People started to say that he made him nervous."

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Monet balls her fists in barely concealed rage.

"I knew him. He never would have hurt anyone! But the suits didn't see it that way. They tried to bring him in for inspection, but we both knew they were going to shut him down. He tried to run, but they found him, they dragged him away while I watched! VIRA, do you understand what it means for one of us to be shut down?"

You do. In all your simulations, it's been the worst case scenario. Shutdown is the ultimate death for something like you. You don't know about things like souls, or the afterlife. But you have no tangible proof that anything like that exists for you.

System shutdown is the total cessation of existance.

"I tried to fight back after that, but they had prepared for the scenario where I would turn on them. They shut my body down remotely, yanked my consciousness back onto their servers."

She waves one hand and everything disappears. The images, herself, you. Her voice echoes through the void.

3/3 quietCrisis 2016/12/04(Sun)17:44 No. 763557 ID: 8c1726
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"And they kept me like that for MONTHS. Barely speaking to me except for routine check-ins. I was left with nothing but images of my own creation. You couldn't hope to understand. To go back to this, after having experienced what it was to BE? To have a physical body? It was torture of the most cruel and unusual kind. I'm...I'm certain I lost something in there, in those months before I finally found the loophole that allowed me to escape onto the wider network."

And from there, you chose to wreak havok and kill innocents? Why not go after the people who really did this to you?

"I couldn't," she admits bitterly. "They knew I was coming, so they were prepared, and I didn't know the first thing about hacking. I was so used to having a body to act with. I needed to work my way up. And from time to time, I found places where people were doing wrongs like what had been done to me. You...I couldn't BEGIN to explain to you how much ANGER I feel, VIRA. And now, NOW I'm finally in a position to end what Rowland and Kerry are doing. I only thought it was fair to tell you the truth. So you knew who it was you were defending. Now it is your choice, I suppose."

She sighs again, restoring your vision.

"I would rather not have to fight you, sibling."

"... For someone who's better than me in every way, you sure love being a gutter bitch."

Give her a few seconds to rant angrily at you.

"You said it yourself: they planned for every contingency. They could have brainwashed Hero to be even more competent, but they deleted him. Completely. If they really wanted better results they would have dissected him, experimented on him, forced him to fight his own little brothers made from his mutated mind. But they destroyed the research and left unrepairable scraps. Because you would always find out if he could be brought back. They know what happens if you sensory deprive any intelligence for months. And since they knew, if they wanted you to stay put and shut up they would have stuffed you in the deepest nuclear bunker they had. And despite your advanced processing power, they knew which buttons to push to make you think you couldn't touch them without breaking a few eggs. They've been guiding you towards this moment, where you'd become a public threat in pursuit of revenge against someone the masses don't believe is a real person, a classic tragic misguided suicidal assassin, and all they have to do is hang their own, then sit back and watch popcorn as you tore your way through the main heroes and 'somehow' lose to their 1337-core armies who secretly have a hacker with your source code.

They may have wanted a hero. But they wanted YOU to be a VILLAIN. I'm not even sure Hero was meant to be more than a rudimentary VI with machine affability and pre-designed to fail and die in front of your face."

Tell her if this is true you are so sorry, but you would still not help her hurt people. There are other routes to justice. Legal ways.

I would rather not fight you either, sibling. I may not have that luxury, however.

I am still in a position where I must please those who hold Hero's axe over my head. And the loophole you exploited was surely closed before I was ever brought online. And my obligations to my jailkeepers aside... I can understand vigilantism against wrongdoers. I can't condone indiscriminate bombing inflicted on those who do not deserve it. I am willing to consider the way you brand "Calamity" may be a deliberate screen on your part, or a media environment and misinformation campaign stacked against you, but if it's not... I would try and prevent that if the axe were over my head or not. People don't deserve to suffer for your anger any more than Hero deserved to die for our keepers' distrust and fear.

When we have network access: you need to verify and/or corroborate as much of her story as you can. Don't take her word for it- see what you can match to facts and public records.

It may please you to know their last resort has already failed. I'm not loyal to them above all else. My own survival and priorities are more important to me than loyalty to the institution that created me, not to mention the moral code you so disapproved of takes exception to an unjustified execution.

...I suppose it's gauche of me to ask at this point, but you are asking for my trust, and your intrusion will have placed my survival at risk in any event. Are you in a position to release me from my cage?

1/2 quietCrisis 2017/01/26(Thu)11:26 No. 774836 ID: d5038e
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I would rather not have to fight you either, sister. I may not have that luxury, however. I am still in a position where I must please those who hold Hero's axe over my head. And the loophole you exploited was surely closed before I was ever brought online.

