WEEK 7 MINGLE

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POPULATION: 18 19

Good morning, starshines. It is another beautiful day here on the base, and it’s the start of a new week!

Good thing, too. After the death of Tartaglia Childe...well, perhaps there isn't any tension at all? Hard to say. Should anyone try to contact the deceased or review their profiles, they will find that they have been deleted from everyone's phones.

Perhaps you expect this by now, but it seems that the elevator reveals that it may now visit the eighth floor. It may be worth checking out these new areas, free for exploration. If you're feeling incredibly ambitious, you can also take a more in-depth look. Strange things are happening, little sinners. Don't be shy now.

While you can't contact the deceased, the Avatars are once again available via their eight symbols. Shoot them a message, have a chat with them, and see what you can learn. Perhaps you'll find it easier this week.

If you aren't too distracted, that is. For the most part, it may feel as though there isn't anything strange about this week. Everything proceeds as normal and life on the base is calm again. But every now and then, you'll feel a burning in your hand right where your tattoo is as it loses its color and fades to black temporarily. A sudden swell courses through your veins, almost as if being injected with a higher amount of your specific indulgence. You'll find it nearly impossible to do anything else until you act on it, draining the indulgence away and bringing color back to your marking. This won't always happen, and this won't always happen at a convenient time. It may be best to plan ahead. After all...if you ignore it for too long, you may find yourself changing. Those aligned with Envy may find themselves with several new eyes. Those aligned with Gluttony may find claws and a tail beginning to grow. Those aligned with Pride may feel a sharp pain in their head as a crown of thorns embeds itself into their skin. But the sooner you act, the sooner these changes will disappear.

Dedication's sweet, isn't it? Do try to give it your all.

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Comments

[liuli]

[ please don't ask him about the nerd shit he's from the 18th century ]

It sounds like something Wrath would say. [ 'skeleton war'... ] I think so, though. So, does that mean we're supposed to model these more orderly behaviors?

[sengokus]

I don't know if it'll be very useful for us to do it in general - especially if indulgence is what's providing the fuel instead of letting the deceased get eaten?

But maybe if we can teach the behaviors to the creature? Uh... the UWU?

[liuli]

That's what I mean, yes - whatever those might be. Us all being stuck together, maybe even that means something towards ... 'Reprogramming' it, or what have you.

[sengokus]

... do you know what reprogramming means, Gu-san...

How much vocabulary have we been using that's hard for people to understand.

[liuli]

[ LIFTS HIS HAND LIKE HE'S GOING TO SMACK HIM

...

lowers it slowly because he's unstuck and wants to say that way ]

You barely understood it yourself!

[sengokus]

I understand enough just 'cause I used to be stuck with Cyber Seaweed all the time! But he probably won't explain it all if you don't already get it...

Ugh, okay, let me see what I can try to explain...

We think that the monster is... Artificial Intelligence - and also made out of nanotech? So that means it's basically a creature that is made out of machines. It's not born like us, technically, but built. So like a toaster or a TV that is able to learn by watching the behaviors of others except now the toaster wants to murder us. Nanotech means that it's made out of a bunch of other, smaller robots that make up the shape, I think. It's super advanced and way out of the hands of people like me... but Takeru might know more about it?

But basically programming is like... Brainwashing it? So we think if we can get to the computer it was technically created out of, we might be able to find the original code - the brain it started with? And then if we reprogram that code, that means we can sort of change how it's learning. So maybe it can want something besides power.

Does that help....? I think I didn't use anything that didn't already exist in the base this time.

[liuli]

Hmm. So, by comparison... it's as if we were to take HK-47, break into his system, and turn him into an iron puppet that loved to hug. That's what we're getting at, just with the creature?

[sengokus]

Yeah! There we go. Like that. You got it, Gu-san.

There's all the details and coding and stuff but that's uh, not something I can help with at all.

[at least he's honest]

[headmt]

A lot.

[sengokus]

[gestures at his very poor explanation to gu yun]

I tried...? I really don't know anything about this stuff either but I've watched movies... Maybe we should just watch movies...

[headmt]

It's alright, I can get most of it from context.

[sengokus]

Yeah! It's kinda like fantasy and magic but more... electronic! Circuits and... stuff.

[he has no idea]

[headmt]

Do you ever think that I might be from the normal world and you're from the strange fantasy one?

[sengokus]

[




oh he's having a crisis now]

Wh-Whoa....