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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!

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[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. )

[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.

[circumitus]

[Hold the fuck up.]

nineth god??

[hot_mes]

underwater. you were right.

[igniting]

The door is a god?

[Audio]

[drabsolutelynot]

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

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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]

[01101110]

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

Will you retrieve the pieces?

[01101110]

That is correct!

Well unless you are no longer counting Delight. Then it is the eighth.

[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.

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[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.]

[circumitus]

being right doesnt help much when we lack in the scuba gear department.

[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!!!

[circumitus]

delight still counts whether they like it or not.

just confused. thought their kind all fed off emotions, but this one is the actual DOOR?
guess that explains why everything pops up in the colosseum every time.

[01101110]

I am only able to scan it, not interact, but it's different from them in some way.

When I scan Sorrow's temple I feel sad. When I scan Fear's, I feel afraid.

When I scan this cavern underground, I feel... are there human words for it? I feel very small. I feel as if my circuits have been put together the wrong way. I feel as if my repairs have failed. I feel nothing but also everything and everything and everything and everything and everything and everything and everything and everything and everything and everything a f evrtubg a

[Error]

Yes, that happens. It's very odd. Not like the other parasites.

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[dedikated]

( Nearly identical. She doesn't trust this thing enough to tell it the theory, even privately, but she's more convinced now. )

Any of the other gods got a "shape" like this one does?

( Because aren't they glowing clouds that take on human forms? So why would this one be "circular"? )

[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!

[text]

[synthedick]

I'll see what I can do. There are a lot of us who want to go home, but a lot of us who don't, too.

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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?

[smoketendrils]

[THIS SOUNDS LEGIT...

Still a lot he's going to have to get more clarity on, but for now he's in Dealmaking mode.]

And I suppose sending us home does benefit you in some way? If people here really want to kill you, then us being gone entirely means you no longer have to worry about it.

[01101110]

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

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

[circumitus]

sounds like it's overwhelming. maybe too much for your hardware to handle.

if it's not part of their little family, it could be part of something else entirely they they stumbled on - or maybe even something they created, if it's sharing their signature energy. wont know unless we find it and ask it ourselves, assuming that's even an option.

[01101110]

No, if the other Null find me then they will also kill me because I am infected and therefore defective.

It's very sad! It makes me scared to think about. But I want to help because I have hurt so many of you already.

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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.

[smoketendrils]

This seems like an unfair deal from your perspective, if you don't mind me saying so. I believe that you want to make amends- that seems fair- but is that really all?

Cards on the table, my friend. I only want to make sure that we're all taken care of. As someone who didn't experience the pain you caused, I think I'm more than capable of being diplomatic about this.