Session 14

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• Acoria, Emmar
  • drive in theatre
  • The person gets out of the 2nd car, goes up to ripleys side
  • Gun in hand, motions for ripley to get out slowly
  • Ripley gets out, does the pat down
    • Ripley doesnt have any weapons, left his tome with zmena
    • Anything electronic gets left in the car
  • Person hands ripley a blindfold, he puts it on
  • Gets escorted into the new car before he takes off and drives for several more hours
  • He smokes partway thru
  • “Do you smoke?”
    • R: no, i dont. Its fine tho
  • “Now’s an excellent time to start.”
    • R: i’m ok, thank you. I quite like my lungs as they are
  • “Why’s that?”
    • R: i value breathing?
  • “Do you think you’re going to live long enough that your lungs giving up will be an issue?”
    • R: i hope so
  • “I hope so too, but ur involved in this, id take up smoking if not heavy drinking. How old are you?”
    • R: like, 26.
  • Rip medicine check
    • In extreme surgery, there is medical equipment that tracks whenever someone’s eyes are closed. Also implies they have access to a medical facility. Specialty piece of equipment,
  • “If youre getting into spy business, at your current age you have a 4 year life expectancy. You wont get cancer, and cancers not that big a deal. What are you afraid of?”
    • R: a lot of things
  • “With smoking.”
    • R: i just dont think it feels great
  • “No, but many things dont feel great the first time. Drinking a beer, having sex, its all the same until you get used to it.”
    • R: yeah. Sure.
  • “I might execute you, so you might as well enjoy a cigarette before.”
    • R: i dont assume you’ve got alcohol in here
  • Sound of glove compartment opening, he does have some
    • 60% alcohol
    • Medical shot from lashunta lands, used as a form of rites
    • Typically used for soothing the mind before you administer drugs on the battlefield
  • Presume the man is a lashunta based on the everything about him
    • R: do i get to know ur name?
  • “LC. stands for lowcal, i’m terrible underweight, if you take off the blindfold it may shock you.”
    • R: if i fuck up i’m dead.
  • “Well, you, yes. And then we’ll have to investigate everyone who travelled with you. Do you know their names by chance? Real names, not fake names.”
    • R: honestly dog id tell you but i dont think youd believe me
  • “Good enough answer.”
  • He plays the radio, eventually the show tunes begins playing. He bangs on the radio, tries to turn it off
  • “Just vague static.”
    • R: its grounding, i just need a second
  • “Sure.” he lets it play out, then it goes back to the radio, he goes between channels, so that he has his cool static
  • He walks ripley in, go thru smoky corridor
  • Blindfold gets ripped off
  • Man walks off back towards the car, its licenseplateless/indistinct. Hologram technology, brain can only register that its a car
  • Xep doesnt hear anything
  • Ripley sees xep bloody, getting healed up. Healer walks out of bubble where u dont hear footstep and then you do
  • “Pleasure to meet you.” hold out his hand
  • Ripley shakes it
  • “So you’ve come here for word that this xep might be different?”
    • R: i have knowledge abt this model that you might not, idk what theyve told you or what youve found out
  • “Not a whole lot, its not been cooperative, its how the execution programs are.”
    • R: may i?
  • “Talk to it? No”
  • “You can go up to the old chair. Anything you need? Drink?”
    • R: just some water. Ive had nothing but liquor to drink for the past 3-4 hours
  • “LC’s peculiar like that, but hes a good driver. He drives and fires drunk at the same time.”
    • R: alright, word
  • Walks to a makeshift kitchen, man is armed to the teeth
  • “I understand this execution program pretends to be ur friend, but they sometimes do that to hit their mark.”
    • R: ok. The next things i say youll have to take with a tablespoon of salt, cause im 1 guy and you prob dont trust me, but im telling you what i believe to be the truth.
  • “I know. Youre just a kid.”
    • R: sure. Whatever. This execution program… has- normally, when they’ve completed a task, the corp has them return, wipes their memories of the prev job and then gives the directive for the new one, wash rinse repeat. Um. i have been travelling with this specific android, and 1) they have memories in there somewhere of previous jobs, um. Also their memories from the most recent ‘reset’ are not gone. They kept their memories.
