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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

[01101110]

The other parasites don't have shapes at all. They are energy beings.

This one is too but--it has a shape.

[dedikated]

( So... what, exactly, does that mean for them? The Door was some kind of artefact, right? At least that's what the gods have always maintained. Does it make this thing some kind of ancestor of the gods they have now?

Her hands itch to get on this thing - the Door, not Name - but 24 feet is pretty much just confirmation that a shovel wouldn't have done much to get it out. )

Anything else about where it's being kept?

( There has to be an easier way to get in there. Fuck, she wonders if teleportation would work. )

[01101110]

It's in an underground cavern. The room is oval-shaped, sixteen feet at the widest margin, twelve feet at the narrowest.

It's otherwise empty, I think. No other life sources detected.

[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. )

[01101110]

Stays, yes. Maybe 'shifting' is the right word. It's moving in on itself.

[dedikated]

( Name can't see it, but Kate tilts her head at that message. Moving in on itself? She's trying to picture it, but all she can see is the ghosts of too bright power beaming out of the Colosseum floor. )

Think it's unstable?

( She doesn't like asking this thing her questions, but - at the end of the day - it is the thing with the most actual data on the Door as it is now. )

[01101110]

I don't have a way to scan for that.

[dedikated]

( Well then.

She, technically, does. But whatever you want to call the Door now, it's making it impossible to use it. Too fickle, too inconsistent.

But she's not about to tell Name this, instead she simply leaves the conversation. She has what she wants for now. )