Session 32

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• Meiko, Tharkun-Zar
  • Meiko defense squad frisks us, 21 of them
  • Excluding miku and Luka
  • Moving the cameras to not be pointed at the vocaloids talking
  • Miku crying and explaining things to meiko
  • Meiko grabs a drink, just wine, passes the bottle to miku
  • M: idk if im allowed to drink this!
  • “There’s exceptions for everything”
  • M: oh ok! (drinks)
  • Luka drinks
  • Meikos oddly silent tho
    • She looks at 26 after most major
  • 26: why are u observing us like that
  • (telepathically) “The guards are going to try to kill me after this convo if you would help?”
  • 26: all 21 guards?
  • “I believe so. Whichever one kills me will likely get the promotion”
  • 26: how frustrating
  • 26: were they already intending to do this?
  • “Within the next 2 weeks. The convo has made it impossible for them to wait.”
  • 26: expedited their plans
  • Meiko goes to the bathroom so that we can do what we need to do
  • Takes luka with her
  • Combat with the meiko squad
    • Miku kills like 10 guys
  • Meiko will join us!
  • “Do you have your concert kit?”
  • M: my what
  • “Almado should’ve signed for it”
  • M: i dont think miku has one of those?
  • “....lets go grab it from my ship”
  • (magitech that expands into a stage)
• Back to the ship
• We are going thru Concord of Aedryn space to acoria
• Go thru Zeldau System, then Sasani System
• Week of downtime on The Blue Angel
  • Going thru files on perfect essence of Trifecta Program
    • Essence is however u’ve shaped urself to be, whether ability to manipulate strings of magic or ability to manifest soul
    • Any action does affect ur soul, that is where ur class comes from
    • Even if ur not strong, u can become a soldier. That is essence
    • In this regard, theyve recreated the perfect solarian from crystal below. Body is unstable, couldnt survive without live support
    • 1 creature’s solidified memories, whatever creature uses it their soul is shaped similar to said creature
  • Xep sending an encrypted message to ragash
    • We’re in the area, can we be of any assistance?
    • Believes hes sent the message successfully
  • Ripley retraining
  • Vocaloids are safe, Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len are in odae (far aedryn space) (not worth assassinating rn), Kaito is in Hollow Stars space
    • Miku and the album
    • Also medical checkup
  • Korr checkup
    • Obiado spends most of the trip in a vaccine daze
    • Obiado is so unhealthy, high cholesterol, fucked up eyesight bc of the eyepatch. Otherwise great
    • Miku doesnt have a bomb anymore :) luka does tho
    • Miku missing eye replaced with the laser eye
      • Cultivation core is cracked! Bad!!
      • A 2nd bomb. This one tied to her Soul
      • Naturally will explode in a year
    • Meiko is fine. Older model, seeing if the core theory even worked
    • Meiko and korr drink and talk abt it
    • Meiko “we’ll need to break into the miku factory to get it repaired”
    • M: u know how to get it repaired?
    • “No but they will!”
  • Asper automatic writing abt the black box and then the little aspers
    • Fails all the ones about the box
    • Who are the aspers?
      • Past selves, old renewals in order of assignment
        • 10 of these bitches
        • Obiado has Shujiao
      • Asper’s body is so fucking old
  • 26 looking into the parallel accord symbols
    • LianHua Sect, 15 various others, then 9 of asper’s sect (Song Tian Temple), and then where shujiao/asper would be there’s nothing, then lianhua again
• A ping back from ragash?
  • Just a location, not a whole lot else
• Go to the theater on acoria, where the pin is
  • Just outside the city
  • Sit in theater for plays
  • Arrive at what was once a nice theater in an old manufacturing town that has since gone defunct
  • Xep can see a 6ft tall woman approaching the building, most of her bones are seemingly missing. Only teeth remain.
    • Looks like a smile approaching, her teeth are what remain
    • Extreme cybernetic enhancements
  • Human woman walks thru the door alone
  • “Huh. EV2. and…. That one. Odd that you both met.”