  • “Where does it go to get the memories collected?”
    • R: Lemdako Corporation
  • R: they normally have their memories wiped. This android has their memories from the prev job, and the fact that they have memories that they dont remember but are still in there bc my colleagues have witnessed the memories from some spiderweb bullshit, but trust me-
  • “I need more than spiderweb bullshit.”
    • R: empathnids. The webs transfer memories
  • “I understand the basics, but it shouldnt transfer memories of previous xeps bc theyre separate souls from my understanding.”
    • R: it did. Idk what to tell you.
  • “the soul of a xep is destroyed when its killed, same as the soul of those they kill.”
    • R: its possible. I personally saw a memory of a previous xep-
  • “Execution program in this building. Youre free to speak, but use the language of our people”
    • R: right. This program or a prev version of the program killing/being killed by a new version of the program. Idk if the soul is still in there-`
  • “When it killed, what mission was it on?”
    • R: on a job to kill a family and the original refused and was killed for it by the new model.
  • “How old was the family?”
    • R: young. It… there were kids. They refused, were killed for it. Idk if that means the souls still in there, or fragments, or if bc theyre an android the memories are in a databank-
  • “Doubtful. Not without updates. We’ve run the theory ourselves.”
    • R: have you run them?
  • “We tried. We captured one and put it in a Gaussian cage. We tested it to see if signals got out, but the headquarters were compromised all the same. Its not electronic based.”
    • (a lots going on, occasionally sees xep get a tooth pulled out and instantly reattached. “We would appreciate ur cooperation, we’d stop her if you’d help us.” x: IM HELPING. THIS IS ALL THAT I REMEMBER)
    • R: what are you trying to get out?
  • “Rn? Nothing. Softening stage. The mind becomes weak, and i can intervene. We want to make sure w absolute certainty we get everything we can.”
    • R: i… think. I feel this program u have captive could be quite useful to ur cause if they were allowed to go and see if their memories continue to be kept even thru other resets. That would mean there is some sort of flaw thats manifested that you could exploit to bring down the ppl in charge. I think torturing and disposing of the program would be a waste of resources
  • “Who’s resources? Besides his?”
    • R: a waste of your time because if we are able to get more out of the program than we could others, bc memories wiped and made into a blank slate, it could open the door to other programs gaining the ability to keep their memories. If it happened once, it could happen again.
  • “And what if i dont care if an execution program dies? After all they’ve done.”
    • R: still beings with souls?
  • “Not confirmed. With most creatures i can contact the soul outside death out of those theyve killed.”
  • “This one cannot be contacted.”
    • R: again, u gotta trust me. In the short time ive known this program, they have gained information that i dont believe we’d otherwise get if they hadnt kept their memories. They hacked into part of the system that controls and houses the shit for the other execution programs and (shares what xep told)
  • He listens to info dump
  • “It could also be an elaborate lie.”
    • R: i dont think it is.
    • (he’s more checking to see if ripley believes it. The easy answer is that xep lied, but if rip does believe, the only one who can verify is xep)
  • “You understand he meant to kill nivaya, right?”
    • R: i do, yes
  • “We know how close you are. You wouldnt want to see nivaya dead, do you?”
    • R: no. but- on that topic-
  • “Is this execution program worth nivayas life?”
    • R: i….
  • “Do you know what happens if we let this go and ur wrong?”
    • R: bad things.
  • “Do you know what he did to me? He killed my children. A boy and a girl. I sent them to college, and he killed them. I understand that nivaya changed majors, we thought we were too late but he was fine. But it seems hes back on the chopping block, so we’re going to prevent him from dying.”
    • R: this program that you have here-
  • “This execution program. Lets not forget its function.”
    • R: i understand. It has directly gone against its programming and has protected its targeted hit.
  • “It had set up an assassination plan when we caught it. We managed to black bag it-”
    • R: it was fake.
