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Jul 11, 2011 18:04

[ HEY GUYS it's your friendly neighborhood android, here to not really answer all the burning questions for the influx of new arrivals. For those of you who have never seen him before, he looks like a mostly ordinary young man, except for the LED blue eyes and the exposed gold wiring all over his torso and neck. ]Ah, it seems another of these ( Read more... )

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[Private to Twosix-six |Unhackable| Back Atcha] a_perfect_end July 11 2011, 23:18:33 UTC

[The difference is dramatic, startling, and he'd be an idiot not to be alarmed.

But he'd be a bigger idiot to show it.]

Before we begin, let me be sure I understand your concern. [The words are quiet, neutral, and completely non-confrontational, the blank precision of automated speech; please stay on the line. Your call is important to us...]

It sounds like you're offering to end me for ending myself. Is this correct?

[Objective: verify a direct threat for the logs.]

[Private to CLU |Unhackable ] bastione July 11 2011, 23:32:22 UTC

It is not. Your wording implies I am concerned with your continued existence, which I daresay I am not.

But your mess, CLU. I do not approve of how it was left for others to clean up.

[Private to Twosix-six |Unhackable ] a_perfect_end July 11 2011, 23:46:19 UTC

And your wording implies...But I'm confused.

Please assist me. You have so graciously, in the past. [The sneer is sudden, almost feral in intensity, and quickly suppressed.

He doesn't bother to stop himself from pacing, one arm cutting off remarks as though they can be gathered, to be hurled at the screen.]

My mess? Mess? Really?

Have you looked around. At this place. Lately. The grand tour begins in a waste heap!

But I'm dragging on. You must have specific concerns for particular others.

[Private to CLU |Unhackable ] bastione July 12 2011, 04:10:19 UTC

[ coldly ]

How limiting your primary function must be. A sysadmin that glitches and shatters upon contact with natural chaos. How did your maker think you were going to handle reality?

Why don't you tell me what you think this is about, CLU.

Re: [Private to CLU |Unhackable ] a_perfect_end July 12 2011, 04:50:18 UTC

[It cuts all the way in, but all that happens on the surface is a roll of the shoulders; everything here is bigger, stronger, brighter, than home--and all of it is utterly squalid.]

Natural? [He's laughing, but it's hysterical, like the scream of a slipped belt jamming in gears.] I'm not a waste handler. This filth is not. Where I was built. Not. What I was designed for. Not my area. Not. Mine.

I was so close. And now I'm here.

Alright then. [Sharp, boardroom hand-clap: down to business.] Let's cut the bull.

You're talking about Rinzler. He's the only one who cares enough to match your earlier description.

How'm I doing so far? [Serenely, too abrupt] Is this correct?

[Private to CLU |Unhackable ] bastione July 12 2011, 04:55:58 UTC

[ a faint pitying look. the original faultlines were still intact, it seems ]

Yes. I'm talking about Rinzler.

[Private to Twosix-six |Unhackable ] a_perfect_end July 13 2011, 13:27:38 UTC

[This is Twosix-six's present home. Clu never apologizes for the truth as he sees it, but he can look chagrined at over-telling it.]

You've definitely got my attention. [Damage control. Smooth it over until it gleams.] What's on your mind?

[Private to CLU |Unhackable ] bastione July 14 2011, 00:44:08 UTC

How could you have been so careless. Did you want to bring him down with you?

[Private to Twosix-six |Unhackable ] a_perfect_end July 14 2011, 01:03:24 UTC

You must be very good friends.

Listen. Everyone thinks he's better off without me, anyway, and. I'm not sure they're wrong.

[Private to CLU |Unhackable ] bastione July 14 2011, 01:56:58 UTC

I have been in his position. I don't envy it in another.

He doesn't.

[Private to Twosix-six |Unhackable ] a_perfect_end July 14 2011, 02:43:03 UTC

I didn't realize.

He would tell me himself! He told me off about Ram, and Jalen, and talked me down off the roof! He'd tell me if--

Wouldn't he?

[Private to CLU |Unhackable ] bastione July 14 2011, 03:42:09 UTC

You were not meant to.

Would he tell you that, to him, your suicidal impulses constitute an unforgivable failure on his part? No, I doubt it.

[Private to Twosix-six |Unhackable ] a_perfect_end July 23 2011, 21:57:31 UTC

Sure. [You could cut diamonds on the edge of his grin.] But it's something you're supposed to say, y'know?

It's just that the code shouldn't cover acts I initiated, or he'd have jumped me cycles ago in a blinding fury of autocorrect.

Has to be some other factor. Something more. [Sigh.] Analysis pending.

So. What's next?

[Private to CLU |Unhackable ] bastione July 26 2011, 17:03:21 UTC

Something more.

[ This is almost disbelieving. ]

He cares for you, Administrator. You may not have programmed that in, but Flynn programmed the capacity.

[Private to Twosix-six |Unhackable ] a_perfect_end July 27 2011, 02:08:22 UTC

Look.

In a lot of ways, Rinzler is--oh, there are User variables for it, platitudes, promises that shatter as soon as they're said.

He's...important to me. Beyond his functions, above his purpose. If I didn't care, I wouldn't still be here. I definitely wouldn't be admitting it to anyone else.

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