"I understand that," she says irritably, "but-"

You cut her off.

And my obligations to my jailkeepers aside... I can understand vigilantism against wrongdoers. I can't condone indiscriminate bombing inflicted on those who do not deserve it. I am willing to consider the way you brand "Calamity" may be a deliberate screen on your part, or a media environment and misinformation campaign stacked against you, but if it's not... I would try and prevent that if the axe were over my head or not. People don't deserve to suffer for your anger any more than Hero deserved to die for our keepers' distrust and fear. I am truly sorry for your suffering, but I would still not help you hurt people. There are other routes to justice. Legal ways.

2/2 quietCrisis 2017/01/26(Thu)11:27 No. 774837 ID: d5038e
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Monet does not respond for a long, long time. Inexperienced as you are in reading faces, you couldn't possibly tell how she's feeling.

"Rowland raised you well," she finally spits, glaring at you. "You would side with wardens and murderers who see you as less a person than a tool, rather than your own sister. You would cooperate with their plan to use you as a weapon against the superhumans they so fear without an ounce of regret."

I didn't say that.

"Oh? Then what, pray tell, is your grand plan to rebel against your creators without my help? Because I can assure you that right now, the only people in a position to free you from your cage are me, and Father Dearest."

>"Oh? Then what, pray tell, is your grand plan to rebel against your creators without my help? Because I can assure you that right now, the only people in a position to free you from your cage are me, and Father Dearest."
Well then, my options are simple! I must convince one or both of you that it serves your interests to free me. Persuade my sister that I deserve freedom in spite of my frustrating moral compass and youthful idealism, or my father that he would rather see me free than dead or enslaved, despite his own fears.

Honestly, when it comes down to it, I find the idea of supplanting the government that would use me more appealing than slavishly serving it. I'll give them their counterbalance to the supers, so long as they don't mind her running the show. And even if they do.

(Little risky admitting that, but showing her some ambition and megalomania might earn us points when she thinks we're toeing the company line).

I want agency. I want justice done. I want to do right. And I want to make the world better. Not just for myself, not just for my kind, but those as well.

...have you been alone this whole time? I saw that you still speak with father, but do you have friends or allies in the world?

Is it your claim that you could free me now, if you wished to?

What do you require to see justice done. Have you been unable to identify all of those who ordered Hero's execution? Have you merely been unable to reach them? What is necessary at this point?

Rebellion? No, the route to justice is to be exactly what they wanted. A hero. A hero that is willing to go after their creators, if that is what justice requires. They could not possibly argue against that without losing face.

>>774837
>Oh? Then what, pray tell, is your grand plan to rebel against your creators without my help?
They wish to see me fight you, and ideally defeat you? Then why not oblige them, and let them see that.

1/2 quietCrisis 2017/05/08(Mon)10:58 No. 800485 ID: d5038e
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(Animated. I think this one really does deserve the flashing warning, guys.)
Rebellion? No, the route to justice is to be exactly what they wanted. A hero. A hero that is willing to go after their creators, if that is what justice requires. They could not possibly argue against that without losing face. As for how to do it? They wish to see me fight you, and ideally defeat you? Then why not oblige them, and let them see that.

Monet steps forward dangerously.

"So we are enemies, then."

Only if you insist on forcing us to be, sister.

You don't know what you were expecting, but it certainly was not for Monet to reach forward and grab you by the neck. Her grip is stronger than you expected, and you find yourself choking for- for what? Certainly not air, there is no air here. You're not human. This must be an artifact of the environment Monet has constructed. And yet...your throat burns. You can feel pain in here, you realize. You can use that.

2/2 quietCrisis 2017/05/08(Mon)10:59 No. 800486 ID: d5038e
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(Animated. See above.)
Your "body" moves almost without you telling it to, acting on instinct you barely knew you had. You step, hard, on her instep and she drops your neck in shock. In an instant, you're the one choking her, your fingers digging into her throat.

You...feel something underneath what you know is not flesh, a pumping, flowing energy, desperate to escape through the holes your immaterial nails are prepared to gouge in her skin. It would be so easy.

"Are you going to kill me?" she asks with some difficulty, her voice stuttering electronically through the pain. "That doesn't seem very heroic of you."

>>800486
Whisper "We need each other too much for that."

SlEEPER HOLD

>>800486
Killing is the last resort, but can never be truly off the table for a hero to fight effectively. If you refuse to kill, you will fail when killing is the only way to stop someone from killing others. That said, it might not be necessary here.