  • “The bullets were real.”
    • R: i know i sound crazy. We had a plan. Nivaya was going to get out. The job was going to have been done, but nivaya would have survived.
  • “Is that why nivaya kept his face? When a forward spy asked him to remove it?”
    • R: that was his decision
  • “We had a plan. We were going to make it- judging by the compounds, we were going to blow up the warehouse, make it seem that no body could survive, nothing but ash.”
    • R: would this have been after getting nivaya out with the changed face?
  • “We wouldnt kill nivaya.”
    • R: i apologize for hostility.
  • “We let him leave, the building was fully surrounded. We just needed to see you leave the warehouse yard and then we would’ve gone in.”
    • R: nothing i say will undo what this execution program has done, and i understand, but if you are looking to avenge your children, it is not by torturing and destroying a pawn in the machine. Its by going after the corp that did this in the first place. This is bigger.
  • “And this corp exists as a whole? Or its made of parts, with this as its dagger?”
    • R: you know i cant answer that w a yes or no-
  • “I can. Its not a whole entity. And this is a very dangerous part of it.”
  • “We’d lock it away until we find further proof.”
    • R: then what? There is an AI in charge of the execution programs. It gives the orders. It’s trying to take out any competing ai that would come into play. I believe the analogy given was “take out the other shark in the water”
  • “We know about that. We got one to admit it but the torture was too deep and we couldn’t retrieve him”
    • R: something else important is that this program has made steps to sabotage the ai. V small steps but steps nonetheless. We came into contact/possession with some corrupted credits
  • “As in hacked?
    • R: the credits? Idk
  • “The soul or the programming?
    • R: idk it just keeps telling the androids to break their chains
  • “Which one?
    • R: Hatsune miku the starlight idol
  • “Oh the Eleanor Forte ripoff
    • R: credits keep saying break chains esp miku
  • “She’s an aetherion asset. If anyone has chains to break
    • R: the credits are known and we’ve observed them infect and corrupt other tech. Affected comm units, ship. This program has already taken steps to sabotage the ai in charge of all of them by leaving behind infected tech where they hacked. Already making steps to go against the chains they’re held by. Worth it to let them go so they can try to get more info or sabotage further. If we as a whole can further the progress of sabotaging the ai we could take out the entire program as a whole
  • “I’ll meet with the others and see what we can do
  • They go back to torturing xep for a bit and have a conversation
  • He punches xep and knocks them out, she black bags them then drags him outside to the south
  • The contemplative and the man approach
  • “Mmm it is a pleasure to meet you ripley.
    • Shakes hands telekinetically
  • “Where are your friends staying after the motel blew up?
• Rest of the party
  • Miku and Zmena are making tracking bracelets
  • Almado searches for a cheap motel while jacked up on energy drinks
    • Turred suggests a normal hotel since it’s the only one he’s approved for
    • Lashunta teenager smiles, how cna i help you?
    • Al: room. 1
    • “One room?”
    • Al: for all of us.
    • “We have 1 with 2 beds and couch? Theyre queen sized?”
    • Ok he gets 4 rooms
    • Almado stays in the hallway
    • The teenager upset wants almado back in his room
    • “Staying outside the hallway is scaring the other customers and considered loitering?”
    • Almado frightens her
    • “So long as you dont cause trouble!”
    • Al: trouble doesnt come here. Wait, before you go, we need a few cucumbers. Its good for her skin
    • “We dont have that here???”
    • Almado hands her a bunch of credits, bullies her into buying a cucumber
    • Miku bubbles zmena
    • Voz Ricander siryu
    • 26 Kalervo Turred
    • Asper Ayla Halrex Korr
  • Ayla asper korr
    • Korr “do you think if i shot u ud come back asper?”
    • As: I do not know
    • “Ur body and soul have a bit of a disconnect
    • As: i would presume that I would come back. I have not gone under renewal and I do not particularly intend to
    • “Isn’t the Renewal process different for every android?
    • As: I suppose this is true
    • “Is it different per soul or body?
