@NyantaStarhunt @Cerebrate
Anna: “The weirdest part about testing is,
they did isolate. It was almost like it had a mind of it’s own, hiding itself away as junklike seed-code, and by the time they’d found out they’d been subverted, it’d even escaped out unto the outside world.”
“As for the cultists, practically, they were more concerned over cognitive science, neurochemistry, and artificial analogues. Not too different than their two neighbors to be quite honest, but more fundamentally driven with their work and goals mixed with their theology.”
“Before they moved into Beatty, they purportedly worked globally across the whole worldwide web, ‘each person as their own mobile office’, in their words. helped Souterain and Niraya both behind the scenes quite a few times, and during the cataclysm, though they never intermingled with outsiders, they did set up an entrepot for trade and their services: they assisted alot of poor folks out of Vegas with nowhere else to go, built up a few outlying settlements for them to live in, even helped them cope with therapy over the new age.”
Val: “That openness with the outside world however is what did them in. I saw the very person who detonated the nuke; some roughed-up military-men from Homey Lake all speaking some weird
* cascading tone and noise for a language. The crazy thing is, I likely would’ve been able to escape alive from that scene, but after hearing that language for long enough, I’d started speaking it just as well, if not loquaciously. Guess dying and resurrecting cleared away whatever that was.”
@EclecticInspiration
Val: “Just meet back in the lab when you can, or the motorpool where I’ll call everyone to. If it’s something more immediate, I’ll seek you out directly instead.”
@Jinx
The large hyperflier’s fuselage sheds in a few places where damaged, then shifts it’s mass around adjusting for the loss. Several weapon systems emerge in the lost one’s place, and before Eviscerator can react, while distracted by dogfighting the other craft far too nimble to gain a bead on, a straight homing bolt of lightning cracks across the sky in reply, impacting Ev and sending an intense burst of volts rippling through it’s body.
Instantly, the machine-person is shocked back into anthropomorphic form, plummeting down to earth with engines sputtered off.