Fifth Cycle

[bostrumite]

[Gibson sounds somewhere between satisfied and amused. After long observation to make sure Abraxas's disappearance wasn't just a clever ruse, he's finally moved back to his castle room, and he's in the process of decorating it to look like a little more like home.]"And the Creator said, 'Hey, interpretation program, buddy, why don't you just make

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[domeanthings]

I'm going to guess you're an AI. A really weird AI.

[bostrumite]

AI? [Oh, right, that's what Kite had called himself.] Nah, just a regular old isomorphic algorithm.

[domeanthings]

I don't know what isomorphic means, but algorithm? Makes me think computers.

[bostrumite]

You'd be right. I'm a program - I'm just not man-made.

[inmylight_comdr]

[It's written, and not nearly as fast, but have a binary reply.]

01011001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 00100111 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100111 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01110011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01100010 01100001 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01110101 01111001 00101110

[Her own experiences with religion ... weren't that positive.]

[bostrumite]

He's not! Pretty good guy, actually. Not like this distant, hands-off "God" other people keep talking about.

[inmylight_comdr]

Tell me about it, and so much better than the genocidal war I'm fighting back at home, fueled by religion.

So how've you been? That ELC working out for you?

[bostrumite]

...See, the genocide we have to deal with is fueled by one program's hatred. The Creator loved us.

I've been a lot better since Abraxas and Clu took off for places unknown. I can even live in my own room now.

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[azure_guardian]

[it's not Binary that Kite responds in but L33T.]

1nt3r3st1ng l00k 0n l4ngu4g3s G1bs0n.

<3!

[bostrumite]

[It takes him a moment, actually, because l33t wasn't exactly around in 1989. Gibson eventually picks up the meaning, though.]

It's a story from the beginning of the Grid. No idea if it's true, except for the part where he ended up running a nightclub.

Is that your language?

[azure_guardian]

[and back to English.]

Strictly speaking, no. That is what I used when my vocal files were destroyed. I can speak three languages, though my defult one is Japanese.

[bostrumite]

That would be rough, man. Vocal files aren't an easy fix.

We mostly use binary if we have to send a Bit after someone with a message. Everybody knows it, even the Bits.

[p2iioniic]

01101100011011110110111101101011011100110010000001101100011010010110101101100101001000000111100101101111011101010010000001100011011000010110111000101110

[bostrumite]

[Gibson chuckles, though he finds that yellow color nasty and much prefers a nice green. He mutters under his breath and another string of binary appears.]

01000001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101 00100000 01110111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00111111

[p2iioniic]

[Gibson isn't the only one who hates mustard yellow.]

01001001 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000001 01101100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101001 01100001 00101110 00100000

[bostrumite]

[Yellow is virus color, okay? Viruses are bad.]

01001110 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100101 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101100 00100000 01010101 01110011 01100101 01110010 00101110 00100000 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101001 01110011 01101111 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100011 00100000 01100001 01101100 01100111 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101000 01101101 00101110