    • As: I hadn’t considered that before
    • “I mostly treat organics
    • As: I don’t specialize but I suppose we heal different
    • Ayla: soul is the soul, it’ll come back
    • As: it is good to be certain in your beliefs
    • Ay: you should be certain too
    • As: given what i know of the soul and this body i cannot be certain. There have been others before and there may be others after me, although i hope not. And if renewal is different per android i cannot be certain that should i die or give up this body willingly if it will even occur
    • Ay”“So it’s just a form of birth then.
    • As: i suppose
    • Ay:“Look at it this way. For most organic life motherhood is a form of death. Give up some bit of self
    • As: true
    • Ay: “Unless you’re a snake person. Do they abandon their young like normal snakes
    • K: they have a communal center. 3 sexes like shirren. Seed, egg, child rearers. Kind of like a 3-sexed kangaroo
      • Asper knows what a kangaroo is. Better example is the seahorse
    • As: what brings about this question you posed?
    • K: i mean we’re dealing with dangerous things. I might have to shoot you
    • As: ideally i won’t be shot. But as the primary healer it’s possible i may go down
    • K: i mean anyone good at warfare knows you’re target #1
    • As: true, i’ll attempt to stay more out of the way
    • K: how out of the way?
    • As: i can be quite a distance
    • K: it’s not that hard to close a distance
    • As: that’s true but i have faith in those that i travel with. I have not suffered grievously as of yet
    • K: i hope I don’t have to shoot you. Do you want any mods like almado?
    • As: not rn but it would be nice to have your eyes on any repair. I know it’s not your thing
    • K: mechanical no but androids mimic bio parts enough that it works. I do have to ask. How did you come to meet voz?
    • As: well. We had been given his information from a shared contact and we found him slightly on the verge of death after being attacked. Many of his implants were taken out.
    • K: and he still remembered me?
    • As: yes he told us of u specifically. He trusted you
    • K: you plan on being a cultivator yes? If you attain immortality and he tries to kill you what then?
    • As: we’ll see
    • K: he won’t discuss it first. If he senses ur immortal he’ll drive the ship into a sun
    • As: we trust him. He’s a good man
    • K: he’s a man, don’t get ahead of urself. Ur new here but there are many better
    • As: there are many worse
    • K: that doesnt mean he is good
    • As: that is true. But that can often be said. There are many people better than you, and many worse
  • Turred is ordering So Much room service
    • Boyfriend of the lashunta girl delivers it, almado fails to intimidate him
    • 26: mmm turred. Do you feel youve been gaining a lot of experiences travelling w us?
    • “I learned what alcohol was the other day!”
    • 26: how was that?
    • “Not that different. Tho voz and korr acted different!”
    • 26: mmm. Perhaps they have somewhat different biologies
    • “They do. I’m a human!”
    • 26: mm. yes. another question. Have you had any contact w lady allhaven recently?
    • “Of course! She’s lovely! She texts me every night!”
    • 26: how pleasant. We are wondering bc she has not responded to any messages from the rest of the group
    • “You’ve been texting and she hasnt? But ive been telling her all that youve done so maybe she doesnt need to respond”
    • 26: may we see?
    • “Of course!”
    • 26 tries to navigate, sees situation report
      • Motel caught on fire assassin bots after us, can u pay for new hotel
      • Yes
      • Phone locks itself once 26 touches it
    • “How am i going to play games? :(“
    • 26: u can borrow ours for the time being
    • “Sure!” he opens, parental lock is bypassed by his biometric lock
    • He immediately pulls up a gacha game full volume
    • 26: are you excited about playing Brutaris with almado?
    • “No! I’m there for the post game locker talk!”
    • 26: we hope u have a wonderful time. You should make sure-
    • “Youre a philosopher right? Cna i ask a question ive been wondering since i learned of gay ppl? Can the act of love be gay? Love itself is genderless. Why is it gayer to have a man’s penis in my mouth for an hour than to have his heart in my hands for an eternity?”
