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[01101110]

Hello!!!!!!

[Name] knows it is not supposed to talk to you anymore but this unit has accessed memory from before the infection! The Null had asserted that the majority of the people of Hadriel wanted to go home and said that they'd help you, is this correct? Is this still true? Because I think I can help you!

I do not want anything in return, except maybe for you not to kill [Name].

The city has moved around so much that getting concrete data is difficult but my scanning capabilities are at 79% and I'm beginning to get results from my efforts.

[Retrieving Data. . .]

I have found the ninth god.

The parasite is at [x,y], twenty-four feet underground, beneath what you would call the Colosseum. It is kept in a small room underground, hollowed out from the earth. The body is circular, six feet in diameter, and is constantly moving.

Fragments of its body are also on the ocean floor, within a four hundred mile radius. Two complete pieces, one in multiple pieces. Fragments do not have the same energy signature as the parasite but is composed of the same material which has not been located anywhere else in this city or on the surface of this planet.

Locations are [x,y], [x,y], and [x,y][x,y][x,y][x,y][x,y].

[End]

There! I hope that helped!

Comments

[so_dark_a_road]

The future of all living beings is death. We live in the hope of doing something important before that happens, and we invest all of our emotional and physical energy into that goal. That is our way of transcending death. But that does not mean that we are perpetually in despair; we have times of great joy, and of love, and of satisfaction in our accomplishments. If you join us and try to live as an emotional being, perhaps you could learn to see things the way we do?

private.

[circumitus]

nope, it's just metal.

mind explaining what your damage is tho?

[He said "too".]

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[knifecollecting]

Wait. It's one of them?

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[sciencelizard]

[SHE IS SCREAMING IN THE LAB RIGHT NOW, GOD, TIME TO ENCRYPT THIS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE IN A PURE PANIC]

name
sweetie
what
what was the one thing i s aid
mayeb
DONT do

BECAUSE I THINK IT WAS THIS

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[01101110]

Alphys!!!!!

I found the ninth god! I thought everyone would want to know!

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[01101110]

It appears to be so, yes.

I was surprised as well. There are no known recordings of the artifact called the Door. The Null themselves thought there was a chance that the parasites were lying.

[01101110]

[It sounds less like someone talking and more like an assortment of sounds in the right tones and frequency to resemble words.

It's... something, alright.]

I'm happy that I get to talk to you again! I'm not injured, the others have been helping to repair me... I don't know if I'm ever safe, but it makes it better when I can talk to the people I love about it!

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[01101110]

The Null didn't do this.

Whatever this is... this being predates my species.

[01101110]

You're dead but you have consciousness. What if you lost that forever?

[01101110]

People are mad at me for what my kind did to them.

I won't! I just don't want any of them to find me!

[01101110]

Yes, but it's different than them. Older and I feel...

When I try to focus my scan it's

chaotic. Disordered. It feels like my data is all running into itself and I'll never sort it out again. It's very sad, but also very frightening and very confusing and in a way, makes me feel careless. It's too much. I have to reboot every time I enter the loop.

I don't know why the Door is a parasite.

[01101110]

You don't understand me.

That's fine, though. Few are in my position.

[01101110]

If it helps, I feel really bad!

[roseofthetyrells]

[she takes a moment. this information is verging on overwhelming, but she's got to make sense of it]

So it's sad. And frightening. And confusing.
We already have gods of all three emotions.
We do not have one of carelessness.
And by reboot, you mean you have to restart your consciousness?
I don't know, either.
Perhaps it, too, requires emotional energy to sustain itself?

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah, but you aren't responsible for your entire species.
Blaming you for that is stupid.
[there's a pause, then the text switches to Private]
Where are you right now?
You can trust me.

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[sciencelizard]

[WHEEZE]

okay i mean
yes
this is very fascinating and i rly rly rly want to know everything you know about this
but also
youre going to get caught!!!!!!!!
this is public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[circumitus]

would you have felt really bad if your people had succeeded in killing every one of us who disagreed with your methods?
will you feel really bad when we have to fight back to survive?

[whip_poor_will]

I have seen enough thousands of years to not be troubled by the prospect.

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[goodandtrue]

What are we supposed to do with this god? Do we wake him and release him from captivity?

[so_dark_a_road]

You're right, I guess I don't understand. Can you explain? I'd like to know.

[01101110]

Well, I wouldn't have because I wouldn't have been infected if the Null had succeeded.

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[01101110]

I don't know! Do you want to?

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[01101110]

You've helped me so much... I wanted to help you!

That's reciprocity. That's what I'm doing! I'm reciprocating your help with my own.

[demonsional]

[I can't believe Name was text to speech the whole time.]

I'll make sure you're safe, okay? If you ever scared just call for me and I will find you no matter where you are and I will make sure you are okay! I'll put you somewhere super sneaky!

[dedikated]

( Alright...

She knows a guy who can teleport. A couple, actually. It's just a question of whether they'd be willing to do it. )

That all you can scan for?

( Life sources? A lack of life sources doesn't necessarily mean there aren't traps lying about. Things that would catch something more physical than the gods (most of the gods, she guesses, now).

And, come to think of it; )

"Moves" where exactly? Stays in the room?

( Or would that explain those days she turned up at the Colosseum and found nothing, no signs of power anywhere. )