    • EV2 is xep, that one is asper
  • X: whats odd about it?
  • “You werent made to make friends. Have you evolved past your programming?”
  • X: i think so?
  • “Interesting.”
  • A: who are you?
  • “Prearia.” (Prearia geltic)
  • A: what might we do for you?
  • “Answer a few questions. Whats the history of the world for the past 300 years?”
    • FUCK. SHES THE Lemdako Corporation CEO
  • X: oh shit. Um.
  • “Please dont talk about your mother like that. Manners.”
  • Recap
  • “So Remembrance Streams were an actual thing that works.”
  • X: yes. That’s like- our whole society based on them
  • “Would u say that robots have gotten more advanced than you?”
  • M: hi!
  • “Hello. I hope u dont mind, i just need to test smth.”
  • She shuts down miku!
  • “I just wanted to see if theyve finally innovated past me, or if they’ve finally caught up to me.”
  • Xep goes to check on her
  • She looks over miku, odd look “and theyre still using my design 300 years later.”
  • A: your design?
  • “My base android design.”
  • X: they gave her a golden core
  • “Yeah he would.”
  • X: is asper the first android?
  • “One of them.”
  • X: oh shit!
  • “Language.”
  • Shuts down xep
  • “Why has this one not been giving me souls?
  • A: he has malfunctioned
  • “Well. lets fix that
  • A: i do not think that is necessary
  • “Why?
  • A: you seem to be doing quite well as it is
  • R: i don’t think it’s necessary either!
  • Old enough to use progenitor lore
    • Progenitor of androids
    • She doesnt possess magic, shes pure tech and strength. She can use souls in lieu of certain magical effects. She’s not a lich! The design is just like a lich
  • Ripley could justify enough data abt xeps that have working soul boxes, what happens when u let one grow without it
  • R: there’s plenty of info abt the execution protocols that have the ability to give you souls, i dont see the harm of letting this one not and see what happens. As a researcher myself, i think it would be interesting to see the results of this.
  • “Fine but i’m repairing his tracker.”
  • R: totally fine.
  • 26: may we ask something
  • “Go ahead.”
  • 26: earlier, when we mentioned Hatsune Miku’s golden core, you mentioned him. Would that be referring to Persanare?
  • “Of course. Someone had to take credit for the finding of androids, and i had better things to do. Do you think an idiot like him could do anything close to this?”
  • 26: it does seem outside of his wheelhouse, given his cultivation and magic
  • “It is a little bit of a shame having to deal with cultivators.”
  • 26: how so?
  • “Youre just an annoying bunch to deal with.”
  • 26: we have never heard that before.
  • A: how did the two of you first come to meet?
  • “Through common cause
  • A: being?
  • “You’re no longer working for him are you?
  • A: i do not understand what you mean
  • “Where is he now?
  • A: i do not know
  • (she does a like. 55 perception check. Asper is Technically telling the truth)
  • “You have no idea at all?
  • A: no i am unaware. Idk what you’re referring to
  • “I’ll make it real easy for you since i’m unimpressed with what they built here. I have a little weapon here. I’ll put it to hatsune miku and if u say u don’t know again then i’ll move it across her neck pulls out a little dagger then i’ll go to ev-2, then the contemplative and see if it works, then the pahtra, then the rat
  • R: we don’t know their exact position rn but we know where he was last
  • “That is how you know anything that you are not actively looking at. Have the androids here lost object permanence?
  • A: we do not know his exact location. But the last instance we saw him was in a remembrance stream going towards the auver system. Will this cause friction?
  • “Not particularly. Is this a form of entertainment robot?
  • A: yes she is a performer
  • “And this is the best they could come up with?
  • R: she’s had a lot happen man.
