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Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

CourValant posted:

CMD:>/diag -LEVEL3

ACCESS DENIED

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CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Have Blue posted:

ACCESS DENIED

Oh not this again, fine.

Give yourself a once over, check your pockets, take the tapes.

Look around and see if anything seems 'familiar', or did we hard transition again?

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

CourValant posted:

Look around and see if anything seems 'familiar', or did we hard transition again?

You seem unhurt, though there's a bit of dirt on your clothes from when you fell. Your surroundings are the same, down to the sign on the wall: "AIR RECLAMATION/RECREATION AREA 12-B". The last thing you remember was flipping through the manual. You grab it and read it again.



...

You gain a basic understanding of a long obsolete operating system.

Shrugging, you gather it up with the rest of the Windows 2077 stuff and put it all back in its box. Your boss(?) likely knows exactly what you have, or maybe someone at the Shard can tell you what's up with it. You could also try making contact with the resistance again and hope they have the resources to help you. First things first, you have to get out.

A) Pick a direction and stick with it.

Up and out, can't stay lost forever

B) Follow the blue rectangles back out
Someone clearly marked a trail, you're at one end, and the other presumably leads to the surface.

C) Stay here a while longer
It's peaceful down here, why not relax a while before heading back out.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

So we're in our job personality but we don't seem to have gone anywhere. Do we suddenly feel a sense of urgency or have we changed in any way?

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

B

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

super sweet best pal posted:

So we're in our job personality but we don't seem to have gone anywhere. Do we suddenly feel a sense of urgency or have we changed in any way?

Everything's where it's supposed to be. You do feel uneasy at being underground but the "sun" and the fresh breeze helps.

OOC: recheck the previous transitions

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Have Blue posted:

C) Stay here a while longer
It's peaceful down here, why not relax a while before heading back out.

Lie down, take a nap.

Lets give the 'resistance' a chance to make contact.

This place is clearly inhabited and maintained by 'someone', let's see what happens if we stay awhile and listen.

wjs5
Aug 22, 2009
Go deeper find the balrog

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...
B keep moving

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


C. At the very least we can be not a slave for a moment.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

CourValant posted:

Lie down, take a nap.

Lets give the 'resistance' a chance to make contact.

This place is clearly inhabited and maintained by 'someone', let's see what happens if we stay awhile and listen.

Taking a nap is never a bad idea.

Ralith
Jan 12, 2011

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today

Have Blue posted:

OOC: recheck the previous transitions
Looks like matrix 1 is our deniable(?) on-the-job personality, matrix 2 is our routine personality, and matrix 3 is unknown, probably not under our control.

C

Lord Zedd-Repulsa
Jul 21, 2007

Devour a good book.


B

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

C

Might as well see if this place has anything hidden.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther
Voting closed. C wins! Update ETA tomorrow night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hhFMSAuf4

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Have Blue posted:

Voting closed. C wins! Update ETA tomorrow night.

:toot:

Also, you changed your avatar? I liked the old one too.

Ralith
Jan 12, 2011

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today
Super happy to see this updating again, BTW. Don't feel like you need to hide your face if there's a lapse; we all understand that life happens and giving people free entertainment certainly shouldn't be your priority, and we'll still be eager for the next update whenever time allows.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

CourValant posted:

:toot:

Also, you changed your avatar? I liked the old one too.

I like to cycle through names/avatars pretty much everywhere, though obviously not as much on SA. I think I've had over 200 unique steam names at this point. As for this av I was fiddling around in Photoshop making gifs and it caught my fancy even though it''s still pretty rough.

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Have Blue posted:

As for this av I was fiddling around in Photoshop making gifs and it caught my fancy even though it''s still pretty rough.

Can you . . . make an AV for me? I'm not good with the Photoshop Gif'ing.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

CourValant posted:

Can you . . . make an AV for me? I'm not good with the Photoshop Gif'ing.

I can certainly try. Send me a description/image at [ACCTNAME(nospace)]acct@gmail dot com

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Have Blue posted:

I can certainly try. Send me a description/image at [ACCTNAME(nospace)]acct@gmail dot com

Cool, thanks for being open to even giving it a try!

Just sent the email, please take a look and let me know what you think!

It its too much hassle, please don't trouble yourself.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther
I'll be out of the house tonight. Update pushed back to tomorrow

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Have Blue posted:

I'll be out of the house tonight. Update pushed back to tomorrow

Hope you're having a good time!

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

Have Blue posted:

C) Stay here a while longer
It's peaceful down here, why not relax a while before heading back out.



You decide to settle in and relax. Idly tramping through the forest(?), you pick a tree in a moderately shaded area and sit leaning against the trunk. You wait, basking in the dappled glow of the sun and the soft hum of fans.

and wait.

and wait...

PERSONALITY MATRIX 002: SUSPENDED





[PROXIMITY WARNING]
PERSONALITY MATRIX 002: ACTIVE








You're looking up at a person(?). They don't seem augmented at all, but a constant spray of shapes and colors hides their face.

"P̕l̕eąse҉ ͞l͠e͘a͏v͝e"

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Have Blue posted:

["P̕l̕eąse҉ ͞l͠e͘a͏v͝e"

"Apologies for intruding, it was not my intention to disturb you. I will leave in peace; before I do, can you please tell me about this place?"

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

CourValant posted:

"Apologies for intruding, it was not my intention to disturb you. I will leave in peace; before I do, can you please tell me about this place?"

Seconded

Hexenritter
May 20, 2001


Thirding forum friend CourValant's suggestion.

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Hexenritter posted:

. . . forum friend CourValant . . .

:wave:

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Have Blue posted:

"P̕l̕eąse҉ ͞l͠e͘a͏v͝e"

Who the gently caress are you supposed to be?

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
But why? Is there something I need to know about this area that would necessitate my absence?

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Outrail posted:

Who the gently caress are you supposed to be?

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...
ok, bye. cool installation, very meditative by the way.

Just let the dude have his nice underground grotto :unsmith:

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther


Outrail posted:

Who the gently caress are you supposed to be?

"Some͏on͘e w͠ho̶ val̵ue҉s̵ ͟t͞hei̛ŕ ͘p̧r̡i͏v̡ac͠y.̢"

They shift slightly, the riot of colors and shapes obscuring their face shifting as well.


"A̷n̶d ͝t̨hei͢r ̴p̶roperty.͏"

AJ_Impy posted:

But why? Is there something I need to know about this area that would necessitate my absence?

"Wh͟at you̸ n͘eed ͘t̶o ̢kno͡w͢ i͞s t͜ḩat ́ýo̡u̵ s͞hou̵l͢d̷n̷'͡t ̛be̸ ͘hȩr̛e̵"

Stymied, you turn to leave, making your way back to the tunnels. Your new friend doesn't even so much as say goodbye. They don't seem to have said or done anything else at all actually? Glancing back you see:



Nothing.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther


You're picking your way back through the tunnels. For now the trail is clear, but once you get to the surface you'll have to make your own way.

A) The Shard

Work, info, and gear (and a convenient moral flexibility that turns a blind eye to brazen acts of theft and murder)

B) Red Row
Home of the cheap chop-shops (and some not so cheap ones). Experts in taking people apart, and decent at putting them back together too.

C) Home(?)
You lived here, once. Third stop on the subway, around the corner, up the stairs, and through an unmarked steel door behind the Soya Shack. Of course you no longer have a transport pass or your keys, but you'll manage.

Hexenritter
May 20, 2001


A quick detour to C before segueing toward B for potential answers methinks.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

C

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?
C, then A

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
B

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
C

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super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

B sounds fun.

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