Conflict://001 - Night: [Video + Accidental Teneka --> Text]
[The Portal display is dark. But there’s faint light, twisted in reflection, and after a moment, it pans out slightly to give a better view. A black mask. A helmet. It’s smooth, completely opaque, with a few dashes of color to the sides-glowing red-orange from within. It tilts slightly, as if observing.
Any viewers suspecting a newcomer in this still-masked broadcaster receive confirmation almost immediately. Whoever (or whatever) is behind the helmet doesn’t seem aware of the Teneka function.
It shows.]
Searching network signatures…
How? (Why?)
(Why doesn’t matter, stop asking, no questions-)
Used to-
NO.
Doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter, can’t-
(Hate this)
Parameters not found, reconfiguring…
Clu. Find Clu, fix it, don’t-
(He always fixes it.)
Not broken (error), can’t-
Remember-
REDIRECT-
Priorities: target acquisition, capture (run command: ‘Find them’), report, reaquire data, parameters.
Find them (hurt them-hunt, destroy-their fault).
[None of it's clear. The thoughts are simultaneous, process stacked on process, all repressing and conflicting. There are jarring broken fragments, cut off bits and pieces, all flickering briefly before being overridden, aborted. There’s emotion too, but if the thoughts are shattered, the emotional aspect is ground to dust. Still-there are shards of confusion, frustration. Hatred. And pain. The last is a jarring break, wrecking through as the redirect takes hold, thoughts and sensations freezing and reverting to a state of almost utter blankness.]
Data transmission-outgoing (expected), run confirmation-
Additional stream, track/trace-
(want to move)
Isolated, located: display.
[The Teneka shows flickering data-snatches of its own transmission, in code and signals as much as words.]
…no
ERROR: Unauthorized-
[There’s a flash of confusion, trickling panic. The shape on the video is still, rigid-anticipating, bracing-and the feed cuts. There’s a long pause. Nothing.
Then, text:]
Location?
Query: Clu?
Any viewers suspecting a newcomer in this still-masked broadcaster receive confirmation almost immediately. Whoever (or whatever) is behind the helmet doesn’t seem aware of the Teneka function.
It shows.]
Searching network signatures…
How? (Why?)
(Why doesn’t matter, stop asking, no questions-)
Used to-
NO.
Doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter, can’t-
(Hate this)
Parameters not found, reconfiguring…
Clu. Find Clu, fix it, don’t-
(He always fixes it.)
Not broken (error), can’t-
Remember-
REDIRECT-
Priorities: target acquisition, capture (run command: ‘Find them’), report, reaquire data, parameters.
Find them (hurt them-hunt, destroy-their fault).
[None of it's clear. The thoughts are simultaneous, process stacked on process, all repressing and conflicting. There are jarring broken fragments, cut off bits and pieces, all flickering briefly before being overridden, aborted. There’s emotion too, but if the thoughts are shattered, the emotional aspect is ground to dust. Still-there are shards of confusion, frustration. Hatred. And pain. The last is a jarring break, wrecking through as the redirect takes hold, thoughts and sensations freezing and reverting to a state of almost utter blankness.]
Data transmission-outgoing (expected), run confirmation-
Additional stream, track/trace-
(want to move)
Isolated, located: display.
[The Teneka shows flickering data-snatches of its own transmission, in code and signals as much as words.]
…no
ERROR: Unauthorized-
[There’s a flash of confusion, trickling panic. The shape on the video is still, rigid-anticipating, bracing-and the feed cuts. There’s a long pause. Nothing.
Then, text:]
Location?
Query: Clu?