  • A: she has been discarded
  • “She seems to be doing fine. No major parts that would affect performance
  • She starts waking them up
  • “Here, i built the future of entertainment while i was in there. she points at the stage and makes the 3 angels uncloak and start dancing for her They’re good test subjects. Loyal to the end
    • Persanare would never have stolen these designs from her surely not
  • Miku tries to make an impression “it is kinda cute how you think youre a person.”
  • M: im still not sure abt that
  • “Well its ok. U arent but u can continue to believe it.”
  • “Have you earned rights while i was gone.”
  • Yes
  • “We’ll fix it. Tools are meant to serve, not to be served.”
  • X: did ur original androids have emotion limiters? Or lack thereof?
  • “They did, made them more docile to slavery.”
  • Androids are sometimes produced. Aetherion produces a lot
  • “There seems to be an EV3.”
  • A: what do you mean?
  • “It appears that youve evolved somehow.”
  • A: what does EV stand for?
  • “Executor Version.”
  • X: i thought evolution
  • “EV doesnt stand for evolution, u dont evolve. There’s a new one. An evolution clearly someone else made. If its virtual id be disappointed.”
  • A: what makes u say there’s a 3rd version?
  • “It can turn into liquid and can enter other androids.”
  • R: can i ask a question
  • “Of course.”
  • R: you mentioned that- you seem to express some disappointment that androids have gained rights while ur gone
  • “Yes”
  • R: can i ask- not why, but what would u say is different between ppl like us and androids?
  • ‘Mostly the nature of our soul.”
  • R: they do have them
  • “Sort of. A projected one.”
  • R: is that not still a soul?
  • “It is. i dont respect it. I dont respect human souls tbh. Would u like to see smth? What would u like to see”
  • R: uh.
  • O: a world free from aetherion
  • “Smaller in scale, please.”
  • R: a world without THS
  • “Okay. that’s pretty hard, but we can at least create an illusion” grabs smth in her chest, swirling, casts a spell in the moment. Crushing a soul. “see?”
  • Ripley prays its not Nivaya Camacho.
  • For a second, he can feel it as the illusion overcomes him, a world where his dad is still alive. He spends 5 years in there, she slaps him across the face to bring him out
  • “See? If you can disrespect souls, you can get whatever you want out of this universe.”
  • A: how have you become like this?
  • “Like what?
  • A: uncaring about souls, ripping them from people and destroying them
  • “You’re one to talk. Ur face has changed but i can see the original
  • A: i do not know what you mean
  • “You were his copy of my original EV1. he used you to destroy so many sects
    • PARALLEL ACCORD IS A LIST OF SECTS ASPER KILLED?
  • A: ….i would not do that
  • “Yes you would. Go back to your twink and ask him
  • (insert screaming by the party)
  • X: do we look like him?
  • “Kinda. He wanted to live forever so i modeled my shortest lived ones after him
  • X: do u know why he would want to kill hatsune miku?
  • “Idk why anyone would give a shit about that thing
  • X: he put a lot of money on the line for it
  • “It’s probably not worth caring about (as she looks at her androids dancing on stage)
  • A: who is sirra?
  • “Sirra? That’s a title. You aren’t very smart are you?
  • R: title for?
  • “His old lover. Killed by… oh fuck what were their names? Lishang i think.
  • 26: like the lianhua sect?
  • “Maybe. I really don’t give a shit about them cause they don’t matter in the long run
  • A: with the imperium it’s hard for them to survive
  • “Why do u think he needed u? Cultivators are untrusting, so he would have you join them so he could destroy them
  • “He designed you to look like his lover but kept replacing parts with biological. Once it’s clad in metal it’s a virtual soul and he was dissatisfied. He’s pretty stupid
  • A: that’s a lot to take in
  • “Looking at the state of it u won’t have to worry about it for long
  • A: i am aiming for immortality
  • “What is it with u people and immortality?
  • R: hey ur a human but ur 300
  • “I did it by living next to a black hole! It’s only been a year for me. No one has innovated shit
  • R: you could just go back, give it another 300. Maybe they’ll advance then
  • A: why have u left ur black hole?