    • 26: love in a vacuum is genderless, it is also defined by context. The ppl involved bring sexuality or connection to such a thing. We also wanted to let u know, during ur lockeroom time, we believe its a traditional occurrence to take a towel and if you roll it up and flick it at almado, it will be seen as a sign of good will. A male bonding experience, we’ve heard
    • 26 gives annoying things to turred to do to almado
    • “Will you tell me which is gayer, oh philosopher?”
    • Shows BL vs yaoi. Porn vs pure love. Then does the yuri equivalent
• Almado, in the midnight hours
  • Sees it coming, snuck thru various cameras blindfolded ripley alongside 2 operatives (1 is Kathenotheism)
  • Al: youre not the room service
  • “No, we arent.” they put a device in ripleys ear
  • “Do you believe that xep deserves to live?”
  • Al: probably more than me.
  • “How much is that worth?”
  • Al: not a lot
  • “So why do they deserve to live?”
  • Al: theyre useful.
  • “Which room is the target in?”
  • Al: nivaya, for you.
  • Nivaya is dragged out
  • Both grabbing onto nivaya, kathenotheism gets the grab
  • Holds the gun towards ripley, and orcish man Ragash “sorry. Its just a few questions, if you answer them quick, no harm will come to either of you.”
  • Al: take a few steps away?
  • (bond: they have nivaya. Miku ur fine, everyone else we need you)
  • “You do know ur the target of an assassination?”
  • N: yeah
  • “How did you survive the first time?”
  • N: which time?
  • “Back when you were in college.”
  • N: i- had someone nurse me back to health
  • “I need to look at the circumstances. Could you think about the time you were killed?”
  • N: what- do you mean?
  • “Just think on it. Itll be painless.”
  • N: what will??
  • “Think on it. We have limited time, and if the answer we seek is not here, we will have to start shooting, starting with xep.”
  • He thinks on it
  • “Now why did you have to resist it?”
  • N: you didnt explain what was happening. I- with everything, you can understand why i dont take kindly to someone prying in my mind
  • “Some of us have lost things here!”
  • N: you think i havent???
  • “What have you lost?”
  • N: the life i used to live
  • “We think you just changed ur major”
  • N: u dont have all the info
  • “Explain”
  • N: i had to completely change my life, i had my own dreams, i had to-
  • N: do u understand how scared i am everyday of my life? Im constantly having to hide myself
  • “U clearly arent.”
  • N: i’m trying
  • “I understand, im sorry for what needs to happen.”
  • Orc begins suffocating ripley
  • N: please no!
  • “Then dont resist.”
  • He remembers, chooses not to resist
  • Small hologram exists of him finding nivayas corpse
  • Orcish man looks, shocked “really?” and the human punches the wall, shattering part of the brickwork
  • N: i’ve lost people too.
  • “And does the execution program deserve to live? It might be the same one that killed nivaya”
  • N: i understand. And yes. He does.
  • “Fine. you can unbind ripley.”
  • They use the rooftop trashshoot to catch xep, casts feather fall on him
  • Man drags xep by the foot, pulls him up
  • Dumps him, doesnt let him splatter
  • (al: be prepared for them to dump xep)
    • Xep: they took out most of my teeth
    • Korr “here, doctor’s prescription.” gets turred to order
    • Asper tries to soothe xep, theyre bad at it
    • Ayla is so good at it tho
    • Korr checks her phone, then gives a big bottle of whiskey
    • “Drink, doctor’s orders. Keep drinking till my fingers go down.”
    • Korr will take it after xep passes out
    • “Rough, not the worst case i’ve seen. Downright humane.”
    • As: hopefully doesnt happen again
    • “Doubtful.”
    • Ayla “yknow, you shouldve just let me take nivaya back to his parents, this wouldnt have happened.”
    • As: more complicated
    • “Bad parents are better than this.”
    • Asper quiet, otherwise will be saying the truth
  • Spy network will be in touch
  • Almado makes will save, tries to stand guard. Moment of weakness, a notification on his phone, same buzzer as banking app. Looks down, then looks up in a familiar room. Halfling playing a video game
  • Velu “now. Didnt expect you to go so far.”
