09. [text]

[ifightfor]

[The following flashes up on the network for maybe a minute before being deleted.]

N o   no      no no no no n o n o no   no n

o no  no no no no no

no

no.

[Paragraph-size chunks of Grid code follow and are deleted at a rate of one every fifteen seconds for another couple of minutes. Finally all that's left is a shell post with a blinking command prompt

Comments

[needshumility]

Mr Rinzler?

[Eddie likes you, Mr Computer thing. He sounds worried.]

Text can't be anguished, thankfully.

[ifightfor]

Yes.

thankfully. text back

[needshumility]

Are you alright?

Text.

[ifightfor]

Persistent memory faults worsening. Status difficult to assess at this time.

[So basically "no".]

Re: Text.

[needshumility]

You... can't remember things?

Is there anything I can get you?

Text.

[ifightfor]

No.     Correction: Yes. Memory being overwritten with specious data across multiple sectors.

Unknown.

Re: Text.

[needshumility]

I'm not sure what you mean... your memory's changing? Like it did last week, or something different?

Text.

[ifightfor]

Yes. Change is analogous to previous week's Breach, however inconsistent and re|

[There's a delay here.]

not   a   mem o r y   e r ror

[More delay.]

vading entity is persistent and resists rectification attempts.

Re: Text.

[needshumility]

[ack, trying to follow with limited vocabulary]

Do you know what the entity is?

Text.

[ifightfor]

y e s

I     w a s     h ere   f

[Delay!]

Yes. Result of copy error and/or code corrupti

[Delay. They're getting shorter now, though.]

no n o t     an   e r r or

I am not an     error.

[Delay.]

emory error detected. System shutdown req|

Re: Text.

[needshumility]

Uh. Don't... don't do tha...

[huh, that won't work. Eddie's coming to find him. Which could take a while, as he has no idea where to go.]

Spaaaam(?)

[ifightfor]

[If Eddie manages to get as far as level one, the evidence of property destruction that made it outside the door of cabin twenty may serve as a good pointer. There's a two-inch-high drift of crushed glass cubes and strips of black plastic heaped up by the opposite wall, and more stuck under the door itself where it's jammed an inch or two open.

It would be dark even for the normally sighted inside. LOOKS INVITING.]

((ooc: and i haaate to be laem and run but it is 3am and i must sleeps. ;; I WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS I AM NO LONGER UNCONSCIOUS))

I shall let tosh get there first, if you so wish. :D (she'll be more help than mr useless here. XP)

[needshumility]

hahaha aww. you're not useless eddie! at least you can see rinzler because he's covered in red dots!

[ifightfor]