010 | Voice

[aintnorain]

[There's a few seconds of shuffling papers before Fred finally speaks.]

So I'm assuming we're going to start getting an influx of people soon, if previous patterns are anything to go by. [And they are.] I'm kind'a having trouble making ends meet, and as it turns out, I live in a hotel. There's a few rooms that are in good condition, and I'm

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[st_murphy]

How did you figure that?

[aintnorain]

Found an abandoned hotel and started fixing it up. Been working on it since August or so.

[st_murphy]

I mean about people showing up.

[aintnorain]

Oh. Every two months, people show up in little groups. It tapers off eventually.

[st_murphy]

Huh.

I haven't been here that long so I wouldn't know. How many people usually show up?

[aintnorain]

Not really sure. You just see a mass amount of "where am I" and other such complaints on the NV.

[st_murphy]

That's fucking weird isn't it?

[aintnorain]

It's all controlled by the Core. This whole place is weird by that definition.

[st_murphy]

That thing has a fucked up sense of humor.

locked; near unhackable

[aintnorain]

I don't think the Core is sentient. It's the people running it. AGI and Sero are making a fortune with all of us trapped here.

[st_murphy]

That would make more fucking sense. You think it's some kind of machine or something?

[aintnorain]

No. It's energy. Radioactive if I'm to understand it correctly. It produces a huge output of negative electrons to keep us in the city -- the barrier.

[st_murphy]

.... That fucking means?

[aintnorain]

It's not a machine. It's an energy. That someone is controlling.

[st_murphy]

Wouldn't they have to have some kind of machine to do that?

[aintnorain]

No. The Core has gone missing before. There was a woman here who found it, since she could mostly tolerate high levels of radioactivity as it were.