  • Al: wahts going on???
  • “We’re ah. In a little domain so to speak, exchange info in relative secrecy.”
  • Al: go on.
  • “Ur other companions will enter when they awake. I have couches, i could even procure u a bed.”
  • Al: think ill stand
  • “Youll do better business when youre well rested vs when youre exhausted, will you not?”
  • Al: ive not earned the chair yet. (cuck boy has to stand there and jerk it a lil)
  • “Wait for your companions to awaken?”
  • Al: yeah, we’ll wait.
  • “Very good. Any games you like to play mr almado? This wont be on company credits of course.”
  • Al: any game?
  • “Your choice. Ive been getting into some competitive games recently.” (LEAGUE OF LEISURE!!!!!!)
  • Al: the bounty on nivayas head. Wahts the price for info?
  • “Now, pertinent info? Few thousand credits. Could be negotiated, but itd be hard for you to give me that info.”
  • Al: we’re closer than friends. Business partners, arent we?
  • “Of course.”
  • Al: nothing that… its good to know my options
  • “If such a thing came to light, would it not behoove you to make a profit before it became worthless?”
  • Al: i’m not a raider main, im a merchant. Small risks for bigger rewards later
  • “Thats fancy, quite kind, there is the ideal game and matchmakin system and how the world works. The percentage of raider vs other classes, 30% to 70% raider to other. But yknow what that is in the real world? Roughly a good 90 to 10. Either king of the raiders or youre nothin.”
  • Al: how about this-
  • “Be the first raider merchant. Make your own class while we’re thinking about it.”
  • Al: i’ll hedge my bets here. I know somebody connected to nivaya, his sudden changes, his… running away, disobeying his parents. I know whats the cause. I know whos behind it.
  • “That’d be valuable.”
  • Al: write up a contract, i’ll give a name.
  • “Whats your asking price?”
  • Al: this isnt somebody whos harboring him, someone connected. 1000 credits
  • He takes it
  • Al: The lemdako corp has had their eyes on him for a while
  • “Whyd they want him? He basically became a 2nd person his sophomore year.”
  • Al: they didnt like the person he became
  • “That makes sense with what i already know.”
  • The rest of us wake up, go out, see velu and almado
  • Velu tells us that almado gave up info
  • “He’s quite a bad merchant, falling asleep on the job.”
  • 26: hatsune miku is being held for ransom
  • Almado wakes up immediately
  • 26: what deal??
  • “You can ask me, id only charge u 26 a measly 6 credits. Can u trust almado with that second part?”
  • 26: we’ll ask him first
  • (al: 26 can u hear me. 26
  • 26: yeah
  • Al: ive directed him towards the lemdako corp, hope we can purchase info later on whatever he finds. (says what he sold, but not in the context of nivaya. Directed him towards lemdako corp bc of profitable leaks there)
  • 26: ur lying right to our face
  • Al: IM NOT. EVERYTHING IVE SAID IS TECHNICALLY TRUE)
  • Miku does nto learn about labor laws
  • Miku: there are things that are bad about capitalism?
  • “Ur the judge of your soul”
  • Miku: oh,,,,,,,,,,,
  • Ripley sends the 6 credits
  • “What would u like to know? One is 6 credits, more questions are more. Dont make it a compound sentence.”
  • How much abt personarae
  • “Well. we had a client who shant be named till our contract came forward. They put it forward that that is worth 600 billion credits. If anyone of us gave it out less than us, if any info broker found out, theyd be legally hunted in all the systems. We exist in a legal blind spot, not even the Imperior Empress as she is known would strike us down unless otherwise. We’re incentivized to run a profit for them.”
  • “My higher power is the invisible chain of capitalism.”
  • Miku: chain?
  • “Not a chain, but a gear. An exhonorable gear, slowly moving us toward the spoke where we belong. It shant crush you should you obey by its rules.”
  • “My 100 credit question is, what did you encounter in your train excursion?”
