Message From the Mayor's Office

[paixaomayor]

PAIXAO-- Citizens and esteemed guests of Paixao, it is with great sorrow that we inform you of the untimely passing of Oturo Heirwidthal, celebrated Mayor of Paixao. Rest assured that the police force has closed off the office and we are looking into the cause of his death at this time. Any details that we gather on the situation will be

Comments

[dothackmouse]

How long was he in office?

[sparkplasma]

It says ten years...

[dothackmouse]

I can read, sugar, it's just...

Ten years? That must be a mistake.

[sparkplasma]

It's not really that long, is it? I mean, there was a man in my world who ruled a city for over a hundred years...

[dothackmouse]

A hundred years?

You... You're random.

AndrAIa was right about the corrupted code...

((Strikes illegible))

[sparkplasma]

I know it sounds crazy, but it's true... then again, that's not normal by any stretch of the imagination, of course. Ten's pretty reasonable, though.

[dothackmouse]

...

Have you had your coding checked for viruses lately, sugar?

[sparkplasma]

... Come again?

[dothackmouse]

...This entire place is corrupted, isn't it?

This is bad. Very bad.

[sparkplasma]

What? Was it something I said?

[dothackmouse]

...

How about your format? Do you know your format, sugar? How old are you?

[sparkplasma]

My ... format? I'm human, if that's what you mean. And I'm fifteen.

[dothackmouse]

Fifteen what? Cycles, minutes?

Format, you know! What you're coded to do!

They're all random or basic, that's for sure.

[sparkplasma]

Fifteen minutes? I'm not that small. It's years, actually. I'm fifteen years old.

And I still don't understand! I mean, you code messages, not people.

[dothackmouse]

Years?

...You're kidding me. This is a prank, right?

[sparkplasma]

What? No, of course not. I just don't see why it's so weird, that's all.