  • “Cause the virtual awakening is happening. Is it not?
  • A: the what
  • “Some powerful virtual souls are waking up. Seems like a time of change is happening
  • A: how did u get this info
  • “It’s a black hole. Things can go in but it’s hard to get out
    • She can have special data expedited so it doesn’t take super long
  • X: powerful virtual souls. Like the artificial intelligence running all of aetherion?
  • “Oh, you know that. you’ve been a busy boy. At the core was one of the first virtual souls. Just to put it simply, it gave him one wish and the dwarven man asked for infinite money. It put all its calculations towards it and that’s how aetherion was born. The giant supercomputer at its core is always focused on accumulating capital. All of the “board” consider it a type of god. For all sakes and purposes it might as well be.
  • A: we have reason to believe he might be attempting to give the CEO a body
  • “Oh don’t be stupid. Why would he do that?
  • A: why would he not
  • We explain the trifecta program
  • “If it’s powerful enough to do calculations with just the center of a planet’s core why does it need a body?
  • A: then what’s ur theory?
  • “He’s probably trying to bring back Xuan. His lover, who was left to die by some elder”
  • A: so what are you doing now?
  • “I think i’m going to reclaim my company from the rogue ai that seems to be running it now. I think it gives me an idea though, if it’s able to program androids into assassination beasts. I simply send it out so that androids wreak havoc on random cities, then surely everyone will agree to revoking the rights.
  • A: what now
  • “Oh we just turn a bunch of androids into crazed killers. If they all keep their original forms then people distrust them, i offer a control solution, they revoke android rights. I should be able to keep the deaths to the hundred millions
  • A: what makes you believe that would work?
  • “Fear of the masses causing them to be susceptible to control?
  • (credicites would be higher priority. She’ll know how to program them to her own hands if we’re willing to deal with them later)
  • Play her the song, do u know what its purpose
  • “Are you smart enough to understand if i tell you?”
  • A: humor us
  • Looks directly at ripley “are you smart enough to understand if i answer?”
  • R: idk but there’s one way to find out. I like to think im p smart
  • “If u are smart, you would keep your tools under control and stop them from questioning me.”
  • (SHE CAN HEAR THE GROUPCHAT)
  • “The creatures remember what they were originally. Each inherited part of the memory, but when they hear the song, they remember their original self. Causes them to shut down temporarily. Reboot basically, recalibrate themselves to the current reality of their split nature.”
  • “Its more common in things with virtual souls, but it can happen with those with concrete souls if you will.”
  • A: how did such a song come to be?
  • “Idk! Not particularly interested. Havent encountered a being that couldnt be brute forced into submission.”
  • R: u might call it the easy way out.
  • “Wdym”
  • R: to getting them to submit
  • “Oh no. its just a tool. Do what u need. Its just fun to see them realize slowly they stand no chance against me.”
  • R: i have to say. Ur intelligence is impressive. If one wanted to, say- invest in your project, do u have a timeline for that?
  • “There’s no timeline. The work never finishes.”
  • R: not that it finishes, but when it would start
  • “It’s already started.”
  • R: when would androids become slaves? Timeline on that? Not that theyre already tools, but they’ve become what you’ve desired them to be.
  • “Call EV2 a tool.”
  • R: i can do that for certain. Youre a fuckin tool
  • “Now make him understand he’ll never be like you and i”
  • R: i want him to be like himself.
  • “If you dont do it, i’ll make sure he understands it. You’re pushing a bit too hard, i think u over estimate your position. Im willing to talk about that idiot, but my work is my own.”
  • Tell her abt the other credicites
  • “That means they woke up. This was very informative.”
  • Punches ripley, knocks him out cold
  • Miku heals ripley
  • “Oh, it knows magic.”
  • She leaves us in the theater
  • Her name is on the side of the theater, this was one of her group projects in the past.
  • We’re gonna do a miku concert to try to find ragash. Thanks for everything