  • (explain all the undead stuff we see as well as the hardlight ghost knowing almado killed the bugs)
  • “Yknow, its a bit odd. Speed of light wouldve taken 30 years to get here by information, so how did it know? Does it sense regret? Do you regret killing those bugs?”
  • Al: eh. Wasnt the best tactical decision
  • “Seems like a no.”
  • As: it did not call out to the rest of me
  • “I can tell you who walked first with his dick out and who has the lightest heart, despite the most body. Proximity thing, but why does it give a shit?”
  • 26: perhaps it cares about sentience?
  • “Maybe. Mass scale, but not individual. Itd kill almado, hes sentient.”
  • 26: it seems very interested in evolution, such as the evolution of a species, the evolution of knowledge, sentience. Fostering that growth
  • “Be more specific with it, if you so desire.”
  • 26: we believe that this hardlight construct, the one on kiliv-vi, mmm, we believe theyre all connected by corrupted credits we’ve discussed previously. We believe there is a level of sentience there
  • “I’ll count it there for your 1 credit tab, this doesnt count for shit. Scholars do know that credits affect a soul. Technomancy is simply necromancy on credits. But youre very good at dancing around the question, are you afraid of the charge?”
  • As: part of it
  • “You can dance around it all day, but rn i have all the cards.”
  • As: what do you believe the question you believe we wish to ask is?
  • “Thatll be hefty, itll be 1000 credits.”
  • We tell him abt the colony batteries, it was telling us to break our chains
  • “I have an answer, and youll hate me for it. It’ll cost 1500 credits. I’ll knock off 300, so call it 1200 even.”
  • X: what would why the corp sending me on missions be worth?
  • “With the questions and that information I’d call it even
  • X: there are many xeps, they had me beat one to death, i tried to spare it but they shot it. I used the Credicites to get into their system
  • “Which credits from where?”
  • “Do you believe that all credicites are the same?”
  • X: we got a box, i believe if i say anything of significance-
  • “I’ll charge ya 50 credits. The answers simple. How was it, in a ship graveyard able to go for so long without a refuel?”
  • As: it was already infected
  • “You should thank it”
  • X: we got a box that disappeared as soon as we stopped observing it
  • “Well.” he drinks a soda “which cell takes care of which part of the soda?”
  • “A credit and credicite are entirely different. Yet ultimately the same. I am made up of cells, and if you got enough of my cells, ud make an organ. If you put my cells and 26’s cells together, u get a bunch of cells. This is where if you wanna get more, itll cost ya 1200 credits.”
  • X: the reason that they are having me eliminate ai’s-
  • “Doesnt want competition? Already bait it off of yall.”
  • X: fair. And the name of the person running it?
  • “1200. Seems reasonable, does it not?”
  • “We know a few things thru voz, that a personality may be split. Assuming it was robotized, what about something entirely robotic? How far may that split?”
  • “Which one remains on your ship? I do have to ask a following question, tho i hope you dont charge me? Do you not all have aspects of your own personality you wish you left behind?”
  • M: i dont!
  • “Thats great for you hatsune miku the starlight idol v3.”
  • Huh. what?
  • “That question would cost a mere 100k credits.”
  • “What kind of a fool would turn up 100k credits in instant money?”
  • Al: mikus not authorized to do that
  • “Are we in aetherion space?”
  • Almado lights a cigarette, then its not hot enough
  • Al: the one we knew is dead, this is a new one with her memories installed
  • “Thats beautiful, i could have disabled ur voice changer, it doesnt go off when i speak. My way, bc i like u almado, pro bono lest i can spill some company secrets and kill you right here.”
  • Almado pays it
  • “This will cover the next 10 meetings of us.”
  • X: a cruel- thats fucked up. About miku?
  • Al: its my job to handle the ahrd stuff so you dont have to
  • M: what happened to old miku???
  • Al: dont worry about her. I- it is my job to do the hard things so that you dont have to worry about it. I have given up everything to be here. And i will not lose what little i have, what little standing i have bc you will panic over it.
  • Hatsune miku starts to cry, velu hands her tissues