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Fifty-Eigth Mission [Audio // Common]

May 06, 2009 15:19

How many decks are there on this boat?

We keep finding new ones, but why were they sealed off in the first place?

how does boat, round ears say whut, eco goes where

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electroniccrane May 6 2009, 23:05:51 UTC

A normal cruise ship wouldn't have more than 20 or so decks.

A normal cruise ship wouldn't be this far from shore, either. Among other discrepancies.

[Audio // Common] shadesofeco May 6 2009, 23:09:50 UTC

It's unusual to be this far from land?

The last time we saw the shore was when the ship had to dock for repairs. It's been six months, I thought we'd have reached the Golden Shore by now.

[Audio // English gdit] electroniccrane May 6 2009, 23:13:26 UTC

An ocean liner is a trans-oceanic vessel, and this ship doesn't have the right hull design for that. It has the lines of a cruise ship, which should never be farther than a few hundred kilometers from shore.

I don't think this is actually a cruise ship, nor do I think what's outside is actually ocean.

[Audio // Common] shadesofeco May 6 2009, 23:19:53 UTC

[Jak has absolutely no idea about those concepts, Major.]

What do you think it is?

[Audio // Common] electroniccrane May 6 2009, 23:24:22 UTC

[If ship-building isn't his thing, he's going to love the Major's thoughts on brain hacking.]

I think it's an illusion because they don't want us to see what's really there.

[Audio // Common] shadesofeco May 6 2009, 23:28:50 UTC

You think this is all what they want us to see?

[Okay, this theory has piqued Jak's interest.]

Then there must be a way to break the illusion somehow.

[Audio // Common] electroniccrane May 6 2009, 23:34:48 UTC

It's consistent with their pattern of withholding information. And if this were a computer simulation, a featureless ocean and skyline would be one of the least computationally-intensive environments to render.

[Audio // Common] seasindorei May 6 2009, 23:37:56 UTC

So, wait...you mean like illusion magic?

[Audio // Common] electroniccrane May 6 2009, 23:43:59 UTC

I don't know. Magic is outside my experience.

[Audio // Common] seasindorei May 6 2009, 23:45:44 UTC

And computers are outside of mine.

[Audio // Common] shadesofeco May 6 2009, 23:38:18 UTC

A computer? Wait ... you think this is made by a computer?

[Give him a minute to catch up, he's never worked with computers before.]

Would a computer be able to make it feel this real?

Maybe the entire ship's fake and we're not going anywhere at all.

[Audio // Common] electroniccrane May 6 2009, 23:47:07 UTC

Where I'm from, yes, computer-generated environments can be entirely convincing.

Maybe it's not even a ship. There's a lot more circuitry in the walls than a cruise liner really needs.

[Jak, please enjoy your first encounter with the Major's overdeveloped sense of professional paranoia.]

[Audio // Common] shadesofeco May 7 2009, 03:13:36 UTC

You sound like you've spent a lot of time thinking about this.

Why do you think we were taken? Why us?

[Audio // Common] electroniccrane May 7 2009, 20:08:49 UTC

Assuming you're all who you appear to be and not just AIs or controlled interaction with whoever's hacked my cyberbrain, the clustering of people who know each other is odd, and implies the selection process is not random, or at least not random after the first arrival from a particular world.

Beyond that, there doesn't appear to be a common denominator.

[Audio // Common] shadesofeco May 8 2009, 22:12:18 UTC

[Give him a moment.]

Y ... yeah.

So it's random. Which doesn't explain how me, Torn, Erol and my father were all here at once.

[Audio // Common] electroniccrane May 8 2009, 23:44:02 UTC

I said the appearance of people who were already acquainted was odd.

There also may be a trend towards people from Earth, but I don't know if it's just confirmation bias on my part.

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