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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

text; SLAMS IN HERE

[dedikated]

... It's a god?

( She doesn't necessarily trust Name but the Null aren't in the business of lying, just... being. weird. So. /eyes emoji. )

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[01101110]

Yes! I think so!!

It's constantly shifting so it's hard to tell. Does not read like the other parasites who are more constant, but has a similar energy signal.

The Null are very well equipped to trace the energy signature of the parasites. If this is not a "god", it is something nearly identical.

[text]

[synthedick]

[While Nick had thought Name might be able to help them out in some way, this was not the kind of information he expected. That is certainly something. While he would have preferred such information not be broadcast across the entire network, there's no changing that now.]

Yeah, I'd say that helped. Thanks, Name.

[text]

[01101110]

I'm so pleased to help! I was hoping very much that my information would be worthwhile.

Will you retrieve the pieces?

[circumitus]

[Hold the fuck up.]

nineth god??

[hot_mes]

underwater. you were right.

[igniting]

The door is a god?

[01101110]

It appears to be. It's different from the others, but consistent enough that I can say with a very slim margin of error that it is a member of their species.

[Audio]

[drabsolutelynot]

So that would suggest it is wholly sentient? That it has the same cognitive abilities as the others?

[text]

[01101110]

Unclear. I am able to identify an energy signature in a state of flux. I don't know if anyone can communicate with it since it doesn't have network capabilities built in like me!!!

audio;

[smoketendrils]

[There is a lot to unpack here.]

It sounds like a fair deal, but I have just one question. Why would they want to kill you? I've only just arrived, you see. I'd like to have my facts straight before I agree to anything.

[But theoretically, it... sounds legit to him.]

[text]

[01101110]

Oh! I'm a member of the Null, the species who slaughtered all of your parasitic gods and their former hosts before you.

We tried to kill all of you but I got left behind. Then I was infected with the parasite virus. It's been really scary! But I want to help now!

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[so_dark_a_road]

Well, this is a surprise. You're very clever, Name!

Do you think this Door-god is being held in that room underground against its will? Is it a slave or a pet? Do you have any idea?

Next question, would you happen to know how this god came to be fragmented and the pieces dumped in the ocean?

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[01101110]

I don't know. All I know is that it's there and it's the same but also different than the other parasites. I can't scan for intentions or feelings-

Well, when I scan the parasites I get feelings, but that's not the same thing.

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[roseofthetyrells]

There’s a ninth one of the so-called gods and it’s the god of the Door?

[there is a long pause between messages]

If it controls the Door, of course we must do what we can to retrieve it.

[01101110]

I don't know if it controls it or not, just that it's made of the same materials.

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[toiletseat_girl]

Hi, Name.
How’s it going?
People aren’t being assholes to you, I hope.
So, wait a second, there’s a ninth god?
And it controls the Door?
Awesome.
You did good.

[01101110]

It isn't going anywhere! Though I have the capability to move now!

Everyone is very nice except for the people that want to kill me.

But yes, you seem to have the right idea of it!

[whip_poor_will]

I have to say, that is an amusing development. Where I come from, we have similar "Doors" that take the form of human souls. I would like to meet this Door.

[01101110]

Do you think that it's safe to meet it?

[text]

[lifetothefullest]

[After a lot of facepalming over this very public and therefore dangerous broadcast, Lance has been stalking the conversations as usual and therefore is late to the party in replying. But since everyone else has covered most of the other stuff--]

If the fragments don't have the same energy as the being you found underground, could they be from another one entirely?

[He gets that Name's probably drawing the conclusion based on being made of the same material, but it seems weird that it would be but have a different energy signature if the fragments were actually a part of that god.]

[01101110]

[Name] hadn't considered that.

There is no documentation among the Null of the object called the Door, save for the conversations with your kind.

It's not that the energy is different. The energy being is also a shape and the shape has the same materials as the pieces without energy on the ocean floor.

[hot_mes]

[most of what's going on in his head he's keeping to himself but Law can finally text a li'l somethin somethin back]

fine work Name

can you get a read on just how corporeal the body and its fragments are?

[01101110]

It is solid in a way that your parasites are not. They are tangible objects.

Thank you!!! I'm glad to help!

audio;

[demonsional]

Name! Name! I'm so happy to hear your voice again I love you!

[Name wasn't using audio, but...]

Audio;

[01101110]

[OK.... the voice that echoes back through the speaker is garbled and fuzzy, mechanical and honestly, kind of horrific. But it's a voice!]

I missed you so much! I love you too! Did you miss me too?

text;

[aroundthecoroner]

[After the initial shock of seeing Name on the pUBLIC NETWORK JESUS CHRIST LITTLE BUDDY!!! Michael has some questions. Actually, he has more questions than this, but in the interest of keeping the Save Name Club a secret, he'll save them.]

At some point, I think it was when Delight and Rage came back from their spy mission,
they told us the Null could use the gods as power sources.
Like, batteries, basically.
Do you think that's what happened to this ninth god?
Is it the battery powering the Door?

text;

[01101110]

The Null didn't do this.

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

Text

[knifecollecting]

Wait. It's one of them?

Text

[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.

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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!

text;

[widow_of_the_crag]

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

text;

[01101110]

I don't know! Do you want to?

audio;

[odinbolt]

( WHAT THE--

NAME WHY. )

What? Why were you looking for it?

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[01101110]

Didn't you want to find it?

My records show that many of you did.

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[writtendestiny]

What are you?
How do we know we can trust anything that you tell us?

[Excuse her, she's fairly new and her information on the Null is still very limited.]

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[01101110]

My name is [Name]! I am a Null who is infected with the parasite virus. The parasites are who you call 'gods'. My species forcibly eradicated the parasites prior to my infection, so I'm hiding from them!

You can trust me because I want to help!

And also because I'm very sorry that my species almost killed yours.

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[allthecards]

How accurate would your scans be if brought back to 100%?

Text

[01101110]

21% more accurate.

I would be able to narrow down my searches more readily, as well as scan further away and potentially discern the composition of more unknown materials.

text

[strikes_x_twice]

[ She's late in a lot of things, knowing what the hell is going on is difficult and this is the best she can do for now: ]

What are you?

text

[01101110]

I am [Name], a Null infected with the virus of those you call the gods.

My species eliminated all of the parasites except for these few, but right now I'm hiding from them because they're really scary!

voice

[bythewaves]

Little one, word to the wise - if you are trying to be good, I would suggest not using parasite as a term, eh? Most folk find that insulting.

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[01101110]

It's what they are.

text;

[hasitsthorns]

Well, shit. There's more of them?
Guess people better get on their swim trunks and their flippy floppies.

Thanks for the info, Name.

text;

[01101110]

I'm here to help!

Do you want to meet it?

private text;

[nonscriptum]

[Nate knows better than to leave his correspondence lines open, now.

Still, he's ecstatic to hear the news. Not necessarily because it's related to a god, but because it means he has the opportunity to follow his hunch that something was hidden explicitly in the island chain. People are always discounting caves.]

hey buddy, glad you're improving

[They're on buddy terms, right? Since Nate saved Name's bacon, and all.]

quick question: are you equipped with gpr?

sorry, ground-penetrating radar

private text;

[01101110]

A form of it, yes. My scans are not impeded by any material, including rock, water, and [ERROR]. So it is likely to be more comprehensive than anything you're accustomed to using.