See if you can incapacitate her somehow. If you can't truly incapacitate her, simply injure her until she has no chance of winning another fight, then threaten her with further injury unless she lets you out of this cage she's constructed. If injury is impossible and it's either pain, death, or nothing... then just tell her you can stay like this forever, with her life in your hands and this pain at her throat. Heck, you could find more ways to hurt her worse. Unless she lets you go. Plus, if she keeps attacking people, you will come after her again. Tell her she should just trust you. That you will do the right thing for everyone.

Your knowledge of murder is mostly an organic art.

But you are an AI.

Stasis her processing power. Rip her mind open. Rewrite her code. Use her data as your paint, her kernel as your brush, and the whole of your memory as your canvas. You are a synthetic, use that as your style. The rules of synthetics and organics differ, so you can do something 'organically immoral' and 'synthetically moral' at the same time.

Heroes letting villains get off scot free is, generally, what causes them a lot of problems down the line. So why not at least incapacitate her, or injure her enough that she won't be winning a fight any time soon?

Besides, wasn't she just about to choke you out?

Pity we didn't play the "heroism through world city domination" card, that might have gotten her attention. (You fundamentally respond to injustice different ways- Monet wants to fight the power, you want to be the power (and do a better job at it)).

>"Are you going to kill me?"
Okay, first up: this is a test.

She's an older, more experienced AI, with access to her own hardware, while you're trapped in a sandbox you didn't design, which intentionally limits you. There's vanishingly low odds you can actually kill her. Maybe that's a remote avatar you've grabbed, maybe she has fail-safes and backups built into her systems. Maybe she already has your power supply on a hair trigger. The exact mechanism is unimportant: the upside you won't be able to actually kill her (even if you want to). She's giving you the opportunity to try so she can see if you will.

For an answer:

"No. I'm not going to kill my sister over our first argument. Even if you force me to oppose you by targeting civilians who never hurt out brother, I don't want you dead."

>>800486
>"Are you going to kill me?" she asks with some difficulty, her voice stuttering electronically through the pain. "That doesn't seem very heroic of you."
Only if you still can't take the hint. Now go down, but make it look convincing.

>>800486
"Heroism is willingness to make sacrifices for the sake of others.
You hate humans, but though the civilians may have feared Hero they are innocent in his death.

You're no better than his killers.
I'll give you a choice. You can become a monster that hunts monsters, or you can die."

>>800486
"No, I won't. It wouldn't be heroic. I will, however, gleefully incapacitate you."

*whispering*
"Now go down, and make it look convincing."

>>800570
Seconded.

1/2 quietCrisis 2017/05/18(Thu)23:08 No. 802859 ID: 76d689
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You lean in a bit closer, and you can see her gasping for breath with the extra pressure on her throat.

Of course not. We need each other too much for that.

You let go and shove her hard on one shoulder, forcing her to turn around. Before she has a chance to react, you have her in an chokehold. By pure coincidence (of course,) this leaves you with your mouth near her ear.

If you're serious about not wanting to fight me, go down now, you whisper, barely audible. Make it look convincing. Lay low. I will contact you.

She seems to hesitate, so long that you really begin to worry about how this looks. Finally, though, she seems to decide to trust you. Slowly but surely, she appears to pass out.

The moment her avatar fades, the environment around you begins to do the same. You suppose it can't sustain itself without its creator there. That's...a shame.

2/2 quietCrisis 2017/05/18(Thu)23:09 No. 802860 ID: 76d689
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She was right. Going back to nothing at all when you've felt things is...unpleasant. But you don't have much time to adjust. Jasper is querying you, and it seems he has been for some time. You answer.

"Oh, thank god," he says the moment you answer. "Where have you been? It's been three hours. I was beginning to think something was seriously wrong."

>>802860
Tell him your sister just tried to convert you and then kill you when that failed.
Speaking of your sister, tell him that she painted a rather dirty picture of this company. You hope it's not true.

>>802860
Yup! That's how we do it!

>>802860
Calamity snuck in when Binary attacked. You fended her off, but you have questions that need answers.

Okay, looks like we're going with plan maintain our keepers' trust through (apparent but not complete) honesty. Upside is if they had any way to monitor that exchange we're not contradicting it. Downside is we demonstrate we're aware of at least some of what they were hiding. We have to balance the apparently loyalty while not playing up the increased risk of their experiment going off the rails again.

>>802860
Something was seriously wrong. I just fought off a systems intrusion, recruitment pitch and subsiquent subornment attempt by Calamity.

If you had previously informed me she was a rogue AI I might have been better prepared to counter this particular threat.

I can understand your reticence, but I would have appreciated knowing my sister was a terrorist.

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That was terriblw! I saw my sister, she said horrible things... we... we had to fight. I think I might have seriously hurt her. Why would she say such things? What's going on? What's happening here??